Previous events
Presentations in 2013
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 12/12/13 | Silvia Ardila Jiménez | Functional Coupling from Simple to Complex Cells in the Visually Driven Cortical Circuit Yu & Ferster (2013) J Neurosci |
| 05/12/13 | Caroline Copeland | Deep Cortical Layers Are Activated Directly by Thalamus Constantinople & Bruno (2013) Science |
| 28/11/13 | Susanna Mitolo | Specific Impairment of “What-Where-When” Episodic-Like Memory in Experimental Models of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Inostroza et al (2013) J Neurosci |
| 21/11/13 | Matthew TC Brown | Cortical interneurons that specialize in disinhibitory control Pi et al, Kepecs (2013) Nature |
| 14/11/13 | Oshiorenoya Agabi | Linear transformation of thalamocortical input by intracortical excitation. Li, Ibrahim, Liu, Zhang & Tao (2013) Nat Neurosci. |
| 7/11/13 | Joseph Sollini | Local inhibition modulates learning-dependent song encoding in the songbird auditory cortex Thompson, Jeanne and Gentner (2012) J Neurophys |
| 31/10/13 | External guest: Amanda J Foust (University Paris Descartes, Paris) |
Insights into action potential generation, fidelity, and plasticity gained through high signal-to-noise ratio voltage imaging |
| 24/10/13 | Simon Schultz | Encoded multisite two-photon microscopy Ducros et al (2013) PNAS |
| 10/10/13 | Romain Cazé | The Orbitofrontal Cortex as Part of a Hierarchical Neural System Mediating Choice between Two Good Options Keiflin et al (2013) J Neurosci |
| 3/10/13 | Kit Cheung | Short-Term Plasticity Explains Irregular Persistent Activity in Working Memory Tasks Hansel & Mato (2013) J Neurosci |
| 26/09/13 | Luca Annecchino | Tracing Inputs to Inhibitory or Excitatory Neurons of Mouse and Cat Visual Cortex with a Targeted Rabies Virus Liu et al (2013) Curr Biol |
| 12/09/13 | Alex Morris | ReaChR: a red-shifted variant of channelrhodopsin enables deep transcranial optogenetic excitation Lin et al (2013) Nat Neurosci |
| 05/09/13 | Alexandra Berditchevskaia | In Vivo Two-Photon Ca2+ Imaging Reveals Selective Reward Effects on Stimulus-Specific Assemblies in Mouse Visual Cortex Goltstein et al (2013) J Neurosci |
| 29/08/13 | Caroline Golden | Responses of pulvinar neurons reflect a subject's confidence in visual categorization Komura et al. (2013) Nat Neurosci |
| 22/08/13 | Jiaying Feng | Orientation-selective Responses in the Mouse Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Zhao et al (2013) J Neurosci |
| 15/08/13 | Tomaso Muzzu | Spillover-Mediated Feedforward Inhibition Functionally Segregates Interneuron Activity Coddington, Rudolph, Vande Lune, Overstreet-Wadiche & Wadiche (2013) Neuron |
| 8/08/13 | Silvia Ardila Jiminez | Attention enhances synaptic efficacy and the signal-to-noise ratio in neural circuits Briggs, Mangun & Usrey (2013) Nature |
| 1/08/13 | MTC Brown | Creating a False Memory in the Hippocampus Raimerez et al (2013) Science 26 July: |
| 25/07/13 | Joseph Sollini | Analogues of simple and complex cells in rhesus monkey auditory cortex Tian , Kuśmierek & Rauschecker (2013) 110(19):7892-7897 |
| 11/07/13 | External guest: Dr Colin Akerman (Oxford) |
**Location: RSM 2.28** Title: Studying ionic plasticity at inhibitory synapses in the brain |
| 04/07/13 | Osh Agabi | Emergence of Orientation Selectivity in the Mammalian Visual Pathway Scholl, Tan,Corey,Priebe (2013) J Neurosci |
| 27/06/13 | Sarah Jarvis | Neural coding during active somatosensation revealed using illusory touch O'Connor, et al., Svoboda (2013) Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.3419 |
| 20/06/13 | External guest: Eftychios Pnevmatikakis (Columbia) |
Robust learning of low-dimensional dynamics from large neural ensembles |
| 13/06/13 | Susanne Mitolo | Application of an optogenetic byway for perturbing neuronal activity via glial photostimulation Sasaki, Beppu, Tanaka, Fukazawa, Shigemo to, Matsui (2012) PNAS |
| 06/06/ 13 | Romain Cazé | Dendritic coding of multiple sensory inputs in single cortical neurons in vivo Varga, Jia, Sakmann, Konnerth (2011) PNAS |
| 30/05/13 | Toby Petty | Imaging of Mitochondrial and Non-Mi tochondrial Responses in Cultured Rat Hippocampal Neurons Exposed to Micromolar Concentrations of TMRM Monteith et al (2013) PLoS One |
| 23/05/13 | Tomaso Muzzu | The Long-term Structural Plasticity of Cerebellar Parallel Fiber Axons and Its Modulation by Motor Learning Carillo et al (2013) J Neuroscience |
| 16/05/13 | Susu Chen | Sublin ear integration underlies binocular processing in primary visual cortex Longordo, To, Ikeda & Stuart (2013) Nat Neurosci |
| 09/05/13 | Luca Annecchino | Cortico-cortical projections in mouse visual cortex are functionally target specific Glickfeld, Andermann, Bonin & Reid (2013) Nat Neurosci |
| 25/04/13 | Toby Petty | Glutamate decreases mitochondrial size and movement in primary forebrain neurons. Rintoul et al. (2003) J Neurosci |
| 18/04/13 | Kit Cheung | Inhibitory Interneurons Decorrelate Excitatory Cells to Drive Sparse Code Formation in a Spiking Model of V1 King, Zylberberg & DeWeese (2013) J Neurosci |
| 11/04/13 | Caroline Golden | Slow integration leads to persistent action potential firing in distal axons of coupled interneurons Sheffield et al (2011) Nat Neurosci. |
| 04/04/13 | Jiaying Tang | Diverse Visual Features Encoded in Mouse Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Piscopo et al. (2013) J Neurosci. |
| 21/03/13 | Gatsby | COSYNE wrap-up Location: Royal School of Mines, Rm 3.03 (Bagrit Seminar Room) |
| 14/03/13 | Alex Morris | Unique functional properties of somatostatin-expressing GABAergic neurons in mouse barrel cortex Gentet et al. (2012) Nat Neuro |
| 7/03/13 | Silvia Ardila Jimenez | Gating of Sensory Input by Spontaneous Cortical Activity Luczak, Bartho & Harris (2013) J Neurosci. |
| 28/02/13 | Alexandra Berditchevskaia |
Reversible online control of habitual behavior by optogenetic perturbation of medial prefrontal cortex. Smith, Virkud, Deisseroth & Graybiel (2012) PNAS |
| 14/02/13 | Matthew TC Brown | Concurrent activation of striatal direct and indirect pathways during action initiation Cui et al (2013) Nature |
| 05/02/13 | Sarah Jarvis | Joint journal club with Gatsby Location: Gatsby Principles governing the operation of synaptic inhibition in dendrites. Gidon and Segev (2012) Neuron |
| 31/01/13 | Susanna Mitolo | "Sensorimotor mismatch signals in primary visual cortex of the behaving mouse" Keller, Bonhoeffer and Hübener (2012) Neuron |
| 24/01/13 | Sarah Jarvis | In-house seminar: "Structural heterogeneities in neuronal networks: their role in the emergence of stable, separable dynamics" |
| 17/01/13 | Oshiorenoya Agabi | **location moved t o RSM4.01** A Continuous Semantic Space Descr ibes the Representation of Thousands of Object and Action Categories across the Human Brain A Huth, S Nishimoto, A Vu & J Gallant, Neuron, Dec 2012 |
2012
June 28, 2012
Oshiorenoya Agabi
Gating and control of primary visual cortex by pulvinar
G Purushothaman, R Marion, K Li & V Casagrande, Nature Neurosci., June 2012.
June 12 (at 2pm, joint meeting with Gatsby at UCL)
Simon Schultz
Clonally related visual cortical neurons show similar stimulus feature selectivity
Y Li et al., Nature, June 2012.
and
Preferential electrical coupling regulates neocortical lineage-dependent microcircuit assembly
Y Yu et al., Nature, June 2012.
June 7
Remus Osan
Evaluation of Target Search Efficiency for Neurons with Balanced Arborization During Developmental Growth
May 31
Alexandra Berditchevskaia
Control of timing, rate and bursts of hippocampal place cells by dendritic and somatic inhibition
S Royer, B Zemelman, A Losonczy, J Kim, F Chance, J Magee & G Buzsáki, Nat. Neurosci., Mar. 2012.
May 24
Stefan Glasauer
Combining sensory input, prior experience, and symbolic cues in an iterative Bayesian framework
May 17
Anastasia Sylaidi
Deliberation in the Motor System: Reflex Gains Track Evolving Evidence Leading to a Decision
L Selen, M Shadlen and D Wolpert, J. Neurosci., Feb. 2012.
May 10 (joint meeting with Gatsby, at RSM G38)
Marius Pachitariu
Activity recall in a visual cortical ensemble
S Xu, W Jiang, M Poo & Y Dan, Nature Neurosci., Mar. 2012.
May 3
Oshiorenoya Agabi
Effects of Long-Term Visual Experience on Respons es of Distinct Classes of Single Units in Inferior Temporal Cortex
L Woloszyn and D Sheinberg, Neuron, Apr. 2012.
Apr. 26
David Schulz
Predicting functional connectivity in primary visual cortex
Apr. 17 (at 2pm, joint meeting with Gatsby at UCL)
Andreas Thomik
The Geometric Structure of the Brain Fiber Pathways
VJ Wedeen et al., Science, Mar. 2012
Ap r. 12
Kit Longden
Temporal En coding of Spatial Information during Act ive Visual Fixation
Kuang X, Poletti M, Victor JD, Rucci M, Curr. Biol. Mar. 2012.
Mar. 29
Pierre Yger
Generation of a Synthetic Memory Trace
A Garner, D Rowland, S Hwang, K Baumgaertel, B. Roth, C Kentros, M. Mayford, Science, Mar. 2012.
and
Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall
X Liu, S Ramirez, P Pang, C Puryear, A Govindarajan, K Deisseroth & S Tonegawa, Nature, Mar. 2012.
Mar. 22
Sarah Lewis
Acute Cannabinoids Impair Working Memory through Astroglial CB1 Receptor Modulation of Hippocampal LTD
J. Han et al., Cell, Mar. 2012
Mar. 15 (joint meeting with Gatsby, at RSM 3.01D)
COSYNE wrap-up
Mar. 8
Shabnam Kadir
Spike sorting for large dense arrays
Feb. 16 (at 11am, joint meeting with Gatsby at UCL)
Michael Okun
Conditional modulation of spike-timing-dependent plasticity for olfactory learning
Stijn Cassenaer & Gilles Laurent, Nature, Feb. 2012.
Feb. 9
Isabel Delgado Ruz
In vivo conditions influence the coding of stimulus features by bursts of action potentials
OA Akerberg and M Chacron, J. Comp. Neurosci. 2011.
Feb. 2
Tomaso Muzzu
Identification of an Inhibitory Circuit that Regulates Cerebellar Golgi Cell Activity
C Hull, W Regehr, Neuron, Jan. 2012
Jan. 26 (we begin at 10:15)
Martina Wicklein
Why Do Axons Differ in Caliber?
J Perge, J Niven, E Mugnaini, V Balasubramanian, P Sterling, J. Neurosci. Jan 2012.
Jan. 19 (at RSM 1.47, joint meeting with Gatsby)
Lars Buesing
Neural correlates of reliability-based cue weighting during multisensory integration
C Fetsch, A Pouget, G DeAngelis & D. Angelaki, Nat. Neurosci. Jan. 2012
Jan. 12
Paul Chadderton
A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex
J Letzkus,S Wolff, E Meyer, P T ovote, J Courtin, C Herry & A Lüthi, Nature Dec. 2011.
Jan. 5
Simon Schultz
Theta-paced flickering between place-cell maps in the hippocampus
K Jezek, E Henriksen, A Treves, E Moser, M Moser, Nature Oct. 2011.
2011
Dec. 22
Joseph Sollini
Functional organization and population dynamics in the mouse primary auditory cortex
G Rothschild, I Nelken, A Mizrahi, Nature Neuroscience 2010
Dec. 15
Pierre Yger
Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks
T Vogels, H Sprekeler, F Zenke, C Clopath, W Gerstner, Science 2011.
Dec. 1
Michael Okun
Presynaptic Gating of Postsynaptically Expressed Plasticity at Mature Thalamocortical Synapses
Blundon J, Bayazitov I, Zakharenko S, Journal of Neuroscience, Nov. 2011.
Nov. 22 (at 2pm, joint meeting with Gatsby at UCL)
SfN wrap-up
Nov. 10
SfN posters presentation:
Elena Phoka - Modification of spontaneous neocortical laminar dynamics by sensory stimulation
Nir Grossman - Talking to cells with light: MicroLEDs for two dimensional retinal prosthesis and optogenetic applications
Michael Okun - Similarity of spontaneous and sensory evoked activity does not imply Bayesian inference in cortex>
Nov. 3
Bilal Haider
Inhibitory control of responsiveness in primary visual cortex
Oct. 25 (at 2pm, RSM 4.01, joint meeting with Gatsby)
Peter Latham
Grid cells generate an analog error-correcting code for singularly precise neural computation
Sreenivasan S and Fiete I, Nature Neurosci., Oct. 2011
Oct. 20
Kit Longden
Microcircuits of functionally identified neurons in the rat medial entorhinal cortex
Burgalossi A, Herfst L, von Heimendahl M, Förste H, Haskic K, Schmidt M, Brecht M, Neuron, May 2011.
Oct. 13
Petra Vertes
Scale-free statistics of neuronal assemblies predict learning performance
July 19 (RSM 3.03)
Everybody
Literature survey
July 12 (2pm, joint meeting with Gatsby, at UCL)
Shabnam Kadir
Inhibitory Stabilization of the Cortical Network Underlies Visual Surround Suppression
H. Ozeki, I. Finn, E. Schaffer, K. Miller, D.Ferster, Neuron, May 2009.
July 5 (RSM 3.03)
Martina Wicklein
Normalization for Sparse Encoding of Odors by a Wide-Field Interneuron
M Papadopoulou, S Cassenaer, T Nowotny, G Laurent, Science, May 2011.
June 28
Florian Gerard-Mercier
Role of feedforward geniculate inputs in the generation of orientation selectivity in the cat's primary visual cortex
S Viswanathan, J Jayakumar, T Vidyasagar, Journal of Physiology, May 2011.
June 21
Isabel Delgado Ruz
A normalization model of multisensory integration
T Ohshiro, D Angelaki, G DeAngelis, Nature Neurosci., May 2011
June 7 (at 2pm, RSM 2.28, joint meeting with Gatsby unit)
Zhaoping Li
Review of the collected literature findings on retinotopy and its implications on top-down and bottom-up attentional guidance
May 31
Alex Berditchevskaia
Dense Inhibitory Connectivity in Neocortex
E. Fino and R. Yuste, Neuron, March 2011.
May 27 (at 10:30, RSM 2.28)
Máté Lengyel
The sampling hypothesis: neural variability and statistical inference in the cortex
May 17
Ali Neishabouri
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Brain-wide Wiring Networks in Drosophila at Single-Cell Resolution
AS Chiang, et al., Current Biology, Jan. 2011
May 3
Simon Schultz
Some cool optical technologies for neuroscience
Related reading: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.200801580 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.200903166
Apr. 19 (at 14:00, RSM 4.01)
Tom Daniel
Driven by vision: the enigma of antennal mechanoreception in flight control of hawkmoths
Apr. 12
Ulrik Beierholm
Causal Inference in Perception
Apr. 5 (2pm, joint meeting with Gatsby, at UCL)
Kenneth Harris
A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila
MJ Krashes, et al., S Waddell, Cell 2009.
Extracurricular meeting: Apr. 4 (10:00am, 744 Huxley bldg.)
David Balduzzi
What can a neuron do for its brain? Communicate selectivity with spikes
Mar. 29
Everybody
Literature survey
Mar. 15
Giorgio Gilestro
Sleep in Drosophila
http://gilest.ro
Mar. 8
Zhaoping Li
V1 as a bottom-up saliency map, theory and experiment
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Feb. 22
Michael Okun
Experience-Induced Neural Circuits That Achieve High Capacity
V. Feldman, L. Valiant, Neural Computation, Sept. 2009.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/neco.2009.08-08-851
Feb. 15
Marieke Scholvinck
Structure in neuronal noise: the functional role of spontaneous brain activity
Feb. 1
Paul Chadderton
Slow integration leads to persistent action potential firing in distal axons of coupled interneurons
MEJ Sheffield et al. & N Spruston, Nat. Neurosci., Dec. 2010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2728
Jan. 25 (at 14:00, RSM G35, joint meeting with Gatsby unit)
Jakob Macke
Ephaptic coupling of cortical neurons
CA Anastassiou, R Perin, H Markram, C Koch, Nat. Neurosci. 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2727
Jan. 18
Agabi E. Oshiorenoya
A model of peripheral nervous system i n vitro: aspects of communication and computation
Marion Langen
Postmitotic Notch signaling regulates axon targeting and robustness of neuronal connectivity
Jan. 14 (15:30, at Caro seminar room = RSM 4.01)
Pierre Yger
Chaos control and plasticity in neuronal networks with ongoing activity
Dec. 9
Jiaying Tang
Visual Function in Mice with Photoreceptor Degeneration and Transgenic Expression of Channelrhodopsin 2 in Ganglion Cells,
Thyagarajan et al., Journal of Neuroscience, June 30, 2010, 30(26):8745-8758
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/26/8745
Nov. 30
Kenneth Harris
A review of several papers on cortical state and attention (at Gatsby Unit)
Nov. 25
Alex Berditchevskaia
High-performance genetically targetable optical neural silencing by light-driven proton pumps,
Chow et al., Nature 463, 98-102 (7 January 2010)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7277/full/nature08652.html
Nov. 4
Isabel Delgado-Ruz
Poster presentation (practice for SfN) on identifying location and morphology of neurons from MEA
Oct. 5 (RSM 1.47)
Vincenzo Crunelli (Cardiff).
Thalamic oscillations, sleep, and absence epilepsy
Oct. 1
Kenneth Harris
Prefrontal acetylcholine release controls cue detection on multiple timescales,
Parikh et al., Neuron. 2007 Oct 4;56(1):141-54.
Sept. 20
Aurel Lazar (Columbia).
System Identification of Drosophila Olfactory Sensory Neurons.
Sept. 17
Aldo Faisal
Optimally Interacting Minds
Bahrami et al, Science. Aug 2010; 329(5995):1081-1085
Aug. 27
Kit Longden
Two-photon calcium imaging from head-fixed Drosophila during optomotor walking behavior.
Seelig et al., Nat Methods. 2010 Jul;7(7):535-40
Walking Modulates Speed Sensitivity in Drosophila Motion Vision.
Chiappe et al., Curr Biol. 2010 Jul 21
Aug. 26
Carlos Ribeiro (Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)
Nutritional value-based decisions in Drosophila
Aug. 20
Simon Schultz
Chronic cellular imaging of mouse visual cortex during operant behavior and passive viewing
Andermann et al., Front. Cell. Neurosci. 4:3, March 2010