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21 March Mar

Club Syn: Kyle Jensen

Fri Mar 21 2014, 12:29:59 PM

919, Rose F Kennedy Center

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Cellular mechanisms of circuit reorganization in layer 2/3 barrel cortex

Optical control and monitoring of neurons in three dimensions

Nucleus accumbens dopamine and habit learning

High dimensional neural representations in prefrontal cortex

Identifying anti- and pro- regenerative molecular responses to spinal cord injury

Juvenile GluN3A-containing NMDA receptors: gate-keepers for synapse development, cognition and neurodegenerative disease

The neural mechanisms responsible for finding objects and switching between targets

Synaptic transmission mediated by gap junctions: properties and plasticity

From invertebrate vision to Circadian Detectors: Melanopsin transduction in Amphioxus

Photoreceptor lineages and light-transduction mechanisms: revising the dogma

Alternative splicing in the calcium activated potassium channel (BK) in the ampulla of lorenzini of the skate

Memory Storage: A new molecular and cellular perspective

Emerging therapies for inherited CNS diseases

Enhancer codes in development and in conditioned learning/memory

Autophagy in hypothalamic neurons: Intrinsic and peripheral implications

Shedding light on the role of GABAergic inhibition in neocortical dendrites

Role of AKAP signaling in GABAergic plasticity in the VTA

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and its regulators

Endogenous bioelectric gradients control growth and form: molecular mechanisms and biomedical opportunities for regenerative medicine and cancer

The evolution of organismal budgeting: dopamine, economic thrift and energy management

The mind of a worm: Learning from the C. elegans connectome

When synaptic proteins meet the genome - synapse-to-nucleus communication via protein messenger

Molecular regulation of feed forward and feedback circuits used in motivated behaviors of C. elegans adult males

Attention can flexibly increase or decrease spike count correlations in visual cortex

Learning latent structure

Noradrenergic Signaling from Cognition to Cancer and Coli: Are Primary Cilia Tuned-In?

A nanoscale view into the dynamic of AMPA receptor organization in synapses

Forebrain-hindbrain nutrient-sensing circuits in the regulation of energy homeostasis

Mouse and Rat Models for Autism: Questions About Gene Function from Knockouts

Inhibitory circuit mechanisms for map plasticity in rodent somatosensory cortex

Dynamic reconfiguration of retinal circuits

Activity-dependent modification of electrical synapses

Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club: Role of amine neurons studied at a single neuron level

Life without kainate receptors; insights from kainate receptor knockout mice

Ovarian Steroid Regulation of Sleep: What rodent studies tell us about implications to women's health

Multisensory aspects of musical rhythm: Why we move to the beat

Secreted Semaphorins and Their Receptors Control Spine Distribution and Dendritic Morphogenesis in the Postnatal CNS

The dark side of the force: how inhibition controls activity in the primary visual cortex

Action selection and action value in frontal-striatal circuits

The complex of CaMKII with the NMDAR as a molecular memory at synapses

Cellular Mechanisms of Synchrony in the Basal Ganglia

Modeling the visual cortex

More - and less - than meets the eye: shape encoding under partial occlusion in primate visual cortex

Action potentials in regulating myelination and synaptic strength: Plasticity beyond the neuron doctrine

Sex and Drugs and the Medial Amygdala: Methamphetamine facilitation of female sexual behavior

Mechanisms and Functions of Synaptic and Intrinsic Plasticity in Normal and Pathological Sensory Processing

Acquisition of the sense of hearing during development

Exploring the Neurobiology of Cancer Pain

Gap junctions and synaptic integration in inhibitory interneurons

Christianson syndrome, ADHD and NHEs: How sodium/hydrogen exchangers control neuronal endocytosis and their relationship to disease

Electrical coupling, intercellular adhesion, and cell excitability: Three functions of a common molecular pool at the cardiac intercalated disc. Implications to arrhythmia mechanisms

Organization of Synapse Structure and Function by Trans-Synaptic Adhesion

Molecular control of synaptic vesicle fusion

Dissecting the role of dendritic inhibition in hippocampal memory formation

Neural mechanisms of the birdsong syntax

To branch or not to branch: Insights from a lower organism

Basic mechanisms of pediatric epilepsy: What we can learn from human studies

Neuronal calcium signaling disruptions alter synaptic homeostasis in Alzheimer’s Disease

The workings of glutamatergic synapses: parts and delivery

Statistical encoding and decoding of decision-related information from spike trains in area LIP

Inhibition through excitation beyond the synapse

GABA signaling to adult born neurons: where does it come from and what does it do?

Sex, stress and the brain: Hormone actions above the hypothalamus by novel mechanisms

Sensorimotor gating and basal ganglia dynamics

Evolution of self-identity and noradrenergic dysregulation in brain disorders

Dissecting microcircuits with a cellular bias

Genome-wide identification of novel pre- and postsynaptic MRNA targets of FMRP translational repression during elongation

Exploiting basal ganglia tricks to cure their disorders

Taking STEPS to Improve Cognition