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15 October Oct

Seminar: Dr. Freek Hoebeek

Thu Oct 15 2015, 12:30 PM

901, Rose F Kennedy Center

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Cerebellar impact on thalamo-cortical networks in health and disease

Investigation of the neural and molecular basis of magnetic orientation in the nematode C. elegans

Asymmetric neural anatomy underlies specialized oculomotor behavior

The lens connexin46: physiological adaptations and problems

Insights into the molecular mechanisms of human spoken language from studying vocal learning birds

An insider’s guide to scientific publishing

Strategy for multiple therapeutic modalities directed at neuronal correction in lysosomal storage diseases

NMDA receptor hypofunction in schizophrenia is precipitated by Src kinase hypoactivity resulting from converging molecular abnormalities

Cellular and molecular basis of a dispersal behavior and its natural variation in C. elegans

Deficits in synaptic pruning and LTD deregulation in autism

Identifying the function of the synaptic protein PRR7

How does the brain generate behavioral sequences?

Cause and consequence in the pathogenesis of mood disorders

Translational control in cognitive function and brain disorders

Principles of neural design

How the brain dies: The role of spreading depolarizations in acute injury

Immunological synapses at the blood-brain barrier- dynamics of CD8 T cells in experimental cerebral malaria

Specializations of dendritic inhibition in the neocortex

Degeneration and regeneration in a model of reversible rod loss

How do we smell? New insights from mosquitoes and humans

Central brain deep brain stimulation for recruitment of cognitive reserve after traumatic brain injury

Do weird behavioral manipulations involve Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’?

Sexual modulation of neural circuits in C. elegans

Developmental, physiological and proteomic strategies for determining the neural function of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase

What happens in your cerebellum while you learn a motor skill

Content and context in the thalamocortical dialog: Of rodents and humans

Connectivity and computation in an electrically-coupled cerebellar interneuron network

Cerebellar modules and learning rules

Connexin 26 and syndromic sensorineural deafness

Electrical synaptic transmission

Neuronal circuits controlling the formation and recollection of fear memory

Powering the brain: The glycolytic metabolon meets local energy demands at presynaptic sites

Pathologic potential of vesicle traffic in astrocytes

Developmental gliogenesis: The crossroads of cell fate and malignancy in the CNS

The role of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in Neuropathology: From bed side to bench and back

Role of hypothalamic cholinergic neurons in the regulation of overall energy balance

Watching the brain learn from auditory experience

Hypothalamic mechanism of metabolic syndrome and aging

Looking inside a child’s epileptic brain

The CSF-1 receptor and its ligands in nervous system development and disease

Mechanisms of axon regeneration

Slow or fast? A tale of synaptic vesicle endocytosis

Bayesian observer models based on efficient sensory representations

Do you like what you see? The dynamics of gaze, choice, and neural coding of value

Uncertainty, Choice and Dopamine

The private lives of neurons

Neuron correlations, causality and behavior: Where lies the truth in systems neuroscience?

Unveiling of a gut-brain neurocircuit

Cortical feedback to the thalamus: the lesser known part of the thalamocortical system

Is the function of APP relevant to the pathogenesis of Dementia?

The nightlife of astrocytes

Links between percepts and neural responses

Embedding of environmental statistics in sensory neural populations

Nature and nurture: Crosstalk between genes and manganese neurotoxicity

What is it worth to me? Reward, validation and the prefrontal cortex

Everything not forbidden is allowed (in-depth)

Oculomotor decisions for sampling information

Coding in silence: Precise control of mevement kinematics by optogenetic inhibition of Purkinje cells

Neural learning rules in the cerebellum

The Enemy of my enemy: Inhibition of inhibition in cerebellar processing and learning

Critical periods for synaptic and perceptual development

Long-term synaptic depression initiated by Gi/o-coupled receptors: mechanisms and contribution to striatal function

Modeling urgent decisions: how perception modulates ongoing motor plans

Faces, attention and temporal lobe

Optimal integration of sensory evidence: Building blocks and canonical computations

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