Neuroscience & Behaviour Theme Journal Club
Next meeting:-
Thursday 30th May at 9am in HWB 4/70
Marie will be giving an overview on clock neurons. Her presentation will be in part based on the following paper:
Synchronized Bilateral Synaptic Inputs to Drosophila melanogaster Neuropeptidergic Rest/Arousal Neurons. Ellena v. McCarthy, Ying Wu, Tagide deCarvalho, Christian Brandt, Guan Cao, Michael N. Nitabach: J Neuroscience (2011), 31(22): 8181-8193
Previous meetings
| 16/5/13 | Carlos |
A Large-Scale Model of the Functioning Brain Chris Eliasmith, Terrence C. Stewart, Xuan Choo, Trevor Bekolay, Travis DeWolf, Yichuan Tang, Daniel Rasmussen Science 338, 1202 (2012) |
| 2/5/13 | Rodrigo |
Whole-brain functional imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopyMisha B Ahrens, Michael B Orger, Drew N Robson, Jennifer M Li & Philipp J Keller (2013): (Nature Methods 10, 413–420) |
| 21/3/13 | Christine |
Chronic stress triggers social aversion via glucocorticoid receptor in dopaminoceptive neurons. Barik J, Marti F, Morel C, Fernandez SP, ..., Tassin JP, Mombereau C, Faure P, Tronche F. Science. 2013 Jan 18; 339(6117):332-5 |
| 7/3/13 |
Jim Sinclair |
A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information Miguel Pais-Vieira, Mikhail Lebedev, Carolina Kunicki, Jing Wang & Miguel A. L. Nicolelis |
| 21/2/13 | Hewa Hama Ameen |
Alix et al (2012) Central Axons Preparing to Myelinate Are Highly Sensitivity to Ischemic Injury. Annals of Neurology, Volume 72, Issue 6 |
| 7/2/13 | Volko Straub |
Cui et al: Concurrent activation of striatal direct and indirect pathways during action initiation (Nature (2013) |
| 17/1/13 | Luis Camuñas Mesa | |
| 6/12/12 | Marie Nugent | Adult-specific electrical silencing of pacemaker neurons uncouples the molecular oscillator from circadian outputs. |
| 22/11/12 | Carlos Pedreira | Control of timing, rate and bursts of hippocampal place cells by dendritic and somatic inhibition |
| 8/11/12 | Rodrigo Bammann |
The calcium-activated chloride channel anoctamin 1 acts as a heat sensor in nociceptive neurons |
| 25/10/12 | Thomas Tagoe |
Dissecting spatial knowledge from spatial choice by hippocampal NMDA receptor deletion David M Bannerman, Thorsten Bus, Amy Taylor, David J Sanderson, Inna Schwarz, Vidar Jensen, Øivind Hvalby, J Nicholas P Rawlins, Peter H Seeburg & Rolf Sprengel |
| 11/10/12 | James Sinclair |
Visual Input Modulates Audiomotor Function via Hypothalamic Dopaminergic Neurons through a Cooperative Mechanism. Yu Mu, Xiao-quan Li, Bo Zhang, Jiu-lin Du1. Neuron Volume 75, Issue 4, 23 August 2012, Pages 688–699 |
| 20/9/12 | Joanna Shaw | Rab3B protein is required for long-term depression of hippocampal inhibitory synapses and for normal reversal learning. Tsetsenis T, Younts TJ, Chiu CQ, Kaeser PS, Castillo PE, Südhof TC. |
| 30/8/12 | Volko Straub |
Caltubin, a novel molluscan tubulin-interacting protein, promotes axonal growth and attenuates axonal degeneration of rodent neurons. Nejatbakhsh N, Guo CH, Lu TZ, Pei L, Smit AB, Sun HS, van Kesteren RE, Feng ZP. J Neurosci. 2011 Oct 26;31(43):15231-44. |
| 9/8/12 | Tom Nielson |
Differential Representations of Prior and Likelihood Uncertainty in the Human Brain. Iris Vilaressend, James D. Howard, Hugo L. Fernandes, Jay A. Gottfried, Konrad P. Kording. Current Biology - In Press |
| 26/7/12 | Christine Stubbendorff |
Microciruits 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. 2011 May 26;70(4):773-86. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.003. |
| 21/6/12 | Rodrigo Bammann | A cortical neural prosthesis for restoring and enhancing memory Theodore W Berger et al 2011 J. Neural Eng. 8 046017 |
| 7/6/12 | Volko Straub | Xu Liu, Steve Ramirez, Petti T. Pang, Corey B. Puryear, Arvind Govindarajan, Karl Deisseroth, & Susumu Tonegawa (2012). Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall Nature : 10.1038/nature11028 |
| 24/5/12 | James Sinclair | Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels (CaCCs) Regulate Action Potential and Synaptic Response in Hippocampal Neurons Wendy C. Huang, Shaohua Xiao, Fen Huang, Brian D. Harfe, Yuh Nung Jan, Lily Yeh Jan, Neuron, Volume 74, Issue 1, 12 April 2012, Pages 179-192, ISSN 0896-6273, 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.033. |
| 10/5/12 | Tom Nielson |
Thin dendrites of cerebellar interneurons confer sublinear synaptic integration and a gradient of short-term plasticity. Abrahamsson T, Cathala L, Matsui K, Shigemoto R, Digregorio DA. Neuron. 2012 Mar 22;73(6):1159-72. Epub 2012 Mar 21. |
| 12/4/12 |
Thomas Tagoe
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Heterogeneous reallocation of presynaptic efficacy in recurrent excitatory circuits adapting to inactivity. Mitra A, Mitra SS, Tsien RW |
| 29/3/12 | Joanna Shaw |
Acute Cannabinoids Impair Working Memory through Astroglial CB(1) Receptor Modulation of Hippocampal LTD. Han J, Kesner P, Metna-Laurent M, Duan T, Xu L, Georges F, Koehl M, Abrous DN, Mendizabal-Zubiaga J, Grandes P, Liu Q, Bai G, Wang W, Xiong L, Ren W, Marsicano G, Zhang X.Cell. 2012 Mar 2;148(5):1039-50. |
| 15/3/12 | Hana Smeda |
Tomas Ondrejcak, Qinwen Wang, James N.C. Kew, David J. Virley, Neil Upton, Roger Anwyl, Michael J. Rowan: Activation of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors persistently enhances hippocampal synaptic transmission and prevents Aß-mediated inhibition of LTP in the rat hippocampus. European Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 677, Issues 1–3, Pages 63–70 |
| 1/3/12 | Vanessa Keasberry | Autry et al (2011) NMDA receptor blockade at rest triggers rapid behavioural antidepressant responses. Nature 475: 91–9 |
| 9/2/12 | Albert Okorocha | Functional evidence for D-serine inhibition of non-N-methyl-D-aspartate ionotropic glutamate receptors in retinal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 35, pp. 56–65, 2012 |
| 19/1/12 | Chris Stubbendorff | Disentangling pleasure from incentive salience and learning signals in brain reward circuitry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(27), E255-64 (2011). |
| 15/12/11 | Rodrigo Bammann |
The smallest insects evolve anucleate neurons. Arthropod Structure & Development Volume 41, 29-34 (2012). |
| 1/12/11 | Thomas Tagoe |
Sustained firing of cartwheel cells in the dorsal cochlear nucleus evokes endocannabinoid release and retrograde suppression of parallel fiber synapses. J Neurosci. 31(44), 15807-17 (2011). |
| 10/11/11 | Jim Sinclair |
Onset of Cholinergic Efferent Synaptic Function in Sensory Hair Cells of the Rat Cochlea. Journal of Neuroscience 31(42), 15092-15101 (2011). |
| 13/10/11 | Tom Nielson |
Attention-like deficit and hyperactivity in a Drosophila memory mutant. J Neurosci. 30(3):1003-14 (2010). |
| 22/9/11 | Rodrigo Bammann |
Neuronal activity drives matching of pre- and postsynaptic function during synapse maturation. Nature Neuroscience 14, 688–690 (2011) |
| 18/8/11 | Volko Straub |
Caiazzo M et al: Direct generation of functional dopaminergic neurons from mouse and human fibroblasts. Nature (2011) 476(7359):224-7. |
| 28/7/11 | Tom Tagoe | T Tzounopoulos et al: Coactivation of Pre- and Postsynaptic Signaling Mechanisms Determines Cell-Specific Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Neuron. 2007 April 19; 54(2): 291–301. |
| 7/7/11 | Ria Cooke |
Maria Papadopoulou et al: Normalization for Sparse Encoding of Odors by a Wide-Field Interneuron. Science 6 May 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6030 pp. 721-725 |
| 23/6/11 | Adam Tozer |
D Fioravante et al: Calcium-Dependent Isoforms of Protein Kinase C Mediate Posttetanic Potentiation at the Calyx of Held. Neuron, Volume 70, Issue 5, 1005-1019, 9 June 2011 |
| 26/5/11 | Tom Nielsen |
Peled & Isacoff Nature Neurosci 2011 Apr;14(4):519-26 |
| 6/4/11 | Joanna Shaw |
Sung Hyun Kim & Timothy A. Ryan. Neuron (2010) Volume 67 (5): 797-809. |
| 24/3/11 | Rodrigo Bammann |
Ede A Rancz et al "Transfection via whole-cell recording in vivo: bridging single-cell physiology, genetics and connectomics". Nature Neuroscience (2011) Advance online publications |
| 10/3/11 | Asha Akram |
Li et al "The cyclooxygenase site, but not the peroxidase site of cyclooxygenase-2 is required for neurotoxicity in hypoxic and ischemic injury." J. Neurochem. (2010) 113, 965-977 |
| 22/2/11 | Volko Straub |
Kravitz et al, "Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry" Nature. 2010 Jul 29;466(7306):622-6. |
| 10/2/11 | Thomas Tagoe |
Johansen et al, "Neural substrates for expectation-modulated fear learning in the amygdala and periaqueductal gray." Nat Neurosci. 2010 Aug;13(8):979-86. |
| 27/1/11 | Tom Nielsen |
Ha et al, "Functional Organization of a Neural Network for Aversive Olfactory Learning in Caenorhabditis elegans" Neuron. 2010 Dec 22;68(6):1173-86 |
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