Sponsored by Harvard's Center for Brain Science, we have formed the Brains, Behavior, Computation and Thought Journal Club where graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in CBS laboratories have a forum to discuss key papers in neuroscience. Sign up and more information can be found here.
Leadership:
2014 - 2016 Mackenzie Amoroso & Alexander Mathis
If presenters choose, their slides will be available here:
December 17th, 2014 Physiologizing Cognition
Presenter: A. Mathis
January 28th, 2015 Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space
Presenter: M. Bukwich
February 18th, 2015 Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep
Presenter: G. Guitchounts
March 18th, 2015 The Cellular Basis of a Corollary Discharge
Presenter: R. Johnson
April 22, 2015 Microglia Promote Learning-Dependent Synapse Formation through Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Presenter: J. Wallace
May 13th, 2015 Practising orientation identification improves orientation coding in V1 neurons
Presenter: J. Rhee
June 17th, 2015 Neural dynamics for landmark orientation and angular path integration
Presenter: Stephen Thornquist
| Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 | |||||
| Sept | 16th | Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku | Dulac lab | Neural Circuits for instinctive behaviors in mice - theories and hypotheses | |
| Oct | 14th | Maz Zonouzi | Arlotta Lab | Labelling and optical erasure of synaptic memory traces in the motor cortex | |
| Nov. | 18th | Noah Petit | Harvey Lab | During Running in Place, Grid Cells Integrate Elapsed Time and Distance Run | |
| Dec. | 9th | Prof. Dragana Rogulja | Rogulja Lab | Motivation | |
| FEB. | 9th | Steffen Wolff | Ölveczky Lab | Cell-Type-Specific Control of Brainstem Locomotor Circuits by Basal Ganglia | |
| March | 16th | Mackenzie Weygandt Amoroso | Uchida lab | Motor adaptation and learning rely on distinct prediction error signals | |
| April | 13th | Gregory Guitchounts | Cox lab | Abstract rule neurons in the endbrain support intelligent behaviour in corvid songbirds | |
| May | 18th | Jeffrey Moore | Dulac lab | The peptidergic control circuit for sighing | |
| June | 8th | Steve Ramirez | Ramirez lab | Memory retrieval by activating engram cells in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease |