Center for Neural Informatics, Neural Structures, and Neural Plasticity (CN3)

Journal Coverage Assignments

2014-2015 CN3 Meeting Calendar - Thursdays from 1:45p sharp to 3:00pm, Krasnow Lecture Room.

Date - Presenter, Meeting type: Title

Sep 4 - Dr. Alice Jackson (Lab. Neurodev. Reading & Language, University of Maryland, College Park), guest talk: High-dimensional graphs of semantic space to model relationships among words.

Sep 11 - Faramarz, research talk: Role of feedback inhibition in information transferring in hippocampus.

Sep 18 - Ali Yousefi (Berger's lab, USC), guest talk: Training in a multi-layer dynamic synapse neural networks.

Sep 25 - No CN3 meeting (Rosh-hashana & MURI review @ONR...)

Oct 2 - Larry Medsker (Siena College and GWU), guest talk: Hybrid Intelligent Systems (see also forthcoming AAAI workshop on A Multidisciplinary Discourse on The Nature of Humans and Machines).

Oct 9 - Todd, IT talk: a new web platform proposal for CN3.

Oct 16 - Sarah, journal club: Shan Q, Ge M, Christie MJ, Balleine BW -- J Neurosci. 2014 Jul 9;34(28):9196-201. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0313-14.2014. The acquisition of goal-directed actions generates opposing plasticity in direct and indirect pathways in dorsomedial striatum.

Oct 23 - Christopher, research talk: The Absorbing and Drifting Nature of Graph Theory.

Oct 30 - Charise, research talk: Biomarker mining in the Hippocampome.

Nov 6 - Sriram, journal club: PMID 24062681.

Nov 13 - All, informal CN3 session: SfN plans/itinerary/dry-runs etc.

Nov 20 - Ben Torben-Nielsen (Okinawa Inst. Science & Technology), guest talk: Context-aware modelling of neuronal morphologies and circuits.

Nov 27 - No CN3 Mtg - Happy Thanksgiving!

Dec 4 - All SfN attendees: meeting report

Dec 11 - Postponed to 2015!

Dec 18 -  Faramarz, research talk: synaptic computation in CA1.

Dec 25 -  No CN3 Mtg - Merry X-mas!

Jan 1 -  No CN3 Mtg - Happy 2015!

Jan 8 -  Giorgio, research talk: Cytoskeletal mechanisms of dendrite arbor shape development

Jan 15 -   Sumit, research talk: Comparing stochastic growth models to explore the developmental mechanisms of dendritic arbors

NEW SPRING 2015 DAY/TIME: Mondays 11a-12n

Jan 19 -  No CN3 Mtg - MLK Day.

Jan 26 -  Asia, research talk: Molecular plasticity signature in hippocampal area CA1.

Feb 2 - Justin King (Krasnow Inst. & Neuroscience PhD program, Kabbani Lab), research talk: Hands-on update on the digital ecosystem of  neuronal reconstruction.

Feb 9 - (1-2p TODAY ONLY) Siva, research talk: A scalable approach to modeling neuronal dynamics.

Feb 16 - No CN3 Mtg - President's Day.

Feb 23 - David Gobel (CEO, Methuselah Foundation), research talk: longevity escape velocity and other topics in life extension technologies.

Mar 2 - Jeff Krichmar (UC Irvine): GPU simulations for neuroscience.

Mar 9 - Zbyszek, research talk: Flexible tau-leaping based on the next reaction method.

Mar 16 - No CN3 Mtg, consider web-attending the 12n NIH seminar of Elizabeth Buffalo (University of Washington) on Neural signals for exploration and navigation in the medial temporal lobe.

Mar 23 - Patricia Maraver (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain), job talk: Machine learning exploration of NeuroMorpho.Org.

Mar 30 - Ruben, research talk: Towards the automatic classification of neurons.

Apr 6 - No CN3 Mtg - Easter/Passover.

Apr 13 - Harold Morowitz (founding director emeritus, Krasnow Institute): On Shannon information, entropy, Maxwell's Demon, and beyond.

Apr 20 - Matteo Mainetti (CN3 alumnus and Tononi's lab alumnus): Tononi's Information Integration Theory (IIT).

Apr 27 - No CN3 Mtg - Mason Symposium on Multidisciplinary Research (Room 163 of Research Hall).

May 4 - Donald R. Perlis (Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland): AI as the science of cognitive agents.

May 11 - Dan D. - Journal Club:Li, L., Gervasi, N., & Girault, J.-A. (2015). Dendritic geometry shapes neuronal cAMP signalling to the nucleus. Nature Communications, 6, 6319. doi:10.1038/ncomms7319 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346624/


May 18 - CN3 annual hike/party!

May 25 - No CN3 Mtg - Memorial Day.

Jun 1 - No CN3 Mtg - Summer recess.

Computational Neuroanatomy Group
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Physiological and Behavioral Neuroscience in Juveniles Lab

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