July 2004

July 6th
July 13th
July 20nd
July 27th

Date: Tuesday, July 6th
Time: 11am
Location: HNB 120
Speaker: Jeff Wurfel
Paper: J.Haag and A.Borst (2004). Neural Mechanism underlying complex receptive field properties of motion-sensitive interneurons. Nature Neuroscience 7, 628-634.

Date: Tuesday, July 13th
Time: 11am
Location: HNB 120
Speaker: Ken Hayworth
Topic: Introduction to Automatic Taping Lathe Microtome, a microtome that automates the process of slicing neural tissue.
Additional References: Y.Tsukamoto, K.Morigiwa, M.Ueda and P.Sterling (2001). Illustration of applications of detailed neuroanatomy for vision research. Microcircuits for night vision in mouse retina. The Journal of Neuroscience 21(21), 8616-8623.

Date: Tuesday, July 20th
Time: 11am
Location: HNB 120
Speaker: Group Discussion
Paper: JW. Bisley, K. Zaksas, JA. Droll, T. Pasternak. Activity of neurons in cortical area MT during a memory for motion task. J Neurophysiol. 91(1):286-300.

Date: Tuesday, July 27th
Time: 11am
Location: HNB 120
Speaker: Susmita Chatterjee
Paper: L. Franco, E. Rolls, N.C. Aggelopoulos and A. Treves (2004). The use of decoding to analyze the contribution to the information of the correlations between the firing of simultaneously recorded neurons. Experimental Brain Research 155: 370-384.