ALL EVENTS

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Wednesday January 04, 13:00 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Embracing disorder: making sense of complex population codes Dr. Omri Barak \| Dept of Neuroscience, Columbia University, NY [read more]

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Tuesday January 10, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Optogenetics in Primates: Progress and Opportunities for System Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics Dr. Ilka Diester \| Ernst Strungmann Institute, Max Planck, Frankfurt [read more]

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Tuesday January 17, 10:00 Benoziyo Building Room 113	Role of medial prefrontal cortex neuronal ensembles in context-induced relapse to heroin Dr. Yavin Shaham \| Behavioral Neuroscience Branch NIH/NIDA/IRP, Baltimore, MD, USA [read more]

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Tuesday January 17, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Post-traumatic Stress Disorder – Seeking a Biological Anchor Prof. Arieh Shalev \| Department of Psychiatry, The Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem [read more]

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Thursday January 19, 12:00 Reich Seminar Room	Neuronal Avalanches Dr. Nir Friedman \| University of Illinois [read more]

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Tuesday January 24, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Slick. How smooth and attractive can it be, given our brain? Prof. Alessandro Treves \| Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, Italy [read more]

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Tuesday January 31, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	How We Know That We Know:The Process Underlying Subjective Confidence Prof. Asher Koriat \| Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa [read more]

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Wednesday February 08, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Exploration of anatomy and physiology of oxytocin and vasopressin brain systems by recombinant viruses Dr. Valery Grinevich \| Dept of Molecular Neurobiology Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg [read more]

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Thursday February 09, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The timing of stress: relevance for its effect on rodent and human brain Prof. Marian Joels \| Dept of Neuroscience and Pharmacology University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands [read more]

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Tuesday February 14, 14:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Body Representation and Self-Consciousness From Embodiment to Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood Prof. Thomas Metzinger \| Department of Philosophy, University of Mainz, Germany [read more]

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Tuesday February 28, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	From Neuron to Network: The Role of DOC2B in Synaptic Transmission and Neuronal Burst Activity Prof. Uri Ashery \| Dept of Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University [read more]

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Tuesday March 06, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Cortical Dynamics: bottom-up and local effects Prof. Ilan Lampl \| Dept of Neurobiology, WIS [read more]

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Thursday March 15, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Beyond the Connectome: Variability, Compensation and Modulation in Rhythmic Neuronal Networks Prof. Eve Marder \| Dept of Biology, Brandeis University [read more]

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Sunday March 18, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Neuropeptide Modulation of Glutamate Excitotoxicity in Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury Prof. Bruce Lyeth \| Dept of Neurological Surgery University of California, Davis [read more]

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Tuesday March 20, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The neurophysiological basis of motor function and learning and memory in the octopus, an animal with a unique ‘embodiment’ Prof. Benny Hochner \| Dept of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuronal Computation. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem [read more]

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Tuesday March 27, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	On the representation of space in auditory cortex Prof. Leon Deouell \| Department of Psychology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem [read more]

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Thursday March 29, 14:30 Botnar Auditorium Belfer Building	Prenatal stress programming of stress dysregulation: epigenetic and placental contributions Prof. Tracy Bale \| Neuroscience Center University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia [read more]

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Tuesday April 03, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Consciousness: An Evolutionary Approach Prof. Eva Jablonka \| Cohn Institute for the History of Philosophy of Science and Ideas Tel Aviv University [read more]

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Tuesday April 17, 13:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The hippocampal-prefrontal circuit in psychiatric disease models Prof. Joshua Gordon \| Dept of Psychiatry, Columbia University and The New York State Psychiatric Institute [read more]

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Tuesday April 24, 13:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The Itching Line. Selective Silencing of Primary Afferents Reveals Two Distinct Itch-Specific Sensory Lines Dr. Alexander Binshtok \| Dept. of Medical Neurobiology Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada and Center for Research on Pain, Hebrew University Medical School Jerusalem [read more]

Other
Wednesday May 02-03 Ebner Auditorium and Schmidt Hall	Vivian Teichberg Memorial Symposium [read more]

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Sunday May 06, 15:30 Botnar Auditorium, Belfer Building	Odor representation in a small olfactory system Prof. Gilles Laurent \| Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt [read more]

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Monday May 07, 13:30 Botnar Auditorium, Belfer Building	STDP learning rules and plasticity in a small olfactory system Prof. Gilles Laurent \| Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt [read more]

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Tuesday May 08, 13:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	What can parasitoid wasps teach us about decision making in insects? Prof. Frederic Libersat \| Life Sciences Dept, Ben Gurion University of the Negev [read more]

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Wednesday May 09, 12:00 Loupatie Conference Center	Imaging voltage with microbial rhodopsins Prof. Adam Cohen \| Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University [read more]

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Thursday May 17, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Neuronal Avalanches in the Resting MEG of the Human Brain Dr. Oren Shriki \| National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland [read more]

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Sunday May 20, 13:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Comparing Apples and Oranges: the search for a common subjective value representation in the brain Dr. Dino Levy \| Center for Neural Science, New York University, NY [read more]

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Tuesday May 22, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	From Sound to Meaning –Dynamic Transformations in Auditory Signal-Processing Dr. Jonathan Fritz \| Center for Auditory and Acoustic Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland [read more]

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Tuesday May 29, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Creating a nuisance to probe the neural code Dr. Mickey London \| Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem [read more]

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Tuesday June 05, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	From discrete elements to a perceived contour in the primary visual cortex Dr. Hamutal Slovin \| Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University [read more]

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Tuesday June 12, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Bird's Brain? Possible relations between behavior and brain plasticity Prof. Anat Barnea \| Dept of Natural and Life Sciences, The Open University of Israel [read more]

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Sunday June 17, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Parallel, non-convergent, interactions between separate cortical loci underlie perceptual unity: implications for a new view of object recognition Prof. Moshe Gur \| Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa [read more]

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Tuesday June 19, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	New solutions to the "solved" problem of how sodium channels control cortical neuronal excitability Prof. Mike Gutnick \| Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem [read more]

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Thursday June 21, 13:30 Reich Seminar Room Benoziyo Building	Brain-to-brain coupling: a mechanism for creating and sharing a social world Prof. Uri Hasson \| Dept of Psychology, Princeton University [read more]

Other
Thursday June 28, 14:30 Wix Auditorium	Prof David Samuel – 90th Birthday Symposium [read more]

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Tuesday July 24, 11:30 Benoziyo Building Room113	Perceptual bias induced by optical stimulation in the macaque frontal eye field Dr. Shay Ohayon \| Computation & Neural Systems CALTECH [read more]

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Tuesday July 31, 09:00 Schmidt Lecture Hall	A Reconstruction of the Neocortical Column Prof. Henry Markram \| The Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland [read more]

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Tuesday August 14, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The role of phagocytic activity in brain maintenance Prof. Jonathan Kipnis \| Dept of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA [read more]

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Tuesday August 28, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Towards a link between hippocampal network dynamics and exploratory behavior Dr. Anton Sirota \| Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tubingen University, Germany [read more]

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Sunday September 02, 11:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Sites of androgen action in the nervous system Prof. Marc Breedlove \| Departments of Psychology and Zoology, Michigan State University [read more]

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Sunday October 21, 12:00 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The Power of Testing in Enhancing Memory Dr. Henry L. Roediger III and Dr. Kathleen McDermott \| Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis [read more]

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Tuesday November 06, 10:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Neural codes for 2-D and 3-D space in the hippocampal formation of bats Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky \| Dept of Neurobiology, WIS [read more]

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Wednesday November 07, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Unexpected plasticity in retinal circuits Dr. Michal Rivlin-Etzion \| Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Helen Wills Neurosciences Institute, UC Berkeley [read more]

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Thursday November 08, 13:00 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Delay Compensation with Dynamical Synapses Dr. Si Wu \| State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience & Learning, Beijing Normal University [read more]

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Tuesday November 13, 11:00 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Structural clues to a visual function: direction selectivity in the retina Professor Sebastian Seung \| MIT [read more]

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Wednesday November 21, 10:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Moving beyond category-selectivity: What can fMRI tell us about large-scale interactions in vision? Dr. Assaf Harel \| Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH [read more]

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Tuesday November 27, 10:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	What can parasitoid wasps teach us about decision making in the brain of insects? Prof. Frederic Libersat \| Life Sciences Dept, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva [read more]

Other
Monday December 03, 06:30 The David Lopatie Conference Center	One-Day Symposium [read more]

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Tuesday December 04, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Multiple decision systems in the human brain Prof. Nathaniel Daw \| Center for Neural Science, New York University [read more]

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Wednesday December 05, 10:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space Dr. Yael Niv \| Department of Psychology, Princeton University [read more]

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Tuesday December 11, 10:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	The legacy of Vivian Teichberg: Scavenging of excess brain glutamate to minimize neurological damage Prof. David Mirelman Dept of Biological Chemistry & Dr. Angela Ruban Dept of Neurobiology, WIS [read more]

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Wednesday December 12, 10:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Of whiskers and blood: how mild sensory stimulation completely protects the cortex from an impending ischemic stroke Prof. Ron Frostig \| Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, CA [read more]

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Tuesday December 25, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Sensory Selectivity in Random Cortical Circuits Prof. Haim Sompolinsky \| The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation The Hebrew University, Jerusalem [read more]

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Wednesday December 26, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Long-term dynamics of CA1 hippocampal neural ensemble representations of space Dr. Yaniv Ziv \| Dept of Biology, Stanford University, CA [read more]

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Sunday December 30, 12:30 Schmidt Lecture Hall	Neural Mechanisms Underlying Selective Attention at a Cocktail Party Dr. Elana Zion Golumbic \| Columbia University Medical Center, New York [read more]