Systems Neuroscience Journal Club (2012-2013)
Organizers: Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky, Dr. Rony Paz, Arseny Finkelstein
Aim: Our aim is to keep up-to-date with new and exciting papers in Systems Neuroscience, published in high impact journals, with particular emphasis to papers using Neurophysiology, Imaging and Optogenetics methods in vivo.
Participants: The Journal Club welcomes all students, postdocs and faculty members wishing to discuss recent innovative research in the field of Systems Neuroscience.
Where and When: We will be meeting every Monday at 12:00, in the Departmental seminar room (Benoziyo 113) of the Department of Neurobiology.
Below is the list of available dates. Students and faculty members interested in presenting a paper at the Journal Club should send their choice of date to: Arseny Finkelstein (arsenyf@gmail.com).
| Date | Paper | Presenter |
| 29/10/2012 | SfN debrief – people telling about interesting posters and lectures they have seen at SfN 2012 conference. | Everyone |
| 05/11/2012 | Deconstruction of a neural circuit for hunger. Deniz Atasoy, J. Nicholas Betley, Helen H. Su & Scott M. Sternson. Nature, August 2012. | Uri Livneh |
| 12/11/2012 | A neural circuit for spatial summation in visual cortex. Hillel Adesnik, William Bruns, Hiroki Taniguchi, Z. Josh Huang & Massimo Scanziani. Nature, October 2012. | Alon Rubin |
| 26/11/2012 | Input-specific control of reward and aversion in the ventral tegmental area. Stephan Lammel, Byung Kook Lim, Chen Ran, Kee Wui Huang, Michael J. Betley, Kay M. Tye, Karl Deisseroth & Robert C. Malenka. Nature, November 2012. | Liora Las |
| 03/12/2012 | Reorganization of cortical population activity imaged throughout long-term sensory deprivation. David J Margolis, Henry Lütcke, Kristina Schulz, Florent Haiss, Bruno Weber, Sebastian Kügler, Mazahir T Hasan & Fritjof Helmchen. Nature Neuroscience, October 2012. | Tess Oram |
| 10/12/2012 | No meeting - Hanukkah | |
| 17/12/2012 | No meeting – ISFN conference (Eilat). | |
| 24/12/2012 | The entorhinal grid map is discretized. Stensola H, Stensola T, Solstad T, Froland K, Moser MB, Moser EI. Nature, December 2012. | Nachum Ulanovsky |
| 31/12/2012 | No meeting – Departmental Event | |
| 07/01/2013 | Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex. Bilal Haider, Michael Hausser, Matteo Carandini. Nature, January 2013. | Shirley Mark |
| 14/01/2013 | Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback Without Stimulus Presentation. Kazuhisa Shibata, Takeo Watanabe, Yuka Sasaki, Mitsuo Kawato. Science 2011. | Rafi Malach |
| 21/01/2013 | A prefrontal cortex–brainstem neuronal projection that controls response to behavioural challenge. Melissa R. Warden, Aslihan Selimbeyoglu, Julie J. Mirzabekov, Maisie Lo, Kimberly R. Thompson, Sung-Yon Kim, Avishek Adhikari, Kay M. Tye, Loren M. Frank & Karl Deisseroth. Nature, November 2012. | Dudi Deutsch |
| 28/01/2013 | Confidence in value-based choice. Benedetto De Martino, Stephen M Fleming, Neil Garrett, Raymond J Dolan. Nature Neuroscience, January 2013. | Bailu Si |
| Semester Break (03/02/2013 - 17/03/2013) | ||
| 18/03/2013 | Layer-specific excitatory circuits differentially control recurrent network dynamics in the neocortex. Riccardo Beltramo, Giulia D'Urso, Marco Dal Maschio, Pasqualina Farisello, Serena Bovetti, Yoanne Clovis, Glenda Lassi, Valter Tucci, Davide De Pietri Tonelli & Tommaso Fellin. Nature Neuroscience, January 2013. | Boaz Mohar |
| 25/03/2013 | No meeting – Passover | |
| 01/04/2013 | No meeting – Passover | |
| 08/04/2013 | Changing the responses of cortical neurons from sub- to suprathreshold using single spikes in vivo.Verena Pawlak, David S Greenberg, Henning Sprekeler, Wulfram Gerstner, Jason ND Kerr. eLife, January 2013. | Ofer Yizhar |
| 15/04/2013 | No meeting – Yom Hazikaron | |
| 22/04/2013 | Astrocyte signaling controls spike timing–dependent depression at neocortical synapses. Rogier Min & Thomas Nevian. Nature Neuroscience, March 2012. | Inbal Meir |
| 29/04/2013 | Activation of adult-born neurons facilitates learning and memory. Mariana Alonso, Gabriel Lepousez, Sebastien Wagner, Cedric Bardy, Marie-Madeleine Gabellec, Nicolas Torquet & Pierre-Marie Lledo. Nature Neuroscience, May 2012. | Hila Ben-Yehuda |
| 06/05/2013 | Rapid fragmentation of neuronal networks at the onset of propofol-induced unconsciousness. Laura D. Lewisa, Veronica S. Weiner, Eran A. Mukamel, Jacob A. Donoghue, Emad N. Eskandar, Joseph R. Madsen, William S. Anderson, Leigh R. Hochberg,Sydney S. Cash, Emery N. Brown, & Patrick L. Purdon. PNAS, Nov 2012. | Meir Meshulam |
| 13/05/2013 | Neurotransmitter Switching in the Adult Brain Regulates Behavior. Davide Dulcis, Pouya Jamshidi, Stefan Leutgeb, Nicholas C. Spitzer. Science, April 2013. | Idan Frumin |
| 20/05/2013 | Increased axonal bouton dynamics in the aging mouse cortex.Grillo FW, Song S, Teles-Grilo Ruivo LM, Huang L, Gao G, Knott GW, Maco B, Ferretti V, Thompson D, Little GE, De Paola V. PNAS, April 2013. | Mathias Mahn |
| 27/05/2013 | GABA progenitors grafted into the adult epileptic brain control seizures and abnormal behavior. Robert F Hunt, Kelly M Girskis, John L Rubenstein, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla & Scott C Baraban. Nature Neuroscience, May 2013. | Revital Belaiev |
| 03/06/2013 | Corticostriatal neurons in auditory cortex drive decisions during auditory discrimination. Petr Znamenskiy & Anthony M. Zador Nature, May 2013. | Ilan Lampl |
| 10/06/2013 | Emergence of individuality in genetically identical mice. Freund J, Brandmaier AM, Lewejohann L, Kirste I, Kritzler M, Krüger A, Sachser N, Lindenberger U, Kempermann G. Science, May 2013. | Oren Forkosh |
| 17/06/2013 | Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states. Joshua H. Jennings, Dennis R. Sparta, Alice M. Stamatakis, Randall L. Ung, Kristen E. Pleil, Thomas L. Kash & Garret D. Stuber. Nature, April 2013. | Gily Ginosar |
| 24/06/2013 |
Electric Fish as an animal model and: Plastic and Nonplastic Pyramidal Cells Perform Unique Roles in a Network Capable of Adaptive Redundancy Reduction. Joseph Bastian Maurice J Chacron Leonard Maler. Neuron, 2004. |
Avner Wallach |
| 01/07/2013 | Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep. T. Horikawa, M. Tamaki, Y. Miyawaki, and Y. Kamitani. Science, May 2013. | Eyal Weinreb |