Systems Neuroscience Journal Club (2013-2014)
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 14:00, 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 |
| 18/11/2013 | SfN debrief – people telling about interesting posters and lectures they have seen at the SfN 2013 conference in San Diego. | Everyone |
| 25/11/2013 | Context-dependent computation by recurrent dynamics in prefrontal cortex. Mante V, Sussillo D, Shenoy KV, Newsome WT. Nature, November 2013. | Nachum Ulanovsky |
| 02/12/2013 | No meeting - Inter-Academy Symposium | |
| 09/12/2013 | The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks. Rigotti M, Barak O, Warden MR, Wang XJ, Daw ND, Miller EK, Fusi S. Nature, May 2013. | Alon Rubin |
| 16/12/2013 | No meeting - ISFN | |
| 23/12/2013 | No meeting - special departmental seminar | |
| 30/12/2013 | Membrane potential dynamics of neocortical projection neurons driving target-specific signals. Yamashita T, Pala A, Pedrido L, Kremer Y, Welker E, Petersen CC. Neuron, December 2013. | Boaz Mohar |
| 06/01/2014 | Adaptation maintains population homeostasis in primary visual cortex. Benucci A,Saleem AB, Carandini M. Nature Neuroscience, April 2013. | Stefano Recanatesi |
| 26/01/2014 - 09/03/2014 Semester Break | ||
| 10/03/2014 | Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons shape neuronal activity to drive fear expression. Courtin J, Chaudun F, Rozeske RR, Karalis N, Gonzalez-Campo C, Wurtz H, Abdi A, Baufreton J, Bienvenu TC, Herry C. Nature, January 2014. | Rony Paz |
| 17/03/2014 | No meeting - Purim | |
| 24/03/2014 | A Cortical Circuit for Gain Control by Behavioral State. Fu Y, Tucciarone JM, Espinosa JS, Sheng N, Darcy DP, Nicoll RA, Huang ZJ, Stryker MP. Cell, March 2014. | Inbal Meir |
| 31/03/2014 | Island cells control temporal association memory. Kitamura T, Pignatelli M, Suh J, Kohara K, Yoshiki A, Abe K, Tonegawa S. Science, February 2014. | Meytar Zemer |
| 07/04/2014 | No meeting - Departmental Event | |
| 14/04/2014 | No meeting - Passover | |
| 21/04/2014 | No meeting - Passover | |
| 28/04/2014 |
Volitional modulation of optically recorded calcium signals during neuroprosthetic learning. Clancy KB, Koralek AC, Costa RM, Feldman DE, Carmena JM. Nat Neurosci. April, 2014. |
Tess Oram |
| 05/05/2014 | No meeting - Yom Hazikaron | |
| 12/05/2014 | Sensory stimulation shifts visual cortex from synchronous to asynchronous states. Tan AY, Chen Y, Scholl B, Seidemann E, Priebe NJ. Nature, May, 2014. | Ella Podvalny |
| 19/05/2014 | Cancelled | |
| 26/05/2014 | No meeting - Departmental Retreat | |
| 02/06/2014 |
1) An electroconvulsive therapy procedure impairs reconsolidation of episodic memories in humans. Kroes MC, Tendolkar I, van Wingen GA, van Waarde JA, Strange BA, Fernández G. Nat Neurosc. February, 2014. 2) Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans. Borota D, Murray E, Keceli G, Chang A, Watabe JM, Ly M, Toscano JP, Yassa MA. Nat Neurosc. February, 2014. |
Maya Geva-Sagiv |
| 09/06/2014 | No meeting | |
| 16/06/2014 | The emergence of functional microcircuits in visual cortex. Ko H, Cossell L, Baragli C, Antolik J, Clopath C, Hofer SB, Mrsic-Flogel TD. Nature, April, 2013. | Tamir Eliav |
| 23/06/2014 | Spatiotemporal computations of an excitable and plastic brain: neuronal plasticity leads to noise-robust and noise-constructive computations. Toutounji H, Pipa G. PLoS Comput Biol., March, 2014. | Ehud Karpas |