Fall 2007
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
August 30 |
Bruce
Carlson |
Temporal-pattern
sensitivity in the mormyrid electric communication pathway |
No
reading. |
September 6 |
Howie
Howland |
Head stabilization in
flying birds: data from the allometry of their semicircular canals |
|
September 13 |
Brandon Loveall |
On
the Drosophila escape behavior and jumping to conclusions |
|
September 20 |
Aaron
Rice CANCELLED |
Biomechanical,
sensory, and cognitive
demands of prey capture in the archer
fish |
|
September 27 |
Barbara Finlay |
The
principal axes in mammalian brain variation |
|
October 4 |
Rob
Raguso CANCELLED |
Complex signals; a discussion of ultimate and proximate
questions |
|
October 11 |
Timothy Reissman Mech. & Aero. Eng. |
Cybernetic flying
insects: bridging behavioral studies with controlled
flight |
|
October 18 |
Alycia Gailey |
Brain-computer
interfaces based on
electrical brain signals |
|
October 25 |
Bruce
Johnson |
Neural substrates for
behavioral plasticity: intrinsic firing property and synaptic
strength contributions to motor activity from the lobster pyloric
network |
None. |
November 1 |
Jason
Gallant |
A tail of two tissues:
using development to reveal candidate genes for signal
diversity |
None. |
November 8 |
No Meeting - Neuroscience
Meetings |
||
November 15 |
Tine
Rubow |
Her male inside: a
circuit for male sexual behavior in the female mouse
brain |
|
November 22 |
NA
|
No Meeting-Thanksgiving
|
|
November 29 |
David
McCobb |
Climate crisis: the
many relevances of neuroscience and behavioral biology. (An
invitation to DISCUSS causalities ad opportunities). |
Spring 2007
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
February 1 |
Cole Gilbert |
Optimal wiring in nervous systems |
Chen,
Hall, and Chklovskii (2006; PNAS) |
February 8 |
Andy Bass |
Talking heads: The fish brain in us all |
|
February 15 |
John Ratcliffe |
A Behavioral Role for Feature Detection by Sensory Bursts |
Marsat and Pollack (2006; J Neuroscience) Bush and Schul (2006; J Comp Physiol A) |
February 22 |
Howie Howland |
"Tales of MIT and Old Seewiesen: A disorienting fish story" |
Howland and Howland (1962; J Exp Biol) |
March 1 |
Gus Lott |
"Physiology Studio: A New Real-Time Data Acquisition and Analysis Tool" |
|
March 8 |
Jordan Moore |
"Dendritic spines linearize the summation
of excitatory potentials" |
Araya, Eisenthal and yuste (2006; PNAS) |
March 15 |
Brandon Loveall |
Cycling of PDF hormone is required for circadian pacemaker output in Drosophila - or is it? |
Kula, Levitan, Pyza, and Rosbash (2006; J Biol Rhythms) |
March 22 |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
|
March 29 |
Marie Göritz |
"Segment Specificity of Load Signal Processing Depends on Walking Direction in the Stick Insect Leg Muscle Control System" |
Akay, Ludwar, Göritz, Schmitz, and Büschges (2007; J Neurosci) |
April 5 |
Jason Gallant |
"Sensory systems and ecological speciation. |
Terai Y, Seehausen O, Sasaki T, Takahashi K, Mizoiri S, et al. (2006; PLoS Biol) |
April 12 |
Paul Faure, McMaster University |
"What Cujo's bat was telling Stephen King: a bioacoustical analysis of rabid bat vocalizations" |
Willoughby (2007; Scientific American) |
April 19 |
Boris Chagnaud, Institute of Zoology, Univ. Bonn |
"Seeing without eyes-motion detection with the lateral line system" |
Chagnaud, Bleckmann and Engelmann (2006; J Experimental Biology) |
April 26 |
Ron Hoy |
"Mirror Neurons in Neuroethological Systems: Sure, Why Not?" |
Lacoboni and Dapretto (2006; Nature Rev Neuro) |
May 3 |
Pat Rivlin and Ron Hoy |
"evo-devo of courtship song in Hawaiian Drosophila" |
Fall 2006
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
September 7 |
Bruce Land |
Teaching quantative neurobiology to engineers and biologists
|
|
September 14 |
Jason Gallant |
What a species can say about a family: surprising surces of signal diversity in Brienomyrus kingsleaye, and their implications |
|
September 21
|
Robert Sapolsky |
Stress and neuron death |
|
September 28 |
Tine Rubow |
Cycles of song: seasonal and circadian changes in neuron excitability |
Optional: Park, Meitzen, et al (2005; J Neurobiol) |
October 5
|
Christiane Linster |
Birds that learn grammar |
Genter, Fenn and Margoliash, et al (2006; Nature) |
October 12 |
N/A |
No Meeting-Neuroscience Annual Meeting |
|
October 19
|
N/A |
Cancelled |
|
October 26
|
Anne Marie McNamara |
Using social discrimination to uncover two mechanisms of learning and memory in the olfactory system |
|
November 2 |
Brandon Loveall |
New insights into the hormonal control of fruitfly ecdysis behavior |
Kim, Zitnan, et al (2006, Current Biology) Optional: Ewer (2005; Hormones and Behavior) |
November 9
|
Kern Reeve |
Courtship song and ocomotor versatility: a new hypothesis |
|
November 16
|
Kuzuo Mori Upstate Medical University |
Coding of Visual Information in the Limulus Brain |
Background: Barlow, Hitt, Dodge (2001; Biol. Bull) |
November 23 |
N/A |
No Meeting-Thanksgiving |
|
November 30 |
Jade Zee |
Testing spike frequency adapttation models on an identified IN in the locust visual system |
Gabbiani, Krapp (2006; J. Neurophysiol.) |
Spring 2006
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
February 2 |
John Ratcliffe |
Insects, neuroethology, and the adaptive specialization of learning |
Heyes (2003; Psychological Review) |
February 7 (Tuesday) |
Amir Ayali Tel-Aviv University |
The neuroethology of locust density-dependent phrase polymorphism |
Fuchs, Kutsch and Ayali (2003; J Neurobiol) |
February 16
|
Jason Gallant |
Krox20: a candidate molecule for genome-behavior interactions? |
Coutinho, Borday, Gilthorpe, et al (2004; J Neuroscience |
February 23 |
Eric Williams |
The role of MHC molecules in murin emate recognition |
Leinders-Zufall, Brennan, et al (2004; Science) |
March 2
|
Robert Baker NYU |
Neuroethology of vertebrate eye movement |
|
March 9 |
N/A |
No Meeting-Cancelled |
|
March 16
|
Carl Hopkins |
SENSORY MOTOR INTEGRATION UPDATE:The cells of the Corollary Discharge |
Poulet and Hedwig (2006; Science) |
March 23
|
N/A |
No Meeting-Spring Break |
|
March 30 |
Erik Zornik Columbia University |
Regulating calling and breathing in an aquatic frog |
|
April 6
|
Matt Kittelberger |
Grid Cells in the Entorhinal Cortex: New Insights into Spatial Navigation and Episodic Memory |
Hafting, Fyhn, et al (2005; Nature) Fyhn, Modlen, Witter, et al (2004; Science) Relevant Review: Leutgeb, Leutgeb, et al (2005; Current Opinion in Neurobiology) |
April 13
|
Ben Arthur |
Prestin's role in the active cochlea |
Liberman, Gao, et al (2002; Nature) Supplementary Review: Dallos and Fakler (2002; Nature) |
April 20 |
Ron Hoy |
The Final Four: Non-traditional Model Systems and the History of Neuroethology and NB&B-an open discussion |
|
April 27 |
Aaron Rice University of Chicago |
Evolution of Coordination of Fish Feeding: the Intersection of Biomechanics, Sensory Physiology, Behavior and Ecology |
|
May 4 |
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan |
Early auditory experience genterates long-lasting memories that may subserve vocal learning in songbirds |
Fall 2005
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
September 8 |
Tim DeVoogd |
How does fitness relate to birdsong? |
Garmamszegi and Eens (2004; Brain Research Reviews) Spencer, Wimpenny, Buchanan, et al (2005; Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.) |
September 15 |
Scott Jackson |
Spike times make sense |
Van Rullen, Guyonneau and Thorpe (2005; Trends in Neuroscience) Johansson and Birznicks (2004; Nature Neuroscience) |
September 22
|
Bob Wyttenbach |
Making sense of illusory motion? |
Bayerl and Neumann Théoret, Kobayaski, Ganis, et al (2002, Neuropsychologia) |
September 29 |
Nick Santangelo |
Issues in the classification of multimodal communication signals |
Patan and Marler (2005; American Naturalist) |
October 6 |
Ann Marie McNamara |
Expectiation as medicine: actions of acupuncture on the brain and effects on chronic pain |
Pariente, White, Frackowiak, et al (2005; NeuroImage) Qiu (2005; Nature Reviews Neuroscience) |
October 13 |
Julie Desjardins McMaster University |
Sexual conflict in a cooperative world |
|
October 20
|
Brandon Loveall |
Pulse-rate recognition in an insect: evidence of a role for oscillatory neurons |
Bush and Schul (2005; J Comp Physiol A) |
October 27
|
Ximena Bernal University of Texas |
Frogs and Flies, Sexual Selection and Parasitism |
|
November 3 |
N/A |
Cancelled |
|
November 10
|
Bruce Land/Carl Hopkins |
Simulation of the Delay-Line Anti-Coincidence Model for Ela Processing in Mormyrid Electric Fish |
http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/ land/ PROJECTS/ELahopkins/ index.html |
November 17
|
N/A |
Cancelled due to Neuroscience 2005 Meeting |
|
November 24 |
N/A |
No Meeting-Thanksgiving |
|
December 1 |
Bruce Johnson |
Control of neuronal firing: new perspective from small networks |
|
December 8 |
Cole Gilbert |
Interindividual variation of eye optics and single object resolution in bumblebees |
Spaethe and Chittka (2003; J Exp Biology) |
Spring 2005
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
January 27 |
|||
February 3 |
Ben Arthur |
Dissociation of the roles of hippocampus and amygdala in humans |
Bechara, Antoine; Tranel, Daniel, et al (1995; Science) |
February 10
|
Merri Rosen |
Mechanisms underlying immediate sensory-induced changes in cortical maps. |
|
February 17 |
Joe Fetcho |
Functional Imaging with Cellular Resolution Reveals Precise Micro-Architecture in Visual Cortex |
Ohki, Chung, and Ch'ng, et al (2005; Nature) |
February 24
|
Jade Zee |
||
March 3 |
Chris Edwards |
||
March 10
|
Bruce Land/Damian Elias |
Complexity isn't Simple: Methods for measuring the complexity of signals |
http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/ neurobio/land/PROJECTS/ Complexity/index.html http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/ %7Epablo/complex.maker.html |
March 17
|
Thom Cleland |
||
March 24 |
Spring Break |
||
March 31
|
Jennifer Gee |
Uncharged tRNA and Sensing of Amino Acid Deficiency in Mammalian Piriform Cortex |
Hao, Sharp, Ross-Inta, et al (2005; Science) |
April 7
|
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan |
Charlier, Ball and Balthazart (2005; J Neurosci) |
|
April 14 |
Pat Rivlin and Jake Krans |
Using octopamine and Shaker mutants to explore the link between synaptic transmission and aging in Drosophila |
|
April 21 |
Thom Cleland |
A Tale of Two Knockouts |
Brambilla, Gnesutta, Minichiello, et al (1997; Nature) |
April 28 |
Dustin Rubenstein |
Behavioral imprinting via DNA methylation along the stress axis |
Weaver, Cervoni, Cmapagne, et al (2004; Nat Neurosci) |
May 5
|
Eric Williams |
Fall 2004
Date
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Readings
|
|---|---|---|---|
September 9 |
|||
September 16 |
Christiane Linster |
Encoding Rules |
Wallis, Anderson and Miller (2001; Nature) |
September 23
|
Carl Hopkins
|
Neuronal
population coding and behavioral choice |
Kristan and Shaw. (1997; Curr Opinion Neurbio) Esch, Mesce & Kristan (2002; J Neurosci) |
September 30 |
Matt Kittelberger |
Decisions
and Primate Eye Movements |
|
October 7
|
Tom Seeley |
Social
Decision Making Case Study |
Seeley (2003; Behavioral Ecol
& Sociobio) |
October 14 |
No meeting this week |
||
October 21
|
Howard Howland |
Decision
making in Twilight Vision |
Hecht, Shlaer, Pirenne (1942; Gen Physiol) Howland, Cohen, Wang (in prep) |
October 28
|
Re-Organizational Meeting |
||
November 4 |
Open |
||
November 11
|
Ron Hoy |
Getting
your attention: multiple signal modes--redundancy or emergence? |
|
November 18
|
Nick Santangelo |
Making
mate Choice Decisions: Possible avenues for neurobiology to further
an advancing behavioral field |
Gibson, Langen. (1996; Trends in Ecology and Evolution) Other relevant references: Cooley and Marshall (2004; Behaviour) Reid and Stamps (1997; American Natuarlist)
|
November 25 |
Thanksgiving |
||
December 2
|
Eric Williams |
The
Reward Pathway |
Fiorillo, Tobler and Schultz (2003; Science) Schultz (2002; Neuron) |