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Spring 2009
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
Readings |
| January 22 | NO MEETING | - |
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| January 29 | Ben Arthur | Harmonic Convergence in the Love Songs of the Dengue Vector Mosquito | Cator, L.J. et al (2009) |
| February 5 | Brandon Loveall | Investigations into the release of the Bursicon hormone and its role during Drosophila development | None. |
| February 12 | Aaron Rice | The Evolution of Acoustic Novelty and Diversity in Toadfish Vocal Mechanisms | None. |
| February 19 | Howard Howland | On the Measurement of Monochromatic Aberrations of the Eye and its Contribution to a $2 Billion per Year Industry: a Personal Politico-Historical Account | Howland, H.C. & Howland, B. (1977) |
| February 26 | Bruce Land | Time-Frequency Reassigned Spectrogram | None. |
| March 5 | Boris Chagnaud | Temporal Patterning of a Vocal Hindbrain Circuit in Fish | None. |
| March 12 | Dipesh Chaudhury | Bulbar Acetylcholine Enhances Neural and Perceptual Odor Discrimination | Chaudhury, D. et al (2009) |
| March 19 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| March 26 | Sasha Devore | Accurate sound localization in reverberation is mediated by robust encoding of spatial cues in the auditory midbrain | TBA |
| April 2 | Marta del Campo | Chewing: A Matter of Taste for Caterpillars | del Campo, M.L. & Miles, C.I. (2003) |
| April 9 | Ron Hoy | TBA | TBA |
| April 16 | Kevin Rohmann | TBA | TBA |
| April 23 | Kristy Lawton | TBA | TBA |
| April 30 | David McCobb | TBA | TBA |
| May 7 | John D. Newman NICHHD |
Evolution of the Communicating Brain | TBA |
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| 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 | Jones & Spells, 1963 |
| September 13 | Brandon Loveall | On the Drosophila escape behavior and jumping to conclusions | Hammond, S. & O'Shea, M., 2006 |
| September 20 | Aaron Rice CANCELLED |
Biomechanical, sensory, and cognitive demands of prey capture in the archer fish | Shuster, S., et al. 2006 |
| September 27 | Barbara Finlay | The principal axes in mammalian brain variation | Reep, R., et al. 2007 Kaskan, et al. 2007 |
| October 4 | Rob Raguso CANCELLED |
Complex signals; a discussion of ultimate and proximate questions | Hebets, E. A. & Papaj, D. R., 2004 |
| October 11 | Timothy Reissman Mech. & Aero. Eng. |
Cybernetic flying insects: bridging behavioral studies with controlled flight | Reissman abstract |
| October 18 | Alycia Gailey | Brain-computer interfaces based on electrical brain signals | Bashashati, A., et al, 2007 Santucci, D. M., et al, 2005 Carmena, J. M., et al, 2003 |
| October 25 | Bruce Johnson | Neural subsstrates for behavioral plasticity: intrinsic firing property and synaptic strenght 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 Meeting | ||
| November 15 | Tine Rubow | Her male inside: a circuit for male sexual behavior in the female mouse brain | Kimichi, et al, 2007 |
| November 22 | N/A | No Meeting - Thanksgiving | |
| November 29 | David McCobb | Climate crisis: the many relevances of neuroscience and behavioral biology. (An invitation to DISCUSS causalities ad opportunities) | International Community for Ecopsychology |
Spring 2007
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| 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 | Howalnd 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 | Brando 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 | ||
| 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 sysems 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 vocalization | Willoughby 2007; Scientific American |
| April 19 | Boris Chgnaud, Institute of Zoology, University Bonn | Seeing without eyes-motion detection with the lateral line system | Cchagnaud, 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 |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| September 7 | Bruce Land | Teaching quantative neurobiology to engineers and biologists | |
| September 14 | Jason Gallant | What a species can say about a family: surprising sources fo signal diversity in Brienomyrus kingsleave, and their implications | |
| Setpember 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 200; 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 olfacotry 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 | Balow, Hitt, Doge 2001; Biol. Bull. |
| November 23 | N/A | No Meeting - Thanksgiving | |
| November 30 | Jade Zee | Testing spike frequency adaptation models on an identified IN in the locust visual system | Gabbiani, Krapp 2006; J. Neurophysiology |
Spring 2006
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| 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. Nuerobiology |
| February 16 | Jason Gallant | Krox20: a candidate molecule for genomebehavior 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 Discharae | Poulet and Hedwig 2006; Science |
| March 23 | N/A | No Meeting - Spring Break | |
| March 30 | Erik Zornik Columbia Univeristy |
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 Revies: 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 |
| 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 generates long-lasting memories that may subserve vocal learning in songbirds |
Fall 2005
Date |
Speaker |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| September 8 | Tim DeVoogd | How does fitness relate to birdsong? | Garmamszegi and Eens 2004; Brain Research Revies Spencer, Wimpenny, Buchanan et all 2005; Behav. Ecol. Sociobio |
| September 15 | Scott Jackson | Spike times make sense | Van Rullen, Guyonneau and Thorpe 2005; Trends in Neuroscience |
| September 22 | Bob Wyttenback | Making sense of illusory motion | Bayerl and Neumann Théoret, Kobayaski, Ganie, et al., 2002; Neuropsychologia |
| September 29 | Nick Santangelo | Issues in the classification of multimodal communication signals | Patan and Marler 2005; Aamerican Naturalist |
| October 6 | Ann Marie McNamara | Expectation as medicine: actions of acupuncture on the brain and effects on chronic pain | Pariente, White, Frackowiak, et al., 2005; NeuroImage Aiu 2005; Naature Reviews Neuroscience |
| October 13 | Julie Desjardins McMmaster University |
Sexual conflict in a cooperative world | |
| October 20 | Brandon Loveall | Pulse-ratae 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 | Simulationof the Delay-Line Annti-Coincidence Model for Ela Processing in Mormyrid Electric Fish | http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/land/ PROJECTS/ELahopkns/index.html |
| November 17 | N/A | CANCELLED - Neuroscience 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 |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| February 3 | Ben Arthur | Dissociation of the roles sof 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 Edwarads | ||
| 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://wwwcs/ 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, Charp, Ross-Inta, et al., 2005; Science |
| April 7 | Elizabeth Adkins-Regan | Charlier, Ball and Balthazart 2005; J. Neurosic. | |
| April 14 | Pat Rivlin dna 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 Rubinstein | 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 |
Possible Topic |
Readings/PDF's |
| September 16 | Christiane Linster | Encoding Rules | Wallis, Anderson and Miller 2001; Nature |
| September 23 | Carl Hopkins | Neuronal populatin coding and behavioral choice | Kristan and Shaw 1997; Curr Opinion Neurbio Esch, Mesce & Kristan 2002; J. Neurosci Shadlen, and Newsome 2001; Neurophysiol |
| September 30 | Matt Kittelberger | DECISIONS AND PRIMATE EYE MOVEMENTS | GOLD AND SHADLEN 2000; Nature |
| October 7 | Tom Seeley | Social Decision Making Case Study | Seeley 2003; Behavioral Ecol & Sociobio |
| October 14 | N/A | No Meeting | |
| October 21 | Howard Howland | Decision making in Twilight Vision | Hecht, Shlaer, Pirenne 1942; Gen. Physio. Howland, Cohen, Wang (in prep) |
| October 28 | N/A | 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 Naturalist |
| November 25 | N/A | Thanksgiving | |
| December 2 | Eric Williams | The Reward Pathway | Fiorillo, Tobler and Schultz 2003; Science Schultz 2002; Neuron |