Neuroscience Graduate Program

Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF

NS201B - Winter 2008

NS201B - Winter 2008
Basic Concepts in Systems Neuroscience

Course Directors:
Michael Brainard, email: msb@phy.ucsf.edu
Jonathan Horton, email: hortonj@vision.ucsf.edu
Jenny LaVail, email: lavailj@vision.ucsf.edu

First Class: Wednesday, January 2, 2008, S-176, Parnassus, 9-11am
Please view each date for the time and location of each class.
Class will be Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays unless noted othewise in the schedule.

Course Materials:.
Materials will be located to the right as they are added.

Conference Groups (PDF) (updated 2/7/08)

Class Schedule:

Date	Time	Location(s)	Lecturer	Subject
January
Wed. Jan 2	9-11am	S-176	Jenny LaVail	Neuroanatomy-Devt/External Features
Fri. Jan 4	9-11am	S-176	Allan Basbaum	Neuroanatomy-Spinal Cord
Tue. Jan 8	10-12pm	S-1320	Jenny LaVail, Jonathan Horton and Peter Ohara	Neuroanatomy-Gross Lab 1
Wed. Jan 9	9-11am	S-176	Peter Ohara	Neuroanatomy-Thalamus
Fri. Jan 11	9-11am	S-176	Eric Huang	Neuroanatomy-Brainstem
Tue. Jan 15	10-12pm	S-1320	Jenny LaVail, Jonathan Horton and Peter Ohara	Neuroanatomy-Gross Lab 2
Wed. Jan 16	9-11am	S-176	Jenny LaVail and Scott Baraban	Cortex
Fri. Jan 18	9-11am	S-176	Antonello Bonci	Basal Ganglia
Tue. Jan 22	9-11am	S-176	Jenny LaVail	Student Presentations
Wed. Jan 23	9-11am	S-176	Allan Basbaum	Pain/Somatosens'n 1
Fri. Jan 25	9-11am	S-176	Allan Basbaum	Pain/Somatosens'n 2
Tue. Jan 29	9-11am	S-176 HSW-701 C-343	Allan Basbaum, Jonathan Horton and Linda Noble	Conference 1 - Somatic Sensation
Wed. Jan 30	9-11am	S-176	Michael Brainard	Audition 1
February
Fri. Feb. 1	9-11am	S-176	Michael Brainard	Audition 2 Midterm Handed Out
Tue. Feb 5	9-11am	S-176 S-158 S-162	Allison Doupe, Michael Brainard and Michael Stryker	Conference 2 - Audition Midterm Due
Wed. Feb 6	9-11am	S-176	Jonathan Horton	Vision 2
Thur. Feb 7	9-11am	S-176	David Copenhagen	Vision 1
Fri. Feb 8				NO CLASS-ADMISSIONS
Tue. Feb 12	9-11am	S-176 S-158 S-162	David Copenhagen, Jonathan Horton and Michael Stryker	Conference 3 - Vision
Wed. Feb 13	9-11am	S-176	Philip Sabes	Computation/Theory 1
Thur. Feb 14	9-11am	S-176	Philip Sabes	Computation/Theory 2
Fri. Feb 15				NO CLASS-ADMISSIONS
Tue. Feb 19	9-11am	S-176 S-158 S-162	Philip Sabes, Loren Frank and Allison Doupe	Conference 4 - Learning 1
Wed. Feb 20	9-11am	S-176	Roger Nicoll and Patricia Janak	Limbic/LTP
Fri. Feb 22	9-11am	S-176	Roger Nicoll and Patricia Janak	Limbic/LTP
Tue. Feb 26	9-11am	S-176 S-158 S-162	Roger Nicoll, Patricia Janak and Allison Doupe	Conference 5 - Limbic
Wed. Feb 27				NO CLASS
Th. Feb 28	9-11am	S-174	Steve Lisberger	Motor 1
Fri. Feb 29	9-11am	S-176	Steve Lisberger	Motor 2
March
Tue. Mar 4	9-11am	S-176 S-158 S-162	Steve Lisberger, Philip Sabes and Michael Stryker	Conference 6 - motor
Wed. Mar 5	9-11am	S-176	Michael Brainard	Map Learning
Fri. Mar 7	9-11am	S-176	Steve Lisberger	Cerebellar Learning
Tue. Mar 11	9-11am	S-176 S-158 S-162	Michael Brainard, Steve Lisberger and Allison Doupe	Conference 7 - Learning 2 Final Exam Handed Out
Wed. Mar 12				NO CLASS
Fri. Mar 14	9-11am	S-176	Hilary Beggs	Final Due Course Evaluation Session