Neuroscience Graduate Program

Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF

Journal Club Paper Archive 2008-2009

September 26, 2008
Parnassus - N225

5th Year Research Talks

Christine Fu
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Degeneration in Glaucoma

Annabelle Singer
Memoirs of a Chocoholic: Reward and the Hippocampus

October 3, 2008
Parnassus - N225

Maggie Carr
Act Locally, Think Synaptically
Local Dendritic Acticity Sets Release Probability at Hippocampal Synapses

Liz Steinberg
Frightened? It All Depends on Who You Talk To.
Switching On and Off Fear by Distinct Neuronal Circuits

October 10, 2008
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Anita Devineni
Follow Your Nose (No Brain Required)
Translation of Sensory Input into Behavioral Output via an Olfactory System

Ulrike Heberlein
Road Rage: What's Love Got to do With It?
Specific subgroups of Fru^M neurons control sexually dimorphic patterns of aggression in Drosophila melanogaster

October 17, 2008
Parnassus - N225

5th Year Research Talks

Tim Warren
Contributions of the Avian Basal Ganglia to Birdsong Learning

Melinda Owens
Visual Cartography: Development of Topographic Maps in Visual Brain Areas

October 24, 2008
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Rochelle Urban
Putting Mice on the Couch: Therapy for Rodents
An Animal Model of a Behavioral Intervention for Depression

Su Guo
Unfolding Human Neurological Disorder in a Petri-Dish?
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated from Patients with ALS Can Be Differentiated into Motor Neurons

October 31, 2008
Parnassus - N225

Ervin Johnson
Self-Help for Neurons: Growth Cones Unlock Their Potential
Membrane Potential Shifts Caused by Diffusible Guidance Signals Direct Growth-Cone Turning

Loren Frank
The Social Life of the Prefrontal Cortex
Behavior-Dependent Short-Term Assembly Dynamics in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Supplemental material

November 7, 2008
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Talia Lerner
How to Catch a Fisho Out of Water
Retrograde GABA Signaling Adjusts Sound Localization by Balancing Excitation and Inhibition in the Brainstem

Stavros Lomvardas
S is Not for Safety: The Crystal Structure of Dscam Molecules Explains their Remarkable Specificty
A Double S Shap Provides the Structural Basis for the Extraordinary Binding Specificty of Dscam Isoforms

November 14, 2008

No Journal Club

November 21, 2008
Parnassus - N225

Amy Chang
Sometimes I Feel like a Dopamine Neuron, Sometimes I Don't
Illumination Controls Differentiation of Dopamine Neurons Regulating Behaviour

Peter Sargent
Why Doesn't Calcium Depletion in the Synaptic Cleft Cause Synapses to Run Down?
Calcium-Sensing Receptor Activation Depresses Synaptic Transmission

November 28, 2008

No Journal Club

December 5, 2008
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Paul Larkin
Oh Neuropeptide, Y am I so Stressed?
Genetic Variation in Human NPY Expression Affects Stress Response and Emotion

Katerina Akassoglou
The Vasculature as a Regulator of Axon Guidance
Endothelins are Vascular-Derived Axonal Guidance Cues for Developing Sympathetic Neurons

January 9, 2009
Mission Bay - N114

Fall Rotation Poster Session - First Year Students

January 16, 2009
Parnassus

Doris Wang
Brain's New Sugar Momma
Astroglial Metabolic Networks Sustain Hippocamapl Synaptic Transmission

David Young
Parting with Postpartum Depression
GABA_AR Plasticity during Pregnancy: Relevance to Postpartum Depression

January 23, 2009
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

5th Year Research Talks

Aaron Milstein
Transformers: More Than Meets the Ion

Catherine Massaro
Hold On For One More Day: Genetic Dissection of Neuroprotective Signaling at the Drosophila
Neuromuscular Junction

Carleton Goold
Synaptic Space Disco

January 30, 2009
Parnassus

David Gorczyca
Membranes for Moiré Memory?
Tuning of Synaptic Integration in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex to the Organization of Grid Cell Firing

Linda Wilbrecht
A Repertoire Stored in Spines?
Experience Leaves a Lasting Structural Trace in Cortical Circuits

February 6, 2009
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Wendy Huang
A Blinding Tale of Starving Cones
Stimulation of the Insulin/mTOR Pathway Delays Cone Death in a Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa

John Rubenstein
Fantastic Voyage – Journey of a Retinal Transcription Factor to Cortical Interneurons Closes the Visual Critical Period
Experience-Dependent Transfer of Otx2 Homeoprotein into the Visual Cortex Activates Postnatal Plasticity

February 13, 2009
Parnassus - N225

5th Year Research Talks

John O'Leary
Area LIP Activity and Postsaccadic Smooth Pursuit

Leah McGuire
Reaching Using Visual and Proprioceptive Information: Does Reference Frame Matter?

Danny Jones
A Cell-Based Therapy for Epilepsy

February 20, 2009-Admissions
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Sharon Berquist
Feeling Lost about Regeneration? Get Out the MAP.
Axon Regeneration Requiers a Conserved MAP Kinase Pathway

Jonathan Horton
Areas, Faces, Monkeys and Man.
An Anterior Temporal Face Patch in Human Cortex, Predicted by Macaque Maps

February 27, 2009
Parnassus - N225

Ari Arrenberg
I Cannot Semll the Wood for the Trees
Mice with a "Monoclonal Nose": Perturbations in an Olfactory Map Impair Odor Discrimination

Zack Chadick
A Rose by Any Other Name would Smell as Sweet? Eh, Depends on the Confidence of the Orbital Frontal Cortex...
Neural Correlates, Computation and Behavioural Impact of Decision Confidence

March 6, 2009 - Admissions
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Jenn Li
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, He's Going to Ask for PrP
Olfactory Behavior and Physiology are Disrupted in Prion Protein Knockout Mice

Marc Diamond
Connections between Diseases: Cellular Prion Protein Mediates Impairment of Synaptic Plasticity by Amyloid-Beta Oligomer
Cellular Prion Protein Mediates Impairment of Synaptic Plasticity by Amyloid-Beta Oligomers

March 13, 2009
Parnassus - N225

Erica Korb
Mitochondria on the Move: Going Where the Action is. The Mechanism Linking Mitochondrial Localization to Synaptic Activity
The Mechanism of CA2+-Dependent Regulation of Kinesin-Mediated Mitochondrial Motility

Lennart Mucke
Who Cleaves APP When and Where? A Question of Life and Death
APP Binds DR6 to Trigger Axon Pruning and Neuron Death via Distinct Caspases

March 20, 2009 and March 27, 2009

No Journal Club

April 3, 2009
Mission Bay - GH N-114
4pm

Winter Rotation Poster Session - First Year Students

April 10, 2009
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Kris Bouchard
100 Mossy Fiber Synapses on a Granule Cell. 100 Mossy Fiber Synapses. Take One Down, Pass It Around....
The Contribution of Single Synapses to Sensory Representation in vivo

Fen-Biao Gao--moved to 4/17/09

April 17, 2009
Parnassus - N225

Fen-Biao Gao
A Molecular Filter in Neurons
A Selective Filter for Cytoplasmic Transport at the Axon Initial Segment

Erik Ullian
Mining Synaptic Riches
An Unbiased Expression Screen for Snynaptogenic Proteins Identifies the LRRTM Protein Family as Synaptic Organizers

April 24, 2009
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

5th Year Research Talks
Cindy Yang
Molecular and Genetic Control of Female Sexual Receptivity

Carol Peebles
For Thin Spines and a Happy Hippocampus...Got Arc?

Darya Pino
Wnts and Dendrite Development

May 1, 2009
Parnassus - N225

Selina Koch
Synaptic Vesicles Kiss-and-Tell
The Dynamic Control of Kiss-and-Run and Vesicular Reuse Probed with Single Nanoparticles

Sandy Toh
We Can Forget it for you Wholesale: Selective Erasure of a Fear Memory
Selective Erasure of a Fear Memory

May 8, 2009
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

Jill Larimore
Disease...It's not Just for Neurons Anymore
Non-Cell Autonomous Influence of MeCP2-Deficient Glia on Neuronal Dendritic Morphology

Paul Muchowski
Sleep Induced Synaptic Cooldown. I Think I Need a Nap!
Use-Dependent Plasticity in Clock Neurons Regulates Sleep Need in Drosophila
Supplement

Widespread Changes in Synaptic Markers as a Function of Sleep and Wakefulness in Drosophila
Supplement

Sleeping to Reset Overstimulated Synapses

May 15, 2009
Parnassus - N225

Michael Berberoglu
To Be or Not to Be a Stem Cell: That is the question...
In Vivo Fate Analysis Reveals the Multipotent and Self-Renewal Capacities of Sox2+ Neural Stem Cells in the Adult Hippocampus

Steve McIntire (canceled)

May 22, 2009
Mission Bay - Rock Hall Auditorium

5th Year Research Talks
Helen Shen
Neural Variability in Premotor Cortex as a Source of Movement Variability

Derek Southwell
Cortical Plasticity Induced by Inhibitory Neuron Transplantation

Sally Chege
In-Vivo Manipulation of M-Channels in Zebrafish