Cellular Neural Engineering Spring 2009

Full CNE schedule for Spring 2009 is posted http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:cne:cnethisweek09spring

• Jan 12
  
• Jan 19 Martin Luther King Day - No meeting
  
• Jan 26
  Wednesday 11AM:
  Ghanim Ullah presents:
  Bartos M, Vida I, Frotscher M, Meyer A, Monyer H, Geiger JR, Jonas P. “Fast synaptic inhibition promotes synchronized gamma oscillations in hippocampal interneuron networks”, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2002, 99(20):13222-7.
• Feb 2
  Wednesday 11AM:
  Chunfeng presents:
  Cao Y, Lee Koo YE, Kopelman R. Poly(decyl methacrylate)-based fluorescent PEBBLE swarm nanosensors for measuring dissolved oxygen in biosamples. Analyst. 129(8):745-50 (2004)
• Feb 9
  Wednesday 2:00PM:
  Justin Ingram presents:
  Eid T, Williamson A, Lee TS, Petroff OA, de Lanerolle NC. Glutamate and astrocytes–key players in human mesial temporal lobe epilepsy? Epilepsia. 2008;49 Suppl 2:42-52.

• Feb 18
  Wednesday 2PM:
  Ghanim Ullah presents:
  Glickfeld LL, Roberts JD, Somogyi P, Scanziani M. Interneurons hyperpolarize pyramidal cells along their entire somatodendritic axis. Nat Neurosci. 2009 Jan;12(1):21-3.
• Feb 23
  
• Mar 2
  Wednesday 2PM:
  Ghanim Ullah presents:
  Tiesinga P, Fellous JM, Sejnowski TJ. Regulation of spike timing in visual cortical circuits. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Feb;9(2):97-107
• Mar 9 Spring Break - No meeting
  
• Mar 16
  Wednesday 2PM:
  Chunfeng Zhang presents:
  Bazzu G, Puggioni GG, Dedola S, Calia G, Rocchitta G, Migheli R, Desole MS, Lowry JP, O'Neill RD, Serra PA. Real-Time Monitoring of Brain Tissue Oxygen Using a Miniaturized Biotelemetric Device Implanted in Freely Moving Rats. Anal. Chem., 2009, 81 (6), pp 2235–2241
• Mar 23
  
• Mar 30
  Wednesday 2PM:
  Ying presents:
  Peer Wulff, Alexey A. Ponomarenko, Marlene Bartos, Tatiana M. Korotkov, Elke C. Fuchs, Florian Bähner, Martin Both, Adriano B. L. Tort, Nancy J. Kopell, William Wisden, and Hannah Monyer. “Hippocampal theta rhythm and its coupling with gamma oscillations require fast inhibition onto parvalbumin-positive interneurons” PNAS March 3, 2009 vol. 106 no. 9 3561-3566

• Apr 6
  
• Apr 13
  
• Apr 20
  
• Apr 27
  

• Riccardo Bianchi, Shih-Chieh Chuang, Wangfa Zhao, Steven R. Young, and Robert K. S. Wong. “Cellular Plasticity for Group I mGluR-Mediated Epileptogenesis” The Journal of Neuroscience, March 18, 2009, 29(11):3497-3507
• Anatol Bragin, Avetis Azizyan, Joyel Almajano, and Jerome Engel Jr. “The Cause of the Imbalance in the Neuronal Network Leading to Seizure Activity Can Be Predicted by the Electrographic Pattern of the Seizure Onset” The Journal of Neuroscience, March 18, 2009, 29(11):3660-3671
• John C. Oakley, Franck Kalume, Frank H. Yu, Todd Scheuer and William A. Catterall. “Temperature- and age-dependent seizures in a mouse model of severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy” PNAS
  March 10, 2009
  vol. 106
  no. 10. 3994–3999
  
• Chen et al. “Nrf2-mediated neuroprotection in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease: Critical role for the astrocyte” PNAS February 24, 2009 vol. 106 no. 8 2933-2938
• Rubin et al. “Calcium-activated nonspecific cation current and synaptic depression promote network-dependent burst oscillations” PNAS February 24, 2009 vol. 106 no. 8 2939-2944
• Huerta, et al. “Robust Microcircuit Synchronization by Inhibitory Connections” Neuron. 2009 Feb 12;61(3):439-53