CNE Schedule Fall 2007
Week of | Major Events | Things Due | Full Schedule |
August 27 | classes start Ethics Conference | Aug 27 | |
Sept 03 | Sept 03 | ||
Sept 10 | Sept 10 | ||
Sept 17 | Sept 17 | ||
Sept 24 | Sept 24 | ||
Oct 01 | Oct 01 | ||
Oct 08 | Oct 08 | ||
Oct 15 | Oct 15 | ||
Oct 22 | Oct 22 | ||
Oct 29 | Oct 29 | ||
Nov 05 | Nov 05 | ||
Nov 12 | Nov 12 | ||
Nov 19 | Nov 19 | ||
Nov 26 | Nov 26 | ||
Dec 03 | Dec 03 | ||
Dec 10 | Dec 10 | ||
Dec 17 | Dec 17 | ||
Dec 24 | Dec 24 |
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Aug 27
- Monday
- 9:00 am WAG Organizational Meeting CANCELED due to ETHICS CONFERENCE
- 10:00 am WAG Journal Club CANCELED DUE TO ETHICS CONFERENCE
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- 11:00 am CNE Journal Club \
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Sept 03
- Monday
- Holiday this week - Systems Group Meetings moved to Thursday at 3 pm
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
[“Quantitative CT in the Treatment of Epilepsy and Hydrocephalus in Sub-Saharan Africa” - Steven Schiff] - 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
[Data analysis - Kamrun Nahar]
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting - Discuss
Apostolos P Georgopoulos et al., Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders, J. Neural Eng. 4 349-355, 2007
The anticipation of the publication of this recent paper has stirred considerable controversy. It has material of broad interest to everyone - please come prepared for a lively discussion. - 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- 3-4 pm Systems Group Meeting 216 EES (Make-up from Labor day)
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Sept 10
- Monday
- 9 am Systems Group Meeting 216 EES
- 10 am Systems Journal Club Meeting
Nick Chernyy presents: Carrington CA, Gilby KL, McIntyre DC. Epilepsia. 2007 Aug;48(8):1604-13
Effect of focal low-frequency stimulation on amygdala-kindled afterdischarge thresholds and seizure profiles in fast- and slow-kindling rat strains. - 4:00 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Ruchi Parekh presents: Kullmann DM, Lamsa KP. Nature Reivews Neuroscience. 2007. Sep (8): 687-699
Long-term synaptic plasticity in hippocampal interneurons.
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting - Jonathan Mason presents work on Degeneration measurements of Neural Damage
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar, 108 Wartik
Dr. Randy Blakely
“Rare opportunities for progress in understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Studies of mutations in the dopamine transporter”
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Sept 17
- Monday
- 9 am Systems Group Meeting 216 EES
- 10 am Systems Journal Club Meeting
Sridhar Presents
Colpan Li Dwyer Mogul, Epilepsia 2007, 48, 1594-1603 Proportional Feedback Stimulation for Seizure Control in Rats - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Joyce Presents
Xu Huang Takagaki Wu, Neuron 2007, 55, 119-129 Compression and reflection of visually evoked cortical waves
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Kamrun Nahar will discuss:
Birbaumer N, Weber C, Neuper C, Buch E, Haapen K & Cohen L (2006) Physiological regulation of thinking: brain-computer interface (BCI) research. In Event-Related Dynamics of Brain Oscillations; Progress in Brain Research, vol. 159 (ed. C. N. W. Klimesch), pp. 369-391.
A scanned copy is available from Kamrun at muk11@psu.edu
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting -
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
“Shining a light on the needle-in-the-haystack: studies of dendritic spine function and plasticity using glutamate photolysis” Dr. Scott M. Thompson
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Sept 24
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 118 EESB (NOTE ROOM)
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Giorgio presents Ainge, et al Exploring the role of context-dependent hippocampal activity in spatial alternation behavior. Hippocampus. 2007 Jun 6. - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Justin Presents
McNamara Rosenzweig, Analytical Chemistry 1998, 70, 4853-4859 Dye-encapsulating liposomes as fluorescence-based oxygen nanosensors
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Kamrun Nahar Presents:
Kennedy P, Andreasen D, Ehirim P, King B, Kirby T, Mao H, Moore M., "Using human extra-cortical local field potentials to control a switch" J. Neural Eng. 1, 72–77 (2004).
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- Thursday
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar NOTE DATE
“Regulation of emotion and cognition: impact of GABA-A receptors” Dr. Hanns Mohler, University of Zurich
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Oct 01
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
Giorgio runs - 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Yina presents
Ainge, et al Hippocampal CA1 place cells encode intended destination on a maze with multiple choice points. JNS 2007 Sep 5. - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Rahul Presents
Bikson, Inoue, Akiyama, Deans, Fox, Miyakawa, Jeffreys. Journal of Physiology, 2004. 557, 175-190 Effects of uniform extracellular DC electric fields on excitability in rat hippocampal slices in vitro
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Kamrun Nahar Presents:
McFarland DJ, Sarnacki WA, Vaughan TM, Wolpaw JR. "Brain-computer interface (BCI) operation: signal and noise during early training sessions." Clinical Neurophysiology 2005 Jan;116(1):56-62.
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Oct 08
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Balaji presents:
Kazakov, et al, Ion Concentration of External Solution as a Characteristic of Micro- and Nanogel Ionic Reservoirs J Phys Chem B, 2006, 110, 15107-16. - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Ruchi Presents
Trevelyan, Sussillo, Watson, Yuste. Journal of Neuroscience, 2006. 26: 12447-12455 Modular propagation of epileptiform activity: evidence for an inhibitory veto in neocortex
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Kamrun Nahar Presents:
N. Achtman, A. Afshar, Gopal Santhanam, B. Yu, S. Ryu, and K.V. Shenoy, "Free-paced high-performance brain–computer interfaces" , J. Neural Eng. 4 (2007) 336–347.
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Oct 15
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Nick Presents: Logothetis Kayser and Oeltermann
In Vivo Measurement of Cortical Impedance Spectrum in Monkeys: Implications for Signal Propagation Neuron 55, 809-823, 2007 - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club 207 EES Joyce will discuss:
Z/EG, a double reporter mouse line that expresses enhanced green fluorescent protein upon Cre-mediated excision. Novak A, Guo C, Yang W, Nagy A, Lobe CG, Genesis 28:147–155 (2000) - 6:30 pm ESM Major Night - 114 EES Pizza
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES) [No event this week]
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library [No event this week]
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Eric will discuss:
Mehrdad Fatourechi · Gary E. Birch · Rabab K.Ward, “A self-paced brain interface system that uses movement related potentials and changes in the power of brain rhythms” J Comput Neurosci (2007) 23:21–37.
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting [No event this week]
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
“Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid-A (GABA-A) Receptors, Gephyrin, and the Stability of GABAergic-Synapses,” Angel De Blas, University of Connecticut, 4:00 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory, host: Gong Chen, Penn State Neuroscience Institute (865-7039).
- Thursday
- 12:30-1:30 “Polymer Electronics for Ultrasensitive Chemical and Biological Sensors,” Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building, host: Ayusman Sen, Department of Chemistry (863-2460).
- 1:30-2:30 CT Project meeting, 302 EES
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Oct 22
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Giorgio will replay & discuss Matt Wilson's NIH seminar
please read ahead of time (and we will discuss later) : Ji and Wilson Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep Nature Neuroscience 2007 - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Brendan Presents
Propagating wave and irregular dynamics: spatiotemporal patterns of cholinergic theta oscillations in neocortex in vitro. Bao, Wu. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2003. 90: 333-341.
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Kamrun Nahar will discuss:
G Schalk, J Kubánek, K J Miller, N R Anderson, E C Leuthardt, J G Ojemann, D Limbrick, D Moran, L A Gerhardt and J R Wolpaw, "Decoding two-dimensional movement trajectories using electrocorticographic signals in humans", J. Neural Engineering, 4 (2007) 264-275.
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Oct 29
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Yina will present
Ji and Wilson Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep Nature Neuroscience 2007 - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Ruchi Presents
Gillies, Traub, LeBeau, Davies, Gloveli, Buhl, Whittington. Journal of Physiology, 2002. 543: 779-793 A model of atropine-resistant theta oscillations in rat hippocampal area CA1
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
Kamrun Nahar will discuss:
Benjamin Blankertz, Guido Dornhege, Matthias Krauledat, Klaus-Robert Müller and Gabriel Curio. The non-invasive Berlin Brain–Computer Interface: Fast acquisition of effective performance in untrained subjects. NeuroImage, Volume 37, Issue 2, 15 August 2007, Pages 539-550.
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Nov 05
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
- 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting (None)
- 8 pm SPECIAL LECUTRE - Dr. Ronald Hoffman, Cornell University
One Culture or the Commonalities and Differences between the Arts and Sciences
104 Keller Building
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- 4:00 pm SPECIAL LECUTRE - Dr. Ronald Hoffman, Cornell University
Science and Ethics: A marriage of Necessity and Choice for the Millenium
100 Life Sciences Auditorium, UP
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Nov 12
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Joint with BCI Group
Kamrun and Sridhar present
Srinivasan, et al, General Purpose Filter design for Neural Prosthetic Devices - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Justin Presents
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1225351
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 BCI meets Monday 10am this week - Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Nov 19
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
- 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Chunfeng Presents
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Nov 26
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Balaji Presents the two Richardson-Burns papers:
Richardson-Burns, et al, Polymerization of the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) around living neural cells, Biomaterials. 2007 Mar;28(8):1539-52
Richardson-Burns, Electrochemical polymerization of conducting polymers in living neural tissue. J Neural Eng. 2007 Jun;4(2):L6-L13 - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting\\Justin and Chunfeng present Dual-wavelength ratiometric fluorescence measurements of membrane potential. http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/bi00437a003
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Dec 03
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
(none this week - AES meeting) - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
(none this week)
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
Bjoern Schelter will speak on Multivariate time series analysis, especially for point processes.
Good papers to review include:
A short overview about multivariate TSA http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~jeti/papers/bmte.51.5-6.281.pdf
and on on multivariate synchronization: http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~jeti/papers/PRL_partial_phase.pdf
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Dec 10
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
Nick presents:
Buzsaki Kaila Raichle Inhibition and Brain Work Neuron 56, 771, 2007 - 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
Tracy Presents
Siesjo. Cell damage in the brain: A speculative synthesis. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 1981. 1: 155-185. (sent via email - please email Joyce if you need a copy sent to you - joyce@psu.edu)
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Dec 17
- Monday
- 9 am Integrated Systems Group Meeting 216 EESB
- 10 am Integrated Systems Neural Engineering Journal Club Meeting 216 EESB
- 4 pm Cellular Journal Club Meeting
- Tuesday
- 11-12 Dynamical Neuroscience Group (videoconference with George Mason Univ, 302 EES)
- 1-2 Neural Imaging Group (210 Hallowell BIOE) - videoconferenced to Hershey Library
- 2:30-3:30 Brain Machine Interface Group (302 EES)
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am Center Meeting
- 4:00 pm CNE/Neuroscience Seminar
- Thursday
- Friday
- Food Fight Canceled
Dec 24
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