Neurons and Systems Journal Club

The Neurons and Systems Journal Club is usually held Fridays 3pm in room 1.15, Informatics Forum. We have three formats: (1) the journal club, where two people present papers (45 minutes each), (2) presentation of own work (up to 1.5hrs) and (3) the roudtable. If you want to present, or change your date, please email Matthias (m.hennig@edREMOVE_THIS.ac.uk).

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Schedule

• 23 Mar - Sander
• 06 Apr - Nathalie
• 13 Apr - Cole
• 20 Apr - Arno
• 27 Apr - Jonathan
• 04 May - Matthias
• 11 May - Ramon
• 18 May - Michael F
• 25 May - Michael R
• 01 Jun - Wioleta
• 08 Jun - Martino
• 15 Jun - Joseph

Past

• missing a few days...
• 20 May: no meeting
• 27 May: no meeting
• 3 June: Wioleta
• 10 June: Dagmara
• 17 June: Yann
• 24 June: Sahar
• 1 July: Angus
• 8 July: Sander
• 15 July: Nathalie
• Scott
• 6 May: Matthias -Cossell, L., Iacaruso, M. F., Muir, D. R., Houlton, R., Sader, E. N., Ko, H., ... & Mrsic-Flogel, T. D. (2015). Functional organization of excitatory synaptic strength in primary visual cortex. Nature.
• 13 May: Martino
• ...missing a few dates...
• 14 Jan: Dagmara
• 21 Jan: Angus
• 28 Jan: Yann
• 4 Feb: Wioleta
• 11 Feb: Scott: van Kerkoerle, Timo, et al. " Alpha and gamma oscillations characterize feedback and feedforward processing in monkey visual cortex." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.40 (2014): 14332-14341.
• 18 Feb: Martino: Critical and maximally informative encoding between neural populations in the retina. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Feb 9; Kastner DB, Baccus SA, Sharpee TO
• 25 Feb: Sahar
• 12 Nov: Marzena: Fast-spiking, parvalbumin + GABAergic interneurons: From cellular design to microcircuit function, Hu, Gan and Jonas, Science 2014
• 5 Nov: Martino: spike sorting
• 29 Oct: Lukas: own work
• 15 Oct: Luiz: McFarland , James M., Yuwei Cui, and Daniel A. Butts. "Inferring nonlinear neuronal computation based on physiologically plausible inputs." PLoS computational biology 9.7 (2013): e1003143.
• 8 Oct: Nathalie: Patterns across multiple memories are identified over time, Blake A Richards, Frances Xia, Adam Santoro, Jana Husse, Melanie A Woodin, Sheena A Josselyn & Paul W Frankland, Nat Neurosci, 2014
• 1 Oct: Daniel: Graupner & Brunel, PNAS 2014, Calcium-based plasticity model explains sensitivity of synaptic changes to spike pattern, rate, and dendritic location
• 17 Sept: Sahar: own work
• 10 Sep: Scott and Angus: DTC day practice talks.
• 3 Sept: Roundtable
• 27 Aug: Dagmara: Buzsáki, György, and Kenji Mizuseki. "T he log-dynamic brain: how skewed distributions affect network operations." Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2014).
• 12 August Maciec: summer project work
• 6 August: Sander, own work
• 30 July: Scott, own work
• 25 June: Marzena: Optimal Control of Transient Dynamics in Balanced Networks Supports Generation of Complex Movements, Hennequin et al., Neuron, 2014
• 11 June: Angus: own work
• 18 June: Paolo and student, own work
• 4 June: Matthias: Cell Types, Network Homeostasis, and Pathological Compensation from a Biologically Plausible Ion Channel Expression Model, Tim O’Leary et al., Neuron, 2014
• 28 May: Dominik, RBMs
• 21 May: Mark: spontaneous spikes
• 14 May: Nathalie: Learning, Memory, and the Role of Neural Network Architecture, Hermundstad et al., PLoS Comp Biol, 2011 and Lukas: own work
• 30 Apr: Sahar: Simmons et al, Transformation of stimulus correlations by the retina. PLoS Comp Biol, 2013.
• 23 Apr: Miha: own work
• 16 Apr: Matthias: own work
• 9 Apr: Scott and Sander
• 26 March: Marzena: Wimmer, Klaus, et al. "Bump attractor dynamics in prefrontal cortex explains behavioral precision in spatial working memory." Nature neuroscience (2014). and Mark: a new paper by Cian titled 'Selective memory generalization by spatial patterning of protein synthesis'
• 19 March: Angus: Kaufman, Matthew T., et al. " Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement." Nature neuroscience (2014). Simon: own work
• 19 Feb: Dagmara
• 12 Feb: Yann
• 5 Feb: Paolo
• 29 Jan: Sander
• 22 Jan: Lukas: Pilly, P.K. & Grossberg, S., 2013. Spiking neurons in a hierarchical self-organizing map model can learn to develop spatial and temporal properties of entorhinal grid cells and hippocampal place cells. PLoS ONE, 8(4), p.e60599
• 15 Jan: Nathalie: Iordanova, Good, and Honey, Retrieval-Mediated Learning Involving Episodes Requires Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus, J Neurosci, 2011
• 6 Jan, 2:30: Rui practise talk
• 11 Dec: Matthias: Köster, Urs, et al. Higher order correlations within cortical layers dominate functional connectivity in microcolumns. arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0050 (2013). and Marzena: A computational model for preplay in the hippocampus Azizi, Amir H., Laurenz Wiskott, and Sen Cheng. Frontiers in computational neuroscience 7 (2013)
• 13 Nov: Mark - Machta, Benjamin B., et al. " Parameter Space Compression Underlies Emergent Theories and Predictive Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6738 (2013).
• 30 Oct: Sander and Yann
• 23 Oct: Rui
• 16 Oct: Dagmara and Sahar
• 9 Oct: Paolo and Simon
• 2 Oct: Angus and Dominika
• 25 Sep: Lukas: Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells. Kijung Yoon, Michael A Buice, Caswell Barry, Robin Hayman, Neil Burgess, and Ila R Fiete, Nat Neurosci, 2013.
• 18 Sep: Marzena, Head direction cells
• 19 Jun: Sander and Miha
• 12 Jun: Phil and Marzena
• 5 Jun: Dylan Paiton: Deep, Locally Competitive, Neurally Inspired Algorithms for Generating Sparse Representations of Video and Text
• 29 May: Yann, own work
• 15 May: Angus: Thurley et al, Hippocampus 2013, Phase Precession of Grid Cells in a Network Model without External Pacemaker and Mark:Ngo et al., Neuron 2013, Auditory Closed-Loop Stimulation of the Sleep Slow Oscillation Enhances Memory
• 8 May: Sander: own work
• 1 May: Marije
• 24 April: Manji
• 17 April: Paolo
• 10 April Yann: Ilin, V., Malyshev, A., Wolf, F. & Volgushev, M. Fast computations in cortical ensembles require rapid initiation of action potentials. The Journal of neuroscience 33 , 2281–92 (2013).
• 20 March Neuroscience day, no meeting
• 27 March Dominika and Miha
• 13 March Alex Domanski
• 6 March Lukas, own work and
  Couey, J. J., Witoelar, A., Zhang, S.-J., Zheng, K., Ye, J., Dunn, B., et al. (2013). Recurrent inhibitory circuitry as a mechanism for grid formation. Nature Neuroscience, 16(3), 318–324. doi:10.1038/nn.3310
  Schmidt-Hieber, C., & Häusser, M. (2013). Cellular mechanisms of spatial navigation in the medial entorhinal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 16(3), 325–331. doi:10.1038/nn.3340
  Domnisoru, C., Kinkhabwala, A. A., & Tank, D. W. (2013). Membrane potential dynamics of grid cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature11973
• 27 February Marzena: Barak et al, Prog Neurobiol, 2013 and Dagmara: Berkes et al, Science, 2011
• 20 February Marjie: own work
• 13 February Phil: own work
• 6 February Angus and Oliver: papers
• 30 January Scott: own work
• 23 January Simon: Quentin Caudron, Simon R Donnelly, Samuel P C Brand and Yulia Timofeeva (2012). Computational convergence of the path integral for real dendritic morphologies. The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, 2:11 doi:10.1186/2190-8567-2-11
• 14/21 November no meetings
• 7 November Daga
• 31 October Paolo
• 24 October Sander
• 17 October No meeting (SfN )
• 10 October No meeting (SfN )
• 3 October Yann: own work
• 26 September Renato: Unsupervised formation of vocalization-sensitive neurons: a cortical model based on short-term and homeostatic plasticity. Neural Comp, 2012
• 19 September Rui: Xu, S. et al., 2012. Activity recall in a visual cortical ensemble. Nature neuroscience, 15(3), pp.449–455.
• 22 August David S.: papers
• 15 August Lukas: own work
• 8 August Mike Smith: A normalization model of multisensory integration, Ohshiro et al. Nature. 2011.
  
• 4 July Hugh: own work
• 27 June Oliver and David Acunzo
• 20 June Gertjan: own work
• 13 June Angel: own work
• 6 June Journal club: Paolo: Buzsáki et al. The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG , LFP and spikes. Nat Rev Neurosci (2012) vol. 13 (6) pp. 407-420 and Dagmara: Shew et al., Neural avalanvhes imply maximum dynamic range in cortical networks at criticality, J Neurosci, 2009.
• 30 May no meeting
• 23 May (room 1.15) Michael S.: own work
• 16 May roundtable
• 9 May Lukas: Benchenane, K., Peyrache, A., Khamassi, M., Tierney, P., Gioanni, Y., Battaglia, F., & Wiener, S. (2010). Coherent theta oscillations and reorganization of spike timing in the hippocampal-prefrontal network upon learning. Neuron, 66(6), 921–936.
  Miha: Huber D, Gutnisky DA, Peron S, et al. Multiple dynamic representations in the motor cortex during sensorimotor learning. Nature. 2012;484(7395):473–478.
• 2 May Maria: own work
• 25 April Jan: own work
• 18 April roundtable
• 11 April Joao
• 4 April Rui: own work
• 28 March 15:30 Aleksander Domanski: own work
• 21 March no meeting - Edinburgh Neuroscience Day
• 14 March 15:30 Daniel: own work
• 7 March no meeting
• 29 February 15:30 roundtable
• 22 February 16:00 Maria: own work
• 15 February 15:30 Journal club: Hugh: Economo, M. N. and White, J. A. 2012. Membrane properties and the balance between excitation and inhibition control gamma-frequency oscillations arising from feedback inhibition. Plos. Comp. Biol. and Mark: Takahashi et al., 2012, Locally synchronized synaptic inputs, Science 335 (6066): 353-356.
• 8 February 16:00 Matthias: own work
• 1 February 16:00 David St.: Visual map development depends on the temporal pattern of binocular activity in mice. Jiayi Zhang, James B Ackman, Hong-Ping Xu and Michael C Crair (2012) Nature Neuroscience 15:298
• 25 January roudtable
• 18 January Miha: own work and: Tiago Branco and Michael Häusser, “ Synaptic Integration Gradients in Single Cortical Pyramidal Cell Dendrites,” Neuron 69, no. 5 (March 10, 2011): 885-892.
• 11 January Dagmara: own work
• 14 December David Acunzo
• 7 December Rui: Wang, Y. et al. Heterogeneity in the pyramidal network of the medial prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 9, 534–542 (2006).
• Thursday 3 November Szu-Han Wan: Alexander WH, Brown JW (2011) Medial prefrontal cortex as an action-outcome predictor. Nature Neurosci. 14(10):1338-44
• 26 October Tim
• 19 October Lukas: Theta-paced flickering between place-cell maps in the hippocampus . Karel Jezek, Espen J Henriksen, Alessandro Treves, Edvard I Moser, and May-Britt Moser. Nature, 2011 vol. 478 (7368) pp. 246-249
• 12 October Paolo: Mao et al. Long-Range Neuronal Circuits Underlying the Interaction between Sensory and Motor Cortex. Neuron (2011) vol. 72 (1) pp. 111-123.
• 5 October no meeting
• 28 September Cian:Dynamic clamp
• 21 September Oliver:Own work
• 14 September roundtable
• 7 September roundtable
• Wednesday 31 August Hugh: Spatial gradients and multidimensional dynamics in a neural integrator circuit. Nat Neurosci, 2011 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n9/full/nn.2888.html
• 24 August Drinks with Matt
• 17 August Miha: Mongillo, et al. (2008). Synaptic theory of working memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1543-1546.
• 10 August Michael Herrmann
• 3 August David Acunzo: Zylberberg et al. (2011). The human Turing machine: a neural framework for mental programs.TICS
• 20 July Rui
• 6 July Oliver: Own work
• 29 June David S: Xu &al (2011) An Instructive Role for Patterned Spontaneous Retinal Activity in Mouse Visual Map Development. Neuron. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.028
• 22. June Roman
• 15. June Mark
• 8. June Tim: Liu, Slotine & Barabasi (2011) Controllability of complex networks. Nature. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7346/full/nature10011.html
• 25. May 2011 Mike Smith: recent work on hMT+ fMRI
• 18. May 2011 Phil: Spike-Train Communities: Finding Groups of Similar Spike Trains, Mark D. Humphries, Neurosci, 2011, http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/6/2321.short
• 11. May 2011 Maria => Schemas and Systems Memory Consolidation: Spatial Vs Non Spatial
• 4. May 2011 Paulo: Vyazovskiy et al. Local sleep in awake rats. Nature (2011).
• 27. April 2011 Man Yi Yim: recent work
• 20. April 2011 Cian: Deguchi et al (2011) Temporally matched subpopulations of selectively interconnected principal neurons in the hippocampus. Nature Neuroscience 14, 495–504
• 6. April 2011 Helen: Alberi et al (2011). Activity-Induced Notch Signaling in Neurons Requires Arc/Arg3.1 and Is Essential for Synaptic Plasticity in Hippocampal Networks. Neuron http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273%2811%2900029-8?switch=standard
• 30. March 2011 Matthias: A synaptic organizing principle for cortical neuronal groups. Perin, Berger & Markram, PNAS, in press http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/03/1016051108.abstract]]
• 23. March 2011 Ondrej: modern fancy (and already working) optical microscopy techniques which might be used in neurons & systems research.
• 9. March 2011 Hugh Noise correlations improve response fidelity and stimulus encoding, Jon Cafaro & Fred Rieke, Nature,468, 964-967
• 2. March 2011 Mike Hull Principles governing recruitment of motoneurons during swimming in zebrafish.

  Gabriel at al. Nature Neuroscience Jan 2011. http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n1/full/nn.2704.html
  

• 23. February 2011 Tim: fallacies in frequentist statistics
• 16. February 2011 Maria Shippi: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19766146
• 2. February 2011 Chris Ball: Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors
  Field et al. ature 467, 673–677 (07 October 2010)
  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7316/full/nature09424.html
• 26. January 2011 David Acunzo: ERP data suggesting very early gating of facial expression processing by sustained attention
  
• 12. January 2011 Miha Pelko:
• 8. December 2010 Roman Goj: Sakata & Harris (2009). Laminar Structure of Spontaneous and Sensory-Evoked Population Activity in Auditory Cortex. Neuron doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2009.09.020 (volume 64 issue 3 pp.404 - 418).
  http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(09)00720-X#
• 1. December 2010 no meeting - Eurospin workshop/snow
• 24. November 2010 SfN meeting feedback
• 17. November 2010 no meeting - SfN
• 10. November 2010 Maria Shippi and Miha Pelko will practise talks
• 3. November 2010 Rui Costa: Clopath et al. Connectivity reflects coding: a model of voltage-based STDP with homeostasis. Nature neuroscience (2010) http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v13/n3/abs/nn.2479.html
• 27 October 10 Paolo: Mokeichev A, Okun M, Barak O, et al. Stochastic emergence of repeating cortical motifs in spontaneous membrane potential fluctuations in vivo. Neuron. 2007;53(3):413-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.017
• 20 October 10 Cian: practice talk
• 29 September 10 Helen: Dendritic Discrimination of Temporal Input Sequences in Cortical Neurons. Branco et al, Science (2010)
• 22 September 10 Mike Smith - Neural Decoding of Goal Locations in Spatial Navigation in Humans with fMRI
• 8 September 10 Hugh - ChannelRhodopsin data
• 25 August 10 David A
• 18 August 10 Maria: MSc work
• 11 August 10 Ondrej: recent work
• 4 August 10 Matthias: Sparse coding and high-order correlations in fine-scale cortical networks. Ohiorhenuan et al, Nature (2010)
• 28 July 10 Mike Hull
• 21 July 10 Seymour: Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability. MS Grubb and J Barone, Nature (2010).
• 12 May 10 Hugh: Dendritic organization of sensory input to cortical neurons in vivo. Jia et al, Nature (2010).
• 5 May 10 Cian
• 28 April 10 Matthias
• 7 April 10 Irina
• 14 April 10 Mike, modelling CPGs
• 31 March 10 Helen
• 24 March 10 Cian: The Asynchronous State in Cortical Circuits. Renart et al, Science (2010) and Decorrelated Neuronal Firing in Cortical Microcircuits. Ecker et al, Science (2010)
• 17 March 10 Hugh: Optical Deconstruction of Parkinsonian Neural Circuitry. Gradinaru et al. Science (2009)
• 10 March 10 Dean: Kalman Meets Neuron: The Emerging Intersection of Control Theory with Neuroscience. Schiff SJ. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. (2009) and Kalman filter control of a model of spatiotemporal cortical dynamics. Schiff SJ and Sauer T. J Neural Eng (2008)
• 17 February 10 David S: Model for the Retino-Tectal Projection. Gierer A. PRSLB (1983)
• 10 February 10 David A: The role of background statistics in face adaptation. Wu, Xu, Dayan and Qian. J Neuro (2009)

• 3 February 10 Lawrence: A Neurophysiologically Plausible Population Code Model for Feature Integration Explains Visual Crowding. van der Berg et al PLOS Compuational Biology (2010)

• 27 January 10 Matthias: Collective dynamics in human and monkey sensorimotor cortex: predicting single neuron spikes. Truccolo et al, Nat Neuro (2009)
• 16 December 09 Chris: Color Perception Is Mediated by a Plastic Neural Mechanism that Is Adjustable in Adults. Neitz et al, Neuron (2002)
• 9 December 09 Helen: Input normalization by global feedforward inhibition expands cortical dynamic range. Pouille et al, Nature Neuroscience (2009)
• 25 November 09 Hugh: Frequency of gamma oscillations routes flow of information in the hippocampus. Colgin et al, Nature (2009)
• 18 November 09 Seymour: The Connectome - Ome sweet ome: what can the genome tell us about the connectome? Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2008)
• 11 November 09 Cian: Synaptic Integration in Tuft Dendrites of Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons: A New Unifying Principle. Larkum et al Science (2009)
• 04 November 09 Matthias: Functional consequences of animal-to-animal variation in circuit parameters. Goaillard et al, Nature Neuroscience (2009)
• 28 October 09 Discuss S.f.N.
• 30 September 09 Cian: Generating Coherent Patterns of Activity from Chaotic Neural Networks. Sussillo and Abbott (2009)
• 23 September 09 Dean: recent work
• 12 August 09 Matthias: Long-Term Relationships between Synaptic Tenacity, Synaptic Remodeling, and Network Activity. Minerbi et al (2009).
• 29 July 09 MSc project presensentations, we start at 4.00
• 1 July 09 Judith: Ozeki & Ferster 09 paper
• 10 June 09 Mark: recent work
• 03 June 09 Lawrence: recent work
• 20 May 09 David A: recent work
• 29 April 09 Cian: Background Synaptic Activity Is Sparse in Neocortex. Waters J & Helmchen F. (2006) J Neuro
• 22 April 09 Lawrence: Gating multiple signals through detailed balance of excitation and inhibition in spiking networks, Vogels and Abbott, 2009, Nature Neuroscience
• 8 April 09 Rob: Immunology for physicists. AS Perelson & G Weisbuch. (1997)
• 1 April 09 Matthias: Memory without Feedback in a Neural Network. M Goldman (2009)
• 18 March 09 David S Forgetting curves: implications for connectionist models. S Sikstrõm (2002)
• 4 March 09 Tim Dichotomous Dopaminergic Control of Striatal Synaptic Plasticity. W Shen, M Flajolet, P Greengard, DJ Surmeier (2008)
• 25 February 09 Mark: Spine Ca2+ signaling in spike-timing-dependent plasticity. Nevian T, Sakmann B (2006)
• 11 February 09 Cian: recent work
• 28 January 09 Lawence: Stimulus selection via differential response latencies in visual cortical area V4, TJ Gawne, 2008
• 21 January 09 Matthias: Reverberation of Recent Visual Experience in Spontaneous Cortical Waves. F Han, N Caporale, Y Dan
• 14 January 09 Patrick
• 17 December 08 Lawrence: Spatial and Temporal Scales of Neuronal Correlation in Primary Visual Cortex, Smith and Kohn, 2008
• 10 December 08 Discussion with Jochen Triesch
• 3 December 08 Jesus: Efficient coding in heterogeneous neuronal populations. Mircea I Chelaru and Valentin Dragoi
• 26 November 08 Guy
• 19 November 08 Cian: Local dendritic activity sets release probability at hippocampal synapses. Tiago Branco, Kevin Staras, Kevin J Darcy, Yukiko Goda
• 12 November 08 Matthias: Fractional differentiation by neocortical pyramidal neurons. Brian N Lundstrom, Matthew H Higgs, William J Spain & Adrienne L Fairhall
• 29 October 08 Patrick Dini
• 22 October 08 Mark van Rossum: PKMzeta Maintains Late Long-Term Potentiation by N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor/GluR2-Dependent Trafficking of Postsynaptic AMPA Receptors. Y Yao, MT Kelly, S Sajikumar, P Serrano, D Tian, PJ Bergold, JU Frey and TC Sacktor
• 15 October 08 David Sterratt: Altered synaptic and non-synaptic properties of CA1 pyramidal neurons in Kv4.2 knockout mice. B. K. Andrásfalvy, J. K. Makara, D. Johnston and J. C. Magee