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Neural Systems & Behavior
Course Date: June 9 - August 5, 2007
All lectures held at 9:00am in Loeb 32, unless otherwise noted.
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2007 Lecture Schedule
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CYCLE 1
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| Monday, June 11 |
Otto Friesen/Karen Mesce
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Basics of resting potential/Leech Anatomy
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| Tuesday, June 12 |
Otto Friesen
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Nerve impulses: Hodgkin/Huxley
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Wednesday, June 13
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Rudi Rottenfusser
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Basics of Miscroscopy
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| Thursday, June 14 |
Ron Calabrese/
Karen Mesce
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Diversity of Volatge-gated Channels
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| Friday, June 15 |
Ron Calabrese
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Synaptic Transmission
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| Saturday, June 16 |
Student Presentations of Work at Home Institution |
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| Sunday, June 17 |
Break |
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| Monday, June 18 |
Lidia Szczupak |
Studying synaptic connections in the leech |
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| Tuesday, June 19 |
Ron Calabrese
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Central Pattern Generators: Rhythm Generation
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Evening Lecture by Axel Borst
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TBA |
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| Thursday, June 21 |
Otto Friesen
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Central Pattern Generators: Intersegmental Coordination and Sensory Feedback
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Friday, June 22
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Lidia Szczupak
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Horizontal interactions among motoneurons |
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| Saturday, June 23 |
Student Reports
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| CYCLE 2 |
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| Monday, June 25 |
Jim Truman |
Insect development |
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| Tuesday, June 26 |
Felix Evers
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Insect development |
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Evening Lecture by Paul Katz
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| Thursday, June 28 |
Carsten Duch
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Insect development |
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| Friday, June 29 |
Wulfila Gronenberg
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Social brains - vertebrates and insects |
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| Saturday, June 30 |
Sarah Farris
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Evolution of Higher Brain Centers |
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| Monday, July 2 |
Leslie Vosshall
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The Neural Systems & Behavior of Odor and Pheromone Detection |
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| Tuesday, July 3 |
Muchael Rieser |
Visual control of Insect Flight |
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Wednesday, July 4
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Morning and evening Lectures by Bert Hoelldobler |
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| Thursday, July 5 |
Michael Dickinson |
Muscle Physiology and Aerodynamics of Flight |
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| Friday, July 6 |
Card, Maimon, and Korff |
Take off, Predator Avoidance, and Skeletal Mechanics |
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| Saturday, July 7 |
Student Reports |
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CYCLE 3
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| Monday, July 9 |
Jorge Golowasch |
STG lecture 1: Intrinsic plasticity underlying network stabilization |
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| Tuesday, July 10 |
Wolfgang Stein & Dawn Blitz |
STG lecture 2: Neuromodulation |
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Evening Lecture by Leslie Griffith |
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| Thursday, July 12 |
Bruce Johnson |
STG lecture 3: Control of network output through plasticity of synaptic connections and excitability |
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| Friday, July 13 |
TBA
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Brainstem lecture 1 |
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| Saturday, July 14 |
TBA |
Brainstem lecture 2 |
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| Monday, July 16 |
TBA |
Brainstem lecture 3 |
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| Tuesday, July 17 |
Eric Fortune and Leonard Maler |
Introduction to the electrosensory system |
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Wed., July 18
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Maurice Chacron
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Sensory Coding
(Evening Lecture by Ruediger Wehner) |
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Thursday, July 19
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Chacron, Fortune, Krahe, Maler
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Research topics in electroreception |
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| Friday, July 20 |
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Student Reports |
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CYCLE 4
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| Monday, July 23 |
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Jason Ritt & Chris Moore |
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Whiskers and Whisker Sensory Processing |
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| Tuesday, July 24 |
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Jim Knierim |
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Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps, Spatial Learning, and Episodic Memory |
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| Wed., July 25 |
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Evening Lecture by John Assad |
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| Thursday, July 26 |
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Brent Cooper |
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Bird Song lecture 1 |
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| Friday, July 27 |
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Michael Brecht |
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Motor Control of Whiskers |
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| Saturday, July 28 |
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Dan Feldman |
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Plasticity in the Somatosensory System |
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| Monday, July 30 |
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Mike Mauk |
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Computer Simulation of Neurons and Networks |
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| Tuesday, July 31 |
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Jenni Siegel |
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A Comparative Approach to Forebrain Development and Hippocampal Function |
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| Wednesday, Aug. 1 |
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Evening Lecture by Yang Dan |
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| Thursday, Aug. 2 |
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Marc Schmidt |
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Bird Song lecture 2 |
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| Friday, Aug. 3 |
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Sarah Bottjer |
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Bird Song lecture 3 |
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| Saturday, Aug. 4 |
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Student Reports |
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