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Past Events

August 2009

Richard Mooney, Duke University, "Visualizing and manipulating neural machanisms for song learning" Friday, August 28, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA

September 2009

Redwood Seminar: Keith Godfrey, U of Cambridge, "Modeling visual system development - a forecast for change?" Wednesday, September 2, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 508-20 Evans Hall
ICBS: Yuko Munakata, U of Colorado, "Developing Cognitive Control" Friday, September 11, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Thesis Seminar, Gautam Agarwal, Isacoff Lab: "Specialization of a Pheromonal Region in the Fruit Fly Antennal Lobe" Friday, September 11, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Oxyopia: Andrew Huberman, Stanford, "Genetic dissection of visual circuits" Friday, September 11, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall
Silvia Bunge, UC Berkeley, "Fluid reasoning: Neural substrates, development, and training" Monday, September 14, 2009 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Rm)
Oxyopia: Sara Mednick, UCSD, "The role of napping and cognition: From perception to creativity" Friday, September 18, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall
Ear Club: Mala Murthy, Princeton U., "Neurophysiology of auditory perception in Drosophila" Monday, September 21, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Rm)
ICBS: James Pomerantz, Rice and Baylor U's, "Grouping and emergent features in vision: An approach to basic gestalts" Friday, September 25, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Brian MacVicar, U of British Columbia, "Astrocyte regulation of cerebral blood flow" Friday, September 25, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA
Redwood Seminar: Horace Barlow, U. of Cambridge, "Symmetry detection in V1 through cross- and auto-correlation" Monday, September 28, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 508-20 Evans Hall
Ear Club: Sridhar Kalluri, Starkey Hearing Research Center, "Consideration of auditory scene analysis in the design of hearing aids" Monday, September 28, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Rm)

October 2009

MCB Dept. Seminar: Herwig Baier, UCSF, "Genetic and optogenetic analysis of zebrafish behavior" Thursday, October 1, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 100 GPB
IB Seminar: David Lyons, Stanford U., "Stress neurobiology and resilience" Thursday, October 1, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 2040 VLSB
2009 Neuroscience Retreat Friday, October 2, 2009 to Sunday, October 4, 2009 12:00 PM to 11:00 AM Lake Tahoe
Ear Club: Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research & Stanford U., "Cool Introductory Psychoacoustic Demos" Monday, October 5, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Rm)
Redwood Seminar: Anita Shmid, Cornell University, "Subpopulations of neurons in visual area V2 perform differentiation and integration operations in space and time" Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 508-20 Evans Hall
ICBS: Steven Sloman, Brown U., "Causal models and the structure of decisions, Part I" Friday, October 9, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM 5101 Tolman
CANCELED: Gain Mandel seminar Friday, October 9, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA
Oxyopia: Michael Webster, U of Neveda, Reno, "Adapting images to observers" Friday, October 9, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall
Neuroscience 2009, SfN Annual Conference Saturday, October 17, 2009 to Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Chicago, IL
ICBS: Steven Sloman, Brown U., "Causal models and the structure os decisions, Part II" Friday, October 23, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Oxyopia: Alessandra Angelucci, U of Utah, "Contextual effects in primary visual cortex: pathways and mechanisms" Friday, October 23, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall
Redwood: Andrea Benucci, UCL, TBA Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 508-20 Evans Hall
Diana Bautista, UC Berkeley, "Tingling tongues and star-nosed moles: Probing mammalian touch transduction" Friday, October 30, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA
Thesis Seminar, Lei Shi, Griffiths Lab: "Hierarchical Bayesian inference using examples: from internet to brain" Friday, October 30, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Oxyopia: Fred Rieke, U of Washington, "Cone noise and the sensitivity of cone vision" Friday, October 30, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall

November 2009

Student Hosted Seminar: Mriganka Sur, MIT, "The logic of cortical plasticity" Friday, November 6, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA
Thesis Seminar, Michael Goard, Dan Lab: "State-dependent cortical processing: Cholinergic modulation of visual responses" Friday, November 6, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Oxyopia: Preeti Verghese, Smith-Kettwell, "Active search for multiple targets under time pressure: where to look next?" Friday, November 6, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall
Redwood Seminar: Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA, "Information scaling and perceptual transitions in natural images and video" Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM 508-20 Evans Hall
ICBS Seminar: Randy O'Reilly, U of Colorado, "From spikes to object recognition and beyond: Building an embodied brain" Friday, November 13, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Erik Jorgensen, U of Utah, "Clathrin is not required for clathrin-mediated endocytosis" Friday, November 13, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA
Praf Aryal, Salk Institute, "Exploring the alcohol activation pocket ofGIRK channels" Monday, November 16, 2009 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM 177 LSA
Ear Club: Olaf Strelcyk, Starket Hearing Research Center: "Peripheral auditory processing and speech reception in impaired hearing" Monday, November 16, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Rm)
Redwood Seminar: Dan Graham, Dartmouth C., "The packet-switching brain: A hypothesis" Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 508-20 Evans Hall
Matthew Dalva, U of Pennsylvania, "Regulation of synapse formation and number by Ephs and ephrins Friday, November 20, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM 101 LSA
Thesis Seminar, Charles Cadieu, Olshausen Lab, "Probabilistic Models of Phase and their Application to Neural Synchrony and Visual Representation" Friday, November 20, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM 5101 Tolman
Oxyopia Seminar: Daniel Graham, Dartmouth C., "The efficient artist: Statistical regularities in art and their relationship with visual coding" Friday, November 20, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM 489 Minor Hall