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2013

DateSpeakerTitleHost
07.01.13Peter Scheiffele
Biozentrum of the University of Basel
"Organization is everything: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Synapse Formation"C. Lüscher
14.01.13Alain Destexhe
UNIC, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette
"Dynamics of excitation and inhibition inferred from human and rat high-density recordings in neocortex "A.-L. Giraud
21.01.13Laurent Nguyen
GIGA Neurosciences, Developmental Neurobiology Unit, University of Liège
"New insight into the molecular regulation of neuron migration in the cerebral cortex"A. Dayer
28.01.13Marta Nieto
Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid
"Transcriptional control of neuronal networks of the cerebral cortex. The role of Cux in the upper layer neurons."D. Jabaudon
18.02.13Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Zachary Mainen
Champalimaud Center for the unknown, Lisbon
"On the neural and behavioral dynamics of action timing"A. Pouget
25.02.13Michael Ashby
School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol
"Synaptic development of circuits in the sensory cortex"C. Lüscher
Wednesday 27.02.13Gerlinde Metz
University of Lethbridge, Canada
"Stress Programming: How Experience Shapes Brain Function and Disease "D. Huber
04.03.13Eiman Azim
Columbia University
"A cerebellar-directed copy of premotor interneuron activity ensures reach fidelity"D. Jabaudon
11.03.13Laura Kehoe
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "GluN3A regulates elimination and stabilization of dendritic spines"D. Muller
25.03.13Mike Shadlen
Columbia University
"Believing and Time. A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making"A. Pouget
08.04.13Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Nikos Logothetis
Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen
"Studying Large-Scale Brain Networks: Electrical Stimulation and Neural-Event-Triggered fMRI"A. Pouget
Tuesday 16.04.13Thomas Jentsch
Leibniz-Institut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie
"Role of Cl and K channels in hearing, touch and olfaction"A. Carleton
22.04.13Eero Castren
Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki
"Regulation of neuronal plasticity by a synergy between pharmalogical and environmental treatments"A. Dayer
29.04.13Roberta Tatti
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "A novel peripheral view of sensory gating in the mouse olfactory system"A. Carleton
06.05.13Georg Keller
FMI, Basel
"Active visual processing in behaving mice"D. Huber
13.05.13Bruno Golding
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "Hooking inhibition into excitatory visual circuits"D. Jabaudon
Friday 24.05.13 at 2pmMichael Crair
Yale University
"Spontaneous Activity in Neonatal Sensory Map Development"D. Jabaudon
27.05.13Tomomi Shimogori
Riken Brain Science Institute, Tokyo
"Molecular mechanism of experience dependent thalamus-cortex circuit development"D. Jabaudon
Wednesday 29.05.13 at 12pmOsman Ratib
Département de Radiologie et Informatique, Service de médecine nucléaire, HUG
"Présentation de l'Institut d'Imagerie Moléculaire Translationelle"D. Muller
03.06.13Mathieu Niquille
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "5-HT3A receptor regulates cortical interneuron migration and positioning"A. Dayer
10.06.13Romain Cartoni
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital and Department of Neurology, Havard Medical School
"Role of Mitochondrial Transport During Axonal Regeneration"D. Muller

2012

DateSpeakerTitleHost
16.01.12Paola Bezzi
Cellular Biology and Morphology Department, University of Lausanne
"Dopaminergic properties of astrocytes in prefrontal cortex: structural and functional evidence" C. Lüscher
23.01.12Christiaan Levelt
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam
"Disinhibition as a major component of plasticity in the adult visual cortex"A. Holtmaat
du 13.02.12 au 17.02.12Vacances de février
20.02.12Daquing Ma
Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London
"Abnormal Brain Following Surgery"L. Vutskits
27.02.12Frédérique Varoqueaux Max-Planck-Institute of experimental Medicine, Department of molecular Neurobiology, Goettingen"Neuroligin deversity at the synapse"D. Muller
26.03.12Ivica Kostovic
Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb
"Development of neuronal pathways in the human fetal cortex" P. Hüppi
02.04.12Igor Allaman
BMI, EPFL, Lausanne
"The glyoxalase system in neural cells: Implications for neuroprotection"D. Muller
du 05.04.12 au 13.04.12Vacances de Pâques
30.04.12Andres de la Rossa
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "In vivo reprogramming of circuit connectivity in postmitotic neocortical neurons"D. Jabaudon
07.05.12Gregorio Galinanes
Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires
"Dysfunctional cortical control of striatal activity in neonatal dopamine neuron depleted mice"D. Huber
21.05.12Moritz Jacobshagen
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
The role of the serotonin receptor 6 in pyramidal neuron developmentA. Dayer
04.06.12Jose Esteban
Department of Neurobiology, Centro de Biologia Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC), Madrid
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and their relevance for cognitive performance" D. Muller
11.06.12 Thomas Nevian
Department of Physiology, University of Bern
"Astrocytes control spike-timing dependent plasticity" A. Carleton
18.06.12 Arbora Resulaj
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn
"Rapid perception of olfactory intensity cues" D. Huber
25.06.12 Vanessa Schubert
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "Peripheral nerve lesion-induced large-scale functional rearrangements in the adult cortex are associated with small-scale dendritic structural changes"A. Holtmaat
09.07.12Jean-Didier Breton
Greg Stuart Lab, Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, Canberra
"Somatic and dentritic GABA-B receptors regulate cortical neurons excitability via different mechanisms"D. Muller
Jeudi 19.07.12Meaghan Creed
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
"Deep brain stimulation in an animal model of tardive dyskinesia"C. Lüscher
Mardi 04.09.12 à 14hPatrick Kanold
University of Maryland
"Circuits controlling brain development and plasticity"D. Jabaudon
Vendredi 14.09.12 à 14hMichael Breakspear
University of New South Wales and Queensland Institute of Medical Research
"Multistability and scale invariance in the human brain: Mechanisms and function"C. Michel
17.09.12Alexandre Pouget
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
"Not noisy, just wrong: the computational and neural cause of behavioral variability"
24.09.12Christina Bocklisch
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "Cocaine evoked synaptic plasticity of inhibitory transmission in the VTA"C. Lüscher
Mardi 25.09.12Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Karel Svoboda
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn
"Neural coding underlying active object localization"A. Pouget - D. Huber
01.10.12Gijs Plomp
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "Laminar mechanisms of local and large-scale information transfer"C. Michel
thursday 18.10.12Venkatesh Murthy
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
"Neural circuits and coding in the mammalian olfactory system"A. Pouget
05.11.12Christophe Bernard
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, INSERM UMR
"Role of hub GABA neurons during normal and pathological oscillations"A. Carleton
19.11.12Laurent Groc
Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux
"Plasticity of the glutamate synapse: the dynamic view from the NMDA receptor"C. Lüscher
26.11.12Lisa Boulanger
Department of Molecular Biology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
"MHC class I regulation of NMDAR function and synaptic plasticity"A. Pouget
03.12.12Valérie Castellani
CGphiMC University of Lyon
"A developmental program sets left-right asymmetry of phrenic motoneuron projections in the diaphragm"A. Dayer
10.12.12Silvia Arber
FMI and Biozentrum, University of Basel
"Organization and Function of Motor Circuits"D. Jabaudon
Tuesday 18.12.13Benjamin Suter
Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago
"Corticospinal neurons in the mouse: intrinsic properties and long-range circuitry"D. Huber

2011

DateSpeakerTitleHost
10.1.11Adrian Briner
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève,
Progress report :
"Anesthesia and neuronal circuitry development: molecular and cellular mechanisms"
L. Vutskits
17.1.11Stéphane Oliet
Neurosciences Institut , INSERM, Bordeaux
Contribution of astrocytes to NMDA receptor functionsD. Muller
24.1.11Jean-Claude Platel
University of Saarland School of Medicine
Department of Physiology, Homburg
Neurotransmittor signaling during adult neurogenesis: Role of glutamate receptors and the release of glutamate by SVZ atrocytesJ. Kiss
31.1.11Richard van Wezel
University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Neural plasticity in visual cortexA. Holtmaat
10.2.11Valentina Emiliani
Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies - CNRS UMR8154, INSERM S603, Université de Paris Descartes
Two photon optogenetics by wave front shaping of ultrafast pulsesA. Carleton
28.2.11Olivier Pertz
Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Basel
Tales about spatio-temporal signaling mechanisms to the cytoskeleton during neuronal outgrowthA. Carleton
7.3.11Charles Quairiaux
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report : "Developmental and lesion-induced plasticity in large-scale networks of the rodent cerebral cortex during prenatal period"J. Kiss
14.3.11Filippo M. Rijli
Friedriech Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel
Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstemD. Jabaudon
21.3.11Marta Navarrete Llinàs
Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid
Neuron-Astrocyte CommunicationD. Muller
28.3.11Kai Kaila
Department of Biosciences, Laboratory of Neurobiology, University of Helsinki
GABAergic transmission and spontaneous network events in the neonatal hippocampusL. Vutskits
31.3.11Alla Karpova
HHMI / Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, USA
Neural circuits of behavioral adaptation in variable and competitive environmentsA. Holtmaat
4.4.11Gabor Tamas
Departement of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Szeged, Hungary
Local microcircuit control by functional extremes of GABAergic neurotransmissionD. Muller
11.4.11Francisco Clasca
Autonoma University Medical School, Madrid
Thalamic input to distal apical dendrites: adult organization and developmentD. Jabaudon
18.4.11Olivier Gschwend
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report :
"Encoding odors by neuronal assemblies in the mouse olfactory bulb"
A. Carleton
19.4.11Alexandre Pouget
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY
Neural basis of probabilistic perceptual learningD. Muller
26.4.11Noam Sobel
Departement de Neurobiology Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Predicting odor perception and neural activity from odor structureA. Carleton
9.5.11Gabrielle Pouchelon et
Bruno Golding

Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report : "Genetic Dissection of Cortical Input Circuit Formation"D. Jabaudon
16.5.11Sahana Murthy
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, groupe A. Dayer
Progress report : "Novel insights into cortical interneuron development"
30.5.11Yann Cojan
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurology, Uni Hospital and Department of Neurosciences
Progress report : "HYPNOSIS AND THE BRAIN"P. Veuilleumier
6.6.11Vesna Cvetkovic-Lopes et Laurence Bayer
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report: "Hypocretin (orexin) neurons and narcolepsy": V. Cvetkovic-Lopes; "Role of rhythmic swinging on human sleep": L. Bayer
M. Mühlethaler
7.6.11 David House
University of Berkeley
Experience co-regulates excitation and inhibition during developmental Whisker map plasticityL. Lüscher
20.6.11Frédéric Gambino
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, groupe A. Holtmaat
Progress report: "Rapid metaplasticity is associated with correlation-based surround potentiation in somatosensory cortex"
11.7.11Harold Cremer
IBDML - Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy, Campus de Luminy, Marseille
Molecular regulation of adult neurogenesis: From neuronal determination to synaptic integrationJ. Kiss
26.08.11Marina Wolf
Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Frankin University of Medicine and Science 
"AMPA receptor plasticity: A target for treating cocaine addiction"C. Lüscher
05.09.11Shiva Tyagarajan
Instititute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich
"Molecular characterization of synaptic plasticity at GABAergic synapses"D. Müller
03.10.11Alberto Pereda
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx New-York
"Degeneracy of synaptic potentiation at a primary auditory afferent"D. Müller
04.10.11Tania Rinaldi Barkat
Hensch Lab, Havard University, Boston
"A critical period for auditory thalamocortical connectivity"D. Jabaudon
31.10.11Arnaud Lalive d'Epinay Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève Progress report: "Depression of GABABR-GIRKs signaling induced by psychostimulants"C. Lüscher
21.11.11Pico Caroni
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel
"How mice learn to navigate a maze"A. Dayer

28.11.11

Christopher Pryce
Clinic for Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich

"Mouse models for depression: from helpless to helpful"

D. Jabaudon

05.12.11Dan Feldman
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Berkeley, California
"Circuit mechanisms for plasticity in rodent somatosensory cortex"C. Lüscher
12.12.11Christelle Baunez
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de la Cognition, Université de Provence, Marseille
"Frontal cortex-like functions of the subthalamic nucleus"C. Lüscher
19.12.11Irina Nikonenko
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève 
Progress report:" The role of nitric oxide signaling in spine and synapse formation"D. Muller
19.12.11Pablo Mendez
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report:" Direct alteration of a specific inhibirory circuit of the hippocampus by antidepressants"D. Muller

2010

DateSpeakerTitleHost
25.01.10Isabel Perez-Otano
University of Navarra, Medical School, Spain
Non-conventional NMDARs shape synapse maturationCL
08.02.10Guy Orban
Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology,
KU Leuven Medical School
The extraction of 3D shape in the primate visual system: a tale of gardients, neurons and imagesPV
15.02.10Guillermina Lopez Bendito
Instituto de Neurosciencias, CSIC&Universitad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante
Dissecting the Mechanisms of Thalamocortical WiringDJ
01.03.10Rick Dijkhuizen
Image Sciences Institute
University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
MRI of changes in functional and structural connectivity after experimental strokeAH
08.03.10Pierre Paoletti
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Normale Superièure, Paris
Control of NMDA receptor activity: from amino acids to synapsesCL
15.03.10Ehud Ahissar
Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
Thalamocortical convergence on object location in whisking ratsDJ
25.03.10Narly Golestani
Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives
Brain structural and functional bases of language learning and expertiseDM
03.05.10Tania Vitalis
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, ESPCI, Paris Tech

New insights into the development and physiology of cortical neurons expressing the serotonin 3A receptor subtype (5-HT3A)

AD
10.05.10Sonia Garel
Department of Biology, Brain Development and Plasticity, INSERM, Paris

Building thalamo-cortical projections: roles of migrating guidepost cells

DJ
26.05.10Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medecine, Yeshiva University, New York City

Postsynaptic determinants of transmission: lessons from the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse

CL
31.05.10Alexandre Pouget
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York
Probabilistic inference in neural circuits: from insects to humansPV
31.05.10Simon Rumpel
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
Function and plasticity of neuronal circuits mediating auditory cued fear learningAH
07.06.10Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic
Anesthesiology and Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medecine
Anesthesia-induced development neuroapoptosis - mechanism and protectionLV
14.06.10Andreas Frick
Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, Université de Bordeaux
The use of pseudotyped rabies to label the monosynaptic input map of cortical neuronsCL
28.06.10Patricio O'DonnellPostnatal maturation of the prefrontal cortex and rodent models of shizophreniaCL
06.09.10Andrès E. Chàvez
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Department of Neuroscience, Bronx, USA
TRPV1 activation by endogenous anandamide triggers postsynaptic LTD in dentate gyrusCL
16.09.10David C. Spray and Eliana Scemes from Dominick P. Purpura, Department of Neurosciences / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York11.00am:
"Bidirectional neuron-glial signalling mediated by pannexins and connexins in trigeminal ganglia"

11.30am: "Pannexinl-mediated ATP release: implication for status epilepticus"
DM
04.10.10Klaas Enno Stephen
Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Inst. for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich
Towards model-based inference on subject-specific pathophysiological mechanismsCL
11.10.10Cho Min
Associate Editor Nature Neuroscience, Nature Publishing Group, New York
Publishing in Nature NeuroscienceCL
18.10.10Michael Patterson
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of AMPA Receptor Trafficking in Single SpinesAC
25.10.10Aline Dubos
Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report:
The mental retardation gene PAK3 regulates spine dynamics acting on spine formation
DM
01.11.10Laszlo Acsady
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Thalamus inhomogenized - spatio-temporal heterogeneity of thalmatic circuitsDJ
08.11.10Vincent Pascoli
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report:
Cocaine, synaptic plasticity and addiction: how drugs change the reward system
CL
24.11.10Daniel Huber
HHMI, Janelia Farm, Ashburn, VA, USA
Learning under the microscope: A window into cortical ensemble dynamicsCL
29.11.10Miguel Condés Lara
Instituto de Neurobiologia, Universitad Nacional Autonoma de México
Oxytocin: pain and analgesia. A homeostatic mechanismET
13.12.10Juliane Britz
Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève
Progress report:
Chaos in the brain!
CM
20.12.10Stéphane Pagès
Neurobiologie cellulaire, Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG)
New Optical approaches to monitor functional activity in neurons. from a single dendritic spine in vitro to a neural network in a moving tissue inside a breathing animalAH

2009

DateSpeakerTitleHost
11.09.09

Robert Ewards
UCSF, University of California
San Francisco

The Presynaptic Regulation of Quantal Size

CL

14.09.09Alberto Bacci
European Brain Research Institute, Rome
Self-inhibiting neurons of the neocortex

AC

12.10.09Joshua Trachtenberg
Depart of Neurobiology,
University of California, Los Angeles
Regulation of cortical structure and function by the Pten tumor suppressorAH
19.10.09Giovanni Marsicano
Centre de recherche INSERM, Bordeaux
Bimodal control of food intake by the endocannabinoid systemAC
23.11.09Cécile Lebrand
DBCM Uni Lausanne
Transient Neuronal Populations Are Required to Guide Callosal Axons: A role for Semaphorin3DJ
14.12.09Olivier Raineteau
Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich
Molecular control of cellular differentiation and specification in the adult CNSDJ

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