Seminar Archives
2013
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| 07.01.13 | Peter Scheiffele Biozentrum of the University of Basel | "Organization is everything: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Synapse Formation" | C. Lüscher |
| 14.01.13 | Alain Destexhe UNIC, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette | "Dynamics of excitation and inhibition inferred from human and rat high-density recordings in neocortex " | A.-L. Giraud |
| 21.01.13 | Laurent Nguyen GIGA Neurosciences, Developmental Neurobiology Unit, University of Liège | "New insight into the molecular regulation of neuron migration in the cerebral cortex" | A. Dayer |
| 28.01.13 | Marta 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 |
| 18.02.13 | Neural Circuits and Behavior series - Zachary Mainen Champalimaud Center for the unknown, Lisbon | "On the neural and behavioral dynamics of action timing" | A. Pouget |
| 25.02.13 | Michael Ashby School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol | "Synaptic development of circuits in the sensory cortex" | C. Lüscher |
| Wednesday 27.02.13 | Gerlinde Metz University of Lethbridge, Canada | "Stress Programming: How Experience Shapes Brain Function and Disease " | D. Huber |
| 04.03.13 | Eiman Azim Columbia University | "A cerebellar-directed copy of premotor interneuron activity ensures reach fidelity" | D. Jabaudon |
| 11.03.13 | Laura Kehoe Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "GluN3A regulates elimination and stabilization of dendritic spines" | D. Muller |
| 25.03.13 | Mike Shadlen Columbia University | "Believing and Time. A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making" | A. Pouget |
| 08.04.13 | Neural 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 16.04.13 | Thomas Jentsch Leibniz-Institut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie | "Role of Cl and K channels in hearing, touch and olfaction" | A. Carleton |
| 22.04.13 | Eero Castren Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki | "Regulation of neuronal plasticity by a synergy between pharmalogical and environmental treatments" | A. Dayer |
| 29.04.13 | Roberta Tatti Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "A novel peripheral view of sensory gating in the mouse olfactory system" | A. Carleton |
| 06.05.13 | Georg Keller FMI, Basel | "Active visual processing in behaving mice" | D. Huber |
| 13.05.13 | Bruno Golding Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "Hooking inhibition into excitatory visual circuits" | D. Jabaudon |
| Friday 24.05.13 at 2pm | Michael Crair Yale University | "Spontaneous Activity in Neonatal Sensory Map Development" | D. Jabaudon |
| 27.05.13 | Tomomi Shimogori Riken Brain Science Institute, Tokyo | "Molecular mechanism of experience dependent thalamus-cortex circuit development" | D. Jabaudon |
| Wednesday 29.05.13 at 12pm | Osman Ratib Département de Radiologie et Informatique, Service de médecine nucléaire, HUG | "Présentation de l'Institut d'Imagerie Moléculaire Translationelle" | D. Muller |
| 03.06.13 | Mathieu Niquille Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "5-HT3A receptor regulates cortical interneuron migration and positioning" | A. Dayer |
| 10.06.13 | Romain 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
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| 16.01.12 | Paola Bezzi Cellular Biology and Morphology Department, University of Lausanne | "Dopaminergic properties of astrocytes in prefrontal cortex: structural and functional evidence" | C. Lüscher |
| 23.01.12 | Christiaan 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 17.02.12 | Vacances de février | ||
| 20.02.12 | Daquing Ma Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London | "Abnormal Brain Following Surgery" | L. Vutskits |
| 27.02.12 | Frédérique Varoqueaux Max-Planck-Institute of experimental Medicine, Department of molecular Neurobiology, Goettingen | "Neuroligin deversity at the synapse" | D. Muller |
| 26.03.12 | Ivica Kostovic Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb | "Development of neuronal pathways in the human fetal cortex" | P. Hüppi |
| 02.04.12 | Igor Allaman BMI, EPFL, Lausanne | "The glyoxalase system in neural cells: Implications for neuroprotection" | D. Muller |
| du 05.04.12 au 13.04.12 | Vacances de Pâques | ||
| 30.04.12 | Andres de la Rossa Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "In vivo reprogramming of circuit connectivity in postmitotic neocortical neurons" | D. Jabaudon |
| 07.05.12 | Gregorio Galinanes Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires | "Dysfunctional cortical control of striatal activity in neonatal dopamine neuron depleted mice" | D. Huber |
| 21.05.12 | Moritz Jacobshagen Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | The role of the serotonin receptor 6 in pyramidal neuron development | A. Dayer |
| 04.06.12 | Jose 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 |
| 09.07.12 | Jean-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 19.07.12 | Meaghan 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 14h | Patrick Kanold University of Maryland | "Circuits controlling brain development and plasticity" | D. Jabaudon |
| Vendredi 14.09.12 à 14h | Michael 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 |
| 17.09.12 | Alexandre Pouget Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève | "Not noisy, just wrong: the computational and neural cause of behavioral variability" | |
| 24.09.12 | Christina Bocklisch Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "Cocaine evoked synaptic plasticity of inhibitory transmission in the VTA" | C. Lüscher |
| Mardi 25.09.12 | Neural 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 |
| 01.10.12 | Gijs Plomp Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "Laminar mechanisms of local and large-scale information transfer" | C. Michel |
| thursday 18.10.12 | Venkatesh Murthy Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University | "Neural circuits and coding in the mammalian olfactory system" | A. Pouget |
| 05.11.12 | Christophe Bernard Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, INSERM UMR | "Role of hub GABA neurons during normal and pathological oscillations" | A. Carleton |
| 19.11.12 | Laurent Groc Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux | "Plasticity of the glutamate synapse: the dynamic view from the NMDA receptor" | C. Lüscher |
| 26.11.12 | Lisa Boulanger Department of Molecular Biology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University | "MHC class I regulation of NMDAR function and synaptic plasticity" | A. Pouget |
| 03.12.12 | Valérie Castellani CGphiMC University of Lyon | "A developmental program sets left-right asymmetry of phrenic motoneuron projections in the diaphragm" | A. Dayer |
| 10.12.12 | Silvia Arber FMI and Biozentrum, University of Basel | "Organization and Function of Motor Circuits" | D. Jabaudon |
| Tuesday 18.12.13 | Benjamin Suter Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago | "Corticospinal neurons in the mouse: intrinsic properties and long-range circuitry" | D. Huber |
2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host | |
| 10.1.11 | Adrian Briner Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, | Progress report : "Anesthesia and neuronal circuitry development: molecular and cellular mechanisms" | L. Vutskits | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.1.11 | Stéphane Oliet Neurosciences Institut , INSERM, Bordeaux | Contribution of astrocytes to NMDA receptor functions | D. Muller | |
| 24.1.11 | Jean-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 atrocytes | J. Kiss | |
| 31.1.11 | Richard van Wezel University of Utrecht, The Netherlands | Neural plasticity in visual cortex | A. Holtmaat | |
| 10.2.11 | Valentina Emiliani Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies - CNRS UMR8154, INSERM S603, Université de Paris Descartes | Two photon optogenetics by wave front shaping of ultrafast pulses | A. Carleton | |
| 28.2.11 | Olivier Pertz Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Basel | Tales about spatio-temporal signaling mechanisms to the cytoskeleton during neuronal outgrowth | A. Carleton | |
| 7.3.11 | Charles 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 | |
| 14.3.11 | Filippo M. Rijli Friedriech Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel | Mapping the face in the somatosensory brainstem | D. Jabaudon | |
| 21.3.11 | Marta Navarrete Llinàs Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid | Neuron-Astrocyte Communication | D. Muller | |
| 28.3.11 | Kai Kaila Department of Biosciences, Laboratory of Neurobiology, University of Helsinki | GABAergic transmission and spontaneous network events in the neonatal hippocampus | L. Vutskits | |
| 31.3.11 | Alla Karpova HHMI / Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, USA | Neural circuits of behavioral adaptation in variable and competitive environments | A. Holtmaat | |
| 4.4.11 | Gabor Tamas Departement of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Szeged, Hungary | Local microcircuit control by functional extremes of GABAergic neurotransmission | D. Muller | |
| 11.4.11 | Francisco Clasca Autonoma University Medical School, Madrid | Thalamic input to distal apical dendrites: adult organization and development | D. Jabaudon | |
| 18.4.11 | Olivier Gschwend Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report : "Encoding odors by neuronal assemblies in the mouse olfactory bulb" | A. Carleton | |
| 19.4.11 | Alexandre Pouget Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY | Neural basis of probabilistic perceptual learning | D. Muller | |
| 26.4.11 | Noam Sobel Departement de Neurobiology Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel | Predicting odor perception and neural activity from odor structure | A. Carleton | |
| 9.5.11 | Gabrielle Pouchelon et Bruno Golding Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report : "Genetic Dissection of Cortical Input Circuit Formation" | D. Jabaudon | |
| 16.5.11 | Sahana Murthy Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, groupe A. Dayer | Progress report : "Novel insights into cortical interneuron development" | ||
| 30.5.11 | Yann 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 | |
| 6.6.11 | Vesna 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 plasticity | L. Lüscher | |
| 20.6.11 | Frédéric Gambino Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève, groupe A. Holtmaat | Progress report: "Rapid metaplasticity is associated with correlation-based surround potentiation in somatosensory cortex" | ||
| 11.7.11 | Harold Cremer IBDML - Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy, Campus de Luminy, Marseille | Molecular regulation of adult neurogenesis: From neuronal determination to synaptic integration | J. Kiss | |
| 26.08.11 | Marina Wolf Department of Neuroscience, Rosalind Frankin University of Medicine and Science | "AMPA receptor plasticity: A target for treating cocaine addiction" | C. Lüscher | |
| 05.09.11 | Shiva Tyagarajan Instititute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich | "Molecular characterization of synaptic plasticity at GABAergic synapses" | D. Müller | |
| 03.10.11 | Alberto Pereda Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx New-York | "Degeneracy of synaptic potentiation at a primary auditory afferent" | D. Müller | |
| 04.10.11 | Tania Rinaldi Barkat Hensch Lab, Havard University, Boston | "A critical period for auditory thalamocortical connectivity" | D. Jabaudon | |
| 31.10.11 | Arnaud Lalive d'Epinay Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: "Depression of GABABR-GIRKs signaling induced by psychostimulants" | C. Lüscher | |
| 21.11.11 | Pico Caroni Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel | "How mice learn to navigate a maze" | A. Dayer | |
28.11.11 | Christopher Pryce | "Mouse models for depression: from helpless to helpful" | D. Jabaudon | |
| 05.12.11 | Dan Feldman Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Berkeley, California | "Circuit mechanisms for plasticity in rodent somatosensory cortex" | C. Lüscher | |
| 12.12.11 | Christelle Baunez Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de la Cognition, Université de Provence, Marseille | "Frontal cortex-like functions of the subthalamic nucleus" | C. Lüscher | |
| 19.12.11 | Irina Nikonenko Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report:" The role of nitric oxide signaling in spine and synapse formation" | D. Muller | |
| 19.12.11 | Pablo Mendez Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report:" Direct alteration of a specific inhibirory circuit of the hippocampus by antidepressants" | D. Muller |
2010
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host | |
| 25.01.10 | Isabel Perez-Otano University of Navarra, Medical School, Spain | Non-conventional NMDARs shape synapse maturation | CL | |
| 08.02.10 | Guy 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 images | PV | |
| 15.02.10 | Guillermina Lopez Bendito Instituto de Neurosciencias, CSIC&Universitad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante | Dissecting the Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Wiring | DJ | |
| 01.03.10 | Rick Dijkhuizen Image Sciences Institute University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands | MRI of changes in functional and structural connectivity after experimental stroke | AH | |
| 08.03.10 | Pierre Paoletti Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Normale Superièure, Paris | Control of NMDA receptor activity: from amino acids to synapses | CL | |
| 15.03.10 | Ehud Ahissar Weizman Institute of Science, Israel | Thalamocortical convergence on object location in whisking rats | DJ | |
| 25.03.10 | Narly Golestani Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives | Brain structural and functional bases of language learning and expertise | DM | |
| 03.05.10 | Tania 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 | |
| 10.05.10 | Sonia Garel Department of Biology, Brain Development and Plasticity, INSERM, Paris | Building thalamo-cortical projections: roles of migrating guidepost cells | DJ | |
| 26.05.10 | Pablo 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 | |
| 31.05.10 | Alexandre Pouget Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York | Probabilistic inference in neural circuits: from insects to humans | PV | |
| 31.05.10 | Simon Rumpel Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna | Function and plasticity of neuronal circuits mediating auditory cued fear learning | AH | |
| 07.06.10 | Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic Anesthesiology and Neuroscience, University of Virginia School of Medecine | Anesthesia-induced development neuroapoptosis - mechanism and protection | LV | |
| 14.06.10 | Andreas Frick Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM, Université de Bordeaux | The use of pseudotyped rabies to label the monosynaptic input map of cortical neurons | CL | |
| 28.06.10 | Patricio O'Donnell | Postnatal maturation of the prefrontal cortex and rodent models of shizophrenia | CL | |
| 06.09.10 | Andrès 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 gyrus | CL | |
| 16.09.10 | David C. Spray and Eliana Scemes from Dominick P. Purpura, Department of Neurosciences / Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York | 11.00am: "Bidirectional neuron-glial signalling mediated by pannexins and connexins in trigeminal ganglia" 11.30am: "Pannexinl-mediated ATP release: implication for status epilepticus" | DM | |
| 04.10.10 | Klaas 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 mechanisms | CL | |
| 11.10.10 | Cho Min Associate Editor Nature Neuroscience, Nature Publishing Group, New York | Publishing in Nature Neuroscience | CL | |
| 18.10.10 | Michael Patterson Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham | Spatiotemporal Dynamics of AMPA Receptor Trafficking in Single Spines | AC | |
| 25.10.10 | Aline Dubos Neurosciences fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: The mental retardation gene PAK3 regulates spine dynamics acting on spine formation | DM | |
| 01.11.10 | Laszlo Acsady Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest | Thalamus inhomogenized - spatio-temporal heterogeneity of thalmatic circuits | DJ | |
| 08.11.10 | Vincent Pascoli Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: Cocaine, synaptic plasticity and addiction: how drugs change the reward system | CL | |
| 24.11.10 | Daniel Huber HHMI, Janelia Farm, Ashburn, VA, USA | Learning under the microscope: A window into cortical ensemble dynamics | CL | |
| 29.11.10 | Miguel Condés Lara Instituto de Neurobiologia, Universitad Nacional Autonoma de México | Oxytocin: pain and analgesia. A homeostatic mechanism | ET | |
| 13.12.10 | Juliane Britz Neurosciences Fondamentales, Uni Genève | Progress report: Chaos in the brain! | CM | |
| 20.12.10 | Stéphane 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 animal | AH |
2009
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host | |
| 11.09.09 | Robert Ewards | The Presynaptic Regulation of Quantal Size | CL | |
| 14.09.09 | Alberto Bacci European Brain Research Institute, Rome | Self-inhibiting neurons of the neocortex | AC | |
| 12.10.09 | Joshua Trachtenberg Depart of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles | Regulation of cortical structure and function by the Pten tumor suppressor | AH | |
| 19.10.09 | Giovanni Marsicano Centre de recherche INSERM, Bordeaux | Bimodal control of food intake by the endocannabinoid system | AC | |
| 23.11.09 | Cécile Lebrand DBCM Uni Lausanne | Transient Neuronal Populations Are Required to Guide Callosal Axons: A role for Semaphorin3 | DJ | |
| 14.12.09 | Olivier Raineteau Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich | Molecular control of cellular differentiation and specification in the adult CNS | DJ |