Lectures take place in Loeb G70N from 9 – 11 am EST.
LECTURE VIDEO LIBRARY
From 2014-2018, NS&B faculty lectures were broadcast live then archived byso you can enjoy them at anytime. All lectures will open in a new window. The 2014 lectures and some of the 2016 lectures were recorded with speaker-specific microphones; all of the rest, including the remaining 2016 lectures, were recorded will aglobal microphonethat allows you to hear student questions.
Below is a list of lecture topics by module.
TheLeech Module
- Membrane Potential and Passive Properties of Neurons (Part 1),
- Membrane Potential and Passive Properties of Neurons (Part 2),
- Voltage-Gated Ionic Currents Underlying Neuronal Electrical Activity (Part 1),
- Voltage-Gated Ionic Currents Underlying Neuronal Electrical Activity (Part 2),
- Central Pattern Generators,
- Synaptic Transmission,
- Three ways to decide: Behavioral choices by the leech nervous system,
- What leeches can teach us about neuroendocrine control,
- Development of the Leech ,
- Understanding the embryo of the leech Helobdella, a tractable spiralian,
- Systems Neurophysiology vs. Neuroethology: Two approaches,
- Low Threshold Calcium Conductance as a Signal Amplifier,
- Studying The Neural Circuits That Generate Locomotion: One Crawl Step At A Time,
- Influence of Motor Neurons on Crawling in the Leech,
- You can’t keep a good leech down: Learning about the control of locomotion through recovery from CNS injury,
- The importance of neural modulation and context for behavioral selection,
- Leech reproduction: A tail of two circuits,
- Sensory system evolution: Changing synaptic connections between P cells in leeches,
- Hybrid systems: New insights and approaches,
- Introduction to computational neuroscience,
- Low cost approaches to neuroscience,
TheStomatogastric Ganglion Module
- Introduction to the stomatogastric nervous system,
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- Neuromodulation of Neural Circuits,
- Motor pattern specification: functional consequences,
- The Role of Axons in Neural Coding,
- Circuit Dynamics,
- Synaptic Dynamics,
- Sensorimotor Integration,
- Variability and stability in the nervous system,
- The secret life of axons: neuromodulation of spike propagation,
- Coordination of Neural Oscillators,
- Principles of rhythmic circuits,
- Switching participation between networks,
- Circuit mechanisms of sleep and epilepsy,
Electric Fish Module
- Introduction to weakly electric fish,
- Locomotor control,
- Neuromodulation of Sensory Processing,
- Neural Coding: single neurons,
- Introduction to the electrosensory system,
- Neural coding I: General principles,
- Neural coding II: Adaptation to natural stimulus statistics,
- Neural coding III: Encoding envelopes,
- Coding of natural electrocommunication stimuli,
- Control of locomotion and consequences of coding,
- Sensory coding of movement,
- Electroreceptors, An overview across species.
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- Feedback and the brain in weakly electric fish,
- Electroreception in the wild,
- Electrolocation: neural coding,
- Modulation and evolution of electric signals,
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Neuroendocrine regulation of electromotor pathways,
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- Introduction to geneticmodel organisms,
- Cell biology of neurodevelopment inC. elegans,
- Genetic model organisms,
- Behavioral variability and chemosensation,
- C. elegansneuroethology of behavior,
- The Neuroethology of theC. elegansescape response,
- Optical reporters as tools to link genes to behavior,
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- C. elegansgenetic screens,
- Reverse genetics in the worm nervous system,
- Food, behavior and neural degeneration,
- Quantitative analysis of behavior inC. elegans,
- The neuroethology of theC. elegansescape response,
- Decoding of motor systems,
- Can worms get headaches,
- Electron microscopy and connectomes
HydraѴǻܱ
- The Brain Activity Map & Intro to Hydra,
- Hydra principles,
- Molecular methods in Hydra,
- Functional networks in Hydra,
- Hydra principles III,
- Theory and modeling in Hydra
- The immortal Hydra Daniel Martinez 2019
Hippocampus/Striatum Module
- Introduction to the hippocampus,
- Hippocampal Circuits and Synaptic Plasticity,
- Neurological Disorders,
- Hippocampal neural ensemble coding,
- Animal models of mental illness,
- Synthesis and integration: Cognition-associated neural coordination and discoordination in Fragile X mutant mice,
- Inspirations from Jimi Hendrix: If Space was Time…Are You Experienced?
- Hippocampal Information Processing II,
- If space was time: the dynamic micro-infrastructure of cognition,
- Introduction to hippocampus and Fragile X mouse,
- Introduction to learning and memory: the synaptic plasticity hypothesis,
- ᾱdz貹in vivoelectrophysiology 1: the basics,
- Memory associated modulation of synaptic circuits,
- Linking the development of behavior and neuronal activity,
- Place cells and behavior,
- Striatum Physiology,
- Reinforcement learning and decision making,
- How experience changes the hippocampal circuitry,
- Twists in brain oscillations: rhythms that are not rhythmic, and spikes that are not coherent with LFP,
- Dendritic integration and fragile X syndrome,
Fly Flight Module
- Using fly behavior to study a fundamental neural computation,
- Behavioral algorithms in insects &Drosophilaas a model system for behavioral neuroscience,
- Principles of visual processing in insects,
- Structure and functions of eyes, visual ecology, and eye evolution,
- Motor control in fly flight,
- Studying higher brain functions in flies,
- Descending control of locomotion & principles of motor control,
- Fly vision overview: How do flies see motion and respond to imminent collisions?
- Using genetic tools to understand circuit computations I: Looming-evoked takeoff,
- Using genetic tools to understand circuit computations II: Motion vision,
- Aerodynamics, motor control, and flight behaviors II,
- Sensory processing in the fly olfactory system,
- Transformation of tactile signals in central circuits ofDrosophila,
- Fly motion vision as unifying theme for cycle,
- Introduction to modern fly genetic tools for circuit analysis,
- General principles of early sensory processing I,
- General principles of early sensory processing II,
- Survey of visual behaviors, algorithmic context,
- Circuit mechanisms of fly visual behavior,
- How the brain keeps track of the body: neural coding of limb proprioception,
- A primer onDrosophilaprimary auditory neurons,
Also, check out Michael Dickinson’s TED Talk:.
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- Introduction to Somatosensation.
- Active Dendritic Contributions to Sensorimotor Integration,
- Functional Microcircuitry of Somatosensation,
- Somatosensory diversity,
- Barrels: Bloody Coordinated Dynamics,
- Social Touch,
- Socio-sexual touch in the somatosensory cortex.
- Pathways of the Somatosensory System,
- Inhibitory Neuron Diversity and its Role in Sensory Processing,
- Modulating the Many Circuits of Touch,
- Transformations underlying optimal dynamic neocortical representation,
- Estrus-cycle regulation of cortical inhibition,
- Perceptual roles of cortical basal ganglia interactions,
- Contributions of the cerebellum to associative learning.
IntegrativeMolecular Neuroethology Module
- Integrative Study of Neural Systems and Behavior,
- Variability and compensation in neural networks: from gene expression to output,
- The link between activity and genome: Activity-dependent gene expression in neurons,
- Adding -omics to your research II: Next Generation Sequencing,
- Adding -omics to your research: overcoming design and analysis hurdles.
- Integrative approaches to mechanisms of parental care.
- Evolution of Neural Systems,
- Evolution of the Social Brain,
- Integrative Molecular Neuroethology,
- Approaches to molecular neuroethology I,
- Evolution of neural systems,