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Fall 2007 Events:

 
 

Events:

  Oct 4
Dan Franc, Neuroscience
Advisors: Kelvin Lim and Guillermo Sapiro
"White matter structure, DTI artifacts and neurosurgical planning"

  Oct 11
Jodi Prosise, Biomedical Engineering
Advisors: Dr. Timothy Ebner and Dr. William Durfee
"Relating firing of neurons in the primary motor"

  Nov 1
Steve Kerrigan, Neuroscience
Advisors: Dr. Teresa Nick and Dr. Duane Nykamp
"HVC Circuit Dynamics"

  Nov 8
Joel Hesch, Computer Science
Advisors: Dr. Sergios Roumeliotis and Dr. Gordon Legge
"Indoor localization and guidance for humans"

  Nov 15
Audrey Royer, Neuroscience
Advisors: Dr. Robert Miller and Dr. Duane Nykamp Time change: Talk will begin at 11:30 a.m.
"Nav1.6: the gatekeeper of vision?"

 
 

Spring 2007 Events:

 
 

Events:

  Feb 1
Audrey Royer, Neuroscience
Advisors: Robert Miller and Duane Nykamp
"Dendritic Sodium Channels and the Case of the Missing Charge"

  Feb 15
Stephen Gardeen, Physics
Advisors: John Broadhurst and Arthur Leuthold
"MEG Auditory Discrimination Studies"

  March 8
Laurentiu Popa, Scientific Computation
Advisors: Timothy Ebner and Bagrat Amirikian
"Low Frequency Oscillatory Activity in the Cerebellar Cortex of the Tottering Mouse"

  April 5
Josh Puhl, Neuroscience
Advisors - Dr. Karen Mesce and Dr. Duane Nykamp
"Dopamine Made Me Do It": Motor Control and Locomotion in the Medicinal Leech

  April 12
Blaine Schneider, Neuroscience
Advisor: Geoff Ghose
"The Neural Basis of Precisely Timed Behaviors"

  April 26
Xu Li, Biomedical Engineerng
Advisor: Bin He and A. David Redish
"Magnetoacoustic Tomography with Magnetic induction (MAT-MI) for Bioimpedance Imaging"

  May 3
Jennifer Schumacher, Neuroscience
Advisors: Dan Kersten and Cheryl Olman
"BOLD fMRI Response to Local Neural Inhibition"

  May 17
Han Yuan, Biomedical Engineering
Advisors: Bin He and James Ashe
"Control of brain-computer interface based on motor imagery and its neural mechanism"

 
 

Past Events and Symposia:

  'The Adaptive Brain' , Neuroscience Presidential Symposium
Thursday, September 14, 2006, 8:30-6:00 p.m & Friday, September 15, 2006, 8:30-3:00 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center, A. I. Johnson Room

  Tutorial on Computational Methods in Neuroscience
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101

  Discussion on Kenneth Britten's journal article
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 11 a.m.
Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101
Discussion Leader: Professor Geoff Ghose

  Optic Flow, Extrastriate Cortex, and the Guidance of Self-Motion
Friday, October 6, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Jackson Hall 2-137
Speaker: Kenneth Britten, University of California, Davis

  Introduction to Linux and UNIX Tutorial
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101

  Simplifying, planning and learning hand shaping in the primary motor cortex
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101
Speaker: Jodi Prosise, Biomedical Engineering
Advisors: Timothy Ebner and William Durfee

  Discussion on Cliff Kentros journal article
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101
Discussion Leader: Professor David Redish

  Electrophysiological and Transgenic Approaches to the Neural Circuitry of Memory
Friday, November 3, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Jackson Hall 2-137
Speaker: Cliff Kentros, University of Oregon

  Multimodal MR Techniques for Neuropsychiatric Disease Research
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101
Speaker: Dan Franc, Neuroscience
Advisor: Kelvin Lim


 
 

Symposia

  Scientific Visualization 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

  Invited Speakers

  Dr. Arthur W. Toga, Ph.D.
  Dr. D. Louis Collins, Ph.D.
  Dr. Ron Kikinis, Ph.D.

  Symposium Chair

  Dr. David Rottenberg, M.D.
Director, International Neuroimaging Consortium
Professor ofNeurology and Radiology, University of Minnesota


 
 

Fellow Lunch Talks

  Studying behavioral selection and modulation in the medicinal leech
Thursday April 27, 2006
Josh Puhl, Neuroscience
Advisors: Karen Mesce and Duane Nykamp

  Detecting transient oscillations in local field potentials
Thursday April 13, 2006
BethMasimore, Physics
Advisors: James Kakalios, A. David Redish

  Computational study on the structure and activity of chondroitin sulfates
Thursday, Febuary 16, 2006
Casey Kelly, Chemistry
Advisors: Donald Truhlar
 
Magnetoacoustic tomography with magnetic induction (MAT-MI)
Thursday, Febuary 9, 2006
Xu Li, Biomedical Engineering
Advisors: Bin He and David Redish

  Low frequency oscillatory activity in the cerebral cortex of the tottering mouse
Thursday, Febuary 2, 2006
Laurentiu Popa, Scientific Computation

  Towards a dynamically extensible language model in a speech recognition system
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Tim Miller, Computer Science IGERT Fellow

  On-line learning signals: awake sharp-waves, awake replay, and non-local reconstruction
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Jadin Jackson, Neuroscience

  Observation of transient neural dynamics in the rodent hippocampus during behavior of a sequential decision task using predictive filter methods
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Adam Johnson, Neuroscience

  Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of cortical surface extraction
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Tim Jarvis, Computer Science


 
 
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