The Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Seminar at Univeristy of Texas, Houston Medical School meets every Tuesday, 4:00pm, in the seventh floor conference room 7.046.

Graduates should register to this as a course: GS 140111

We present and discuss recent developments in computational neuroscience, attempting a thorough understanding of the material as well as a wide view of the current literature.

Would you like to join? Please see our schedule and show up to our next meeting.

Like to be on the email list? Send a request to Harel Shouval: harel.shouval@uth.tmc.edu

Fall 2010 SCHEDULE

9/7	Michael Beauchamp	Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon, Churchland et al (2009)
9/14	Dimitry Yatsenko	Sensory input drives multiple intracellular information streams in somatosensory cortex. A. Alenda, M. Molano-Mazón, S. Panzeri, and M. Maravall. (2010)
9/21	Raymond Chan	Bayesian inference for generalized linear models for spiking neurons Sebastian Gerwinn, Jakob H. Macke and Matthias Bethge (2010)
9/28	Manivannan Subramaniyan	Differences in Gamma Frequencies across Visual Cortex Restrict Their Possible Use in Computation Ray and Maunsell (2010)
10/5	Patrick Storer	Dendritic Spikes Amplify the Synaptic Signal to Enhance Detection of Motion in a Simulation of the Direction-Selective Ganglion Cell Schachter et al (2010)
10/12	James Hannah	One Rule to Grow Them All: A General Theory of Neuronal Branching and Its Practical Application Cuntz et al (2010)
10/19	Katie Ward	Predicting synchronous and asynchronous network groupings of hippocampal interneurons coupled with dendritic gap junctions Zahid and Skinner (2009)
10/26	Cyrus Eirud	Support vector machines for temporal classification of block design fMRI data Stephen LaConte
11/2	Kreso Josic	Decision Confidence and Uncertainty in Diffusion Models with Partially Correlated Neuronal Integrators Rub´en Moreno-Bote
11/9	Steve Cox	Intrinsic dendritic filtering gives low-pass power spectra of local field potentials H. Lindén et al 2010
11/16	Soc. Neurosci.
11/23	Sarah Baum	Modeling GABA Alterations in Schizophrenia: A Link Between Impaired Inhibition and Altered Gamma and Beta Range Auditory Entrainment D. Vierling-Claassen
11/30	Mircia Chelaru	A biologically plausible model of time-scale invariant interval timing Rita Almeida · Anders Ledberg
12/7	Wei Ji Ma	Sensitivity to perturbations in vivo implies high noise and suggests rate coding in cortex London et al (2010) Supplemental
12/14	Yili Zhang	Systematic Quantification of Negative Feedback Mechanisms in the Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase (ERK) Signaling Network M. Cirit (2010)

Related Links:

1. List of Theoretical and Computational Talks in the Houston area

2. Archive of recent interesting theoretical papers

3. UTH Seminars