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 2009 SCHEDULE

1/12	Wei Ji Ma	The free-energy principle: a rough guide to the brain? Karl Friston Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2009)
1/19	Ronald van den Berg	Optimal stimulus encoders for natural tasks by Geisler, Najemnik and Ing 2009
1/26	Dimirty Yatsenko	A simple model of cortical dynamics explains variability and state dependence of sensory responses in urethane-anesthetized auditory cortex. C. Curto, S. Sakata, S. Marguet, V. Itskov, and K. D. Harris. J Neurosci, 29(34):10600–12, Aug 2009
2/2	No Seminar	---------------------------------------
2/9	Animesh Agarwal	Coupled Phosphatase and Kinase Switches Produce the Tristability Required for Long-Term Potentiation and Long- Term Depression, Pi and Lisman, J. Neurosci. 2008
2/16	Harel Shouval	Connectivity reflects coding: a model of voltage-based STDP with homeostasis Clopath Et Al. Nature Neurosci. (2010)
2/23
3/2	Spring Break
3/9	Steve Cox	Fast Kalman filtering on quasilinear dendritic trees by Liam Paninski J. Comp. Neuro (2009)
3/16	Kreso Josic	The Asynchronous State in Cortical Circuits, Renart et al (2010), also see: Eker et al (2010)
3/23		No Seminar
3/30	Paul Smolen	Learning as a phenomenon occurring in a critical state by Lucilla de Arcangelisa and Hans J. Herrmanna, PNAS 2010 Supplementary
4/5	Katie Ward	Spike-timing-dependent plasticity for neurons with recurrent connections Burkitt et al (2007)
4/12	Tony Kellems	A Simulation Study Investigating the Impact of Dendritic Morphology and Synaptic Topology on Neuronal Firing Patterns j-Y Chen (2010)
4/19	Raymond Chan	What can be learnt from analysing insect orientation flights using probabilistic SLAM? Baddeley et a. (2009)
4/26	Zhang Yilli	Harmonic Oscillations in Homeostatic Controllers: Dynamics of the p53 Regulatory System Jolma et al 2010
5/3	Stuart Red	Shape effects on reflexive spatial selective attention and a plausible neurophysiological model by Saumil S. Patel, Xinmiao Peng, Anne B. Sereno Vision Research 2010 in press

List of Theoretical and Computational Talks in the Houston area

Journals and Reviewers

Nature	Yoshi
Science	Josic
Biophys J.	Naveed
J. Neurophysiol	Harel
J. Neurosci.	Harel
Nature Reviews Neurosci	Josic
Nature Neurosci	Josic
J. Comp. Neuro
Neuro Comp
PLOS Comp Biol.	Harel
Biol Cybern
Physical Biology	Naveed
PRE,PRL	Yoshi
Neuron
Frontiers
Network

Computational Neuroscience Labs at UTH

Douglas A. Baxter, Ph.D. Cellular and Network Processes Underlying Behavior and Behavioral Plasticity John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Modeling of Second Messenger Cascades, Neuronal Excitability, and Neuronal Circuits for Reflexes and Central Pattern Generators James J. Knierim, Ph.D. Neural Network Mechanisms for Spatial Learning and Navigation David W. Marshak, Ph.D. Information Processing and Modulation in the Vertebrate Retina Harel Shouval, Ph.D. Simplified cellular models of synaptic plasticity Neal Waxham, Ph.D. Modeling of biochemical networks relevant to synaptic plasticity

OTHER LINKS

SNNAP Computational Neuroscience Core Facility (CNCF) The Gulf Coast Consortia Contact the coordinator to list your site here

ARCHIVED SCHEDULES

Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Spring 2007 Summer 2007 Spring 2006 Fall 2006 Spring 2005 Fall 2005 Spring 2004 Fall 2004 Fall 2003

SEMINARS

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