On February 23 and 24, 1999, the Volen National Center for Complex Systems held its 11th annual scientific retreat. This year's retreat highlighted the excellent work done by our life science graduate students. On Thursday evening the two keynote speakers were former graduate students, both of whom have gone on to further their careers at other universities. On Friday, eight lecturers were current graduate students. They made terrific presentations highlighting the high caliber of students and research taking place within the Center.

Approximately 125 people attended this year's retrreat, which was held once again at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The MBL faciltiy includes lecture halls, function rooms, cafeteria-style dining, and overnight dorm room accommodations. Bringing the researchers (faculty, postdocs, and students) together off-campus for a 24-hour retreat was again tremendously successful. The MBL provides a stimulating environment for interactions as well as a scenic site for walking and relaxing.

Tuesday, February 23, 1999

Former Center for Complex Systems Graduate Students

Emilio Salinas, Ph.D.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
"Stimulus Encoding During Somatosensory Discrimination:
Spike Timing, Firing Rate and Signal-to-Noise Modulations"

Hongkui Zheng, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Hippocampus-dependent Learning in Conditional Transgenic Mice"

Wednesday, April 26, 2000

Meredith LeMasurier
Biochemistry Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Conduction Properties of the KCSA Channel from S. Lividans"

Frances Chance
Neuroscience Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"A Model of Direction Selective Visual Responses
Based on Synaptic Depression"

Tim Strassmaier
Biochemistry Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Peptide-based Inhibitors of HIV-1 Mediated Membrane Fusion"

Andy Garland
Computer Science Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Multiagent Learning Despite Limited Communication"

Trina Sarafi
Neuroscience Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Developmental Specifications of C.elegans Chemosensory Neurons"

Jessica M. Pisano
Biology Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Developmental Divergence of the Enteric and
Sympathetic Nervous Systems"

Maki Kaneko
Neuroscience Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Clock Cells in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Revealed by Clock-Gene Expression"

Jeremy Caplan
Neuroscience Ph.D. Student
Brandeis University
"Human Theta Oscillations Show Task Dependence
During Virtual Maze Navigation"

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