| Mon 11/9/09 11 am | Volen 201 |
| Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club |
| Sri Raghavachari (Duke Univ) |
| How many, how much?: The representation of analog magnitudes in cortex |
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| Mon 11/9/09 12:05 pm | Rosenstiel 118 |
| Molecular Genetics Journal Club |
| Katherine Button (Library and Technology Services) |
| Library Research tools for literature searches in the biological sciences |
| Shulin Ju (Petsko Lab) |
| A Yeast Model for FUS/TLS-dependent Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
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| Mon 11/9/09 3:45 pm | Gerstenzang 122 |
| Chemistry Department Colloquium |
| Professor Jon Clardy (Department of Chemistry, Harvard University) |
| Lessons from Bugs |
| Hosted by Liz Hedstrom |
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| Mon 11/9/09 4 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| M.R. Bauer Colloquium Series |
| Larry Zipursky (University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine) |
| Dscam Proteins in Neural Circuit Assembly |
| Hosted by Michael Rosbash |
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| Tue 11/10/09 12:05 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Neurobiology Journal Club |
| Larry Zipursky (UCLA) |
| TBA |
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| Wed 11/11/09 | Genetic Counseling Conference Room |
| Genetic Counseling Journal Club |
| NO JOURNAL CLUB |
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| Wed 11/11/09 | |
| Genetic Counseling Journal Club |
| NO JOURNAL CLUB |
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| Wed 11/11/09 4 pm | Chancellor's Suite, Sachar |
| Special Seminar |
| Melanie Mitchell (Computer Science, Portland State, External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute) |
| Complexity: A Guided Tour |
As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web---these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific understanding. Comprehending such systems seems to require a wholly new approach, one that re-maps long-standing disciplinary boundaries. In this lecture, Dr. Mitchell will describe how the interdisciplinary field of complex systems science is discovering common principles underlying different natural and technological systems, and will discuss the implications of these common principles for science and society. |
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| Wed 11/11/09 4 pm | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Joint Biology/Biochemistry Seminar |
| Ryohei Yasuda (HHMI, Neurobiology Dept., Duke University Medical Center) |
| Imaging signal transduction in single dendritic spines |
| Hosted by J. Lisman |
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| Thu 11/12/09 3:30 pm | Lown 301 |
| Psychology Department Colloquium (Martin Weiner Colloquium Series) |
| Moshe Bar, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School) |
| The Proactive Brain: Predictions in Visual Cognition |
Just like physicists can explain complex systems with a small set of elegant equations, it might be possible for the multidisciplinary study of the human mind to produce a list of well-defined universal principles that can explain the majority of its operation. Given exciting developments in theory and empirical findings, I had proposed that the generation of predictions might be one strong candidate for such a universal principle. In this proposal, analogies are derived from elementary information that is extracted rapidly from the input, to link that input with representations that exist in memory. Finding an analogical link results in the generation of focused predictions via associative activation of representations that are relevant to this analogy in the given context. Predictions in complex circumstances, such as social interactions, combine multiple analogies. Such predictions need not be created Òfrom scratchÓ in new situations, but rather rely on memories that are the result of real as well as of previously imagined experiences. The findings that my laboratory has provided to date to support this proposal encompass predictions in object and scene recognition, in person judgment, and in the formation of preferences. This cognitive neuroscience framework offers a new hypothesis with which to consider the purpose of memory, and can help explain a variety of phenomena: from recognition to impressions, and from the brainÕs Ôdefault modeÕ to mood and a host of mental disorders. |
| Sponsored by the Martin Weiner Colloquium Series and the NIGMS Brain, Body & Behavior Training Grant |
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| Fri 11/13/09 11:30 am | Gerstenzang 122 |
| Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks |
| Nelson Lau |
| The mystery of making small RNAs in animal gonads |
| **pizza provided** |
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