[BIC-announce] FW: Jerzy Olszewski Lecture - Tuesday, May 25/10 - JTA - The Neural Circuits Underlying Somatosensation

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

MNI - WB317

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Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4

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Jerzy Olszewski Lecture

Tuesday, May 25th at 4pm in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

I am very pleased to welcome Karel Svoboda from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus as the Jerzy Olszewski Lecturer of 2010.

His lecture is entitled:  

 

The Neural Circuits underlying Somatosensation

         

Karel Svoboda is known for his ground breaking research in synaptic plasticity, since he was able to image in vivo for the first time the development of new spines on cortical neurons as a result of new sensory experience.  This research employing two photon imaging of pyramidal cells in the somatosensory cortex over periods of one month in rodents has thus demonstrated structural changes that underlie learning and memory.  Some of his most significant and recent publications are listed below.

I strongly encourage you all to attend this honorary lecture which promises to be technically and theoretically exciting and informative.

 

Best regards,

Barbara Jones   

 

Svoboda's research and laboratory can be viewed on his website:  

http://www.hhmi.org/research/groupleaders/svoboda_bio.html 

 

Publications:

Long-term in vivo imaging of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in adult cortex. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12490942> 

Trachtenberg JT, Chen BE, Knott GW, Feng G, Sanes JR, Welker E, Svoboda K.

Nature. 2002 Dec 19-26;420(6917):788-94.

 

Transient and persistent dendritic spines in the neocortex in vivo. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15664179> 

Holtmaat AJ, Trachtenberg JT, Wilbrecht L, Shepherd GM, Zhang X, Knott GW, Svoboda K.

Neuron. 2005 Jan 20;45(2):279-91.

 

Spine growth precedes synapse formation in the adult neocortex in vivo. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16892056> 

Knott GW, Holtmaat A, Wilbrecht L, Welker E, Svoboda K.

Nat Neurosci. 2006 Sep;9(9):1117-24.

 

Experience-dependent and cell-type-specific spine growth in the neocortex. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16791195> 

Holtmaat A, Wilbrecht L, Knott GW, Welker E, Svoboda K.

Nature. 2006 Jun 22;441(7096):979-83.

 

Experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19693029> 

Holtmaat A, Svoboda K.

Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009 Sep;10(9):647-58. Review.

 

 

Structural plasticity underlies experience-dependent functional plasticity of cortical circuits. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20371813> 

Wilbrecht L, Holtmaat A, Wright N, Fox K, Svoboda K.

J Neurosci. 2010 Apr 7;30(14):4927-32.