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The members who attend preparing meeting and explanation papers

* Explanation time is 30 minutes for one person.
(Presentation time: 20 minutes, Question time: 10 minutes)

Alphabetical Order

Name Affiliation and explanation papers
Tomokazu DoiDirector's Lab Osaka Bioscience Institute
von Heimendahl M, Itskov PM, Arabzadeh E, Diamond ME, "Neuronal Activity in Rat Barrel Cortex Underlying Texture Discrimination." PLoS Biol.5(2007):2696-2708.Z
Eiji MatsunagaLab for Biolinguistics, Brain Science Institute RIKEN
Ohshima, T., Hirosawa, M., Tabata, H., Mutoh, T., Adachi, T., Suzuki, H., Saruta, K., Iwasato, T., Itohara, S., Hashimoto, M., Nakajima, K., Ogawa, M., Kulkaruni, A.B., and Mikoshiba, K. "Cdk5 is required for multipolar-tobipolar transition during radial neuronal migration and proper dendrite development of pyramidal neurons in the cerebral cortex." Development. 2007 Jun;134(12):2273-82
Masato UtsumiLaboratory for Systems Biology, Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST
Arabzadeh E, Zorzin E, and Diamond ME, "Neuronal Encoding of Texture in the Whisker Sensory Pathway." PLoS Biol.3(2005):155-165.
Mikako IsakaLaboratory for Systems Biology, Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST
Miura K, Tsubo Y, Okada M, Fukai T "Balanced excitatory and inhibitory inputs to cortical neurons decouple firing irregularity from rate modulations." J Neurosci 27(2007):13802-13812.
Bunpei SuzukiLaboratory for Systems Biology, Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST
Okamoto H, Isomura Y, Takada M, Fukai T "Temporal integration by stochastic recurrent network dynamics with bimodal neurons." J Neurophysiol 97(2007):3859-3867.
Masataka YamaoLaboratory for Systems Biology, Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST
Hill S, Tononi G, "Modeling sleep and wakefulness in the thalamocortical system." J Neurophysiol.93(2005):1671-98
Mai SakuraiGraduate School of Biological Sciences, NAIST
Polley DB, Steinberg EE, Merzenich MM "Perceptual learning directs auditory cortical map reorganization through top-down influences." J Neurosci 26(2006):4970-82.
Kazuhiro HorinouchiDivision of Structural Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, NAIST
Froemke RC, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE "A synaptic memory trace for codrtical receptive field plasticity." Nature 450(2007):425-9.
Kazue NiisatoGraduate School of Biological Sciences, NAIST
Palmer, L.M. and Stuart, G.J. "Site of action potential initiation in layer 5 pyramidal neurons." J. Neurosci.26(2006):1854-1863.
Dai KanagawaGraduate School of Biological Sciences, NAIST
Letzkus, J.J., Kampa, B.M. and Stuart, G.J. "Learning rules for spiketiming-dependent plasticity depend on dendritic synapse location." J.Neurosci.26(2006):10420-10429.