#SFN10 Final Observations and PPP Champion
Some final observations at the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
#SFN10 Day 3 – Inhibiting mossy fiber output and PPP of course!
Yesterday morning I checked out the technically-heroic dissection of mossy fiber function from the Tonegawa lab that employed a quadruple transgenic mouse: Mossy fiber input for pattern separation and pattern completion *T. NAKASHIBA1, J. CUSHMAN2, K. A. PELKEY3, C. J. MCBAIN3, M. S. FANSELOW2, S. TONEGAWA1; 1The RIKEN-MIT Ctr. For Neural…
#SFN10 day 2 – The Popular Poster Photo (PPP) game
Some posters get more attention than others. Either there’s an interesting abstract, an attractive/famous presenter or, my favorite, additional passersby get sucked in by the gravitational force of an existing crowd. Whatever the reason, I’ve started a game called Photos of Popular Posters (PPP). It doesn’t in any way attempt…
#SFN10 day 1 feat. CIA Human Brain Control presentation
Today was great because there was a ton of hippocampal-cortical posters I was excited to check out except I was also presenting so I couldn’t actually check them out. Plus, it wasn’t like I could just pop over when my crowd died down because they were all the way in…
#SFN10 Intinerary Pt. 3 – Mossy Fibers!
…and now for what is probably my final pre-SFN post. Posters dealing with mossy fiber function!
#SFN10 Itinerary Pt. 2
Continuing on… 1) 31.20/C37 – Dentate network activity modulates integration of newborn granule cells *F. KLEINE BORGMANN1, J. GRÄFF2, N. TONI3, I. M. MANSUY4,5, S. JESSBERGER1; 1Inst. of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol. (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland; 2Brain Res. Inst., Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; 3Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 4Brain Res. Inst.,…
SFN2010 Itinerary Pt. 1
I have 62 items in my itinerary and I expect to add to it in the following weeks. There are always great presentations I find out about last minute and undoubtedly others that never see the light of (my) day. So fill me in if you have any tips. It’s…
SFN2010 Neuroblogging List
So today the list of “official” SFN neurobloggers was released at the SFN website. And it immediately created a bit of an uproar. My initial beef was that I couldn’t ever seem to find the SFN blogging info without using Google. And also, I would like to know which other…
Someone finally dissects the role new neurons play in fear conditioning
Based on a true story – how progress is made in the field of adult neurogenesis* A group of scientists reduce neurogenesis and report a memory deficit. A second group repeats the experiment, with only a few minor differences in protocol, and fails to find a memory deficit. A third…
Do new neurons go through a critical period and then retire, never to be used again?
And here we have the latest, craziest hypothesis of granule cell function. Crazy not because the authors have lost their minds but because the story of the dentate gyrus, where adult neurogenesis occurs, is becoming more peculiar every day. The underlying premise of this paper by Alme et al. (which we…