As we accumulate more and more data on adult neurogenesis in rodents I keep asking myself what kind of impact these new cells could have. The dearth of literature on primate and human adult neurogenesis seems to make these questions all the more relevant. As a starting point, I created…
It’s surprising that it’s 2011 and there’s no regular meeting on adult neurogenesis. There have been neurogenesis sessions at other meetings and perhaps the occasional, sometimes closed, neurogenesis meeting here and there, but nothing regular for all to attend. This Keystone meeting on adult neurogenesis will hopefully mark the end…
Some final observations at the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
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…
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…
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…
…and now for what is probably my final pre-SFN post. Posters dealing with mossy fiber function!
Culling through the SFN abstract browser is an imperfect process. Keyword searches can be helpful, particularly if you’re interested in a fairly specific topic, like, say, “1-bromopropane” (1 hit). But if you’re interested in “postnatal neurogenesis” (292 hits) or “hippocampus memory” (1118 hits), make sure your scrolling finger is rested and…
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.,…
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…