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BCS Spring Colloquium Series
Fridays at 4:00 PM, Bldg 46-3002 Auditorium
****Note the colloquium on Friday the 16th of February will be at 2pm****

Spring 2007	Speaker/Affiliation	Talk Title
February 9	Garrett Stanley, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University	Reading the Neural Code in the Natural Visual World (PDF)


February 16	Haim Sompolinsky, PhD Hebrew University and Harvard University ****Note unusual start time of 2 pm	The Tempotron: a neural model of spike time decoding (PDF)


February 23	John Reynolds, PhD Systems Neurobiology Laboratory Salk Institute	Attention-dependent response modulation varies across cell classes in visual area V4 (PDF)


March 2	Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BIDMC, Bullard Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School	Genes that control shape and size of the human cerebral cortex (PDF)


March 9	Krish Sathian, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Neurology Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine Emory University; Medical Director, Atlanta VA Center of Excellence in Rehabilitation of Aging Veterans with Vision Loss	Tactile Perception: Beyond Somatosensory Cortex (PDF)


March 16	Jean Rossier MD, PhD Professor and Chairman, Department of Biology, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)	Characterization and Roles of Neocortical Interneurons (PDF)


March 23	Marcelo Wood, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory University of California , Irvine	Investigating the role of chromatin remodeling in synaptic plasticity and memory processes. (PDF)


April 6	György Gergely, Ph.D.,. D. Sc. Professor of Psychology Head of Department of Developmental Research Institute for Psychological Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Learning ‘about' versus learning ‘from' other minds: Natural ‘pedagogy' as a core system for transmitting cognitively opaque cultural knowledge in humans (PDF)


April 13 THE BIDWELL LECTURE	Edward Scolnick, MD Director of the Psychiatry Initiative The Broad Institute	The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research: Beginnings and Directions (PDF)


April 27	Nick Chater, PhD Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Department of Psychology University College London	General principles of cognition? (PDF)


May 4 THE HANS-LUKAS TEUBER LECTURE	Larry Abbott, PhD Professor Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	The Role of Spontaneous Activity in Sensory Processing (PDF)

May 11	Rachael L. Neve, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School	Faulty Signaling in Alzheimer's disease (PDF)