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As a computational neuroscientist, Mihalas has worked on models of both molecular and systems neuroscience including nervous system development, synaptic plasticity, minimalistic spiking neuron models, self-organized criticality, visual attention and figure ground segregation. His current research interests are aimed at building models to elucidate how large networks of interacting neurons produce cognitive behaviors. At the Allen Institute, Mihalas integrates anatomical and physiological connectivity data to generate models of visual perception in the mouse. To this end, he works to build a series of models of increasing complexity for both individual components, i.e., neurons, synapses, and microcircuits, as well as for large portions of the entire system. This series of models will be compared to the simplified theoretical predictions from statistical physics, information theory and computer vision. 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Alongside their research and teaching, they designed the core technology for and co-founded InstaHub, a sustainability-focused startup developing easy-to-install embedded sensor systems to help track energy use \u0026amp; reduce waste in buildings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Host: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGarrett Stanley, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent Host:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:elaidad@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EElaida Dimwamwa\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eepurl.com\/h-iykb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESign-up here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive future Neuro Next Seminar Series announcements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Living Electrodes: Developing Optogenetic Neuronal Networks for Circuit Modeling \u0026amp; Biological Neural Interfaces\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Living Electrodes: Developing Optogenetic Neuronal Networks for Circuit Modeling \u0026 Biological Neural Interfaces\u0022 - Oladayo Adewole, Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2023-08-31 18:25:16","changed_gmt":"2023-12-19 15:15:10","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-02-26T11:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-02-26T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-02-26T12:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-02-26 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-02-26 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-02-26 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotech Building (IBB), Suddath Seminar Room 1128, 315 Ferst Drive","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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He is a member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, and the Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division and faculty of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital \/ Harvard Medical School.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBuckner\u2019s laboratory explores the organization and function of large-scale human brain networks that contribute to high-level cognition. Using multiple behavioral, neuroimaging and computational approaches they characterize brain networks and how variation gives rise to differences in\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rahnev@psych.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E \u003C\/a\u003Enetwork organization and behavior, including dysfunction in neuropsychiatric illness. A series of recent studies comprehensively characterized the organization of the cortex, striatum, and cerebellum with a particular focus on brain association networks important to memory and cognitive control. Using the understanding of normal organization as a foundation, they also explore disturbances in network organization in a range of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative illnesses. Current projects seek to determine whether dysfunction can be detected prior to clinical symptoms in individuals at risk for illness. Recently their work has expanded to explore the detailed organization of individual brains and how that organization differs across people and changes over time. These investigations use approaches tailored to extract idiosyncratic details of individual brain anatomy as well as approaches to continuous behavioral monitoring via digital phenotyping on smartphones and wearables. This push toward the individual is critical for clinical translation as well as a number of open questions about how transient brain states influence behavior in the real world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Host: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rahnev@psych.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDoby Rahnev, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent Host:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ygao495@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EYi Gao, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eepurl.com\/h-iykb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESign-up here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive future GT Neuro Seminar Series announcements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Large-scale Network Organization in the Human Brain\u0022 - Randy Buckner, Ph.D. - Harvard University\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Large-scale Network Organization in the Human Brain\u0022 - Randy Buckner, Ph.D. - Harvard University"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2023-08-23 18:54:43","changed_gmt":"2023-09-15 12:23:50","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-11-06T11:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-11-06T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-11-06T12:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-11-06 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-11-06 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-11-06 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotech Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128, 315 Ferst Dr. NW, Atlanta, GA 30332","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Our goal is to eventually move our understanding of this activity forward to the point at which it can be understood online, in single trials, and without reference to external benchmarks (stimulus onset time, for instance) that the animal doesn\u2019t actually know.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe cornerstone of our work involves examination of the neural responses to gustatory (taste) stimuli, which are unique in their reliable non-arbitrariness: a gustatory stimulus hits the tongue laden with meaning\u2014each causes an emotional response (yum or yuck), and each causes a behavior (consumption or rejection); much of our research plumbs these processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, the potency of taste stimuli is such that rats quickly learn about their properties\u2014whether they poison or nourish\u2014and readily learn ABOUT visual and auditory stimuli that are PAIRED with them. 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To do so, they study the flight control circuitry of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By studying these questions in Drosophila, they can leverage the powerful genetic toolkit available for the mapping, imaging, and manipulation of neural circuits. The lab directs its attention on structures that are unique to flies, known as the halteres, which act as dual-function gyroscopes that help structure the wingstroke. They take an integrative approach, combining in vivo imaging, muscle physiology, and behavior.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFaculty Host: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sponberg@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESimon Sponberg, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudent Host: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:vsharma98@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVarun Sharma\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eepurl.com\/h-iykb\u0022\u003ESign-up here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive future GT Neuro Seminar Series announcements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Functionally Stratified Encoding in a Biological Gyroscope\u0022 - Bradley Dickerson, Ph.D. - Princeton University\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Functionally Stratified Encoding in a Biological Gyroscope\u0022 - Bradley Dickerson, Ph.D. - Princeton University"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2023-08-24 18:13:39","changed_gmt":"2023-09-14 13:14:26","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-10-02T11:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-10-02T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-10-02T12:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-10-02 15:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-10-02 16:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-10-02 16:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotech Building, 315 Ferst Drive, NW, Suddath Seminar Room 1128, Atlanta, GA 30332","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Such recordings frequently show highly non-trivial statistical structure in space and time, but explaining and interpreting this structure remains a challenge. I\u0027ll give a tour of several new and ongoing projects in the Sederberg lab in which relatively simple models take us surprisingly far in understanding large-scale neuronal behavior, and how we\u0027re using these models to understand the diversity of neuronal network behavior across brain areas, developmental stages, and disease states.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAudrey Sederberg, Ph.D. uses theoretical and analytic approaches to uncover the principles of neuronal network dynamics and function. She earned her doctorate in theoretical physics at Princeton University, working with William Bialek, Ph.D. She then conducted postdoctoral research, in experimental neurobiology (University of Chicago) and neural data science (Georgia Tech), and as a fellow in the Theory and Modeling of Living Systems at Emory University. In 2021, she established her research group at the University of Minnesota as a member of the Medical Discovery Team for Optical Imaging and Brain Science. Grounded by close collaboration with experimental labs, her group works at the intersection of experimental and theoretical neuroscience, spanning multiple scales, recording techniques, and species. Her research is supported by a BRAIN Initiative grant from the NIMH and a Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. In 2023, Sederberg was honored with the John Ohlfest Memorial Faculty Mentorship Award for her exceptional teaching and mentoring within Minnesota\u0027s Graduate Program in Neuroscience. In August 2023, she returned to Atlanta to join the Schools of Psychology and Physics at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFaculty Host: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hannahch@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHannah Choi, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eepurl.com\/h-iykb\u0022\u003ESign-up here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive future GT Neuro Seminar Series announcements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Building (on) a Null Model for Big-data Neuroscience\u0022 - Audrey Sederberg, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Building (on) a Null Model for Big-data Neuroscience\u0022 - Audrey Sederberg, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2023-08-24 17:43:15","changed_gmt":"2023-09-08 14:25:30","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-09-18T11:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-09-18T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-09-18T12:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-09-18 15:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-09-18 16:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-09-18 16:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotech Building (IBB), 315 Ferst Drive, NW, Suddath Seminar Room 1128, Atlanta, GA 30332","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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We seamlessly integrate information about the tactile world with remarkable speed and precision to generate perceptions and guide our actions. How does the brain accomplish this?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey investigate this question using mouse genetic tools, modern neurophysiological approaches, and computational modeling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFaculty Host: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ming-fai.fong@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMing-fai Fong, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eepurl.com\/h-iykb\u0022\u003ESign-up here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive future GT Neuro Seminar Series announcements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Mechanoreceptor Contributions to Cortical Tactile Feature Representations During Locomotion\u0022 - Alan Emanuel, Ph.D. - Emory University School of Medicine\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Mechanoreceptor Contributions to Cortical Tactile Feature Representations During Locomotion\u0022 - Alan Emanuel, Ph.D. - Emory University School of Medicine"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2023-08-24 18:18:52","changed_gmt":"2023-08-25 18:29:33","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-10-16T11:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-10-16T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-10-16T12:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-10-16 15:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-10-16 16:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-10-16 16:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotech Building, 315 Ferst Drive, NW, Suddath Seminar Room 1128, Atlanta, GA 30332","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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The workshop will provide an introduction to deep learning, unsupervised learning, and time series methods, with hands-on coding sessions to get your feet wet. We will also have local (student \u0026amp; faculty) speakers and discussion. To get the most out of the course, students should have some familiarity with Python programming and machine learning basics (e.g., linear algebra, linear regression).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfNsPqPzgWG4KiFXW4s5Dqpz6M1uM6ZCvnBOg9UAbwpBs46cg\/viewform\u0022\u003EApply to attend\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by July 10, 2023.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESelections will be made based on availability (enrollment will be limited to 30 students). 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He grew up in Kentucky and went to McGill University for his bachelor\u0027s in Electrical Engineering. His passion for neuroscience began when he first heard the sound of action potentials, recorded from a blowfly during an NSF summer research program at the University of Maryland. He completed a PhD in Neuroscience at Berkeley studying auditory and prefrontal cortex in a new rat model of selective attention. His postdoctoral work at Columbia showed how circuits in the somatosensory cortex enable mice to recognize shape. In 2022, Chris started his faculty position at Emory. His lab, the Perception and Action Lab, seeks to understand how sensory and motor brain regions work together during free behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHow do we explore and learn about our world? In nature, animals do not passively await stimuli, as they typically must do in the laboratory. Instead, they \u0026nbsp;actively seek out sensory information\u2014for instance, to find food or shelter. I will first present a summary of my postdoctoral work, which showed how mice recognize different shapes using their whiskers. We used a new method called behavioral decoding to show what sensorimotor strategies mice used to recognize shapes, and we identified an efficient formatting for those strategies in somatosensory cortex. Next, I will present new work from my own lab. We have developed an active sound-seeking task for mice, in which they use head and body movements to find sound sources. We hypothesize that sensory and motor brain regions exchange predictive signals to compute how best to move the body to localize the sound. In future work we plan to identify how central sensorimotor plasticity enables resilience to sensory loss, with the ultimate goal of rationally engineering neural interventions to restore healthy sensorimotor function.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Perception in Action: Neural Circuits for Active Auditory and Tactile Decision-making\u0022 - Chris Rodgers, Ph.D., Emory University\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"basic_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Perception in Action: Neural Circuits for Active Auditory and Tactile Decision-making\u0022 - Chris Rodgers, Ph.D., Emory University"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2023-02-03 15:58:06","changed_gmt":"2023-03-28 18:14:55","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-04-17T11:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-04-17T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-04-17T12:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-04-17 15:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-04-17 16:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-04-17 16:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Krone EBB Building, Room 1005","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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My lab investigates this question in the taste system of the fruit fly Drosophila, which offers unique tools to study how individual neurons contribute to neural circuit computations. I will discuss ongoing work to characterize the architecture and function of central taste pathways in the fly brain. We are using calcium imaging, optogenetics, high-resolution behavioral assays, and connectomic analyses to study how taste pathways transform sensory representations into motor actions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRESEARCH\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn the Devineni lab, we study how the brain integrates information from our internal and external worlds. An animal\u2019s survival depends on interpreting cues from the outside world and selecting an appropriate behavioral response, such as hiding when a predator\u2019s scent is detected. Moreover, behavioral flexibility is crucial for survival. For example, a hungry animal may prioritize finding food over staying hidden. A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to understand how the brain integrates internal and external cues to generate flexible behavior.We address these questions in the fruit fly taste system. The taste system is a great model to study how the brain integrates different signals to generate flexible behavior. We use our sense of taste to determine what to eat, and our responses to food are profoundly gated by internal signals such as hunger, experience, and reward. The fruit fly Drosophila offers a wiring diagram of the brain and genetic tools to study neural circuits at single-cell resolution. We combine a broad range of approaches, from molecular and cellular studies to optogenetics, functional imaging, connectomics, behavior, and computational analysis and modeling. 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However, to infer causality of brain activation for cognition, the former must be manipulated experimentally. This is possible in healthy humans with the help of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial electric stimulation (tES), and since recently also transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS). Importantly, NIBS can also be combined with fMRI as well as EEG\/MEG, either concurrently (online) or consecutively (offline). Online approaches, assessing the immediate neural response to stimulation, can be used to (i) quantify neuronal network properties such as excitation, inhibition, or connectivity, (ii) interfere with ongoing spontaneous or task-related activity and thus affect behavioral performance, or (iii) modulate the level and timing of neuronal activity, e.g., trying to mimic neuronal oscillations in behaviorally relevant manner. In contrast, offline approaches can be utilized to either (iv) inhibit or (v) facilitate local neuronal excitability via the induction of synaptic plasticity, assessing its subsequent effects on neuronal activity and behavior. In this talk, I will discuss the different approaches and challenges with respect to their combination with fMRI and EEG, in particular concurrent TMS-fMRI and TMS-EEG, and highlight their potential as well as the caveats for inferring causality from NIBS studies in cognitive neuroscience. I will also introduce the novel approach of brain state-dependent brain stimulation, which allows to control NIBS in real-time based on the online assessment of specific oscillatory states, providing a unique opportunity to causally interact with ongoing neuronal oscillations to study its role in information processing and synaptic plasticity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBIO\/RESEARCH\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI am a biological psychologist \/ cognitive neuroscientist interested in the function of neuronal oscillations in cognition, in particular for the organization of information processing and the gating of synaptic plasticity in the wake and sleeping human brain. My methodological focus is on the simultaneous combination of non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation techniques with neuroimaging and electrophysiology and the development of novel approaches, such as brain state-dependent brain stimulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI graduated in Psychology at the University of Kiel (Germany), and did my PhD with Prof. Hartwig Siebner on the oscillatory underpinnings of memory consolidation during sleep using concurrent tES-TMS, EEG-fMRI, and TMS-EEG. During a subsequent PostDoc with Prof. Ole Jensen at the Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen (Netherlands) I then studied the function of alpha oscillations for visuospatial attention using concurrent TMS-EEG and tES-MEG approaches. Following an interim faculty appointment at the Institute of Psychology back in Kiel, I moved to T\u0026uuml;bingen (Germany) to work with Prof. Ulf Ziemann on real-time EEG-triggered TMS to study the function of the sensorimotor mu-alpha rhythm for corticospinal excitability and with Prof. Jan Born to continue my investigations into the function of sleep-specific oscillations. In 2018, I started my own research group for Neurostimulation at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) in Mainz (Germany), where we established concurrent TMS-fMRI and further advanced EEG-triggered TMS and the automation of neurostimulation experiments. In November 2020, I was appointed Associate Professor (W2) of Neurostimulation at the Neuroimaging Center (NIC) of the Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center in Mainz, while keeping an associated research group at the LIR to continue studying the neurobiological correlates of emotional memory processing for resilience. At the NIC, we have recently started to establish transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) for non-invasive deep brain\u0026nbsp;neuromodulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Combining Transcranial Brain Stimulation with Neuroimaging for State-dependent Stimulation and Causal Network Interrogation\u0022 - Til Ole Bergmann, Ph.D., Johannes Gutenberg University"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2023-02-02 16:27:22","changed_gmt":"2023-03-07 13:22:21","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-03-27T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-03-27T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-03-27T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-03-27 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-03-27 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-03-27 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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He started in the field of biomedical engineering as an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University. He became interested in neuroengineering and as an undergraduate started working at Warren Grill\u0026rsquo;s research lab. Dr McIntyre was working on electrical stimulation of the spinal cord and started building some computer models of how electric fields interact with neurons. 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Never satisfied with just a proof-of-principle, they actively collaborate with clinicians and other scientists to optimize and apply these technologies to solve problems in biomedical research. 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Finally, I will present a new research direction studying the completely different, yet largely unexplored, visual system of the octopus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBIO\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCristopher Niell received his B.S. in physics at Stanford University, doing research in single-molecule biophysics with Dr. Steven Chu. He then remained at Stanford to obtain his Ph.D. with Dr. Stephen Smith, studying the development and function of the zebrafish visual system. He then moved to UCSF to perform post-doctoral study with Dr. Michael Stryker, where he initiated studies of visual processing and behavioral state in the mouse cortex. He established his lab at University of Oregon in 2011, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and Institute of Neuroscience. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:connect@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econnect@ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E - event inquiries\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"663872":{"#nid":"663872","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026quot;\u003Cem\u003EReconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB): Bi-directional Neuroprostheses for Sensorimotor Functional Restoration\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026quot;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*To participate virtually, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/96163544579?pwd=VXhJWVd1amhHdmNMNk1WbUNDVGkxUT09\u0022\u003ECLICK HERE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.braingate.org\/team\/bolu-ajiboye-ph-d\/\u0022\u003EA. Bolu Ajiboye, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssociate\u0026nbsp;Professor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCase Western Reserve University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*Lunch provided for in-person attendees\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCortically controlled neuroprostheses have long been posited as the \u0026ldquo;holy grail\u0026rdquo; for intracortical brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). The efficacy of BMIs has advanced to the point where a small number of laboratories around the US now run human clinical trials with people with chronic paralysis. As part of the ReHAB Clinical Trial, my Laboratory for Intelligent Machine-Brain Systems (LIMBS) investigates using BMIs to control Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) systems for restoring reach-to-grasp movements to persons with chronic high cervical spinal cord injury. This lecture will discuss several of our clinical, technological, and scientific advances towards developing a bi-directional BMI controlled FES arm neuroprosthesis for restoring motor and somatosensory function. The highlight of this lecture will be the demonstration of a current ReHAB participant, an individual with chronic tetraplegia, eight years post-injury using a multi-nodal BMI with multi-contact FES nerve cuff electrodes to volitionally and independently perform functional tasks, such as self-feeding and shaking hands, and discerning somatosensory feedback through intracortical microstimulation (ICMS). This lecture will also discuss use of human BMI systems as a platform for interrogating fundamental questions of human sensorimotor control, including understanding underlying mechanisms of motor performance and learning, and internal representations of kinetic, kinematic, and somatosensory parameters. Finally, this lecture will discuss steps towards clinical translation of viable FES+BMI neuroprosthetic systems for potential at-home use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBIO\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA. Bolu Ajiboye, Ph.D. is the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He also holds an appointment as a Biomedical Engineering Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. He received his dual BS degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, as well as a minor in Computer Science, from Duke University (Durham, NC) in 2000. \u0026nbsp;He then received his Masters (2003) and Doctoral (2008) degrees from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). Dr. Ajiboye is the director the Laboratory for Intelligent Machine-Brain Systems (LIMBS), where his main research interest is in the development and control of bi-directional brain-machine interface (BMI) neuroprosthetic technologies for restoring motor and sensory function to individuals who have experienced severely debilitating injuries to the nervous system, such as spinal cord injury and stroke. \u0026nbsp;Currently, he is interested in understanding at a systems level the relationships between the firing patterns of multi-neuronal networks and the kinetic (muscle activity and force) and kinematic (limb position and velocity) outputs of these neural systems in the control of upper-limb movements, as well as encoding models of somatosensory percepts for sensory restoration. The end goal of his research is to develop BMI systems that allow for more natural interactions with one\u0026rsquo;s surrounding environment, and more natural control of assistive technologies, such as artificial limbs and functional electrical stimulation (FES) based systems. Additionally, his research focuses on understanding natural muscle coordination patterns involved in motor coordination, and how these patterns can be used in neuroprosthetic systems to restore lost or compromised function through FES.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB): Bi-directional Neuroprostheses for Sensorimotor Functional Restoration\u0022, A. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:connect@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econnect@ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E - event inquiries\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"665443":{"#nid":"665443","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*To participate virtually, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/96163544579?pwd=VXhJWVd1amhHdmNMNk1WbUNDVGkxUT09\u0022\u003ECLICK HERE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insb.cnrs.fr\/fr\/personne\/brian-lau\u0022\u003EBrian Lau, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBrain and Spine Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSorbonne Universities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*Lunch provided for in-person attendees\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ERESEARCH\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrian Lau\u0026#39;s research is aimed at understanding how neural activity within basal ganglia circuits enables us to learn and control our actions. He\u0026nbsp;combines fundamental investigations in animal models with clinical investigations in patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery for treating movement disorders such as Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease. Lau\u0026nbsp;trained with Walter J. Freeman and Yang Dan at the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a PhD under the supervision of Paul Glimcher at New York University (2007). He was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University where I worked with C. Daniel Salzman. Afterwards, he\u0026nbsp;moved to the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) as a visiting scholar with Etienne Hirsch. In 2012 Lau created the team \u0026ldquo;Experimental Neurosurgery\u0026rdquo; under the auspices of the ATIP-Avenir program, and was recruited by the CNRS (2013).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brian Lau, Ph.D., Paris Brain Institute"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2023-02-03 15:20:02","changed_gmt":"2023-02-03 20:44:24","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-04-10T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-04-10T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-04-10T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-04-10 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-04-10 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-04-10 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:connect@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econnect@ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E - event inquiries\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"663889":{"#nid":"663889","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;\u003Cem\u003ELarge-scale Network Organization in the Human Brain\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*To participate virtually, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/96163544579?pwd=VXhJWVd1amhHdmNMNk1WbUNDVGkxUT09\u0022\u003ECLICK HERE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cnl.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/\u0022\u003ERandy Buckner, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSosland Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHarvard University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*Lunch provided for in-person attendees\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHuman association cortex is populated by a series of large-scale networks. In terms of organization, the multiple networks form an orderly progression that radiates outwards from sensory-motor networks to transmodal association networks that underlie advanced forms of human cognition. In-depth analysis within individuals reveals anatomical details including that functionally distinct networks are intertwined throughout multiple zones of association cortex, raising questions about how they evolved and how they differentiate during development. Interestingly, it was found quite recently that monkeys, including the genetically accessible marmoset, possess association networks that recapitulate many of the human features. These parallels provide an opportunity to connect experiments in animal models of large-scale circuits to work and clinical interventions in the human. What is further revealing is that the networks that populate the transmodal zones of association cortex, within the regions estimated to be preferentially expanded in hominid evolution, possess three distinct spatially juxtaposed networks in the human for (1) language, (2) making social inferences, and (3) remembering. All share a common organizational motif with the same general pattern of distributed connectivity but they occupy spatially adjacent regions of cortex and can be functionally dissociated from one another. A parsimonious idea is that the same general circuit motif, arising at least 50 million years ago in primates, has expanded and specialized into multiple similarly organized, differentially specialized distributed networks that populate the expanded zones of human association cortex in support of the human niche\u0026rsquo;s cognitive toolkit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBIO\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRandy Buckner received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, and the Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division and faculty of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital \/ Harvard Medical School.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERESEARCH\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRandy Buckner\u0026rsquo;s laboratory explores the organization and function of large-scale human brain networks that contribute to high-level cognition. Using multiple behavioral, neuroimaging and computational approaches we characterize brain networks and how variation gives rise to differences in network organization and behavior, including dysfunction in neuropsychiatric illness.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Large-scale Network Organization in the Human Brain\u0022 - Randy Buckner, Ph.D., Harvard University"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2022-12-14 20:32:53","changed_gmt":"2023-01-31 20:11:20","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-03-13T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-03-13T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-03-13T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-03-13 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-03-13 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-03-13 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:connect@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Econnect@ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E - event inquiries\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"663871":{"#nid":"663871","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Georgia Tech Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026quot;Toward Understanding the Cortico-cerebellar Circuits that Underlie Predictive Processing\u0026quot;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.najafilab.org\/research\u0022\u003EFarzaneh Najafi, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssistant Professor of Computer Science\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Biological Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*Lunch provided for in-person attendees\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*To participate virtually, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/96163544579?pwd=VXhJWVd1amhHdmNMNk1WbUNDVGkxUT09\u0022\u003ECLICK HERE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPredictive coding is a theory of brain function that assumes the brain contains an internal model of the world, which constantly generates predictions about our environment, and updates the predictions if they deviate from the actual external inputs. Impaired predictive processing is suggested to underlie symptoms such as hallucinations and social disconnection in neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and autism. Treating these disorders requires understanding the neural mechanisms that generate and update prediction signals in the healthy brain. My long-term vision is to shed light on the circuits and computations that underlie predictive processing in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI will start my talk by presenting data from my previous research that demonstrate predictive signals in cortical and cerebellar circuits in behaving mice. Then I will describe the gap in our knowledge about how the cerebellum and cortex may interact to support predictive behavior. Finally, I will present the future research plans for my lab to investigate these unknown questions, shedding light on the cortico-cerebellar circuitries that underlie predictive processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFarzaneh studied Biotechnology (integrated BSc\/MSc\/PhD program) at the University of Tehran, Iran, and completed her master\u0026#39;s project on stem cell research at Royan Institute at Hossein Baharvand\u0026#39;s lab. She came to the US in 2007 for her Ph.D. in systems neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and studied cerebellar mechanisms underlying motor adaptation in Javier Medina\u0026#39;s lab and collaborated with Sam Wang\u0026#39;s lab at Princeton University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2014 as a postdoc to study parietal cortex circuits underlying cognitive behavior in Anne Churchland\u0026#39;s lab and joined the Allen institute for Brain Science to investigate in 2019 the neural circuits of visually guided behavior using a team science approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer appointment as assistant professor at Georgia Tech will begin in January 2023 to investigate the circuits and computations that underlie predictive processing in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Najafi Lab\u0026#39;s field of research is known as predictive processing. 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After conducting postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego and the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, he set up his first laboratory at the University of Southern California in 2008. Four years later, Celikel moved to the Netherlands to establish the Department of Neurophysiology at the Radboud University, where he has since served as professor and chair. Celikel is also the director of the Donders Institute, a preeminent interdisciplinary institute in Europe devoted to the advancement of brain, cognitive, and behavioral sciences to improve health, education, and technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tansu Celikel, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2022-08-15 17:38:55","changed_gmt":"2022-08-15 17:51:32","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-10-03T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-10-03T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-10-03T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-10-03 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-10-03 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-10-03 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Furthermore he and his team recently adopted a highly sensitive RT-QuIC assay to successfully detect ultralow levels of pathologic \u0026alpha;Syn aggregates from serum, plasma, CSF and submandibular and skin samples from PD and related Parkinsonian disorders. Kanthasamy\u0026rsquo;s lab translational research efforts also involve testing the efficacy of several small-molecule, peptide, and probiotic therapeutics against select targets in various experimental models of PD such as MPTP, 6-OHDA, MitoPark, and \u0026alpha;Syn rodent models to advance them for further preclinical and clinical evaluations. The lab\u0026rsquo;s translational research efforts have resulted in several patent applications, including utility patent application 16\/287,437, \u0026ldquo;L-Dopa Microbiome Therapy.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;This knowledge is key to discovering new biomarkers and will advance the development of novel translational approaches for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like PD. Kanthasamy\u0026rsquo;s program has been continuously supported by multiple NIH grants from NIEHS and NINDS for over 20 years, and he is currently funded by NIEHS, NINDS, NIBIB, MJFF, and DoD grants. He has trained over 30 Ph.D. students and his current research program employs over 25 researchers, largely comprising graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall his drive research projects in four major areas:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ENovel apoptotic and compensatory signaling activated during neurotoxic insult in the dopaminergic neurodegenerative process;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProtein misfolding and neuroinflammatory mechanisms in neurotoxicity;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEpigenetic reprogramming in neurotoxic stress; and\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETranslational biomarker and drug discovery in neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Anumantha Kanthasamy, Ph.D. - University of Georgia"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2022-08-15 17:28:49","changed_gmt":"2022-08-15 17:50:54","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-09-26T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-09-26T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-09-26T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-09-26 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-09-26 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-09-26 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Storey Chair in Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProfessor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003E*Lunch provided for in-person attendees\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*To participate virtually, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/96163544579?pwd=VXhJWVd1amhHdmNMNk1WbUNDVGkxUT09\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECLICK HERE\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSantosh Vempala joined the College of Computing in the fall of 2006 as a professor of Computer Science. He helped set up the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ThinkTank at Georgia Tech, serving as its first director (2006--2011). Vempala\u0026#39;s research interests include algorithms, randomness, geometry and computing-for-good (C4G). He graduated from CMU in 1997 being advised by Avrim Blum and then taught at MIT until 2006 except for a year as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley. Vempala is also a Sloan, Guggenheim, ACM and generally excitable Fellow, especially when a phenomenon that appears complex from one perspective, turns out to be simple from another. In recent years, he has been trying to understand, with little success, how the brain works and how to model its computational abilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Emergent Computation and Learning from Assemblies of Neurons\u0022 - Santosh Vempala, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2022-08-15 17:19:28","changed_gmt":"2022-08-15 17:50:35","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-09-19T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-09-19T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-09-19T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-09-19 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-09-19 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-09-19 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Flexible behavior is key to our ability to adapt to the ever-changing environment. My laboratory is interested in studying the activity of neuronal ensembles in behaving animals, and how it changes with learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe have recently set up a paradigm where mice learn to associate sensory information (two different odors) to motor outputs (lick vs no-lick) under head-fixation. We combined this with two-photon calcium imaging, which can monitor the activity of a microcircuit of many tens of neurons simultaneously from a small area of the brain. Imaging the motor cortex during the learning of this task revealed neurons with diverse task-related response types. Intriguingly, different response types were spatially intermingled; even immediately adjacent neurons often had very different response types. As the mouse learned the task under the microscope, the activity coupling of neurons with similar response types specifically increased, even though they are intermingled with neurons with dissimilar response types. This suggests that intermingled subnetworks of functionally-related neurons form in a learning-related way, an observation that became possible with our cutting-edge technique combining imaging and behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are working to extend this study. How plastic are neuronal microcircuits during other forms of learning? How plastic are they in other parts of the brain? What are the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the microcircuit plasticity? Are the observed activity and plasticity required for learning? How does the activity of identified individual neurons change over days to weeks? 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The brain generates complex sequences of movements that can be flexibly reconfigured in real-time based on sensory feedback, but how this occurs is not fully understood. We developed a novel \u0026lsquo;sequence licking\u0026rsquo; task in which mice directed their tongue to a target that moved through a series of locations. Mice could rapidly reconfigure the sequence online based on tactile feedback. Closed-loop optogenetics and electrophysiology revealed that tongue\/jaw regions of somatosensory (S1TJ) and motor (M1TJ) cortex encoded and controlled tongue kinematics at the level of individual licks. Tongue premotor (anterolateral motor, ALM) cortex encoded intended tongue angle in a smooth manner that spanned individual licks and even whole sequences, and progress toward the reward that marked successful sequence execution. ALM activity regulated sequence initiation, but multiple cortical areas collectively controlled termination of licking. 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A\u0026nbsp;major focus of modern neuroscience\u0026nbsp;is to dissect behavior at the level of individual genes, neurons, and specific synaptic connections, but we are far from fully understanding how the composition and connectivity of even the smallest nervous systems can determine the wide range of behaviors observed in a free-living animal. Our lab is investigating the development of the simple larval nervous systems of tunicates like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECiona\u003C\/em\u003E, marine invertebrates closely related to vertebrates. Although tunicates are chordates like us,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECiona\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;larvae possess the smallest nervous system ever described at only 231 total neurons (177 central nervous system neurons and 54 peripheral sensory cells), comprising only the second complete \u0026ldquo;connectome\u0026rdquo; ever mapped. Using experimental tools such as CRISPR\/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis and single-cell RNAseq, we have uncovered neurodevelopmental processes that shape this minimal nervous system, some of which are conserved even in mammals. We are also interested in studying an even more extreme example of the \u0026ldquo;minimization\u0026rdquo; of the tunicate nervous system, focusing on certain species that bypass the swimming larval phase and are therefore undergoing evolutionary loss of the larval nervous system altogether.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cEvolution and Development of a Minimal Nervous System in our Closest Invertebrate Relatives\u201d  - Alberto Stolfi, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:25:40","changed_gmt":"2020-01-02 15:57:30","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-11-25T11:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-11-25T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-11-25T12:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-11-25 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-11-25 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-11-25 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/alberto-stolfi","title":"Stolfi profile"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Dickinson, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEsther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCalifornia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver 400 million years ago, a group of tiny six-legged creatures evolved the ability to fly\u0026mdash;an event that fundamentally transformed our planet. Equipped with the ability to fly, insects underwent an extraordinary radiation and have dominated every terrestrial ecosystem ever since. In order to employ fly effectively, these ancient insects must have possessed the rudimentary ability to take off, fly stably, disperse, forage, and land \u0026mdash; a core set of behavioral modules that constitute a \u0026lsquo;Devonian Toolkit\u0026rsquo;. The fact that the basic architecture of the nervous system is remarkably uniform across species, further suggests that many behaviors of modern insects are deeply rooted in a common evolutionary history. My lab is attempting to reconstruct the behavior and ecology of ancestral insects through investigations of the common fruit fly, \u003Cem\u003EDrosophila melanogaster\u003C\/em\u003E. Most experiments on fly behaviors have been confined to small laboratory chambers, yet the natural history of these animals involves dispersal that takes place on a much larger spatial scale. New release-and-recapture experiments in the Mojave Desert confirm that flies can navigate over 10 kilometers of open landscape in just a few hours. Such excursions are only possible because flies can actively maintain a constant heading. In this talk, I will discuss a hierarchy of neural mechanisms that enable flies to maintain a stable course in the face of external and internal perturbations. 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In experiments, the lab induces activity-dependent plasticity experimentally through manipulations of genetics or experience or by pharmacological or neurophysiological intervention in order to discover what cellular mechanisms and what changes in cortical circuitry are responsible for rapid, long lasting changes in neuronal responses. 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Pedersen, M.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssistant Professor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Neurology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEmory University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile human research has emphasized the large-scale network disruptions in the epilepsies and their co-morbidities, basic science has typically focused on local networks. In rodents, more general large-scale network dynamics are essentially unstudied at fast time scales and high spatial precision. I will describe our human work examining forebrain connectivity and animal studies that examine large scale network manipulations and the development of techniques to record from larger anatomically connected networks. Present animal model work focuses on manipulations of one of the most important large-scale networks - the major state control system for sleep-wake and vigilance. While these circuits have been elucidated in increasing detail over the last decade and are the major controller of brain rhythms and excitability, they are surprisingly little explored in epilepsy. 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A principal role of the brain is to guide current, and plan future, movements based on past actions and potential rewards. In this talk, I will describe ongoing work in our lab employing multiple approaches to investigate the functional contributions of brain activity to normal and abnormal human movement. I will discuss how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation, can be used both characterize and modulate cortical activity and connectivity during movement. I will also describe our recent findings showing abnormal TMS-evoked cortical reactivity post-stroke that is related to persistent paretic arm impairment. 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In this talk I will discuss our studies identifying predictive, adaptively scaled activity in a cerebellar output structure that causally controls limb velocity to enhance movement precision. 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Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNeuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMIT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe last 20 years of brain imaging research has revealed the functional organization of the human brain in glorious detail, including dozens of cortical regions each of which is specifically engaged in a particular mental task, like recognizing faces, perceiving speech sounds, and understanding the meaning of a sentence. Each of these regions is present, in approximately the same location, in every normal person. This initial rough sketch of the functional organization of the brain counts as real progress, giving us a kind of diagram of the major components of the human mind. But at the same time, it is just the barest beginning. Really what our new map of the human brain offers is a vast landscape of new questions. In this talk I will first broadly survey some of the most widely replicated functionally distinctive cortical regions, and then describe ongoing work into three such questions. First, in light of widespread findings that functionally specific cortical regions contain information about \u0026ldquo;nonpreferred\u0026rdquo; stimuli, do some patches of cortex really play a highly specific causal role in processing just one class of stimuli? Second, how does all this complex structure, that is so similar across subjects, arise in development? I will discuss the developmental origins of cortical specificity, including a new finding of what appears to be a fusiform face area in the ventral visual pathway of congenitally blind people. Third, why do we have the particular functionally specific cortical regions we do, and apparently not others, and why, from a computational point of view, is functional specificity a good design feature for brains in the first place?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind\u0022 - Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D. - MIT"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2019-08-21 17:52:39","changed_gmt":"2019-08-21 17:52:39","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-09-16T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-09-16T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-09-16T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-09-16 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-09-16 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-09-16 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/bcs\/nklab\/","title":"Kanwisher Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu","title":"Neruro Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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McClelland, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector, Center for Mind, Brain and Computation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStanford University, Stanford, CA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to complementary learning systems theory, integrating new memories into a multi-layer neural network without interfering with what is already known depends on interleaving presentation of the new memories with ongoing presentations of items previously learned. This putative dependence is both costly for machine learning and biologically implausible for real brains which are unlikely to have sufficient time for such massive interleaving, even during sleep. We use deep linear neural networks in hierarchically structured environments previously analyzed by Saxe, McClelland, and Ganguli () to gain new insights into how integration of new knowledge might be made more efficient. For this type of environment, its content can be described by the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the environment\u0026#39;s input-output covariance matrix, in which each successive dimension corresponds to categorical split in the hierarchical environment. Prior work showed that deep linear networks are sufficient to learn the content of the environment, and they do so in a stage-line way, with each dimension strength rising from near-zero to its maximum strength after a delay inversely proportional to the strength of the dimension, as previously demonstrated by Saxe et al capturing patterns previously observed in deeper non-linear neural networks by Rogers and McClelland (2004). Several observations are then accessible when we consider learning a new item previously not encountered in the micro-environment. (1) The item can be examined in terms of its projection onto the existing structure, and the degree to which it adds a new categorical split. (2) To the extent the item projects onto existing structure, including it in the training corpus leads to the rapid adjustment of the representation of the categories involved, and effectively no adjustment occurs to categories onto which the new item does not project at all. (3) Learning a new split, however, is slow, and its learning dynamics show the same delayed rise to maximum that depends on the dimension\u0026#39;s strength. These observations then motivate the development of ideas about how the new information might be acquired efficiently, combining interleaved learning with other strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis presentation can be seen via BlueJeans: https:\/\/bluejeans.com\/824485104\/\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cIntegrating New Knowledge into a Neural Network without Catastrophic Interference: Computational and Theoretical Investigations in a Hierarchically Structured Environment\u201d - James L. 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Gantz III \u0026#39;59 Professor in Neuroscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPrinceton University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI will describe studies of the neural bases of cognitive processes. Rodents, mostly rats, are trained to perform behaviors that lend themselves to quantitative modeling that can help identify and assess specific cognitive processes, such as decision-making, short-term memory, planning, and executive control. With these well-quantified behaviors in hand, we then use electrophysiological recordings, optogenetic perturbations, and computational modeling. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"25121","name":"gt neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:crozell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EChris Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E, faculty host\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"617038":{"#nid":"617038","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Emory University\/Georgia Tech Kavli Brain Forum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;Latent Statistical Structure in Large-scale Neural Data: How to Find It, and When to Believe It\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn P. Cunningham, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssociate Professor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Statistics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nColumbia University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOne central challenge in neuroscience is to understand how neural populations represent and produce the remarkable computational abilities of our brains. Indeed, neuroscientists increasingly form scientific hypotheses that can only be studied at the level of the neural population, and exciting new large-scale datasets have followed. Capitalizing on this trend, however, requires two major efforts from applied statistical and machine learning researchers: (i) methods for finding latent structure in this data, and (ii) methods for statistically validating that structure. First, I will discuss our machine learning research that combines latent variable modeling, deep learning, dynamical systems, and dimensionality reduction, and I will discuss how we have applied those models to advance understanding of the computational structure in various neural systems, including in particular the primate and rodent motor cortices. Second, I will detail a problem of growing importance throughout unsupervised learning: how to understand when these analysis techniques artificially create structure, rather than that structure being a true feature of the data. I will review our recent work in this space, which uses deep neural network architectures in the flavor of implicit generative models, and describe our current application of these methods to a number of active debates in the neuroscience community about the triviality of certain results. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cLatent Statistical Structure in Large-scale Neural Data: How to Find It, and When to Believe It\u201d - John P. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:crozell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EChris Rozell,\u003C\/a\u003E faculty host\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"616683":{"#nid":"616683","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;Simultaneous Representation of\u0026nbsp;Sensory and\u0026nbsp;Mnemonic Information in Human Visual Cortex\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Serences, Ph.D.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProfessor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUniversity of California, San Diego\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENavigating through complex environments requires keeping relevant information in mind, or in working memory, while simultaneously processing new sensory inputs. For example, when frantically looking for your car keys in the morning, you need to hold in mind an image of what your keys look like while you scan each object in your living room for a match. Feature selective responses in early visual cortex are thought to play a role in maintaining information in working memory. However, these areas also must process new sensory inputs as you search the visual scene, and processing new inputs may wipe out information that you are trying to remember. I will discuss a recent set of studies that demonstrate region-wide multiplexing abilities in early visual areas, with population-level response patterns in visual cortex simultaneously representing the contents of working memory concurrently with new sensory inputs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis presentation can be seen via \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bluejeans.com\/824485104\/\u0022\u003EBlueJeans\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cSimultaneous Representation of Sensory and Mnemonic Information in Human Visual Cortex\u201d - John Serences, Ph.D.  - University of California, San Diego"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2019-01-22 16:10:11","changed_gmt":"2019-01-30 14:40:41","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-02-18T11:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-02-18T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-02-18T12:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-02-18 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-02-18 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-02-18 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"http:\/\/serenceslab.ucsd.edu\/","title":"Serences Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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There is abundant theoretical and experimental evidence that network stability is achieved through homeostatic plasticity mechanisms that adjust synaptic and neuronal properties to stabilize some measure of average activity, and this process has been extensively studied in primary visual cortex (V1), where chronic visual deprivation induces an initial drop in activity and ensemble average firing rates (FRs), but over time activity is restored to baseline despite continued deprivation. Here I discuss recent work from the lab in which we follow bidirectional FR homeostasis in individual V1 neurons in freely behaving animals, as they cycle between natural periods of sleep and wake. We find that - when FRs are perturbed by visual deprivation or eye re-opening - over time they return precisely to a cell-autonomous set-point. Intriguingly, this firing\u0026nbsp;rate homeostasis is gated by sleep\/wake states in a manner that depends on the direction of homeostatic regulation: upward firing rate homeostasis occurs selectively during periods of active wake, while downward firing rate homeostasis occurs selectively during periods of sleep. 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Who dis(inhibition)?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrent Doiron, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProfessor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Mathematics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUniversity of Pittsburgh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy general research program seeks to identify how single neurons and networks of neurons code information about relevant inputs. Using a combination of nonlinear systems theory, stochastic differential equations, and information theory I study this problem in the context of somatosensory, auditory, and electrosensory systems. The main goal is to link brain dynamics responsible for coding with putative coding schemes that may be general across many sensory systems. 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We are a neuroscience research team at the University of California, Berkeley studying the development and function of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow do neural circuits in the brain\u0026rsquo;s cerebral cortex mediate sensation, memory, voluntary movement, and higher functions, and how does this break down in neurological disease? Our lab seeks to answer these questions by studying cortical function at the synaptic, circuit, and information processing levels. We study how cortical circuits process sensory information, adapt to experience, and store information during learning. We investigate the cellular and circuit mechanisms for brain plasticity, and the homeostatic mechanisms that maintain proper cortical function across age and experience. We study the micro-organization of sensory maps in the cortex to reveal principles of information processing and circuit design. We apply this understanding of normal brain function to develop new insights into neurological disorders, including autism and epilepsy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EApproaches include synaptic physiology, 2-photon calcium imaging, in vivo circuit physiology and optogenetics, and quantitative sensory behavior. The model system is the somatosensory cortex of rodents, which is a leading system for understanding cortical neuron and circuit function and plasticity (e.g., Feldmeyer 2007, Diamond et al., 2008, Feldman 2009, Feldman 2012).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur lab is part of the Department of Molecular \u0026amp; Cell Biology, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. Our recent research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cNeural Codes and Maps in Whisker  Somatosensory Cortex\u201d - Daniel Feldman, Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2018-09-20 17:07:12","changed_gmt":"2018-09-20 17:07:12","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-10-15T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-10-15T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-10-15T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-10-15 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-10-15 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-10-15 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.feldmanlab.org\/","title":"Feldman Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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One such factor is psychological stress, which data suggest can disrupt relevant neural networks at various levels. Consequently, by altering memory function, stress from health, social, economic, and other challenges may have a significant impact on daily function.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are developing experiments to quantify how stress influences the detail with which memories are both formed and retrieved, and test predictions about how such changes relate to network-level mechanisms in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of our goals will be to expand the scope of this research from short-term impacts of stress to understanding how anxiety-related disorders and the long-term experience of stress affect both structure and function underlying memory and planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E2) People vary widely in their memory and navigation abilities, but the neural bases for these individual differences are not well understood. We are interested in neural and cognitive traits that influence inherent processing abilities, as well as differences in processing strategies that impact memory and behavior. In keeping with a systems-level perspective of memory, considerable variance in individual abilities may relate to 1) structural and functional integrity within hippocampal subfield circuitry, which can impact the detail and discriminability of memories, and 2) network differences in how frontostriatal circuitry, along with parietal attention mechanisms, interacts with the hippocampus. These network differences may have widespread impacts on how individuals allocate cognitive resources towards memory and behavior, and mediate the impact of memory-influencing factors such as stressors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;3) In stimulus rich, real-world settings, numerous contextual signals may vie for control of attention and influence what is stored in memory. Extant evidence from rodents suggests that memories may be structured within contextual hierarchies (e.g., memories for a building are stored in relation to the town in which it resides). A broad goal for our research is to understand how spatial and non-spatial memory are structured in humans; preliminary data from our research suggests that contextually grounded hierarchies may be an organizing principle for functions along the rostro-caudal axis of the hippocampus. Our research aims to delineate how contextual traces interact to govern memory formation and retrieval, and to test the mechanisms that allow humans to both flexibly access distinct memories and to use associative structures to generalize across experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis presentation can be seen via BlueJeans: https:\/\/bluejeans.com\/824485104\/\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cMechanisms of Mapping Space in Human Memory\u201d - Thackery Brown, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2018-09-20 17:02:54","changed_gmt":"2018-09-20 17:02:54","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-10-01T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-10-01T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-10-01T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-10-01 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-10-01 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-10-01 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"http:\/\/maplab.gatech.edu\/","title":"MAP Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Research in the Barth lab is focused on understanding how experience assembles and alters the properties of neural circuits in the cerebral cortex, in both normal and disease states. The lab has a specific focus on somatosensation in the mouse model system, where specific types of sensory input from the skin are used to drive neural activity to change the strength of synaptic connections and the firing output of cortical neurons. This neural plasticity can result in enhanced perceptual capabilities and influence subsequent learning. A detailed examination of how synapses are changed by experience is revealing fundamental principles about both perception and learning across many neural systems. In addition, researchers in the lab are using electrophysiological recordings, electron microscopy, and computational modeling to understand how functional networks are constructed and optimized in the neocortex. Experiments take advantage of transgenic mice to manipulate gene expression and label defined neural subsets and whole-cell recording and imaging to quantitate the electrical properties of cortical neurons.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis presentation can be seen via BlueJeans:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bluejeans.com\/824485104\/\u0022 id=\u0022LPlnk556627\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/bluejeans.com\/824485104\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cHow Learning Rewires the Brain: Sequential Synaptic Plasticity Across the Cortical Column\u201d - Alison Barth, Ph.D. - Carnegie Mellon University"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2018-09-10 16:18:02","changed_gmt":"2018-09-10 16:43:05","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-09-17T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-09-17T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-09-17T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-09-17 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-09-17 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-09-17 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bio.cmu.edu\/labs\/barth\/","title":"Barth Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"126591","name":"go-NeuralEngineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rozell@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EChris Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E, faculty host\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"611235":{"#nid":"611235","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;Memory and Brain: Remembering What\u0026rsquo;s Important\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoseph Manns, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Psychology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEmory University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur research connects neuroscience with psychology to ask how the hippocampal memory system supports everyday memories. 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Moreover, our recent work also demonstrated targeted, noninvasive blockade of cortical neuronal activity after FUS-induced BBB-permeabilization of the motor cortex of a rodent and the i.v. delivery of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA), a small molecule that normally does not reach the brain with systemic administration. Ultrasound alone can potentially activate mechanosensitive ion channels. Leveraging the recent discovery of piezo1 proteins, which are components of the mechanically activated calcium channels, we are currently characterizing this process with patch clamp methods in order to provide baseline cellular response and identify robust methods to induce ultrasonic-provoked action potentials. 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My lab uses a combination of intersectional genetic manipulations, electrophysiology and behavior analyses to identify the key components of the spinal circuitry for mechanical itch in mice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis presentation can be seen via videoconference on the Emory Campus HSRB E260\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cGenetic Dissection of Spinal Circuits Processing Mechanical Itch\u201d - Bo Duan, Ph.D. - University of Michigan"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2018-03-19 16:34:50","changed_gmt":"2018-03-19 16:34:50","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-04-02T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-04-02T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-04-02T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-04-02 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-04-02 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-04-02 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/mcdb\/people\/faculty\/bo-duan.html","title":"Duan profile"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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The asymmetric synaptic outputs of the RIA axonal domains generate a directional bias in the locomotory trajectory. We also find that this type of sensorimotor integration can be modulated by experience to alter chemotactic movement. Together, our study reveals how cholinergic neurotransmission regulates sensorimotor integration during goal-directed locomotions. In the mammalian central nervous system, cholinergic neurotransmission integrates sensory processing with the internal state, including the information of motor generation. It also mediates the hippocampal theta wave that is proposed to subserve the sensorimotor integration underlying rapid behavioral decisions. 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Ensemble recording experiments are described that suggest fundamental changes in the storage and retrieval of information, as well as in high level perceptual processing in aging hippocampus and perirhinal cortical circuits. In addition, frontal lobe correlates of age-related changes working memory are discussed. 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However, we lack a precise neurophysiological framework for such an approach. Here we show that low-frequency oscillatory (LFO) dynamics play an important role in the execution of skilled behaviors in both the intact and injured brain. We chronically recorded local field potentials and spiking during motor training in both healthy and post-stroke rats. Interestingly, we found that task-related LFOs emerged with skilled performance under both conditions and were a robust predictor of recovery. We further hypothesized that boosting LFOs might improve function in animals with persistent deficits. Strikingly, we found that direct current stimulation could boost LFOs, and when applied in a novel, task-dependent manner, significantly improved function in those with chronic deficits. 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Across mammalian species, this brain region organizes complex decision-making, reward valuation and inhibitory control, and it also undergoes considerable remodeling and development during adolescence. Gourley\u0026rsquo;s team uses behavioral, pharmacological, biochemical, genetic and cellular approaches to develop and optimize novel therapeutic interventions for vulnerable adolescent populations. 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As a result,\u0026nbsp;fear, trepidation, and stigma are\u0026nbsp;associated with the invisible world of brain illnesses (referred to as \u0026ldquo;mental illnesses\u0026rdquo;). People are afraid to advocate for themselves and their loved ones to get help in times of need.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut the brain is just another organ, and as such, can be healthy or unhealthy. In this presentation,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aviellefoundation.org\/team\/jeremy-richman-ph-d\/\u0022\u003EJeremy Richman\u003C\/a\u003E will discuss what is known about\u0026nbsp;risk factors for engaging in violent behavior and protective factors for building connection and compassion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERichman seeks to better understand the neurobiological and environmental factors associated with violence and compassion. Once a deeper understanding has been established, these insights can be used to educate citizens about how to identify the signs and symptoms of someone troubled or in crisis; how to responsibly advocate for those at risk of violence to themselves or others;\u0026nbsp;and most importantly, how to foster kind, healthy, and compassionate individuals and communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SPEAKER\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aviellefoundation.org\/team\/jeremy-richman-ph-d\/\u0022\u003EJeremy G.\u0026nbsp;Richman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a cofounder and the CEO of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aviellefoundation.org\/\u0022\u003Ethe Avielle Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to preventing violence and building compassion through neuroscience research, community engagement, and education. 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For example, in vision, retinal input is transformed\u0026nbsp;into rich object-based scenes; in audition, sound waves are transformed into words and sentences.\u0026nbsp;In this talk, I will describe my work using computational models to help uncover how sensory cortex\u0026nbsp;accomplishes these enormous computational feats.\u0026nbsp;The core observation underlying my work is that optimizing neural networks to solve challenging real-world artificial intelligence (AI) tasks can yield predictive models of the cortical neurons that support\u0026nbsp;these tasks. I will first describe how we leveraged recent advances in AI to train a neural network that\u0026nbsp;approaches human-level performance on a challenging visual object recognition task. Critically, even though this network was not explicitly fit to neural data, it is nonetheless predictive of neural response patterns of neurons in multiple areas of the visual pathway, including higher cortical areas that have\u0026nbsp;long resisted modeling attempts. Intriguingly, an analogous approach turns out be helpful for studying audition, where we recently found that neural networks optimized for word recognition and speaker\u0026nbsp;identification tasks naturally predict responses in human auditory cortex to a wide spectrum of natural sound stimuli, and help differentiate poorly understood non-primary auditory cortical regions. 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Cortex is parcellated into areas with distinct function and local circuits. Cortical areas associate into mesoscale circuits with other cortical and subcortical areas via long-range connections. Information is represented by action potentials in widely distributed ensembles of neurons. What are the mechanisms shaping these neural representations, and how do the representations drive behavior? We have begun to address both questions in behaving mice in the context of motor planning and short-term memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMotor planning plays key roles in decision-making and motor control. Apart from reflexes, movements are dynamically programmed to achieve a specific goal. Many movements are too rapid for online corrections. Movements that are preceded by periods of motor planning are faster and more accurate than in the absence of planning. Motor planning is also a prospective form of short-term memory that links past events and future movements. 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The Laboratory for Pathology Dynamics at Georgia Tech, which proudly dunked GT President Peterson during the GT ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, has been actively developing data analytics, informatics, and complex systems-based techniques to expedite preclinical and clinical ALS research.\u0026nbsp;In short, we are vigorously stitching together a comprehensive quilt of ALS using thousands of data sets collected from cells, transgenic animal models, and patients.\u0026nbsp;We will discuss how predictive medicine is revealing ALS etiological underpinnings and diagnostic markers; identifying epidemiological ALS patient commonalities; precisely forecasting survival in highly heterogeneous ALS populations; identifying future disease dynamics-based combination therapies in preclinical ALS animal models; and optimizing current ALS life-prolonging interventions.\u0026nbsp;Finally, we will also discuss the application of the lab\u0026rsquo;s techniques to other research topics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cAfter the Ice Bucket: Thawing Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Predictive Medicine\u201d - Cassie Mitchell, Ph.D., Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27561","created_gmt":"2017-09-19 17:30:37","changed_gmt":"2017-09-21 12:46:10","author":"Angela Ayers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-10-16T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-10-16T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-10-16T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-10-16 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-10-16 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-10-16 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Flies use the pattern of panoramic optic flow to stabilize their heading, while simultaneously discriminating salient small features to pursue or escape. 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Information about other individuals is constantly being acquired, assessed and learned from cues emitted during social interactions. However, our understanding about processing and plasticity mechanisms for sensory cues has generally come from studies of nonsocial contexts, leaving a gap in our knowledge about their relevance in social contexts. My lab has been addressing this gap by applying a computational neuroethological paradigm to investigate social-sensory information processing and plasticity in robust, natural rodent social behaviors. In this talk, I will first review recent work about sensory cortical plasticity when maternal mice learn the natural, behavioral meaning of a category of ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by pups \u0026ndash; findings that were unexpected based on prior auditory cortical plasticity studies from nonsocial contexts. 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Since its nervous system is so simple, it\u2019s possible for researchers to determine how individual neurons contribute to these behaviors. In \u003Cem\u003EC. elegans\u003C\/em\u003E, as in other animals, odors are detected by G protein coupled odorant receptors on specialized sensory neurons. The odors that activate one sensory neuron regulate a behavioral output such as attraction or avoidance. The lab studies the pathways from sensory input to behavioral output by quantitative analysis of behavior under well-defined conditions, genetic manipulation of individual neuronal cells, calcium imaging from neurons in living animals and forward and reverse genetic approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBargmann is also investigating how much flexibility is present in a simple nervous system. For example, \u003Cem\u003EC. elegans\u003C\/em\u003E is capable of learning the odors of different bacteria and avoiding those that previously made it ill. 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The mechanisms by which anesthetic drugs induce the state of general anesthesia are considered one of the biggest mysteries of modern medicine. We study four problems to decipher this mystery. First, we present findings from our human studies of general anesthesia using high-density EEG and intracranial recordings which have allowed us to give a detailed characterization of the neurophysiology of loss and recovery of consciousness due to the standard anesthetics. Second, we show how the response to anesthesia changes as a function of age. Third, we present a neuro-metabolic model of burst suppression, the profound state of brain inactivation seen in deep states of general anesthesia. We show that our characterization of burst suppression can be used to design a closed-loop anesthesia delivery system for control of a medically-induced coma. Finally, we demonstrate that the state of general anesthesia can be rapidly reversed by activating specific brain circuits. Our results show that it is now possible to have a detailed neurophysiological understanding of the brain under general anesthesia, and that this understanding can be used to precisely monitor and control anesthetic states. Hence, general anesthesia is not a mystery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty Host:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGarrett Stanley\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Wallace H. 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Finally, I will try to provide a perspective on the recent activities associated with the White House driven Brain Initiative, which has the mission of advancing Neuroscience research through the development of Neurotechnologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Reading and Writing the Neural Code: What\u2019s Going on in the White House Brain Initiative?\u0022 - Garrett Stanley, Ph.D - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2016-03-22 11:39:01","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:14","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-29T19:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-29T21:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-29T21:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-29 23:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-30 01:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-30 01:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"internal:\/RSVP (IEEE membership not required)","title":"https:\/\/meetings.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/38730"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of California, Berkeley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESponsored by CABI\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat type of system is the brain? The brain is widely assumed to be one of many modular systems in nature, which are thought to be computational tractable and favored by evolution. While focal brain lesions lead to very specific cognitive deficits, suggesting a modular structure, other focal lesions can have a widespread impact on cognition, suggesting that some cognitive processes emerge from interactions between many brain regions that are not functionally organized as modules. Thus, how information is functionally segregated yet integrated across modules remains an open question. In this talk, I will discuss a series of empirical findings that begin to elucidate the neural architecture of modular processing by showing that modules execute discrete processes and connector hubs are likely integrating and sending information across modules in support of goal-directed cognition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiography\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. D\u2019Esposito earned his medical degree in 1987 at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse and then completed seven years of training in Neurology at Boston University Medical Center and Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. In 1993, he joined the faculty in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 2000, he was recruited to the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley to become Professor of Neuroscience, and the Director of the newly created Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center. Dr. D\u2019Esposito\u2019s research investigates how the brain supports high-level cognitive processing, how the brain recovers from injury and potential treatments for the injured brain. 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Third, neurophysiological recordings and computational analyses suggest that cortical motor neurons employ a millisecond-resolution spike timing code to regulate vocal behavior. Recent single-unit recordings from muscle tissue in behaving animals and in vitro measures of vocal biomechanics further suggest that millisecond-scale spike timing is an essential component of motor control, suggesting that reorganization of fine temporal spiking patterns might underlie vocal plasticity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiography\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Sober completed his PhD in 2005 at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2010 he joined the Biology faculty at Emory University. 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Although restoring the balance of activity between brain hemispheres has been a primary target of many novel rehabilitation strategies, limited progress has been made to improve arm motor function and reduce persistent disability for stroke survivors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will describe work in our lab using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation, to both characterize and modulate cortical activity and connectivity in the brain after stroke. In the first part of my talk, I will describe how abnormal cortical excitability after stroke has been traditionally characterized using standalone TMS techniques. In the second part of my talk, I will discuss current findings from our lab using concurrent EEG recordings of TMS-evoked cortical activity that demonstrate abnormal interhemispheric interactions are present in the human brain after stroke and these abnormal interactions are related to arm motor impairment. Finally, I will introduce an upcoming project in our lab investigating the use of bifocal TMS to transiently modulate local cortical excitability and IHI in the human brain in an effort to restore the balance of activity between the hemispheres and improve arm motor function after stroke.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiography\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Michael Borich is an assistant professor in the Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in the Emory University School of Medicine. He has a secondary appointment in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering a joint Emory\/Georgia Tech department and also in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech. Dr. Borich is keenly interested in understanding and harnessing the plastic capacity of the human nervous system in\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ehealth and disease in an effort to improve rehabilitation outcomes for individuals with neurologic injury and disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe received his bachelor\u2019s degree in physiology and his doctor of physical therapy both from the University of Minnesota. After finishing his PhD training in rehabilitation science and neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Borich competed a postdoctoral research training using neurostimulation and neuroimaging techniques to elucidate biomarkers of recovery after stroke and mild traumatic brain injury at the University of British Columbia. He joined the Division of Physical Therapy at Emory in 2014. His previous clinical experience centers on rehabilitation from acute neurologic insult and major multiple trauma.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Borich currently directs the Neural Plasticity Research Lab at Emory, a trans-disciplinary research and training environment generously supported by multiple funding agencies. His research team utilizes multimodal neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques to characterize and modulate the structural and functional neuroplastic correlates of learning and recovery of function following neurologic insult.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Identifying and Targeting Potential Biomarkers of Motor Dysfunction after Stroke using Non-invasive Neurostimulation and Neuroimaging\u0022 - Michael Borich, Ph.D. - Emory University"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2016-08-22 15:12:24","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:01","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-09-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-09-19T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-09-19T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-09-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-09-19 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-09-19 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/rehabmed.emory.edu\/pt\/neuralplasticity\/index.html","title":"NPRL"},{"url":"http:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Neuro"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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We are particularly interested in the basic mechanisms underlying somatosensation, including pain, itch and mechanical sensations. Somatosensation is initiated by the activation of the primary sensory neurons in dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia. We have discovered the molecular identity of itch-sensing neurons in the peripheral and provided novel insights into the mechanisms of itch sensation. We are currently investigating how chronic itch associated with cutaneous or systemic disorders is initiated and transmitted. We are also interested in the sensory innervation in the respiratory system. We have recently discovered that a subgroup of vagal sensory neurons expressing itch receptors mediate bronchoconstriction and airway hyperresponsiveness, both of which are hallmark features of asthma. We are investigating how the sensory innervation in the airway contributes to the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiography\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiang Han received a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences in 2001 and a M.S. degree in Developmental Biology in 2004 from Tsinghua University in China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience in 2009 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Following graduate school, she joined the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Han joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biological Sciences as an assistant professor in 2016. Her research interests focus on the mechanisms of somatosensation and the role of sensory neurons in the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases. 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I will also show that corticothalamic regulation is a highly dynamic process; it relies on a time- and frequency-dependent balance of feed-forward excitation and inhibition that can switch the excitability and sensory throughput of the thalamus according to ongoing behavioral demands.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBio-sketch:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Connors is the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Medical Science, and Chair of Neuroscience at Brown University. He received his PhD in physiology and pharmacology from Duke, did postdoctoral work at Stanford, and joined the faculty there. He moved to Brown in 1987. His research group studies the functions of neurons, synapses (electrical and chemical), and circuits in the mammalian forebrain. In recent years they have developed strategies for dissecting circuit and interneuron functions in the pathways between thalamus and neocortex using a combination of electrophysiology, optogenetics, imaging, anatomy, and computation. They use both in vitro and in vivo preparations. Their general goals are to understand the neural mechanisms and development of thalamocortical function and dynamics, as well as pathological processes such as epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hippocampus is essential for both spatial navigation and episodic memory. While decades of research has revealed patterns of neural activity in the hippocampus that represent information about the spatial environment, called spatial coding, how these patterns relate to memory processes is still unclear. Our lab uses a combination of behavior, neural recording, optogenetic manipulation, and computational tools to understand the neural underpinning of learning and memory in health and disease. In this talk I will address how hippocampal neural codes guide memory-based decisions and how they go awry in disease\u0026rsquo;s that effect memory. First, by recording the activity of many single neurons simultaneously as an animal learns a spatial navigation task, we examined how spatial codes inform future decisions. We found that when an animal has to choose a path through space, the hippocampus reactivates neural activity that represents the possible paths to choose from, essentially foreseeing where to go based on past experience. We then examined how this activity fails in Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s disease (AD), since spatial navigation deficits are one of the earliest symptoms of AD and the hippocampus is one of the areas first affected by the disease. Using a virtual reality behavior paradigm to record and manipulate neural activity in transgenic mice, the primary animal model of AD, we found deficits in hippocampal neural activity early in the progression of the disease.\u0026nbsp; These deficits occurred in the same patterns of activity that we have found inform memory-guided decisions in a spatial navigation task. Finally, I will discuss optogenetically driving these patterns of activity in the AD mouse model.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio-sketch:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnnabelle Singer is an Assistant Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research takes a multi-dimensional approach to deciphering neural activity, observing and manipulating such activity during behavior to understand how the brain learns and remembers experiences. In the course of her research Dr. Singer\u0026nbsp;has developed new methods to record neural activity during behavior, novel approaches to analyze complex neural data, and new approaches to treat cognitive disease. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Ed Boyden\u0026rsquo;s Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT and she received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCSF, performing research in the laboratory of Loren Frank.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Hippocampal Codes in Spatial Memory and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease\u0022 - Annabelle Singer, Ph.D. - Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2016-10-04 17:30:23","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:27","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-10-31T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-10-31T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-10-31T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-10-31 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-10-31 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-10-31 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuralengineering.gatech.edu","title":"Neural Engineering Center"},{"url":"https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Annabelle-Singer","title":"Singer Dept. 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Despite major advances in our understanding of the functional properties of single neurons we still do not know how the cortex works at the circuit level. The essence of the problem lies in understanding how billions of neurons communicating through trillions of connections orchestrate their activities to give rise to our mental faculties. We are far from being able to simultaneously measure the activity of all the myriads of cortical cells and assemble their physical wiring diagram (whole brain connectome). However, if there are underlying principles and rules that govern this complexity, these principles could reduce the impenetrable complexity of the cortex to a manageable scale. One such principle is provided by the hypothesis that the cortex is composed of repeated elementary information processing modules, organized along cortical columns. We combine electrophysiological, imaging, and molecular tools with behavioral and machine learning approaches to determine what constitutes the elementary computational circuit motif in the neocortex and characterize its structure, function and decipher its canonical computation(s). I will describe our work towards those goals from three perspectives. First, from an anatomical perspective where we are mapping the detailed wiring diagram of the canonical cortical microcircuit including identifying all the cell types that comprise cortical circuits. Second, using electrophysiological and imaging methods we are characterizing the activity structure of large populations of neurons in the visual cortex during behavioral tasks. Third, we are using machine-learning methods to model these circuit motifs with the goal to decipher the canonical algorithm(s) they implement. 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I will\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ndescribe how our MEG\/EEG studies and model developments have led to novel hypothesis on the origin of beta rhythms and of their impact on sensory processing. Additionally, I will describe studies testing the model-derived predictions with invasive electrophysiological recordings in humans, monkeys and mice. 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The next frontier lies in taking maps to the next level, that of molecular maps which define the identity and function of unique cell types. Defining molecular maps is in particularly high demand in the context of the nervous system. For example, the C.elegans connectome, which still remains the only connectome of any nervous system, begs the question how neurons communicate with one another. I will describe our efforts to build a comprehensive neurotransmitter map of the C.elegans nervous system and I will then use this neurotransmitter map to describe our efforts to provide \u0026ldquo;regulatory maps\u0026rdquo; which explain how neurotransmitter identity is genetically programmed and how this critical identity feature of a neuron is linked to other identity features of a neuron. 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Far from being a disordered collection of actions, however, there is thought to be an intrinsic structure to the set of behaviors and their temporal and functional organization. In this talk, I will introduce a novel method for mapping the behavioral space of organisms using unsupervised machine learning techniques. This method relies only upon the underlying structure of postural movement data to organize and classify behavior, eschewing ad hoc behavioral definitions. Applying this method to videos of freely-behaving fruit flies (D. melanogaster), I will show that the organisms\u0026rsquo; behavioral repertoire consists of a hierarchically-organized set of stereotyped behaviors. This hierarchical patterning results in the emergence of long time scales of memory in the system, providing insight into the mechanisms of behavioral control over that occur over seconds, minutes, hours, days, and the entire lifetime of the fly and pointing to potential neurobiological implementations. Lastly, I will show the generality of this approach to behavioral analysis \u0026mdash; its applicability to other species, alternative behavioral modalities, and high-throughput screens investigating the underlying neurobiology of behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis presentation can be seen via videoconference on the Emory Campus HSRB\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Mapping the Structure of Animal Behavior\u0022 - Gordon Berman, Ph.D. - Emory University"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2016-10-31 13:53:37","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:08","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-12-05T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-12-05T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-12-05T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-12-05 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-12-05 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-12-05 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.emory.edu\/Berman\/","title":"Berman Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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To answer this question requires an understanding of neural circuitry, biomechanics, and behavior. To address this question, we have studied an experimentally tractable experimental system, feeding behavior in the marine mollusk Aplysia californica. The results of our studies have provided insights into mutlifunctionality at the levels of both neurons and muscles, the importance of neuromodulation for the control of behavior, the neural dynamics that allow both noise and sensory feedback to enhance motor control, and how sensory feedback can shape motor variability to enhance behavior. 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In the visual domain, the selection process is thought to be mediated by a static spatial mechanism \u0026ndash; a \u0026lsquo;spotlight\u0026rsquo; that can be flexibly shifted around the visual scene. This spatial search mechanism has been associated with a large-scale network that consists of multiple nodes distributed across all major cortical lobes and includes also subcortical regions. To identify the specific functions of each network node and their functional interactions is a major goal for the field of cognitive neuroscience. In my lecture, I will challenge two common notions of attention research. First, I will show behavioral and neural evidence that the attentional spotlight is neither stationary nor unitary. In the appropriate behavioral context, even when spatial attention is sustained at a given location, additional spatial mechanisms operate flexibly in parallel to monitor the visual environment. Second, spatial attention is assumed to be under \u0026lsquo;top-down\u0026rsquo; control of higher order cortex. In contrast, I will provide neural evidence indicating that attentional control is exerted through thalamo-cortical interactions. 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A key challenge has been the difficulty of visualizing changes in transmembrane potential. We discovered that a protein derived from a Dead Sea microorganism could function as an exquisitely fast and sensitive fluorescent reporter of membrane voltage. We developed optical tools for simultaneous optical perturbation and optical readout of membrane voltage. Using these tools we have studied electrical activity in primary neurons \/in vitro\/, in acute brain slice, and in live mice. 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Early after stroke the proportional recovery rule for spontaneous biological recovery applies, as does the idea of a sensitive period. Late after stroke, rehabilitation relies on motor learning principles. 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The poor predictive power of preclinical models is a major obstacle to therapeutics development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo improve matters, we developed an array of human brain cell models differentiated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which exhibit disease-associated phenotypes. To fully harness these models to understand mechanisms of disease and screen for therapeutics, we developed systems to perform high throughput longitudinal single cell imaging and analysis, called robotic microscopes. Automated programs find cells within the images and track them longitudinally increasing the sensitivity of screens 2-to-3 orders of magnitude compared with conventional approaches. To expand the power of the platform, we are developing an array of over 270 biosensors that report a variety of biological structures and functions from cells and circuits. Increasingly, deep learning approaches are used to extract features from images, enabling us to achieve super human performance in some cases. We also are using family-based whole genome analysis of patients with neurodegenerative diseases to find new targets and validate then in patient derived human brain cell models. Observational studies in a model of one neurodegenerative disease made it possible to unravel complex cause-and-effect relationships and to identify the autophagy protein clearance pathway as a potential therapeutic target. We then launched a small molecule discovery and development effort that led to brain penetrant orally available autophagy inducers that mitigate disease phenotypes in our human neuron models of neurodegenerative disease. 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He completed an internship in internal medicine and chief residency in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Work in his academic research laboratory has focused on studying the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for learning, memory and neurodegeneration. A better understanding of these mechanisms will yield insights into the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and the memory disorders that often characterize them. A major focus of his work in the area of neurodegenerative disease has been the role of protein dyshomeostasis in HD, PD, ALS, and FTD. In this context, he has developed a unique fully automated high throughput single cell analysis platform called robotic microscopy that provides very sensitive measures of phenotypes. 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Dr. Finkbeiner has received numerous awards for his work, including the Lieberman Award, the Taube\/Koret Prize, the Award for Outstanding Research Achievement from Nature Biotechnology, and the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the NIH NINDS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Using the Past to Predict the Future: Applications of High Throughput Longitudinal Single Cell Analysis, Genomics, Stem Cells and Machine Learning to Discovery\u0022 - Steve Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D. - University of California, San Francisco"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2017-03-27 15:46:25","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:12:14","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-04-10T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-04-10T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-04-10T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-04-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-04-10 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-04-10 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/profiles.ucsf.edu\/steve.finkbeiner","title":"Finkbeiner profile"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"Neural Engineering Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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However, its mechanisms of action are still poorly understood which limits our ability to develop next generation of neurostimulators and expand its use. Studying patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery gives us a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of human motor system and the basal\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nganglia-thalamo-cortical circuits. In this talk we will discuss invasive and non-invasive electrophysiologic studies in Parkinson\u0026#39;s disease and dystonia, our current understanding of DBS mechanisms, and new therapeutic approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis presentation can be seen via videoconference on the Emory Campus HSRB E160\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio-sketch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESvjetlana Miocinovic is a board-certified neurologist specializing in Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease, dystonia, tremor and other movement disorders. She graduated from medical school in 2009 at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) where she also obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering. She completed neurology residency and clinical movement disorders fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas). Her\u0026nbsp;post-doctoral training and clinical research fellowship was at the University of California San Francisco Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Center. She was awarded American Brain Foundation and Dystonia Medical Research Foundation grants to study electrophysiology of movement disorders and effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) on the basal ganglia and cortical circuitry. In 2016, she moved to Emory to become an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders Section. She received NIH K23 grant to study targeted activation of neural pathways during DBS in Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease. The research focus is on electrophysiology of human motor circuits, and development of new device-based therapies. 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How this cellular and synaptic diversity contributes to cortical function is just beginning to emerge. \u0026nbsp;Using the mouse visual system as a model, I will discuss the mechanisms by which excitatory and inhibitory interactions between distinct neuron types contribute to the most basic operations performed by visual cortex. 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