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The Neural Systems and Behavior (NS&B) Course is an 8 week intensive lecture and laboratory course held at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA, every summer.  Read more...

Course Directors:
Paul Katz and Jim Knierim

The Course runs June 3 - July 28, 2012

2012 Course Schedule
This course schedule has links to each of the modules.
Lectures are 9-10:45AM. There are two 45 minute lectures with a 15 min break. There are no lectures on Sundays. Students have a long weekend off (Sat June 30 and Mon July 1) All lectures are in room G70 North in Loeb.

    2012 Weds Evening Lecture Series
    Visiting Scholars
    8:00 PM Speck Auditorium
  • June 13
    James Truman, Janelia Farm
    Neuronal Lineages and the Organization of Insect Behavior
  • June 20
    H. Tad Blair, UCLA
    Medial temporal microcircuits for mapping the world onto patterns of neural synchrony
  • June 27 - Masakazu Konishi Lecture
    Catherine Carr University of Maryland
    Evolution of sound localization circuits
  • July 4- No Seminar
  • July 11
    Hans Hofmann, Univ. Texas
    Genes, Circuits, and Behavior: Molecular and Neural Dissection of a Life History Trade-off
  • July 18 - John G. Nicholls Lecture
    Thomas J. Carew, NYU
    Growth Factors and Memory Formation
  • July 25
    Sarah M.N. Woolley, Columbia University
    Effects of species identity and early experience on the auditory coding of communication vocalizations



2011 NS&B Class