Journal Club

11/01/2023 (Runchong Wang)

Cortical pyramidal and parvalbumin cells exhibit distinct spatiotemporal extracellular electric potentials, Lior Sukman & Eran Stark, eNeuro 2022

26/10/2022 (Dirk Goldschmitt)

Spatial and chromatic properties of numerosity estimation in isolation and context,  Elena Gheorghiu & Dirk Goldschmitt, PLoS ONE 2022

12/10/2022 (Melissa Shaw)

Perception as a hierarchical competition: a model that differentiates imagined, veridical, and hallucinated percepts, Alexander Sulfaro, Amanda Robinson, Thomas Carlson, bioRxiv 2022

12/10/2022 (Thais Feliciano Silva)

Measurement of excitation-inhibition ratio in autism spectrum disorder using critical brain dynamics, Hilgo Bruining et al., Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen, Scientific Reports 2020

17/06/2022 (Michael Okun)

Reproducibility of in-vivo electrophysiological measurements in mice, International Brain Laboratory, bioRxiv 2022  

08/04/2022 (Thais Feliciano Silva)

Ubiquitous proximity to a critical state for collective neural activity in the CA1 region of freely moving mice, Yi-Ling Chen et al., Ting-Kuo Lee, Chinese Jurnal of Physics 2022

Papers that were presented at journal clubs that we held jointly with several colleagues at University of Leicester (Sept. 2018 - Sept. 2021): 

02/09/2021 (online, presentation by Melissa Shaw)

Temporal stability of stimulus representation increases along rodent visual cortical hierarchies, Eugenio Piasini et al.,   Davide Zoccolan, Nature Communications 2021 

19/08/2021 (online, presentation by Martynas Dervinis)

Global waves synchronize the brain’s functional systems with fluctuating arousal, Ryan Raut et al., Marcus Raichle, Science Advances 2021

22/07/2021 (online, presentation by Emma Condon)

Presynaptic Kv3 channels are required for fast and slow endocytosis of synaptic vesicles, Xin-Sheng Wu, Shobana Subramanian et al., Ling-Gang Wu, Neuron 2021

17/06/2021 (online, presentation by Marta Boscaglia)

Inferring brain-wide interactions using data-constrained recurrent neural network models, Matthew Perich et al., Kanaka Rajan, bioRxiv 2021

13/05/2021 (online, presentation by Thais Feliciano Silva)

Dynamic states of population activity in prefrontal cortical networks of freely-moving macaque, Russell Milton, Neda Shahidi, Valentin Dragoi, Nature Communications 2020

22/04/2021 (online, presentation by Martynas Dervinis)

Spontaneous travelling cortical waves gate perception in behaving primates, Zachary Davis, Lyle Muller, Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Terrence Sejnowski & John Reynolds , Nature  2020

15/04/2021 (online, presentation by Amir Nadimi Shahraki)

Persistent hippocampal neural firing and hippocampal-cortical coupling predict verbal working memory load, Ece Boran et al., Johannes Sarnthein, Science Advances 2019

25/03/2021 (online, presentation by Emma Condon)

Gamma frequency activation of inhibitory neurons in the acute phase after stroke attenuates vascular and behavioral dysfunction,  Matilde Balbi et al., Timothy Murphy, Cell Reports 2021

11/03/2021 (online, presentation by Marta Boscaglia)

Dynamic Suppression of Average Facial Structure Shapes Neural Tuning in Three Macaque Face Patches, Kenji Koyano, Adam Jones et al., David Leopold, Current Biology 2020 

11/02/2021 (online, presentation by Thais Feliciano)

Thais gave a presentation on her PhD research topic: signatures of brain criticality in large cortical neuronal populations.

14/01/2021 (online, presentation by Bradley Dearnley)

Serotonin suppresses slow oscillations by activating somatostatin interneurons via the 5-HT2A receptor, Roberto De Filippo et al., Dietmar Schmitz, biorXiv 2020

26/11/2020 (online)

Presentation of Richard Gao (UCSD, video from youtube.com)

12/11/2020 (online, presentation by Melissa Shaw)

Deep posteromedial cortical rhythm in dissociation, Sam Vesuna, Isaac Kauvar et al., Karl Deisseroth, Nature 2020

29/10/2020 (online, presentation by Estibaliz Santiago Mugica)

Modeling amyloid beta and tau pathology in human cerebral organoids, Cezar Gonzales, Enrique Armijo et al., Claudio Soto, Mol Psychiatry 2018

15/10/2020 (online, presentation by Emma Condon)

Parvalbumin and Somatostatin Interneurons Contribute to the Generation of Hippocampal Gamma Oscillations, Pantelis Antonoudiou et al., Edward O. Mann,  JNeurosci. 2020

01/10/2020 (online, presentation by Martynas Dervinis)

A Dynamic Interplay within the Frontoparietal Network Underlies Rhythmic Spatial Attention, Ian Fiebelkorn, Mark Pinsk & SabineKastner, Neuron 2018

17/09/2020 (online, presentation by Marta Boscaglia)

Rapid and dynamic processing of face pareidolia in the human brain, Susan G. Wardle, Jessica Taubert, Lina Teichmann & Chris I. Baker , Nature Comm. 2020

20/08/2020 (online, presentation by Michael Okun)

Mapping Functional Connectivity from the Dorsal Cortex to the Thalamus, Yan Huo, Han Chen, Zengcai Guo, Neuron 2020  

13/08/2020 (online, presentation by Todor Gerdjikov)

Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons, Ben Engelhard et al., Ilana Witten, Nature 2019

23/07/2020 (online)

FENS2020 presentations of Stephen Williams (Cholinergic modulation of active dendritic integration in neocortical pyramidal neurons) and Randy Bruno (Layer specific function of barrel cortex)

09/07/2020 (online, presentation by Jessica Hayes)

Dopamine modulates dynamic decision-making during foraging, Campbell Le Heron et al., Masud Hussain & Matthew Apps, JNeurosci. 2020

25/06/2020 (online, presentation by Marta Boscaglia)

Evolving Images for Visual Neurons Using a Deep Generative Network Reveals Coding Principles and Neuronal Preferences, Carlos R. Ponce, Will Xiao, Peter F. Schade, et al., Margaret Livingstone, Cell 2019

18/06/2020 (online, presentation by Jian Liu)

Generalised Linear Models, based on the following papers: 

Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making, Il Memming Park, Miriam Meister, Alexander Huk, Jonathan Pillow, Nat. Neurosci 2014; Functional dissection of signal and noise in MT and LIP during decision-making, Jacob Yates, Il Memming Park, Leor Katz, Jonathan Pillow, Alexander Huk, Nat. Neurosci. 2017; Recurrent circuit dynamics underlie persistent activity in the macaque frontoparietal network, Eric Hart and Alexander Huk, eLife 2020

11/06/2020 (online, presentation by John Apergis-Schoute)

Ramping activity in midbrain dopamine neurons signifies the use of a cognitive map, Akash Guru et al., Melissa Warden, bioRxiv 2020

04/06/2020 (online, presentation by Melissa Shaw)

DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning, Alexander Mathis et al., Mackenzie Mathis and Matthias Bethge, Nat. Neurosci. 2018

28/05/2020 (online, presentation by Estibaliz Santiago Mugica)

Excessive tubulin polyglutamylation causes neurodegeneration and perturbs neuronal transport, Maria Magiera et al., Carsten Janke, EMBO 2018

21/05/2020 (online, presentation by Michael Okun)

Competing Roles of Slow Oscillations and Delta Waves in Memory Consolidation versus Forgetting, J. Kim, T. Gulati, K. Ganguly, Cell 2019

14/05/2020 (online, presentation by Qi Xu)

Perceptual Straightening of Natural Videos, O. Henaff, R. Goris, E. Simoncelli, Nat. Neurosci. 2019 

07/05/2020 (online, presentation by Bradley Dearnley)

Separable gain control of ongoing and evoked activity in the visual cortex by serotonergic input, Z. Azimi et al., D. Jancke, eLife 2020

30/04/2020 (online, presentation by Martynas Dervinis)

Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal/entorhinal circuit, D. Aronov, R Nevers and D. Tank, Nature 2017

23/04/2020 (online, presentation by Giulia Chiacchierini)

A cortical-brainstem circuit predicts and governs compulsive alcohol drinking, Cody A. Siciliano et al., Kay M. Tye, Science 2019

09/04/2020 (online, presentation by Emma Condon)

NMDA receptors on parvalbumin-positive interneurons and pyramidalneurons both contribute to MK-801 induced gamma oscillatorydisturbances: Complex relationships with behaviour, Matthew Hudson, et al. Nigel Jones, Neurobiology of Disease 2020 

02/04/2020 (online)

We jointly watched the COSYNE presentation of Sam Gershman 

19/02/2020 (at MSB, presentation by Celia Garau )

Dopamine neuron activity before action initiation gates and invigorates future movements, Joaquim Alves da Silva, Fatuel Tecuapetla, Vitor Paixão & Rui M. Costa, Nature 2018 

05/02/2020 (at MSB, presentation by Jessica Hayes )

Random access to palatable food stimulates similar addiction-like responses as a fixed schedule, but only a fixed schedule elicits anticipatory activation, Geovanni Muñoz-Escobar, Natalí N. Guerrero-Vargas, Carolina Escobar, Scientific Reports 2019

22/01/2020 (at MSB, presentation by Martynas Dervinis )

Infraslow State Fluctuations Govern Spontaneous fMRI Network Dynamics, Daniel Gutierrez-Barragan, Albert Basson, Stefano Panzeri, Alessandro Gozzi, Current Biology 2019

08/01/2020 (at MSB, presentation by Michael Okun)

Correlated Neural Activity and Encoding of Behavior across Brains of Socially Interacting Animals, Lyle Kingsbury, Shan Huang, et al., Weizhe Hong, Cell 2019

13/12/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Bradley Dearnley )

A Hallucinogenic Serotonin-2A Receptor Agonist Reduces Visual Response Gain and Alters Temporal Dynamics in Mouse V1, Angie M. Michaiel, Philip R.L. Parker, Cristopher M. Niell, Cell Reports 2019

13/11/2019 (at MSB, presentation by John Apergis-Schoute)

Natural and Drug Rewards Engage Distinct Pathways that Converge on Coordinated Hypothalamic and Reward Circuits, Amber Alhadeff, Nitsan Goldstein, et al., J. Nicholas Betley, Neuron 2019

30/10/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Giulia Chiacchierini )

Limbic control over the homeostatic need for sodium, Jeroen Verharen et al., Roger Adan, Scientific Reports 2019

16/10/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Jiangrong Shen )

Towards deep learning with segregated dendrites, Jordan Guerguiev, Timothy P Lillicrap, Blake A Richards, eLife 2017

02/10/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Todor Gerdjikov)

Temporal Coding of Reward Value in Monkey Ventral Striatal Tonically Active Neurons, Rossella Falcone et al., Barry J. Richmond, J. Neurosci 2019

18/09/2019 (at MSB)

Discussion of "summer reading" highlights

31/07/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Martynas Dervinis) 

Arousal dependent modulation of thalamo-cortical functional interaction, Iain Stitt et al., Flavio Frohlich, Nat. Comm. 2018

08/07/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Gonzalo Urcelay) 

Striatal Low-Threshold Spiking Interneurons Regulate Goal-Directed Learning, Neuron 2019

12/06/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Celia Garau) 

Zona incerta GABAergic neurons integrate prey-related sensory signals and induce an appetitive drive to promote hunting, Nat. Neurosci. 2019

05/06/2019 (at MSB, presentation by Bradley Dearnley)

Intense threat switches dorsal raphe serotonin neurons to a paradoxical operational mode, Changwoo Seo, Akash Guru, et al., Melissa Warden, Science 2019

24/05/2019 

Thalamic Drive of Cortical Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons during Down States in Anesthetized Mice, Stefano Zucca, Valentina Pasquale, et al., Tommaso Fellin, Current Biology 2019

03/05/2019 

Strong neuron-to-body coupling implies weak neuron-to-neuron coupling in motor cortex, Patrick Kells et al., Woodrow Shew, Nat. Comm. 2019 

29/03/2019 

Schema cells in the macaque hippocampus, P. Baraduc, J.-R. Duhamel, S. Wirth, Science 2019

13/03/2019 

Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brain-wide activity, Carsen Stringer, Marius Pachitariu et al., Matteo Carandini, Kenneth Harris, bioRxiv 2018 

01/03/2019 

Cortical Areas Interact through a Communication Subspace, Joao Semedo, Amin Zandvakili, Christian Machens, Byron Yu and Adam Kohn, Neuron 2019 

01/02/2019 

Layer-Specific Physiological Features and Interlaminar Interactions in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Mouse, Yuta Senzai, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz and

Gyorgy Buzsaki, Neuron 2019 

18/01/2019 

Nonoscillatory Phase Coding and Synchronization in the Bat Hippocampal Formation, Tamir Eliav et al., Nachum Ulanovsky, Cell 2018 

07/12/2018 

Theta and Alpha Oscillations Are Traveling Waves in the Human Neocortex, Honghui Zhang et al., Joshua Jacobs, Neuron 2018 

09/11/2018 

Subtraction and division of visual cortical population responses by the serotonergic system, Zohre Azimi et al., Dirk Jancke, bioRxiv 2018 

26/10/2018 

A Visual-Cue-Dependent Memory Circuit for Place Navigation, Han Qin et al., Arthur Konnerth and Xiaowei Chen, Neuron 2018 

12/10/2018 

Pupil Size Coupling to Cortical States Protects the Stability of Deep Sleep via Parasympathetic Modulation, Ozge Yuzgec et al., Daniel Huber, Current Biology 2018

28/09/2018 

A Dedicated Population for Reward Coding in the Hippocampus, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, David W. Tank, Neuron 2018