Neuroscience Program
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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Sex hormones are powerful neuromodulators of learning and memory. This talk highlights recent findings from the Jacobs Lab suggesting that neuroendocrine factors rapidly and dynamically influence the human brain over the lifecourse.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
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Information flow in the cortex is classically considered as feedforward-hierarchical computation. However, recent findings have started to reveal rather parallel and distributed processing. Here, I will discuss our work studying parallel sensory pathways across the primary and higher auditory cortices in extracting complex sound features.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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Brain's can be modeled as functional networks, where interregional connections and their weights are estimated as a correlations. Here I will present an approach for exactly decomposing these connections (edges) into their time-varying contributions. This approach yields framewise estimates of networks across time and can be used to estimate the novel construct of "edge fu
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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The seminar will focus on the biology of oligodendrocytes and myelin and their role in maintaining axonal and neuronal health in models of neurodegeneration. We will present data on acute and chronic neurodegeneration post trauma and chronic degenerative diseases.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
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The seminar will introduce the software tools from UIUC and Allen Institute, supporting large-scale bio-realistic modeling of neurons and neuronal networks.