A biweekly meeting of systems and computational neuroscience laboratories at the University of Oregon. We meet on Tuesdays at 4pm in LISB 217. Click here to subscribe to the email list.
NCB is more than a journal club. It's a place for students, postdocs, and faculty to share their preliminary results and get feedback on papers, conference presentations, or grants being prepared. NCB is also a place to discuss techniques or approaches you think would benefit multiple labs.
Students should register using the appropriate CRN for "BI 607 - Sem Neurophysiology".
If interested in presenting your work or moderating a discussion, email Santiago Jaramillo to sign up for a slot.
Upcoming events
Past events
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/08/2025 | Randall Olson | Cognitive Control and Claustro-Cingulate Dynamics in a Complex Foraging Task | |
| 04/01/2025 | Cliff Kentros | Not just any neuron: different entorhinal neurons play different roles in both spatial memory and Alzheimer’s Disease | |
| 03/11/2025 | Brett Emanuel | TBD | |
| 02/25/2025 | Daniel Hulsey | Assessing cortical oscillations with widefield imaging | |
| 02/04/2025 | Kyle Aitken (Postdoc, Allen Institute) | Neural Population Dynamics of Computing with Synaptic Modulations | |
| 01/28/2025 | Santiago Jaramillo | Online resources for circuit neuroanatomy | |
| 01/14/2025 | Kana Suzuki | TBD | |
| 11/19/2024 | Molly Shallow | A tale of two cell types: Zona Incerta and long-range inhibition | |
| 11/12/2024 | Daniel Levitin | This Is Your Brain On Music | |
| 11/05/2024 | Rolf Skyberg | Effects of psychedelic serotonin receptor agonist DOI on active sensation and visual response dynamics in mice | |
| 10/22/2024 | Rose Hulsey-Vincent | Basal ganglia lesions induce stuttering in canaries | |
| 10/08/2024 | Amanda Welch | Psychedelics and olfactory behaviors | |
| 05/21/2024 | Mattias Karlsson (CEO, Spike Gadgets) | TBD | Matt Smear |
| 05/07/2024 | David Kastner, MD, PhD | Ectopic seminar: "Choice-wide behavioral association study: data-driven identification of interpretable behavioral components" | James Murray |
| 04/23/2024 | Christian Schmid | Theory of Learning Dynamics in the Nonlinear Perceptron | |
| 03/26/2024 | Irene Rembado (Allen Institute) | Thalamic feedback shapes brain responses evoked by cortical stimulation in mice and humans | |
| 03/12/2024 | Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic | Mechanisms of brain-wide inter-area communication | |
| 02/27/2024 | Corey Wadsley | Gain in the human motor system during action preparation | |
| 02/20/2024 | Clifford Kentros (Professor, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology) | Genetic Manipulation of the Neural Circuitry of Memory | |
| 02/13/2024 | Ryan Rout (Postdoc, Allen Institute) | TBD | |
| 01/30/2024 | Nick Sattler | Natural behavior of freely-moving mice and cortical theta oscillations | |
| 11/28/2023 | Presenter: Mae Guthman (Princeton, hosted by E Sylwestrak) | Rethinking the Hormone-sensitive Social Behavior Network as the Proactive Social Behavior Network | |
| 10/31/2023 | Presenter: Matt Smear | Return of (W)ONICe! [The (Washington+) Oregon Neuroethology Innovation Collective] | |
| 10/17/2023 | Presenter: Andrew Lesak (Mazzucato lab) | TBD | |
| 10/03/2023 | Presenter: Ben Lemberger (Murray lab) | The role of connectivity in vertebrate locomotion | |
| 06/13/2023 | Santiago Jaramillo | Discussion: AI tools for neuro research | |
| 06/06/2023 | Judit Pungor | Functional organization of visual responses in the octopus optic lobe | |
| 05/09/2023 | Shawn Lockery | Behavioral and genetic analysis of psychedelic action in C. elegans | |
| 05/02/2023 | Elise Savier, PhD | “Comparative approach to understanding the routing of visual information in the brain” - ION Special Seminar | Rolf Skyberg |
| 04/18/2023 | Sam Mehan | NRSA proposal presentation | |
| 04/04/2023 | Emmanuel Adeyefa-Olasupo | Retinotopic mechanics: uncovering the fundamental law and the functional architecture that actively mediates the predictive brain | Luca Mazzucato |
| 02/14/2023 | Molly Shallow | Influence of motivation on complex sensory behaviors | |
| 01/31/2023 | Matt Smear | The olfactory bulb maps breathing rhythms at multiple timescales in freely-behaving mice | |
| 12/08/2022 | Jhoseph Shin | The distinct neural dynamics of the hippocampal subregions CA1 and CA3 in processing visual modification of the environment. | Niell |
| 11/29/2022 | Jenny Mohn | Selectivity to features of speech across multiple auditory cortical areas of the mouse | |
| 11/08/2022 | Kevin Zumwalt | SfN poster practice | |
| 11/01/2022 | Evan Vickers | Coordinated switching of spontaneous behavioral motifs and mesoscale cortical functional connectivity networks | |
| 10/18/2022 | James Murray | The role of contextual information in multi-skill learning | |
| 09/20/2022 | Santiago Jaramillo and James Murray | Practice talks for NeuroAI | |
| 05/30/2022 | Dennis Nestvogel | Neural Mechanisms of State-Dependent Sensory-Guided Decision-Making in Health and Disease | McCormick |
| 05/17/2022 | Serena De Santo | Cell-type specific unifying model for three forms of contextual modulation including feedback input from Higher Visual Areas | Mazzucato |
| 05/03/2022 | Phil Parker | Phil Parker - TBA | Niell |
| 04/19/2022 | Shawn Lockery | Microfluidics for microinjections in small model organisms | |
| 04/05/2022 | Emily Sylwestrak | Cell-type-specific encoding of past outcomes and future payoffs | |
| 03/29/2022 | Isaac Rhim | Studying cortical processes of sensory evidence to action value (Project brainstorm presentation) |