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Event 2012



Date Details

2012/12/27

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Kim Yeon-Jeong (Hirabayashi Lab.), Ikuo Ogiwara (Yamakawa Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 64th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology, Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC

2012/12/25

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Naoshige Uchida Harvard University

Dissecting neural computations of reward prediction and decision making

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/12/25

10:00-11:00

[Forum]

Mitsuko Watabe-Uchid Harvard University

Functional “inputome” of the dopamine reward circuit: a fusion of electrophysiology and a novel anatomical approach

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/12/21

14:00-17:00

[Other]

Dr. Masafumi Ooizumi RIKEN, Dr. Kukjin Kang RIKEN

Measuring the level of consciousness based on the amount of integrated information

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/12/21

13:30-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Patrick Kanold Dept. of Biology University of Maryland

Circuits that regulate cortical development and plasticity

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/12/20

12:00-13:00

[Forum]

Yosuke Morishima University of Zurich

Adaptive control mechanisms for social and non-social behaviors

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/12/20

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Andrea Benucci University College London

Dynamics of population responses in the visual cortex

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/12/20

10:00-11:00

[Forum]

Megumi Hatori The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Understanding and leveraging circadian rhythms for improving healthy lifespan

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/12/18

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Ryohei Yasuda Scientific Director, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

Postsynaptic signaling mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Atsushi Miyawaki, Cell Function Dynamics

2012/12/17

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Hitoshi Okamoto RIKEN BSI

Genetics and genetic technology

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/12/17

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Thomas Biederer Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

Organization of Synapse Structure and Function by Trans-Synaptic Adhesion

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yasunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/12/17

15:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Tin Chung City University of Hong Kong

Afferents Integration in Control of Breathing

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Soichi Nagao, Motor Learning Control

2012/12/14

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Eric Klann Center for Neural Science, New York University

Dysregulated Translation in Autism Spectrum Disorders

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/12/13

15:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Mauro Costa-Mattioli Baylor College of Medicine, Departments of Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Program in Developmental Biology, Learning and Memory Center, Baylor College of Medicine

The Gate of memory: molecular and cellular mechanisms

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thomas J. McHugh, Circuit and Behavioral Physiology

2012/12/12

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Brian Dean Honorary Professorial Fellow in The University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry,Director of the Victorian Brain Bank Network.

New drug targets for psychiatry emerging from post-mortem research

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takeo Yoshikawa, Molecular Psychiatry, Motomasa Tanaka, Protein Conformation Diseases

2012/12/12

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Xiaohong Wan RIKEN

High-Resolution fMRI Reveals Laminar Differences in Neurovascular Coupling between Positive and Negative BOLD Responses

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Xiaohong Wan

2012/12/11

12:00-13:00

[Other]

Dr. Tomoki Fukai, Dr. Yukiko Goda, Dr. Reiko Mazuka, Dr. Thomas J. McHugh, Dr. Motomasa Tanaka, Dr. Manabu Tanifuji

BSI Principal Investigator Q&A Discussion Forum PDF to PI Transition: "How to get a PI position?"

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

RIKEN BSI PDFA committee

2012/12/10

14:30-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Melvyn A. Goodale The Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Canada

“Visual” activity in the blind brain: the neural substrates of echolocation in the blind.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Atsushi Iriki, Symbolic Cognitive Development

2012/12/10

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Linnaea Ostroff Center for Neural Science, New York University

The role of dendritic protein synthesis in learning-related structural

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/12/09

13:30-17:30

[Symposium]

Dr. Takashi Asada Tsukuba University, Dr. Heii Arai Juntendo University, Dr. Kengo Ito Research Institute, NCGG, Dr. Takaomi Saido RIKEN BSI, Dr. Kenji Toba Research Institute, NCGG

脳の健康を考える~認知症・うつ病のいま

イイノホール(東京都千代田区)

BSPD

2012/12/06

14:00-15:30

[Forum]

Professor Markus Diesmann Director,Inst of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) Computational and Systems Neuroscience Jülich Research Center

Aspects of the correlation structure of cortex and new horizons opened by the K supercomputer

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomoki Fukai, Neural Circuit Theory

2012/12/06

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Mie Kubota (Kato Lab.) RIKEN BSI, Moritoshi Hirono (Nagao Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 63rd Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology, Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC

2012/12/05

14:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. LORENZO JAMONE POST DOC AT TAKANISHI LABORATORY,WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO

HUMANOID ROBOTS LEARNING HOW TO INTERACT WITH THE WORLD

1F meeting room(105), Nagoya RIKEN Bldg.

Shingo Shimoda, Intelligent Behavior Control Unit, BTCC

2012/12/05

10:00-10:40

[Journal Club]

Dr. Ilias Rentzeperis Gardner Research Unit, RIKEN

Interactions between visual attention and episodic retrieval: dissociable contributions of parietal regions during gist-based false recognition.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Ilias Rentzeperis, Human Systems Neuroscience

2012/12/03

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Kentaro Katahira, Dr. Hirofumi Ozeki RIKEN BSI

Slot 1: Statistical analysis of behaviors II / Slot 2: Hands on practice of MATLAB and LabVIEW II

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/12/03

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Professor Ehud Zohary Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fingerprints of learned object recognition seen in the fMRI activation patterns of Lateral Occipital Complex

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/11/30

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Assistant ProfessorHiroshi Nomura Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences The University of Tokyo

Fear memory coding in plastic neuronal subpopulations within the amygdala

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/11/30

13:30-16:30

[BMA Class]

engieers from MathWorks The MathWorks

MATLAB Seminar Basics and Consulting Sessions

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/11/29

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Kentaro Tao Early-life experiences provides synaptic basis for adulthood memory performances, The University of Tokyo

Early-life experiences provides synaptic basis for adulthood memory performances

BSI Neural Circuit Genetics Bldg. 1F Seminar Room2

Shigeyoshi Fujisawa, Systems Neurophysiology

2012/11/28

10:00-18:00

[Symposium]

Dr. Joseph Altman Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Purdue University, Dr. Gordon Fishell NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Steve Goldman University of Rochester, Dr. Gerd Kempermann CRTD and DZNE, Dr. John Parnavelas University College London, Dr. Derek Van der Kooy University of Toronto

第28回国際生物学賞受賞記念シンポジウム・特別講演会 ”Neurogenesis throughout Life”

理化学研究所 発生・再生科学総合研究センター C棟1階オーディトリウム(神戸市中央区港島南町2-2-3)

Hideyuki Okano

2012/11/28

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.9

BSI Central Bldg. 1F N108

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/11/28

10:00-10:40

[Journal Club]

Dr. Tsuguo MOGAMI RIKEN

Bldg. High-level FeaturesUsing Large Scale Unsupervised Learning Quoc V.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tsuguo MOGAMI, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/11/27

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Shinji Kakei Motor Disorder Project, Tokyo Metoropolitan Institute of Medical Science

Parallel circuits in the cerebellar cortex determine the temporal pattern of cerebellar output

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Soichi Nagao, Motor Learning Control

2012/11/27

10:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.9

BSI Central Bldg. 1F N108

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/11/26

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Kentaro Katahira, Dr. Hirofumi Ozeki RIKEN BSI

Slot 1: Statistical analysis of behaviors I / Slot 2: Hands on practice of MATLAB and LabVIEW I

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/11/22

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Takashi Handa (Fukai Lab.), Yoshiaki Shinohara (Hirase Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 62nd Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception

2012/11/22

10:30-11:30

[Forum]

Dr. Antoine Triller IBENS (Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure)

Stability and plasticity of Synapses: Super-resolution and single molecule imaging toward chemistry in cellulo

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Developmental Neurobiology

2012/11/21

13:30-15:30

[Forum]

Professor Bart de Strooper VIB Center for the biology of Disease

An update on recent developments in the molecular biology of Alzheimer and Parkinson disease

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takaomi C. Saido, Proteolytic Neuroscience

2012/11/21

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Sidney Lehky RIKEN

Dimensionality of object representations in monkey inferotemporal cortex

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Sidney Lehky

2012/11/19

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Taro Toyoizumi RIKEN BSI

Theoretical models and analyses

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/11/19

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Ryosuke Kawakami Laboratory of molecular and cellular biophysics,Laboratory of molecular and cellular biophysics,Laboratory of molecular and cellular biophysics,Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University

Developments of in vivo two-photon microscopy for deep imaging of mouse brain

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yasunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/11/19

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Antal Berenyi Neuroscience Institute, New York University (Buzsaki Lab)

Analysis of neuronal oscillatory processes using high resolution electrophysiological techniques

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Shigeyoshi Fujisawa

2012/11/15

14:00-15:30

[Other]

Dr. Grégory Dumont CNRS-Institut de Mathématiques de Université de Bordeaux

Population density for an excitatory network of integrate-and-fire neurons

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/11/14

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Seiichirou Yokoo RIKEN

Population Response to Natural Images in the Primary Visual Cortex Encodes Local Stimulus Attributes and Perceptual Processing

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Seiichirou Yokoo, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/11/13

10:45-11:45

[Retreat]

Professor Yuh-Nung Jan University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Dendrite Morphogenesis and Functional Implications

Karuizawa Prince Hotel West

Retreat 2012 Committee

2012/11/12

13:00-14:00

[Retreat]

Professor Lily Jan University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) United States Minor Outlying Islands

BSI Retreat 2012

Karuizawa Prince Hotel West

Retreat 2012 Committee

2012/11/09

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor Arthur Konnerth Technology University Munich (TUM)

Dendritic Structure of Sensory Inputs to Cortical Neurons in vivo

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology

2012/11/08

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Mathieu Letellier and Yukiko Goda (Goda Lab.), Hideaki Shimazaki (Toyoizumi Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 61st Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC, Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology

2012/11/07

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Jérémie Sibille College de & Ecole Normale Supérieure

Astrocytic potassium and calcium signaling contribute to hippocampal neuronal short term plasticity

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Shigeyoshi Fujisawa

2012/11/07

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Florian Gerard-Mercier RIKEN

Population rate dynamics and multineuron firing patterns in sensory cortex

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Florian Gerard-Mercier, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/11/05

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Yukiko Goda RIKEN BSI

Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Neurotransitter Release (Cellular and Development)

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/11/02

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Tomoo Hirano Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Molecular mechanisms of postsynaptic plasticity studied in simplified model preparations

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yukiko Goda, Synaptic Plasticity and Connectivity

2012/11/02

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Amantha Thathiah Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven

β-arrestin 2 regulates Aβ generation and γ-secretase activity in Alzheimer’s disease

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Takaomi C. Saido, Proteolytic Neuroscience

2012/11/01

15:30-16:30

[Forum]

Professor Edgar Koerner Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH

Learning to behave in a natural environment

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yoko Yamaguchi, Dynamics of Emergent Intelligence

2012/11/01

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Yves Frégnac Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-UNIC) Unité de Neuroscience, Information et Complexité

Reconstructing low-level perception from the synaptic echoes in a single V1 neuron

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/11/01

10:00-11:00

[Other]

Dr. L. Bryan Ray Senior Editor, Science

How to publish in "Science"

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Charles Yokoyama Ph.D., Director, Research Administration, BSI , Thomas J. McHugh Ph.D., Circuit and Behavioral Physiology

2012/10/30

10:00-20:00

[Symposium]

Director Toshio Yanagida RIKEN QBiC, Executive Director Sean Hill INCF, NIJC Director Shiro Usui RIKEN BSI

INCF Japan Node International Symposium Advances in Neuroinformatics 2012

Ohkouchi Hall

Yoko Yamaguchi, Dynamics of Emergent Intelligence

2012/10/29

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Professor Hideyuki Okano Keio Univ.

iPS cells as neurological disease models.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/10/29

16:00-17:30

[Forum]

Professor Yuichi Iino The Iino Laboratory Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry Graduate School of Science The University of Tokyo

Chemotaxis in C. elegans: a platform for dissecting the information flow in the neural circuit, its plasticity and molecular regulators

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Toshihiko Hosoya, Local Neuronal Circuits

2012/10/29

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami

Emotion, interaction, and autism: Computer vision, machine learning, and developmental psychopathology

BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Gianluca Esposito, Affiliative Social Behavior

2012/10/29

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Winrich Freiwald The Rockefeller University

Faces, Attention, and the Temporal Lobe: an integrated functional magnetic resonance imaging approach

BSI West Bldg. 1F Seminar Room (W1F)

Naotaka Fujii, Adaptive Intelligence

2012/10/26

16:00-16:45

[Other]

Dr. Ryusuke Hayashi Systems Neuroscience Group, AIST

Face representation across the surface of a macaque inferior temporal cortex: a study using chronically implanted multi-electrode arrays

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Topi Tanskanen, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/10/26

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Giuseppe Legname Associate Professor, Neurobiology Sector, SISSA, Italy

Structural determinants of mammalian prion conversion

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Motomasa Tanaka, Protein Conformation Diseases

2012/10/25

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Associate ProfessorMichael J. Galko Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Flies with Sunburn: Modeling pain sensitization with Drosophila

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Adrian W. Moore, Genetic Control of Neuronal Architecture

2012/10/25

13:30-15:00

[Forum]

James Humble Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, Plymouth University

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity: what it potentially learns and how, with an application to sequence learning.

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/10/25

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Gianluca Esposito (Kuroda Lab.), Saman Ebrahimi (Moore Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 60th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC, Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology

2012/10/25

10:00-14:00

[Other]

Exhibition Shibata Biotechnology Inc.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.8

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/10/24

16:30-17:30

[Forum]

Professor Minoru Asada Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Development of Speech Perception and Vocalization of Robots: a cognitive developmental robotics approach

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Reiko Mazuka, Language Development

2012/10/24

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Dale E. Bredesen Founding President, Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Prionic loops, anti-prions, and dependence receptors mediating Alzheimer’s disease

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Takaomi C. Saido, Proteolytic Neuroscience

2012/10/24

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Shibata Biotechnology Inc.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.8

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/10/23

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Hao Lei State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Involvement of cingulate cortex in addiction: Comparison between adolenscence internet addition and opioid addiction

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang CHENG, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI), RRC

2012/10/23

13:30-15:00

[BMA Class]

Yuko Sawada Agilent Technology, Ltd.

45th BMA Class-Microarray Analysis Today (Japanese)

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/10/23

11:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Shibata Biotechnology Inc.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.8

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/10/23

10:30-12:00

[BMA Class]

Yuko Sawada Agilent Technoligy, Ltd.

44th BMA Class - Microarray Analysis Today

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/10/23

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Noriko Katsumata RIKEN

In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Noriko Katsumata

2012/10/12

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Tetsuya Hori Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit,Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University / Laboratory of Molecular Synaptic Function, Graduate School of Brain Science, Doshisha University

Kinetics of synaptic vesicle refilling with glutamate in the mammalian presynaptic terminal

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yukiko Goda, Synaptic Plasticity and Connectivity

2012/10/05

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Eicom Corporation

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.7

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/10/04

10:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition Eicom Corporation

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.7

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/10/03

15:00-16:30

[Other]

Ph.D. candidateUtako Yamamoto Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. candidateShizue Nagahara Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering

Fiber tracking and tractography for the quantitative evaluation of schizophrenia

BSI East Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Andrzej Cichocki, Advanced Brain Signal Processing

2012/10/03

13:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition Eicom Corporation

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.7

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/10/03

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Takayasu Higo RIKEN

Attention deficits without cortical neuronal deficits

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takayasu Higo,Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/10/02

16:30-17:30

[Forum]

Professor Dr. Noboru Hiroi Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Human chromosome 22q11 and Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Kumi O. Kuroda, Affiliative Social Behavior

2012/10/02

13:30-15:00

[Other]

Assistant ProfessorDr. Keiji Miura Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

An introduction to Hodge decomposition and its applications

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/10/02

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Takayasu Higo RIKEN

Attention deficits without cortical neuronal deficits

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takayasu Higo, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/10/01

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Hiroyuki Kamiguchi RIKEN BSI

Neural circuit formation

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/10/01

16:00-17:30

[Forum]

Assistant ProfessorDr. Keiji Miura Collaborative Mathematics Research Unit (CMRU), Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University

Near zero noise correlations underlie efficient population codes in olfactory cortex

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/09/28

13:30-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Promega K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.6

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/09/27

13:30-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Promega K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.6

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/09/27

13:30-15:00

[BMA Class]

Engineers MathWorks Application

43rd BMA Class: MATLAB Seminar “Data acquisition and analysis” [English Course]

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Fukumoto, Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/09/27

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Yoko Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi Lab.), Ryo Endo (M. Tanaka Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 59th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology, Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC

2012/09/25

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Kei Igarashi Laboratory of Edvard and May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway

Hippocampal and entorhinal beta/gamma synchronization during cue-place association learning

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Neurobiology of Synapse

2012/09/25

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Makoto Kusunoki MRC/Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Dynamic coding of cued target detection in the prefrontal cortex of monkey

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/09/24

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Manabu Tanifuji RIKEN BSI

Electrophysiology and techniques (Technology)

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/09/24

15:30-17:00

[BMA Class]

Dr. David Peake Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Dr. Rosa Viner Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

42nd BMA Class: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Biomolecules using Mass Spectrometry (Basics & Applications)

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/09/24

13:30-15:00

[BMA Class]

肥後大輔 サーモフィッシャーサイエンティフィック株式会社

41st BMA Class: 質量分析法を用いた生体分子の定性と定量(原理と応用)

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/09/24

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Albert Lee Principal Investigator,HHMI Janelia Farm

Cellular mechanisms underlying spatially-tuned firing in the hippocampus

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Ota, Behavioral Neurophysiology, Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology

2012/09/20

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Professor Dmitri A. Rusakov Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCL Institute of Neurology, London

Spike-driven glutamate electrodiffusion triggers synaptic potentiation via a Homer-controlled mGluR-NMDAR link

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Alexey Semyanov, Extrasynaptic Signaling

2012/09/14

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Dr. Jeffrey Magee Janelia Farm

Input Comparison in Hippocampal and Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thomas Knöpfel, Neuronal Circuit Dynamics

2012/09/13

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Pascal Beguin (Launey lab), Pei Sun (Keiji Tanaka Lab) RIKEN BSI

The 58th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC, Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology

2012/09/12

10:00-10:45

[Journal Club]

Dr. Arman Abrahamyan RIKEN

Improving identification of visual stimuli with weak TMS

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Arman Abrahamyan, Human Systems Neuroscience

2012/09/11

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Su Guo Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences University of California, San Francisco

Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Vertebrate Neural Stem Cell Behavior

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/09/10

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Toshihiko Hosoya RIKEN BSI

Neurogenesis and neural differentiation

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/09/06

15:30-16:30

[Forum]

Tomoyo Sawada Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

Parkinson’s Disease-Associated Kinase PINK1 Regulates Miro Protein Stability and Axonal Transport of Mitochondria in Cooperation with Parkin

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Tadafumi Kato, Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders

2012/09/06

13:30-15:00

[BMA Class]

エンジニア MathWorks Application

40th BMA Class: MATLAB による生体信号取得&解析

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Fukumoto, Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/09/05

11:45-13:15

[Other]

Dr. Hiroyuki Kamiguchi, Dr. Hitoshi Okamoto, Dr. Tadaharu Tsumoto, Dr. Charles Yokoyama, Tamae Maruoka, Dr. Takeo Saneyoshi

BSI PDFA Grant Workshop

Masao Ito Lounge

RIKEN PDFA committee

2012/09/05

10:00-10:40

[Journal Club]

Takayuki SATO RIKEN

Neural Selectivity and Representation of Gloss in the Monkey Inferior Temporal Cortex

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takayuki SATO, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/09/04

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Graduate Student at Laure Bally-Cuif laboratory, Merlin Lange CNRS

The ADHD-susceptibility gene lphn3.1 modulates dopaminergic neuron formation and locomotor activity during zebrafish development

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/09/03

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Tomomi Shimogori RIKEN BSI

Forebrain development: Patterning, connection and adjustment

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2012 Organizing Committee

2012/09/03

16:00-17:30

[BSI Special Seminar Series (BSSS)]

Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux The Collège de, The Institut Pasteur

Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Conscious Processing

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Developmental Neurobiology

2012/09/03

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Professor Trevor Sharp University Department of Pharmacology, Oxford

Neurophysiology of a basal ganglia circuit linked to mood

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/08/30

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Stephen C. Gammie Dept of Zoology, Graduate Progrm in Neurobiology and Behavior, University of Washington

Genetic and Neuronal Analysis of Postpartum and Manic States

BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Kumi O. Kuroda, Affiliative Social Behavior

2012/08/30

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Laurent Badel (Kazama Lab.) RIKEN BSI, Takashi Owaki (Tanifuji Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 57th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology, Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC

2012/08/27

14:00-17:30

[Forum]

Professor Klaus-Robert Müller Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Professor Bao-Liang Lu Center for Brain-Like Computing and Machine Intelligence, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Alleviating Nonstationarity in BCI

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/08/24

13:30-16:30

[Other]

川崎 真弘 理研BSI-トヨタ連携センター

世界脳週間2012−夏休み高校生理科教室:脳の不思議に迫る

Ohkouchi Hall

none

2012/08/24

13:00-14:00

[Forum]

Dr. Eiji Shigetomi Department of Physiology, UCLA (current affiliation: Yamanashi University)

Novel Ca2+ influx pathway in astrocytes revealed by membrane-targeted genetically encoded Ca2+ indicator.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hajime Hirase, Neuron-Glia Circuitry

2012/08/14

14:00-16:00

[Other]

Milad Lankarany Concordia University, Professor Bao-Liang Lu Shanghai Jiaotong University

Inferring excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input from noisy membrane voltag

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/08/10

15:00-16:00

[Forum]

Professor Peter Dayan Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London

Interactions between Model-free and Model-based Reinforcement Learning.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang Cheng, Cognitive Brain Mapping, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience

2012/08/10

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Zhaoping Li Department of Computer Science,University College London

Experimental tests of the hypothesis that the primary visual cortex creates a bottom-up saliency map to guide attention.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang Cheng, Cognitive Brain Mapping, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience

2012/08/09

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Takashi Nishimura Laboratory for Growth Control Signaling, RIKEN CDB

Regulation of the systemic growth by insulin-like peptides in Drosophila

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yoshio Hirabayashi Molecular Membrane Neuroscience

2012/08/08

13:00-14:00

[Other]

Dr. Reiko Mazuka BSI

Investigating human language acquisition using phonological features of Japanese

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka

2012/08/07

15:30-16:30

[Forum]

Yusuke Minato, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo

Identification and transcriptional regulation of a new variant of platelet-derived growth factor receptor α transcript

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Tadafumi Kato, Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders

2012/08/03

16:00-17:30

[Forum]

Dr. Mike Ludwig Professor of Neurophysiology,Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh

Old peptide – new insights: the role of vasopressin in the olfactory system

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kumi O. Kuroda, Affiliative Social Behavior

2012/08/02

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Teruo Hashimoto (Iriki Lab.), Yutaka Sato (Mazuka Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 56th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC, Masanori Murayama, Behavioral Neurophysiology

2012/07/31

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Koh Shinoda Neuroscience, Yamaguchi Univ. Grad. Sch. Med

The neurocytoplasmic inclusion, “the stigmoid body (STB)”; its structure and the STB/HAP1 neuroprotection hypothesis

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takeo Yoshikawa, Molecular Psychiatry

2012/07/31

10:00-16:30

[Other]

Exhibition Olympus Corporation

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.5

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/30

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Michael C. Frank Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Early word learning through communicative inference

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Reiko Mazuka, Language Development

2012/07/30

13:30-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition Olympus Corporation

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.5

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/27

17:30-18:45

[Forum]

Dr. Matthew B. Dalva (Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University

Molecules that guide synapse formation and function

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yukiko Goda, Synaptic Plasticity and Connectivity

2012/07/27

16:00-17:30

[BSI Special Seminar Series (BSSS)]

Professor John O'Keefe University College London

The role of firing rate and spike timing in hippocampal spatial computations

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yoko Yamaguchi, Neuroinformatics Japan Center (NIJC)

2012/07/26

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Makoto Miyakoshi University of California, San Diego

EEG information flow evidence of right-hemisphere dominance in self-face recognition

BSI East Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Andrzej Cichocki, Advanced Brain Signal Processing

2012/07/26

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Lonza Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.4

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/25

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Lonza Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.4

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/24

15:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Kosuke Hamaguchi Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Ikkyu Aihara Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, RIKEN BSI

Efficient coding of vocal transitions revealed by intracellular recordings from the singing bird

BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/07/24

13:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition Lonza Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.4

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/23

15:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Rainer Friedrich Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Neuronal circuits and computations in the olfactory system

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Neurobiology of Synapse

2012/07/20

10:00-13:00

[Other]

Exhibition MiltenyiBiotec K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.3

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/19

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Bernard Balleine Professor andn Laureate Fellow Director, Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory Brain & Mind Research Institute University of Sydney

Parsing reward: Amygdala-striatal control of predicted value and choice

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory, Hiroyuki Nahakara, Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience

2012/07/19

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition MiltenyiBiotec K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.3

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/18

10:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition MiltenyiBiotec K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.3

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/17

13:00-16:00

[Other]

Exhibition MiltenyiBiotec K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.3

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/07/13

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Kiriana Cowansage Scripps Research Institute, Laboratory of Mark Mayford

Optogenetic reactivation of a tagged cortical network drives retrieval of context-specific memories

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/07/12

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Teppei Ebina (Tsumoto Lab.), Ryunosuke Amo (Okamoto Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 55th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC

2012/07/10

16:00-17:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Joshua Gordon Columbia University

Hippocampal-­prefrontal synchrony in psychiatric disease models

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/10

14:00-15:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Geoffrey Schoenbaum NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, NIH

DOES THE ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX SIGNAL VALUE?

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/10

09:15-11:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Hiroyuki Nakahara BSI

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/09

16:00-17:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Joshua D Berke University of Michigan

A Gate between Sensation and Action: Basal Ganglia Dynamics and Behavioral Control.

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/09

14:00-15:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Paul E. M. Phillips University of Washington

Coupling value to action: Dopamine, reinforcement learning and decision making

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/06

17:30-18:30

[BSI Socials]

BSI Social

Masao Ito Lounge

Andrzej Cichocki, Noninvasive BMI Unit, BTCC, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Neurobiology of Synapse

2012/07/06

16:00-17:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Gilles Laurent The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/06

14:00-15:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Shigetada Nakanishi Osaka Bioscience Institute

From molecular neuroscience to systems neuroscience

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/06

09:15-11:30

[Summer Program]

Professor Jeff Wickens OIST

"Basal ganglia network"

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/05

16:00-17:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Hitoshi Okamoto BSI

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/05

14:00-15:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Erin M. Schuman The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Local Translation in Neurons

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/05

09:15-11:30

[Summer Program]

Professor Jeff Wickens OIST

"Basal ganglia network"

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/04

14:00-15:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Laura Colgin University of Texas at Austin

Gamma Oscillations in the Hippocampal Network

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/04

09:15-11:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Boston University

Theories of the hippocampal system

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/03

16:00-17:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Francesco P. Battaglia University of Amsterdam Netherlands

Oscillations and Interactions on the hippocampal-prefrontal axis

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/03

14:00-15:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Matthew A. Wilson MIT

Memory replay

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/03

09:15-11:30

[Summer Program]

Dr. Howard Eichenbaum Boston University

Theories of the hippocampal system

Ohkouchi Hall

BSI Summer Program Committee

2012/07/02

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Hiroyasu Furukawa Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Structural Dissection of NMDA Receptor Pharmacology

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yasunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/06/29

10:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.2

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/06/28

15:00-16:30

[Forum]

Dr. George J. Augustine Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore & Center for Functional Connectomics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea Korea

Optogenetic circuit mapping: an update

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Soichi Nagao, Motor Learning Control

2012/06/28

10:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.2

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/06/27

13:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.2

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/06/27

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. R.Allen WAGGONER RIKEN BSI

Simultaneous BOLD fMRI and fiber-optic calcium recording in rat neocortex

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

R.Allen WAGGONER, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/06/22

17:30-18:30

[BSI Socials]

BSI Social

Masao Ito Lounge

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience, Manabu Tanifuji, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/06/22

14:30-15:30

[Forum]

Professor Robert E. Kass Department of Statistics, Machine Learning Department, and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Carnegie Mellon University

A Framework for Statistical Evaluation of Neural Synchrony.

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Hiroyuki Nakahara, Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience

2012/06/22

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Holly Bridge Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford

Investigating the 'visual system' in the absence of light input

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Justin Gardner, Human Systems Neuroscience

2012/06/22

10:00-17:35

[Other]

Mr.Yamamoto Molecular Devices

BOCC Technological Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tetsuya Tajima, Cell Function Dynamics

2012/06/21

13:30-15:00

[BMA Class]

Yoshiyuki Ishii Agilent Technology, Ltd.

39th BMA Class (Japanese Course) Data analysis software for Next Generation Sequencing: Avadis NGS Seminar

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Fukumoto, Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/06/21

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Kukjin Kang (Amari Lab.), Alexey Semyanov (Semyanov Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 54th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/06/21

10:00-12:00

[BMA Class]

Yoshiyuki Ishii Agilent Technology, Ltd.

38th BMA Class (English Course) Data analysis software for Next Generation Sequencing: Avadis NGS Seminar

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Fukumoto, Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/06/20

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Topi TANSKANEN RIKEN BSI

Effects of Long-Term Visual Experience on Responses of Distinct Classes of Single Units in Inferior Temporal Cortex Luke Woloszyn, David L. Sheinberg

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Topi TANSKANEN, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/06/18

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Koji Yamanaka RIKEN BSI, Dr. Tadafumi Kato RIKEN BSI

(1) Neurodegenerative disease, (2) Mood disorder

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/06/18

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

MDSergiu P. Pasca Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Using induced pluripotent stem cells to explore neuronal phenotypes associated with autism spectrum disorders

BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Gianluca Esposito, Affiliative Social Behavior

2012/06/15

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor Mark Schnitzer Stanford University

Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Visualizing the Dynamics of the Neuronal Orchestra in Awake Behaving Animals

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hajime Hirase, Neuron-Glia Circuitry

2012/06/13

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Kazunori O'Hashi RIKEN

Adaptation-induced synchronization in laminar cortical circuits

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kazunori O'Hashi, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/06/12

13:40-14:40

[Forum]

Dr. Naoshige Uchida Center for Brain Science, Harvard University

How do dopamine neurons compute reward prediction error signals?

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar RoomBSI Central Bldg. 1F Conference Room

Toshihiko Hosoya, Local Neuronal Circuits

2012/06/11

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Professor Kiyoto Kasai The University of Tokyo, Dr. Takeo Yoshikawa RIKEN BSI

(1) Schizophrenia, imaging, (2) Schizophrenia, genetics

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/06/08

17:30-18:30

[BSI Socials]

Dr. Tomoki Fukai RIKEN

BSI Social

Masao Ito Lounge

Tomoki Fukai, Neural Circuit Theory, Takaomi C. Saido, Proteolytic Neuroscience

2012/06/08

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Chi-Sang Poon Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Toward real-time multiscale brain modeling on iono-neuromorphic silicon neuron chips.

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Soichi Nagao, Motor Learning Control

2012/06/08

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Noam HAREL Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School

Imaging the Brain at Ultra-High Field MRI: from Basic Science to Clinical Applications

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang CHENG, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI), RRC

2012/06/07

10:00-11:30

[Forum]

Dr. Claudia Clopath Computational Neuroscience, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University

Modeling cerebellar learning

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/06/06

10:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition Life Technologies Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.1

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/06/06

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Xiaohong WAN RIKEN BSI

Neural Mechanisms of Foraging

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Xiaohong WAN, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/06/05

14:00-17:00

[Other]

Exhibition Life Technologies Ltd.

Research Equipment and Materials Exhibition Series No.1

BSI Central Bldg. B1F N008

Chitoshi Itakura, Research Resources Center (RRC)

2012/06/04

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Takaomi Saido, Dr. Motomasa Tanaka RIKEN BSI

(1) Alzheimer, (2) Prion disease

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/06/04

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Chi-Sang Poon Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Toward real-time multiscale brain modeling on iono-neuromorphic silicon neuron chips"

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Soichi Nagao, Motor Learning Control

2012/06/04

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Toshiaki Nakashiba RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The role of dentate gyrus granule cells in pattern separation and pattern completion

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Shigeyoshi Itohara, Behavioral Genetics

2012/05/31

14:00-17:00

[Other]

Dr. Alan Fung RIKEN

Informal Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hiroyasu Ando, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/05/31

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Jarek Rokicki (Cichocki Lab), Shun Tsuruno (Hosoya Lab) RIKEN BSI

The 53rd Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception

2012/05/30

13:30-15:00

[BMA Class]

MathWorks Application Engineers MathWorks

37th BMA Class Basics and Consulting Sessions

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Fukumoto, Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/05/30

13:30-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Mahmood Amiri Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,Razi University

functional contribution of astrocytes in synchronization of neuronal networks

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/05/30

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Farshad A. Mansouri Cognitive Brain Mapping laboratory, RIKEN

“Posterior cingulate cortex mediates outcome-contingent allocation of behavior.”

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Farshad A. Mansouri, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/05/29

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Alberto Pascual-Montano National Center for Biotechnology-CSIC. Madrid

Non-negative Matrix Factorization in Bioinformatics

BSI East Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Andrzej Cichocki, Advanced Brain Signal Processing

2012/05/29

13:30-16:00

[BMA Class]

MathWorks Application Engineers MathWorks

36th BMA Class Basics and Consulting Sessions

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keisuke Fukumoto, Nobuko Mataga, Bio-Material Analysis, RRC

2012/05/29

12:00-13:00

[Other]

PDFA, RIKEN

BSI PDFA introductory meeting

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

PDFA

2012/05/28

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Naotaka Fujii RIKEN BSI

Social behavior

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/05/23

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Justin L. Gardner RIKEN BSI

Attentional Modulations Related to Spatial Gating but Not to Allocation of Limited Resources in Primate V1.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Justin L. Gardner, Human Systems Neuroscience

2012/05/22

17:30-18:30

[BSI Socials]

BSI Social

Masao Ito Lounge

Koji Yamanaka, Motor Neuron Disease, Kazama Hokuto, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception

2012/05/21

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Victor Streltsov CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, and Preventative Health Flagship

Structural characterization of Amyloid-β oligomerization and metal binding in Alzheimer’s disease

BSI Central Bldg. 7F Seminar Room

Nobuyuki Nukina, Structural Neuropathology

2012/05/21

15:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Simon Haykin McMaster University

Cognitive Control and the Human Brain

BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/05/21

13:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Simon Haykin McMaster University

Cognitive Control and the Human Brain

BSI Central Bldg. 5F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/05/21

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Sonja Gruen Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Research Center Juelich, and Theoretical Systems Neurobiology, RWTH Aachen University

Approaches for correlation analysis of massively parallel spike data

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/05/17

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Justin L. Gardner (Gardner Unit), Adam T. Guy (Kamiguchi Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 52nd Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/05/16

09:15-10:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Tsuguo MOGAMI Visual object recognition, Goal-directed behavior, RIKEN

Theta coupling between V4 and prefrontal cortex predicts visual short- term memory performance Stefanie Liebe, Gregor M Hoerzer, Nikos K Logothetis, Gregor Rainer

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tsuguo MOGAMI, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/05/14

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Hitoshi Okamoto RIKEN BSI, Dr. Joshua P. Johansen RIKEN BSI

Emotion

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/05/11

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor Misha Tsodyks Weizmann Institute of Science Israel

Synaptic Theory of Working Memory

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/05/09

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Ji Hoon Yoo Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA

Optogenetic silencing of the indirect-pathway medium spiny neurons using Cre-dependent optogenetic transgenic mice

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/05/09

13:30-17:10

[Forum]

Dr. Misha Tsodyks Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Christopher L. Buckley RIKEN BSI, Dr. Sungho Hong Okinawa Institue of Science and Technology Gradutate University (OIST), Dr. Jun-nosuke Teramae RIKEN BSI, Dr. Erik De Schutter Okinawa Institue of Science and Technology Gradutate University (OIST)

Circuit Function of the Brain

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomoki Fukai, Neural Circuit Theory

2012/05/09

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Seiichirou Yokoo RIKEN BSI

Curvature Processing Dynamics in Macaque Area V4 Jeffrey M. Yau1, Anitha Pasupathy2, Scott L. Brincat3 and Charles E. Connor1

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Seiichirou Yokoo, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/05/08

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Seiichirou Yokoo RIKEN BSI

Adaptation maintains population homeostasis in primary visual cortex by Andrea Benucci, Aman B Saleem & Matteo Carandini

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Seiichirou Yokoo, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/05/07

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Kumi Kuroda RIKEN BSI

Parent-infant relationship

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/04/26

16:30-17:30

[Forum]

Dr. Mikio Hoshino Department of Biochemistry & Cellular Biology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP)

Molecular strategy to produce distinct types of neurons in the cerebellum and dorsal telencephalon

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/04/26

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Hitomi Tsuiji (Yamanaka Lab.), Toru Yanagawa (Fujii Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 51st Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception

2012/04/25

16:00-18:00

[Forum]

Dr. Yumiko Yamazaki Keio University & RIKEN BSI, Lab. for Symbolic Cognitive Development, Dr. Hiroaki Kanki Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University, Dr. Zachary Lin Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University

BoM Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Atsushi Iriki, Symbolic Cognitive Development

2012/04/25

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Manabu Tanifuji RIKEN BSI

A novel approach in the cross validation test in our computational study of visual feature representation in IT cortex.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Manabu Tanifuji, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/04/24

16:30-17:30

[Forum]

Dr. Mikio Hoshino Department of Biochemistry & Cellular Biology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP)

Molecular strategy to produce distinct types of neurons in the cerebellum and dorsal telencephalon

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/04/24

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Professor Toru Takumi Hiroshima University School of Medicine

A mouse model for 15q duplication towards understanding the pathophysiology of autism

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/04/23

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Professor Yasushi Miyashita The University of Tokyo, Dr. Hokto Kazama RIKEN BSI

(1) Learning and memory 3 primate, (2) Drosophila

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/04/23

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Akihiro Goto Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University

PKA modulates neurite outgrowth and neuronal migration by controlling Rac1 activity in a spatio-temporal manner.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yasunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/04/19

16:00-17:30

[Forum]

Dr. Takashi Kodama System Neurobiology Lab at Salk Institute (P.I.; Sascha du Lac)

Molecular Dissection of Behaviors

BSI Central Bldg. 4F Seminar Room

Soichi Nagao, Motor Learning Control

2012/04/18

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Kang Cheng RIKEN BSI

Localized microstimulation of primate pregenual cingulate cortex induces negative decision-making

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang Cheng, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI), RRC

2012/04/17

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

DirectorFusao Kato Laboratory of Neurophysiology Jikei University School of Medicine, Associate ProfessorAyako Watabe Jikei University School of Medicine

Nociception-Emotion Link in the Central Amygdala

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/04/16

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Professor Masato Okada The University of Tokyo

Information theory

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/04/13

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University and the Santa Fe Institute

Brains, Genes and Language Evolution

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiichi Kitajo, Rhythm-based Brain Information Processing Unit, BTCC

2012/04/13

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Kang CHENG RIKEN BSI

Localized microstimulation of primate pregenual cingulate cortex induces negative decision-making

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang CHENG, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI), RRC

2012/04/12

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Keisuke Ota (Murayama Lab.), Shingo Shimoda (Shimoda Lab.) RIKEN BSI

The 50th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/04/11

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Fumitoshi Irie Staff Scientist, Sanford Children's Health Research Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Autism-like socio-communicative deficits and stereotypies in mice lacking heparan sulfate.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yoshio Hirabayashi, Molecular Membrane Neuroscience

2012/04/11

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Christoph David Dahl Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University

Processing social information in primates

BSI WEST, 1F Seminar Room

Manabu Tanifuji, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/04/11

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Noriko Katsumata RIKEN BSI

Cell-Type-Specific Synchronization of Neural Activity in FEF with V4 during Attention.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Noriko Katsumata, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/04/06

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor John Assad Harvard Medical School

Associations and Decisions in Parietal Cortex

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Justin L. Gardner, Human Systems Neuroscience

2012/04/04

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Denis Jabaudon Developmental neurobiology and plasticity, University of Geneva of Medicine Switzerland

In vivo reprogramming of circuit connectivity in postmitotic neocortical neurons

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomomi Shimogori, Molecular Mechanisms of Thalamus Development

2012/04/04

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. ChienHui, Kao RIKEN BSI

Perceptual learning incepted by decoded fMRI neurofeedback without stimulus presentation.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/04/02

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Yasunori Hayashi RIKEN BSI

Learning and memory 2 synapse

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/04/02

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Asoke K Nandi Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics The University of Liverpool

Analysis of ongoing EEG elicited by natural music stimuli using nonnegative tensor factorization

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Andrzej Cichock, Advanced Brain Signal Processing

2012/03/28

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Takayasu Higo Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping, RIKEN

Choice-specific sequences in parietal cortex during a virtual-navigation decision task.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takayasu Higo, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/03/26

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Thomas J. McHugh RIKEN BSI

Learning and memory 1

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/03/26

14:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Hamid Krim ECE Dept., NCSU, Dr. Masami Tatsuno University of Lethbridge

Activity Classification from Video Sequences, Application of information geometry for estimation of connection strength

BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/03/23

17:00-18:30

[BSI Socials]

Kato & Yamanaka Labs RIKEN

BSI Social

Masao Ito Lounge

Kato Lab, Yamanaka Lab

2012/03/23

14:30-15:30

[Forum]

Dr. Alessandro Foi Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technolog Finland

Sparse image representation in nonlocal transform domain and its application to the removal of Gaussian and non-Gaussian noise and to the reconstruction of images from incomplete measurements.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Alexey Semyanov, Extrasynaptic Signaling

2012/03/22

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Wolf B. Frommer Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science

Functional optical coherence tomography reveals 3-dimensional brain function

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Atsushi Miyawaki, Cell Function Dynamics

2012/03/22

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Asuka Matsui (Shimogori Lab), Nilton Kamiji (Usui Lab) RIKEN BSI

The 49th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/03/21

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Akiko Kobayashi Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Rapid synthesis of the X-linked mental retardation protein Oligophrenin-1 (OPHN-1) mediates mGluR-dependent LTD

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yaunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/03/21

10:00-11:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. Yu Nakamichi Lab. for Integrative Neural Systems (Tanifuji Lab).

Functional optical coherence tomography reveals 3-dimensional brain function

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yu Nakamich, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/03/19

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Masaki Isoda, Dr. Kevin McCairn, OIST

Basal ganglia 1&2

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/03/19

16:00-17:30

[Other]

Dr. Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Netherlands

FIRST Program Special Seminar:Neurogenetic pathways implicated in speech and language disorders

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Atsushi Iriki, Symbolic Cognitive Development

2012/03/19

10:30-12:00

[Forum]

Professor Jenny Saffran University of Wisconsin-Madison

Beyond nature vs. nurture: Changing views of infant language acquisition

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Reiko Mazuka, Language Development

2012/03/15

13:00-17:10

[Symposium]

Dr. Tadashi Sugihara, Dr. Andrzej Cichocki, Dr. Hideyuki Cateau, Dr. Keiichi Kitajo, Dr. Shingo Shimoda, Dr. Zenas Chao, Director Hidenori Kimura, Dr. Shun-ichi Amari

Closing Symposium of BSI-Toyota Collaboration Center

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hidenori Kimura, RIKEN BSI -TOYOTA Collaboration Center (BTCC)

2012/03/13

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Kazu Nakazawa National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

GABAergic interneurons and schizophrenia pathophysiology

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Shigeyoshi Itohara, Behavioral Genetics

2012/03/12

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Thomas Launey RIKEN BSI

Cerebellum

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/03/12

15:00

[Forum]

Professor Michael A. Arbib University of Southern California, USA

Evolving The Direct Path In Praxis As A Bridge To Duality Of Patterning In Language

BSI Central Bldg. 2F Seminar Room

Shun-ichi Amari, Mathematical Neuroscience

2012/03/12

10:30

[Forum]

Dr. Arvind Kumar Bernstein Center Freiburg, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg

Dynamics of spiking activity in the striatum and its role in Parkinson's disease related oscillations in the basal ganglia.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomoki Fukai, Neural Circuit Theory

2012/03/09

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor Kaoru Inokuchi University of Toyama

Functional Roles of Adult Neurogenesis in Learning and Memory

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Toshihiko Hosoya, Local Neuronal Circuits

2012/03/08

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Song-Hai Shi Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

Neocortex development: from neurogenesis to microcircuit assembly

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yaunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/03/08

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Muto Lab, Hashikawa Unit

The 48th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/03/07

11:00

[Forum]

Dr. Edoardo Charbon TU Delft, Netherlands

Time-Resolved Photon-Counting Cameras: A New Generation of Tools for Fluorescence Imaging

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Atsushi Miyawaki, Cell Function Dynamics

2012/03/07

10:00-10:40

[Journal Club]

Research Associate, Mr. Takayuki SATO Lab. for Integrative Neural Systems (Tanifuji Lab)

The Effects of Prefrontal Cortex Inactivation on Object Responses of Single Neurons in the Inferotemporal Cortex during Visual Search

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Takayuki SATO, Integrative Neural Systems

2012/03/05

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Tomoki Fukai RIKEN BSI

Computational models of decision making

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/02/29

10:00

[Journal Club]

Dr. R.Allen WAGGONER RIKEN BSI

Temporally-independent functional modes of spontaneous brain activity

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

R.Allen WAGGONER, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/02/28

13:30-14:30

[Forum]

Dr. Miho Terunuma Tufts University School of Medicine

Regulated postsynaptic GABAB receptor signaling is critical for spatial memory

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hajime Hirase, Neuron-Glia Circuitry

2012/02/28

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Seungjin Choi Pohang University of Science and Technology

Deep Multi-View Learning

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Andrzej Cichocki, Advanced Brain Signal Processing

2012/02/24

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Hsin-I LIAO Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Consolidates and Retrieves Visual Awareness

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Kang Cheng, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI), RRC

2012/02/23

15:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Luca Aquili Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Learning from contextual stimuli and feedback: single-neuron recording and optogenetics to study determinants of action

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/02/23

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Keiichi Kitajo (Kitajo Unit), Yuki Kobayashi (Itohara Lab) RIKEN BSI

The 47th Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/02/23

09:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Mark Sherwood RIKEN BSI

Thursday Morning Seminar for Synapse

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Mark Sherwood, Developmental Neurobiology

2012/02/22

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Hirohide Iwasaki Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Connectomic approaches to explore the wiring diagram of the brain

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Thomas Launey, Synaptic Molecules of Memory Persistence

2012/02/20

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Keiji Tanaka RIKEN BSI

Cognition and executive function

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/02/20

14:00-15:30

[Forum]

Dr. Makoto Hara Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Adrenergic effects on the genome: a stress response pathway regulates DNA damage through β2-adrenergic receptors.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/02/20

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Dr. Gord Fishell NYU Langone Medical Center

The Role of Genetic Programs and Activity in the Development of Cortical Interneuron Diversity

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomomi Shimogori, Molecular Mechanisms of Thalamus Development

2012/02/17

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor Istvan Mody University of California, Los Angeles

Tonic Barriers on the Road to Functional Recovery after Stroke

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Alexey Semyanov, Extrasynaptic Signaling

2012/02/14

10:00-11:30

[Forum]

Dr. Irina Voineagu Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute

Functional Genomic Studies of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Charles Yokoyama

2012/02/13

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Justin L. Gardner RIKEN BSI

Attention and Consciousness

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/02/13

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Karen Zito Assistant Professor, Center for Neuroscience, University of California Davis

Activity-dependent regulation of dendritic spine growth and stabilization

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Yaunori Hayashi, Memory Mechanisms

2012/02/09

14:00-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. David J. Price The University of Edinburgh

The function of the Pax6 gene in early forebrain development

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomomi Shimogori, Molecular Mechanisms of Thalamus Development

2012/02/09

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Cheng Lab., Nukina Lab. RIKEN BSI

BSI Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/02/08

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Justin L. Gardner RIKEN BSI

Metamers of the ventral stream

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Justin L. Gardner, Human Systems Neuroscience

2012/02/07

15:30-16:30

[Forum]

Professor Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization, Mr.Toru Nakahara Deputy Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization

Seminar on the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

Room 435-437, 4F, Main Research Bldg.

Reiji Nagashima

2012/02/06

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Tadaharu Tsumoto RIKEN BSI

Critical period and plasticity

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/02/06

13:30-15:00

[Forum]

Dr. Vladimir Klinshov Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

Nonlinear dynamical approach in neuroscience: from neuron to complex circuits.

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Tomoki Fukai, Neural Circuit Theory

2012/02/03

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Sonoko Ogawa Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology University of Tsukuba

The Role of Two Types of Estrogen Receptors in the Regulation of Mouse Behavior

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/02/01

15:00-16:00

[Forum]

Dr. Anton V. Chizhov Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of RAS, St.Petersburg

Biophysically detailed mathematical model of primary visual cortex:

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tomoki Fukai, Neural Circuit Theory

2012/02/01

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Topi Tanskanen RIKEN BSI

A Common, High-Dimensional Model of the Representational Space in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Topi Tanskanen, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/01/30

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Manabu Tanifuji RIKEN BSI

Vision and audition

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/01/27

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. Akira Muto Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Genetics

Visualization of the brain activity during visual perception with the new GCaMPs

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Masaaki Sato,Memory Mechanisms

2012/01/26

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Marie Wintzer (McHugh Lab.), Naoko Tomioka (Aruga Lab.) RIKEN BSI

BSI Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/01/26

09:30-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Moritoshi Hirono, BSI

Identification of an inhibitory circuit that regulates cerebellar Golgi cell activity

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Moritoshi Hirono, Motor Learning Control

2012/01/25

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Tsuguo Mogami RIKEN-BSI

Integrating What and When Across the Primate Medial Temporal Lobe

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Tsuguo Mogami, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/01/23

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Yoshihiro Yoshihara RIKEN BSI

Olfaction and taste

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/01/20

16:00-17:30

[BSI Seminar Series (BSS)]

Professor Nobutaka Hirokawa, M.D., Ph.D. The University of Tokyo

Intracellular Transport and Kinesin Superfamily Proteins, KIFs: Key Molecules for Brain Development, Wiring and Learning /Memory

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Etsuko Muto, Molecular Biophysics

2012/01/19

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Dr. George Dragoi The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/01/19

14:00-17:00

[Workshop]

Dr. Makiko Takahashi RIKEN Wako Institute, Deputy Director Shigekazu Saito RIKEN Kobe Institute, Dr. Hideo Yokota RIKEN ASI, Dr. Koji Ikado RIKEN Wako Institute, Dr. Charles Yokoyama RIKEN BSI

Workshop for Research Administration

BSI Ito Masao lounge

Hroaki Taniguchi, Genetic Control of Neuronal Architecture

2012/01/19

09:30-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Le Dinh Tung Lab. for Motor Learning Control, BSI

Subsynaptic AMPA Receptor Distribution Is Acutely Regulated by Actin-Driven Reorganization of the Postsynaptic Density

BSI Central Bldg. 3F Seminar Room

Le Dinh Tung, Motor Learning Control

2012/01/18

10:00-10:30

[Journal Club]

Dr. Seiichirou Yokoo Cognitive Brain Mapping Lab., BSI RIKEN

Anatomical connectivity patterns predict face selectivity in the fusiform gyrus.

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Seiichirou Yokoo, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/01/18

09:00-15:00

[Symposium]

Dr. Byoung-Il Bae, Dr. Andrea Brand, Dr. Shigeyoshi Itohara, Dr. Pentao Liu, Dr. Fumio Matsuzaki, Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Dr. Takaki Miyata, Dr. Toru Nakano, Dr. Jennifer Nichols, Dr. Hitoshi Niwa, Dr. Toshiaki Noce, Dr. Hideyuki Okano, Dr. John Parnavelas, Dr. William Richardson, Dr. Erika Sasaki, Dr. Tomomi Shimogori

FIRST Program “Strategic Exploitation of Neuro-Genetics for Emergence of the Mind” International Symposium: “Neural Development: Stem Cell Perspective”

Kitakan Hall, Keio University Mita Campus

RIKEN Brain Science Institute & the British Embassy in Tokyo

2012/01/17

13:00-14:00

[Forum]

Dr. Kenji Mizuseki Rutgers University (Buzsaki lab)

Temporal coordination of neuronal activity in the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hajime Hirase, Neuron-Glia Circuitry

2012/01/17

09:30-17:40

[Symposium]

Dr. Byoung-Il Bae, Dr. Andrea Brand, Dr. Shigeyoshi Itohara, Dr. Pentao Liu, Dr. Fumio Matsuzaki, Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Dr. Takaki Miyata, Dr. Toru Nakano, Dr. Jennifer Nichols, Dr. Hitoshi Niwa, Dr. Toshiaki Noce, Dr. Hideyuki Okano, Dr. John Parnavelas, Dr. William Richardson, Dr. Erika Sasaki, Dr. Tomomi Shimogori

FIRST Program “Strategic Exploitation of Neuro-Genetics for Emergence of the Mind” International Symposium: “Neural Development: Stem Cell Perspective”

Kitakan Hall, Keio University Mita Campus

RIKEN Brain Science Institute & the British Embassy in Tokyo

2012/01/16

16:30-19:30

[Brain Science Training Program]

Dr. Hitoshi Okamoto RIKEN BSI

Genetics and genetic technology

BSI Central Bldg. 6F Seminar Room

BSI Brain Science Training Program 2011 Organizing Committee

2012/01/12

12:00-13:00

[Brain Lunch]

Shinsuke Suzuki (Nakahara lab), Mai Iwasaki (Hessler lab) BSI

BSI Brain Lunch Seminar

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hokto Kazama, Circuit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception, Taro Toyoizumi, Neural Computation and Adaptation

2012/01/12

10:00-11:00

[Forum]

Dr. Ben Seymour University College London

The computational neuroscience of pain

BSI East Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Joshua P. Johansen, Neural Circuitry of Memory

2012/01/10

11:00-12:00

[Forum]

Professor Mehrdad JAZAYERI Department of Physiology and Biophysics

A Neural Mechanism for Tracking Elapsed Time in Sensorimotor Function

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Keiji Tanaka, Cognitive Brain Mapping

2012/01/06

16:00-17:00

[Forum]

Professor Christine Dambly-Chaudiere University Montpellier 2, Dr. Alain Ghysen INSERM

Embryonic development of the posterior lateral line in zebrafish.

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Hitoshi Okamoto, Developmental Gene Regulation

2012/01/05

13:30-15:00

[Forum]

Professor Chien-Wen Chen Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge

Study of PolyQ Disease: From Screening to Biological Studies

BSI Central Bldg. 1F Seminar Room

Motomasa Tanaka, Protein Conformation Diseases