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Summer term 2012

Date Lecture Location &Time
12.04. BCCN Eugene Izhikevich, Brain Corporation, San Diego 
"Large-Scale Modeling of the Brain" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:00
16.04. GRK Mike Mustari, Wahington 
"Neural Mechanisms for Smooth Pursuit in Normal and Strabismic Primates" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer & Ulrich Büttner 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
23.04. GRK Hermann Müller, Giessen  LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
30.04. GRK Daniel Braun, MPI Tübingen 
"Risk-sensitivity in motor control" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
07.05. MCN Harald Luksch, Lehrstuhl für Zoologie, TU München 
"The vertebrate midbrain - cells, circuits, concepts"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
11.05. BCCN Ian C. Bruce, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 
"Modelling power-law adaptation and fractal fluctuations in excitability of auditory nerve fibers" 
Host: Werner Hemmert 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.027 
10:00
14.05. GRK Pieter Medendorp, Radboud University Nijmegen 
"Sensory integration in state estimation and motor learning" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
21.05. SFB Martyn Goulding , Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 
"Making Mice Behave Badly: Functional Dissection of the Neural Circuits that Control Movement"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
04.06. MCN Arthur Konnerth, TU München 
"Functional mapping of dendritic spines in cortical neurons in vivo"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.015 
18:15
11.06. GRK John van Opstal, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen 
"Dynamic probabilistic control of visual, auditory, and audiovisual saccades"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
18.06. BCCN Henning Scheich, Leibniz Institut für Neurobiologie Magdeburg 
"The cognitive auditory cortex" 
Host: Leo van Hemmen 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
19.06. Henning Scheich, Leibniz Institut für Neurobiologie Magdeburg 
"Multimodal integration in electric fish: The importance of the right context" 
Host: Leo van Hemmen 		Technical University Munich, Physik Department Garching, HS 3344 
10:00
25.06. BCCN Dirk Jancke, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 
Host: Thomas Wachtler 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
02.07. MCN Martin Korte, TU Braunschweig 
"Keeping the balance between change and stability: cellular correlates of learning and memory and the role of NogoA"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
09.07. BCCN Mark McDonnell, (University of South Australia) 
"Stochastic resonance and other benefits of randomness in neural systems: Bridging theory and experiment" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
16.07. GRK Klaas Enno Stephan, University of Zürich 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
17.07. BCCN Andreas Elepfandt, Humboldt Universität Berlin 
"Lateral-line scene analysis" 
Host: J. Leo van Hemmen 		Physik Department, TUM, Seminar Room 3024, Garching 
15:30

Winter term 2011/12

Date Lecture Location &Time
12.09. BCCN Amir Amedi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel &Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
17.10. MCN Andreas Herz, BCCN Munich 
"Towards understanding the neural basis of spatial navigation" 
Host: Oliver Behrend 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
24.10. GRK Jozsef Laczko, Budapest 
"Variances of hand position, arm configuration and muscle activities in voluntary arm movements" 
Host: Andreas Straube 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
24.10. GRK Roberta Klatzky, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh 
"Spatial representation across the senses" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
31.10. BCCN Andreas Draguhn, University of Heidelberg 
"Cellular mechanisms of assembly formation in the hippocampus – how does a neuron know its friends?" 
Host: Christian Leibold 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
07.11. MCN Stephan Schleim, Theory and History of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Groningen 
"The brain in context instead of neuro-authority: The examples of free will and dangerous brains" 
Host: Oliver Behrend 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
14.11. GRK !!! CANCELLED -- Kerstin Schill -- CANCELLED !!!, 
14.11. BCCN/GRK !! CANCELLED -- Anthony N. Burkitt / K. Schill, 
21.11. BCCN
21.11. BCCN Jörg Conrad; Thomas Stark; Hans Straka; Andreas Vollmayr, 
"Presentation of Proposals for the Bernstein Transfer Projects 2011" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
28.11. GRK John Rothwell, UCL London 
"Probabilistic motor learning in healthy volunteers and patients with Parkinson's disease studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation" 
Host: Andreas Straube 		Klinikums Campus Großhadern: Marchioninistraße 15; Hörsaal 1 
17:30
05.12. MCN
05.12. MCN May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 
"Computing space and memories: a challenge for the brain" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		NQ105, MPIN, Am Klopferspitz 18, Martinsried 
11:00
12.12. GRK
18:15
19.12. BCCN Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Radboud University Nijmegen 
"Learning precisely timed patterns of spikes" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
19.12. BCCN Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Radboud University Nijmegen 
"Nonlinear dendrites in complex neural networks" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
09.01. MCN John Hopfield, Princeton University 
"Emergent dynamics: from neurons to higher mental processes and behavior" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
16.01. MCN CANCELLED -- Josh Sanes -- CANCELLED, Harvard University 
23.01. BCCN
23.01. BCCN Christian Machens, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris 
"Computational and optogenetic dissection of the oculomotor integrator circuit" 
Host: Jan Benda 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
30.01. BCCN Jean Laurens, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri 
"Neural representation of head motion in the vestibulo-cerebellum of the macaque." 
Host: Stefan Glasauer & Paul Mac Neilage 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
06.02. MCN
06.02. MCN Dirk Trauner, LMU München 
"Optochemical Genetics"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
08.02. BCCN Francesca Cacucci, Ileana Hanganu-Opatz,Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, Anton Sirota, Carsten Wotjak , 
"Symposium Cognition and Neural Plasticity"  		Hörsaal I; Klinikum der Universität München, Campus Großhadern 
9:00
26.03. BCCN Fritz Sommer, Redwood Center, UC Berkeley 
"Combining compressed sensing and representational learning: How regions in the brain can communicate without loss of information" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:00
28.03. BCCN Klaus Wunderlich, UCL London 
"Multiple forms of value based decision making in the human brain" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter - seminar room computational neuroscience 
11:30

Summer term 2011

Date Lecture Location &Time
02.03. GRK Yutaka Hirata, Dept. Computer Science, Chubu University College of Engineering 
"The pupil and the VOR" 
Host: Erich Schneider 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
04.04. BCCN Michael Markham, University of Texas at Austin 
"Circadian and social cues regulate ion channel trafficking in electric fish." 
Host: Rüdiger Krahe, Jan Benda 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:30
04.04. GRK Claude Prablanc, UMR 864 IMPACT- Espace et Action 
"Online visomotor control and adaptation" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer, Andreas Straube 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:00
02.05. BCCN Eric Fortune, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 
"Neural basis of a cooperative behavior" 
Host: Rüdiger Krahe 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:30
02.05. MCN Guy Deutscher, St John's College, Cambridge 
"Brain and language: What a linguist would like to know about the brain " 
Host: Oliver Behrend 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
09.05. BCCN Ron Meir, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Technion, Haifa 
"Slow dynamics of neuronal excitability under pulse stimulation" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
12.05. GRK Karl Kandler, Departments of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Eye and Ear Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. 
"Mechanisms underlying tonotopic refinement of an inhibitory pathway" 
Host: Benedikt Grothe 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
16.05. GRK Gregor Schöner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 
"Neurally grounding embodied cognition through Dynamic Field Theory" 
Host: Melanie Krüger 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
16.05. BCCN Elad Schneidman, Weizmann Institute of Science 
"Sparse high-order interaction network underlies a highly correlated and learnable neural population code" 
Host: Alex Loebel, Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
23.05. BCCN Heiko Neumann, Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm 
"Neural mechanisms of motion perception – from experiments to neural models" 
Host: Thomas Wachtler and Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
30.05. BCCN/GRK LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
06.06. MCN Hans-Joachim Pflüger, Institut fuer Biologie, Neurobiologie Berlin 
"How the biogenic amines, tyramine and octopamine, control insect behaviour" 
Host: Oliver Behrend 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
20.06. BCCN 
Double Lecture		 a) Simon Rumpel, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria 
Monitoring and photolabeling neuronal populations in the mouse auditory cortex in vivo. 
b) Jens Starke, DTU, Kopenhagen 
"Analysis and Mathematical Modelling of Complex Nonlinear Processes in the Olfactory System" 
Host: Andreas Herz , van Hemmen 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00 
17:30
27.06. BCCN 
Double Lecture		 a) Stefen Ewert, University Oldenburg 
On the role of envelope waveform and adaptation in processing of interaural time differences of high-frequency sounds
b) Robert J. van Beers, VU University Amsterdam 
"Motor learning in the presence of sensory and motor noise." 
Host: Lutz Wiegrebe , Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00 
17:30
27.06. GRK Robert J. van Beers, VU University Amsterdam 
"Motor learning in the presence of sensory and motor noise." 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
28.06. BCCN Barry J. Richmond, NIH, Bethesda 
"When is it worth working: Studies of the neurobiological basis of motivation and stimulus-outcome in monkeys"  		MPI of Neurobiology Seminar room NQ 105 
11:00
29.06. BCCN Barry J. Richmond, NIH, Bethesda 
"Neural codes: where we are, where we need to be, and how to get there?"  		LMU Biozentrum, Seminar room D01.018/20 ("Bernstein Aquarium") 
9:00
29.06. BCCN Werner Gnatzy, Uni Frankfurt/Main; Biologie 
"Grabwespe gegen Grille: Neurobiologie einer Räuber-Beute-Beziehung" 
Host: Leo van Hemmen 		Seminarraum Humanbiologie; Weihenstephan 
17:00
04.07. MCN Jonathan Fritz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland 
"From Sound to Meaning – Dynamic Transformations in Auditory Signal-Processing" 
Host: Oliver Behrend 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
11.07. GRK Barry Seemungal, London 
"Investigating human visuo-vestibular function with transcranial magnetic stimulation" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
11.07. GRK Joachim Hermsdoerfer, Technische Universität München 
"Motor anticipation in everyday object manipulation" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
18.07. BCCN Mike Hasselmo, Center for Memory and Brain, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Boston University 
Host: Steffen Gais 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
25.07. GRK 
Double Lecture		 a) Marc Ernst, Tübingen 
Multisensory Perception: From Integration to Remapping
b) Johannes Burge, 
"Optimally estimating defocus and binocular disparity in images of natural scenes" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer , Paul Mc Neilage 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00 
17:30

Winter term 2010/11

Date Lecture Location &Time
02.09. BCCN Karel Svoboda, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 
"Optical dissection of the cortical circuits underlying somatosensation" 
Host: Alex Loebel, Falko Hampel, Hubert Eichner 		T-Building, MPI of Neurobiology 
11:00
18.10. MCN Ed Rubel, Washington 
"From plasticity to stability of brain circuitry: A lesson from studies of cell death and cellsurvival in the cochlear nucleus" 
Host: Benedikt Grothe 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
20.10. CNS seminar Beatriz Rico, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante Developmental Neurobiology Unit CSIC-University Miguel Hernández 
"On the assembly of neural circuits: Neuregulins and GABAergic synapses" 
Host: Benedikt Berninger 		Seminar Room C0.07 Schillerstrasse 46 Institute of Physiological Genomics, LMU 
18:00
21.10. BCCN Susan Udin, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo 
"Development and Plasticity of Binocular Maps in the Clawed Frog Xenopus" 
Host: Leo van Hemmen 		LMU Biocenter, Seminarraum B 03.015 
15:00
22.10. CNS seminar Jason Christie, Max Planck Florida Institute 
"Calcium-dependent modulation of release by somatic depolarization" 
Host: Andreas Herz 		CNS Seminar Room: D01.018 (Aquarium) 
11:00
25.10. BCCN Matthias Bethge, Universität Tübingen 
"An analytically tractable model of neural population activity in the presence of common input explains higher-order correlations and entropy" 
Host: Thomas Wachtler 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
08.11. MCN Laurenz Wiskott, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 
"Slow Feature Analysis: Learning with the Slowness Principle " 
Host: Oliver Behrend 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
15.11. BCCN Charles A. Miller, Department of Otolaryngology University of Iowa 
"Responses of auditory nerve fibers to electric stimuli: an overview" 
Host: Werner Hemmert 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
15.11. GRK Jean Blouin, Neurobiology and Cognition Laboratory CNRS, University of Provence, Marseille 
"Vestibular control of arm movement" 
Host: Stefan Glasauer 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
29.11. BCCN 
Double Lecture		 a) Michael Herzog, EPFL Lausanne 
Impossible Perceptual learning
b) Rolf Pfeifer, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich 
"On the role of morphology and materials in intelligent behavior - the four messages of embodiment" 
Host: Thomas Wachtler , Harald Luksch 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:30 
18:15
06.12. GRK Simon Eickhoff, Aachen 
"Multimodal imaging of sensory-motor structure, function and connectivity" 
Host: Marianne Dieterich 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:45
06.12. MCN Michael Frotscher, Universität Freiburg 
"Role for Reelin instabilizing cortical architecture in the mature brain" 
Host: Benedikt Grothe 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
13.12. BCCN Rüdiger Krahe, McGill University, Department of Biology 
"Coding of the stimulus envelope in the sensory periphery"  		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00
13.12. BCCN Sen Cheng, Universität Bochum 
"From grid cells to place cells: A generic and robust principle" 
Host: Christian Leibold 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
20.12. BCCN Greg Stephens, Princeton 
"Do we click? Speaker-listener neural coupling underlies successful communication" 
Host: Alex Loebel 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:30
10.01. MCN Michael Shadlen, Washington 
"Believing and Time: A Neural Mechanism for Decision Making " 
Host: Benedikt Grothe 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
17.01. BCCN 
Double Lecture		 a) John Middlebrooks, University of California, Irvine 
Spatial Hearing for Auditory Scene Analysis
b) Anton Sirota, Universität Tübingen 
"Slow global and fast local oscillations in neocortico-hippocampal networks : towards the mechanisms of memory" 
Host: Werner Hemmert , Christian Leibold 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00 
18:00
24.01. GRK Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt 
"Learning with multiple forms of neuronal plasticity" 
Host: Christian Leibold 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
31.01. GRK 
Double Lecture		 a) Christian Maihöfner, Erlangen 
Neuropathische Schmerzsyndrome und Neuroplastizität in der funktionellen Bildgebung
b) Ruth Ruscheweyh, Münster 
"Pain modulation by spinal mechanisms" 
Host: Andreas Straube 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:00 
17:30
07.02. BCCN Bernhard Ronacher, HU Berlin 
"Processing of temporal information in a small nervous system" 
Host: Jan Benda and Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
16:30
07.02. MCN Frank Sengpiel, Cardiff 
"Experience-dependent plasticity in the visual cortex: how to prevent or treat amblyopia" 
Host: Grothe 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
18:15
10.02. CNS seminar Bahmer, Plant, Schaette, Shechter, 
"Kolloquium „Computational Neuroscience“" 
Host: Werner Hemmert 		TU München Boltzmannstr. 11, GARCHING IMETUM Hörsaal 
9:30
14.02. BCCN Gilad Silberberg, Stockholm 
"Dynamics of Inhibition in Cortical and Striatal Microcircuits" 
Host: Alex Loebel and Andreas Herz 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30
21.02. GRK Denise Henriques, Toronto 
"Multisensory interaction in arm motor control." 
Host: Andreas Straube 		LMU Biocenter, Room B01.019 
17:30