Chalk Talk Series Fall 2002

Monday 2002/9/30 12:30 pm CNL conference room	David Linden, Johns Hopkins* Teaching the teacher long-term depression of the cerebellar climbing fiber-Purkinje cell synapse
Friday 2002/10/11 4 pm CNL conference room	Paul Shaw, Neurosciences Institute Stress response genes protect against the lethal effects of sleep deprivation in Drosophila melanogaster
Friday 2002/10/18 4 pm CNL conference room	Sara Mednick, Harvard University The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration.
Friday 2002/10/25 4 pm CNL conference room	Eugene Izhikevich, Neurosciences Institute Bursts as a unit of neural information: selective communication via resonance
Thursday 2002/11/14 4 pm CNL conference room	Bill Kristan, UCSD Local Bending in the Medicinal Leech
Monday 2002/11/18 12 noon CNL conference room	Ellen Covey, U. Washington* From bats to Bach and bad puns: How brain mechanisms for echolocation can help us understand humans' perception of sound sequences
Thursday 2002/12/5 2.30 pm CNL conference room	Alan Gelperin, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA Enigma of odor representations in the olfactory bulb**

Sloan-Swartz Center chalk talks are informal seminars for discussing problems in theoretical neuroscience and allied fields.

For the schedule of Sloan-Swartz Chalk Talks in 2003 see http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~jutta/ChalkTalks02_03.html.

* Speaker available courtesy of the UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program.
** Speaker available courtesy of the UCSD Institute for Nonlinear Science.

The Sloan-Swartz Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies expresses its appreciation to the organizers of UCSD's NSGP and INLS for sharing their speakers with us.

To schedule a talk contact jutta@salk.edu

Last update: 12/30/2002