Lab Meetings
–Summer 2019–
Tuesdays 4PM in Franz 2268.
6/11/19- Melissa
6/18/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
6/25/19- no meet
7/2/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
7/9/19- Mason
7/16/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
7/23/19- no meet
7/30/19- Ana etc. GRC Amygdala Prep
8/6/19- no meet
8/13/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
8/20/19- Jamie Mondello (Fanselow lab)
8/27/19- no meet
9/3/19- no meet
9/10/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
9/17/19-
9/24/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
Past Meetings
–Spring/Summer 2019–
Tuesdays 4PM in Franz 2268.
4/2/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
4/9/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
4/16/19- Baila
4/23/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
4/30/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
5/7/19- Alex
5/14/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
5/21/19- Nina
5/28/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
6/4/18- Ana
–Winter 2019–
Tuesdays 4PM in Franz 2268.
1/8/19-Round Table & 2019 goal setting
1/15/19- Cassie: prep for J-Club: The timing of action determines reward prediction signals in identified midbrain dopamine neurons
1/22/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
1/29/19- no meet, WinterBrain
2/5/19- Alex
2/12/19- no meet, Kate @WCNP
2/19/19- Round table- Behavior best practices
2/26/19- Nina: Interacting neural ensembles in orbitofrontal cortex for social and feeding behaviour
3/5/19- no meet
3/12/19- Round table
3/19/19- Melissa
3/26/19- no meet, Kate @Marquette
4/2/19- Ana
4/9/19- Round table, bring your latest data, papers and questions
–Fall 2018–
Tuesdays 4PM in Franz 2268.
9/25/18- No meet Kate @ Harvard
10/2/18- Wassum lab data blitz, everyone bring their data or project slides and prep a ~5 min presentation
10/9/18- Nina
10/16/18- Round Table
10/23/18- Ana
10/30/18- SfN prep
11/6/18- no meet SfN
11/13/18- SfN debriefing & Round table
11/20/18- Melissa
11/27/18- No meet
12/4/18- Round Table
12/11/18- Alex
12/18/18- end of quarter round table
–Summer 2018–
Tuesdays 4PM in the Franz Hall Garcia Room until we get kicked out, then location TBD, probably in lab.
6/19/18- No meet
6/26/18- Round table
7/3/18- No meet
7/10/18- Nina: Prefrontal cortico-striatal disconnection blocks the acquisition of goal-directed action & The Bilateral Prefronto-striatal Pathway Is Necessary for Learning New Goal-Directed Actions
7/17/18- Round table
7/24/18- no meet
7/31/18- Round table
8/7/18- Melissa
8/14/18- Round table
8/21/18- Round Table
8/28/18- Kate
9/4/18- Round Table
9/11/18- Alex
9/18/18- Round table end of summer summary, highlights, lowlights.
9/25/18- No meet Kate @ Harvard
–Spring 2018–
Fridays 1PM in the Franz Hall Garcia Room (we will resume Tuesday at 4PM in June)
4/3/18- Round Table
4/6/18- Nina & Linnea present mOFC data and UCI L&M symposium Prep
4/13/18- 12PM Seminar: Alex Kawa potential new postdoc; Lunch to follow in lieu of lab meeting
4/20/18- No meeting UCI L&M symposium Prep
4/27/18- No meeting Kate at society for affective science
5/4/18-Round Table
5/11/18- Melissa and/or Michael paper
5/18/18-Round Table
5/25/18- No meet, instead: TNDA training grant symposium
6/1/18- No Meet Kate @ Calgary
6/8/18- Ana present rotation findings or paper
6/15/18- Round Table- end of quarter progress, highlights and lowlights of the last quarter.
–Winter 2018–
1/9/18- No Meet- Job Talk
1/10/18- Special time Wednesday 4PM: 199 Proposals
1/16/18- No meet, Winter Brain
1/23/18- No meet, Chalk Talk
1/30/18- Round Table
2/6/18- Melissa
2/13/18- Round Table
2/20/18- Annie presenting : Saunders et al., Instantiation of incentive value and movement invigoration by distinct midbrain dopamine circuits
2/27/18- Round Table
3/6/18- Ash
3/13/18- No Meet- Basal Ganglia GRC
3/20/18- No Meet- Kate @Yale
3/27/18- No Meet- MMiN
–Fall 2017—
10/3/17- Melissa
10/10/17- Round Table, Fall Quarter goal setting
10/17/17- Nina: Parallel, but Dissociable, Processing in Discrete Corticostriatal Inputs Encodes Skill Learning
10/24/17- Round Table
*10/30/17- SPECIAL EVENT: Alberto Lopez Talk Garcia Room @12PM, lunch to follow*
10/31/17- No meet. Happy Halloween
11/7/17- SfN prep
11/14/17- No Meet SfN
11/21/17- Post-SfN debriefing, Round Table
11/28/17- No meet- go to BRI poster session and lecture by Rui Costa in Ackerman grand ballroom.
12/5/17- no Meet Kate @ACNP
12/12/17- Round Table- Winter quarter experiment planning
—Summer 2017—
6/20/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss. & R01 Renewal prelim data discuss
6/22/17 Thursday 11AM- Melissa IBNS prep
6/27/17- Nina: Insular and Ventrolateral Orbitofrontal Cortices Differentially Contribute to Goal-Directed Behavior in Rodents
7/4/17- No Meet, Holiday!
7/11/17- Round Table
7/18/17- Annie: Lateral Hypothalamic GABAergic Neurons Encode Reward Predictions that Are Relayed to the Ventral Tegmental Area to Regulate Learning
7/25/17- Round Table
8/1/17- GRC Prep: Amygdala & Catecholamines
8/8/17- no meet, Kate & Melissa @ Amygdala GRC
8/15/17- no meet, Kate & Annie @ Catecholamines GRC
8/22/17- GRC debriefing & Round table
8/29/17- Ash:
9/5/17- Aimiel proposes her independent project
9/12/17- no meet, Kate @EBBS
9/19/17- Round table
9/26/17- no meet, Kate @UM
—Spring 2017—
4/3/17- *NOTE DATE & TIME CHANGE: MONDAY 4PM* Group meeting with Ostlund lab to discuss ACh-DA projects.
4/11/17- Tara: Compulsive Social Behavior Emerges after Selective Ablation of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons
4/18/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
4/25/17- Nina: Thalamic Control of Dorsomedial Striatum Regulates Internal State to Guide Goal-Directed Action Selection
5/2/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
5/9/17- R01 Renewal Plan; Aims and expt outline on server: P:\Grants\BLA Renewal
5/16/17- Ashleigh: Neural ensemble dynamics underlying a long-term associative memory
5/23/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
5/30/17- Annie: Practice job talk for Bruchas Lab visit
6/6/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
6/13/17- Melissa:
—Winter 2017—
1/3/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. 2017 & Winter quarter goal setting. @ Faculty Center Meet at Kate’s office
1/10/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc.
1/17/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc.
1/24/17- BNS Candidate job talk
1/31/17- BNS Candidate job talk
2/7/17- Ashleigh introduction & data blitz (introduce your project & data to our new postdoc) @ Faculty Center, meet @ Kate’s office
2/14/17- BNS Candidate job talk
2/21/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
2/28/17- BNS Candidate job talk
3/7/17- No Meet (Pittcon)
3/10/17- 3:30PM “What the heck does the OFC do? Happy Hour” in Garcia Room Google doc for papers *NOTE DATE & TIME CHANGE*
3/14/17- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc.
3/21/17- No Meet (Kate @ NIDA)
3/28/17- No Meet (Kate @ JHU)
—Fall 2016—
9/27/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss. Fall quarter goal setting.
10/4/16- Annie: A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes
10/11/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
10/18/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
10/25/16- Melissa
11/1/16- SfN Prep
11/8/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
—Summer 2016—
6/15/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
6/22/16- Tara: Reward and choice encoding in terminals of midbrain dopamine neurons depends on striatal target
6/29/16- No Meet
7/6/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
7/13/16- Annie: Temporal Specificity of Reward Prediction Errors Signaled by Putative Dopamine Neurons in Rat VTA Depends on Ventral Striatum
7/20/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss
7/27/16- Michael- 199 proposal
8/3/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
8/10/16- Melissa: Complementary Contributions of Striatal Projection Pathways to Action Initiation and Execution
8/17/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
8/24/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
8/31/16- DA meeting prep/Round table
9/7/16- No Meet
9/14/16- DA meeting debriefing, Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
9/21/16- Nina
—Spring 2016–
3/23/16- Annie: Cognitive Neurostimulation: Learning to Volitionally Sustain Ventral Tegmental Area Activation
3/30/16- Winter Quarter Data/Spring Quarter goal seeting
4/6/16- Nina: Dorsal Raphe Dopamine Neurons Represent the Experience of Social Isolation
4/13/16- Combined group meeting with Ostlund Lab *5PM*
4/20/16- Melissa: HDACi Habit story
4/27/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
5/4/16- Kenny: Neural Estimates of Imagined Outcomes in Basolateral Amygdala Depend on Orbitofrontal Cortex
5/11/16- No Meet
5/18/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
5/25/16- pre-MMiN Prep
6/1/16- No Meet, MMiN
6/8/16- Canceled
—Winter 2016–
1/6/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss. Winter Quarter Goal Setting
1/13/16- No Meet- Job Talk
1/20/16- Nina: Brief optogenetic inhibition of dopamine neurons mimics endogenous negative reward prediction errors
1/27/16- Melissa: Pathway-Specific Striatal Substrates for Habitual Behavior
2/3/16- No Meet
2/10/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
2/17/16- Kenny: Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Outcome Retrieval in Partially Observable Task Situations
2/24/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
3/2/16- Tara: Getting published: how to write a successful neuroscience paper
3/9/16- No Meet Pittcon
3/16/16- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
3/23/16- Annie
3/30/16- Winter Quarter Data
—Fall 2015–
9/30/15- Kenny
10/7/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
10/14/15- Poster Practice
10/21/15- no meet SfN
10/28/15- SfN debriefing
11/4/15- Tara- project proposal
11/11/15- Holiday
11/18/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
11/25/15- no meet
12/2/15-Annie: Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work
12/9/15- Fall quarter data!! Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
12/16/15- Coordinate holiday animal care etc.
—Summer 2015–
6/17/15- Paper Review
6/24/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
7/1/15- No Meeting
7/8/15- No Meeting
7/15/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
7/22/15- Paper- Melissa
7/29/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
8/5/15- Annie GRC Poster Prep/data present
8/12/15- No Meeting GRC
8/19/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
9/2/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
9/9/15- No Meet
9/16/15- Melissa Pav Society Practice
9/23/15- Round table: all present summer data!!!!
—Spring 2015–
4/1/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
4/8/15- Koo et al., 2015: Epigenetic basis of opiate suppression of Bdnf gene expression in the ventral tegmental area (Melissa)
4/15/15- Kate Practice Addiction talk
4/22/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
4/29/15- Laurent & Balleine: Factual and Counterfactual Action-Outcome Mappings Control Choice between Goal-Directed Actions in Rats (2015) (Nina)
5/13/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
5/20/15-Optogenetic Excitation of Central Amygdala Amplifies and Narrows Incentive Motivation to Pursue One Reward Above Another (annie)
5/27/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
6/3/15- Paper TBD
6/10/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
—Winter 2015–
1/7/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
Winter Quarter goal-setting
Pick Papers for quarter
1/14/15- Gremel & Costa “Orbitofrontal and striatal circuits dynamically encode the shift between goal-directed and habitual actions” Nature Neuroscience 2013 (Melissa)
1/21/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
1/28/15- No Meeting- Kate @ WinterBrain
2/4/15- Annie and Melissa Practice Presentations
2/18/15- Alice practice presentation + Round table
2/25/15- Anselme, Robinson & Berridge “Reward uncertainty enhances incentive salience attribution as sign-tracking” Beh Brain Res. 2013 AND Robinson, Anselme, Fischer & Berridge “Initial uncertainty in Pavlovian reward prediction persistently elevates incentive salience and extends sign-tracking to normally unattractive cues” Beh Brain Res 2014 (Annie)
3/4/15- Round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
3/18/15- End of Quarter wrap up: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
–Summer 2014–
Wednesdays at 4PM in the Franz Hall Garcia Room
7/9/14- Kate, Kay & Annie: NAc DA during sequence learning and expectation violation (data presentation)
7/23/14- Annie- Graybiel lab: Neurons in the Ventral Striatum Exhibit Cell-Type-Specific Representations of Outcome during Learning (2014)
7/30/14- Kate and Annie prep for MMiN
8/6/17- No Meeting, MMiN
8/13/14- Post MMiN debriefing and data discussion.
8/20/14- no meeting
8/27/14- Canceled
9/10/14- round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
9/17/14- Dynamic shaping of dopamine signals during probabilistic Pavlovian conditioning
9/24/14- round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
—Fall 2014–
Mondays at Noon in the Franz Hall Garcia Room
9/29/14- No Meeting- Good Luck with Quals Annie!!!!
10/6/14- round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
10/13/14- Kate: Dezfouli, Lingawi & Balleine 2014 “Habits as action sequences: hierarchical action control and changes in outcome value.
10/20/14- round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
11/3/14- round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
11/10/14- SfN Practice
11/17/14- No Meeting SfN
11/24/14- SfN debriefing & round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.
12/1/14- No Meeting
12/8/14- Annie: Two recent JNS papers from Saleem Nicola’s Lab: du Hoffman & Nicola Dopamine Invigorates Reward Seeking by Promoting Cue-Evoked Excitation in the Nucleus Accumbens and Morrison & Nicola Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens Promote Selection Bias for Nearer Objects
12/15/14- round table: bring your latest data, experiment plans, questions, interesting papers etc. to discuss.