Readings

Advanced Microscopy

Guest lecturers: Prof. Elly Nedivi, Prof. Peter So

Chen, Jerry L., Walter C. Lin, et al. "Structural Basis for the Role of Inhibition in Facilitating Adult Brain Plasticity." Nature Neuroscience 14, no. 5 (2011): 587–94.

Chen, Jerry L., Katherine L. Villa, et al. "Clustered Dynamics of Inhibitory Synapses and Dendritic Spines in the Adult Neocortex." Neuron 74, no. 2 (2012): 361–73.

So, Peter T. C., Chen Y. Dong, et al. "Two-photon Excitation Fluorescence Microscopy." Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering 2, no. 1 (2000): 399–429.

So, Peter T. C., Elijah Y. S. Yew, et al. "High-throughput Nonlinear Optical Microscopy." Biophysical Journal 105, no. 12 (2013): 2641–54.

High-density Electrophysiology

Guest lecturer: Prof. Matt Wilson

Brown, Emery N., Robert E. Kass, et al. "Multiple Neural Spike Train Data Analysis: State-of-the-art and Future Challenges." Nature Neuroscience 7, no. 5 (2004): 456–61.

Buzsáki, György, Costas A. Anastassiou, et al. "The Origin of Extracellular Fields and Currents—EEG, ECoG, LFP and Spikes." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, no. 6 (2012): 407–20.

Womelsdorf, Thilo, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, et al. "Modulation of Neuronal Interactions through Neuronal Synchronization." Science 316, no. 5831 (2007): 1609–12.

Microfluidics and Cell Engineering

Guest Lecturers: Prof. Roger Kamm & Sebastien Uzel

Kothapalli, Chandrasekhar R., Ed van Veen, et al. "A High-throughput Microfluidic Assay to Study Neurite Response to Growth Factor Gradients." Lab on a Chip 11, no. 3 (2011): 497–507.

Park, Jae Woo, Hyung Joon Kim, et al. "Advances in Microfluidics-based Experimental Methods for Neuroscience Research." Lab on a Chip 13, no. 4 (2013): 509–21.

Shin, Yoojin, Sewoon Han, et al. "Microfluidic Assay for Simultaneous Culture of Multiple Cell Types on Surfaces or within Hydrogels." Nature Protocols 7, no. 7 (2012): 1247–59.

EM-based Connectomics

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Daniel Berger

Lichtman, Jeff W., and Winfried Denk. "The Big and The Small: Challenges of Imaging the Brain's Circuits." Science 334, no. 6056 (2011): 618–23.

Briggman, Kevin L., and Davi D. Bock. "Volume Electron Microscopy for Neuronal Circuit Reconstruction." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 22, no. 1 (2012): 154–61.

Marx, Vivien. "Neurobiology: Brain Mapping in High Resolution." Nature 503, no. 7474 (2013): 147–52.

Tomassy, Giulio Srubek, Daniel R. Berger, et al. "Distinct Profiles of Myelin Distribution along Single Axons of Pyramidal Neurons in the Neocortex." Science 344, no. 6181 (2014): 319–24.

Kodandaramaiah, Suhasa B., Giovanni Talei Franzesi, et al. "Automated Whole-cell Patch-clamp Electrophysiology of Neurons in Vivo." Nature Methods 9, no. 6 (2012): 585–87.

Klapoetke, Nathan C., Yasunobu Murata, et al. "Independent Optical Excitation of Distinct Neural Populations." Nature Methods 11, no. 3 (2014): 338–46.

Chuong, Amy S., Mitra L. Miri, et al. "Noninvasive Optical Inhibition with a Red-shifted Microbial Rhodopsin." Nature Neuroscience 17, no. 8 (2014): 1123–29.

Prevedel, Robert, Young-Gyu Yoon, et al. "Simultaneous Whole-Animal 3D Imaging of Neuronal Activity Using Light-field Microscopy." Nature Methods 11, no. 7 (2014): 727–30.

Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Dimitrios Pantazis

Cichy, Radoslaw Martin, Dimitrios Pantazis, et al. "Resolving Human Object Recognition in Space and Time." Nature Neuroscience 17, no. 3 (2014): 455–62.

Baillet, Sylvain, John C. Mosher, et al. "Electromagnetic Brain Mapping." (PDF) IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 18, no. 6 (2001): 14–30.

Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Atsushi Takahashi

Raichle, Marcus E. "Functional Neuroimaging: A Historical and Physiological Perspective." In Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition. MIT press, 2001, pp. 3–26. ISBN: 9780262032803.

Huettel, Scott A., Allen W. Song, and Gregory McCarthy. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Vol. 1. Sinauer Associates, 2004. ISBN: 9780878932887.

Mesulam, Marsel. "The Evolving Landscape of Human Cortical Connectivity: Facts and Inferences." Neuroimage 62, no. 4 (2012): 2182–89.

Functional and Molecular MRI

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Atsushi Takahashi

High Throughput Neuroscience

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Limor Freifeld

Grewe, Benjamin F., and Fritjof Helmchen. "Optical Probing of Neuronal Ensemble Activity." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19, no. 5 (2009): 520–29.

Looger, Loren L., and Oliver Griesbeck. "Genetically Encoded Neural Activity Indicators." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 22, no. 1 (2012): 18–23.

Lemon, William C., and Philipp J. Keller. "Live Imaging of Nervous System Development and Function using Light‐sheet Microscopy." Molecular Reproduction and Development (2013).