Hippocampus Journal Club

(after Amaral)

Journal club meets Thursdays at 9 am in the Seminar room of the Neuroscience Research Center, Schumannstraße 20/21 (NWFZ).

Literature connected to

'mossy fibers' is marked green
'network oscillations' is yellow
'the hippocampal system as a whole' is marked blue
'state-dependent synaptic plasticity' is red.

February 16, 2006 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Nikolaus Maier)

Foster DJ and Wilson MA (2006) Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature xx:xx-xx. (doi:10.1038/nature04587, advance online publication Feb 12, 2006)

February 9, 2006 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Richard Kempter)

Fusi S, Drew PJ, and Abbott FL (2005) Cascade models of synaptically stored memories. Neuron 45:599-611.

January 26, 2006 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Nils Bluethgen)

Hayer A and Bhalla US (2005) Molecular switches at the synapse emerge from receptor and kinase traffic. PLoS Comput Biol 1:137-154. Epub 2005 Jul 29.

January 19, 2006 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Nikolaus Maier)

J Szabadics, C Varga, G Molnar, S Olah, P Barzo, G Tamas (2006) Excitatory effect of GABAergic axo-axonic cells in cortical microcircuits. Science 311:233-234. See also the paper by Klausberger et al (2003) Brain-state- and cell-type-specific firing of hippocampal interneurons in vivo. Nature 421:844-848.

January 12, 2006 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Christian Leibold)

M Lengyel, J Kwag, O Paulsen, P Dayan (2005) Matching storage and recall: hippocampal spike timingdependent plasticity and phase response curves. Nature Neurosci. 8:1677--1683. Important is also the Supplementary Information.

December 1, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Robert Schmidt)

MW Jones and MA Wilson (2005) Phase precession of medial prefrontal cortical activity relative to the hippocampal theta rhythm. Hippocampus 15:867-873.

November 24, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Nils Bluethgen)

JE Lisman (1985) A mechanism for memory storage insensitive to molecular turnover: a bistable autophosphorylating kinase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82:3055-3057.
Petersen CC, Malenka RC, Nicoll RA, Hopfield JJ (1998) All-or-none potentiation at CA3-CA1 synapses. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:4732-4727.
O'Connor DH, Wittenberg GM, Wang SS (2005) Graded bidirectional synaptic plasticity is composed of switch-like unitary events. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:9679-9684.

November 10, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Christian Wozny)

RD Traub, EH Buhl, T Gloveli, MA Whittington (2002) Fast rhythmic bursting can be induced in layer 2/3 cortical neurons by enhancing persistent Na+ conductance or by blocking BK channels. J. Neurophysiol. 89:909-921.

November 3, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Laurenz Wiskott)

M Hasselmo (2005) What is the function of hippocampal theta rhythm? - Linking behavioral data to phasic properties of field potential and unit recording data. Hippocampus 15:836-849.

Spotlights of:

Jones and Wilson, 867-873 (Genela Morris)

October 27, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Tilman Lüdert)

J O'Keefe and N Burgess (2005) Dual phase and rate coding in hippocampal place cells: theoretical significance and relationship to entorhinal grid cells. Hippocampus 15:853-866.

October 20, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Nikolaus Maier)

G Buzsaki (2005) Theta rhythm of navigation: link between path integration and landmark navigation, episodic and semantic memory. Hippocampus 15:827-840.

October 13, 2005 NWFZ, 9:00am

Spotlights of the remaining papers in Hippocampus Volume 15, Issue 7 (2005). Special Issue: The Theta Rhythm. Issue Edited by Neil Burgess, John O'Keefe.

Ekstrom et al, 881-889 (Sebastian Schuchmann)
Mormann et al, 890-900 (Dietmar Schmitz)

October 6, 2005 NWFZ, 9:00am

Spotlights of papers in Hippocampus Volume 15, Issue 7 (2005). Special Issue: The Theta Rhythm. Issue Edited by Neil Burgess, John O'Keefe.

Buzsaki, 827-840 (Nikolaus Maier)
O'Keefe and Burgess, 853-866 (Mathias Franzius)
Pape et al, 874-880 (Christian Wozny)
Guderian and Duezel, 901-912 (Benedikt Salmen)
Lisman, 913-922 (Christian Leibold)
Vertes, 923-935 (Richard Kempter)
Hasselmo, 936-949 (Laurenz Wiskott)
Huhn et al, 950-962 (see HippoJC on Sept-1-2005)
Sato and Yamaguchi, 963-978 (Christian Leibold)
Scarpetta and Marinaro, 979-989 (Richard Kempter)

September 29, 2005 (NWFZ, 3:30pm, Benedikt Salmen)

H Hu, K Vervaeke, and JF Storm (2002) Two forms of electrical resonance at theta frequencies, generated by M-current, h-current and persistent Na+ current in rat hippocampal pyramidal cells. J Physiol 545.3:783-805.
HC Peters, H Hu, O Pongs, JF Storm, D Isbrandt (2005) Conditional transgenic suppression of M channels in mouse brain reveals functions in neuronal excitability, resonance and behavior. Nature Neurosci. 8:51-60.

September 1, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Kay Thurley)

Z Huhn, G Orban, P Erdi, M Lengyel (2005) Theta oscillation-coupled dendritic spiking integrates inputs on a long time scale. Hippocampus 15:xxx-xxx. Accepted for publication 15 June 2005. DOI 10.1002/hipo.20112.

SS 2005

Hippocampus Journal Club (Oberseminar)

R. Kempter and D. Schmitz

August 25, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Roland Schaette)

Houweling AR, Bazhenov M, Timofeev I, Steriade M, Sejnowski TJ (2005) Homeostatic synaptic plasticity can explain post-traumatic epileptogenesis in chronically isolated neocortex. Cereb Cortex 15:834-845.

August 18, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Mathias Franzius)

T Hafting, M Fyhn, S Molden, M-B Moser, EI Moser (2005) Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature 436:801-806.
See also the corresponding ``News and Views'' by G Buzsaki.

August 11, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Christian Leibold)

S Leutgeb, JK Leutgeb, CA Barnes, EI Moser, BL McNaughton, M-B Moser (2005) Independent codes for spatial and episodic memory in hippocampal neuronal ensembles. Sciene 309:619-623.
See also the corresponding ``Perspective'' by G Buzsaki.

July 7, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am, Richard Kempter)

Wills TJ, Lever C, Cacucci F, Burgess N, and O'Keefe J (2005) Attractor dynamics in the hippocampal representation of the local envirionment. Sciene 308:873-876.

June 30, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am)

Introduction to temporal Difference (TD) learning (Robert Schmidt)
Trace conditioning and the hippocampus (Livia de Hoz):

Beylin AV et al. (2001) The role of the hippocampus in trace conditioning: temporal discontinuity or task difficulty. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 76:447-461.
Christian KM and Thompson RF (2003) Neuronal substrates of eyeblink conditioning: acquisition and retention. Learning and Memory 11:427-455.

Novelty detection in humans (Dietmar Schmitz)

June 23, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am) Foundations of neuromodulation (dopamine):

Dopamine receptors and projections in the hippocampus (Livia de Hoz):
TM Jay (2003) Dopamine: a potential substrate for synaptic plasticity and memory mechanisms. Progress in Neurobiology 69:375-390.
Timing of dopamine release and plasticity (Richard Kempter):
S Bao, VT Chan, MM Merzenich (2001) Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. Nature 412:79-83.
Models of novelty detection (Robert Schmidt)
R Borisyuk, M Denham, F Hoppensteadt, Y Kazanovich and O Vinogradova (2001) Oscillatory model of novelty detection. Network: Comput Neural Syst 12:1-20.

June 16, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am)

J Lisman and AA Grace (2005) The hippocampal-VTA loop: controlling the entry of information into long-term memory. Neuron 46:703-713. (Robert Schmidt)

June 9, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am)

June 2, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am)

N Kopell and B Ermentrout (2004) Chemical and electrical synapses perform complementary roles in the synchronization of interneuronal networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:15482-15487. (presenter: Christian Leibold)

May 19, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am)

AG Siapas, EV Lubenov, MA Wilson (2005) Prefrontal phase locking to hippocampal theta oscillations. Neuron 46:141-151. (presenter: Christian Leibold)

May 3, 2005 (NWFZ, 9:00am)

P Monsivais, BA Clark, A Roth, M Hausser (2005) Determinants of action potential propagation in cerebellar Purkinje cell axons. J Neurosci 25:464-472. (presenter: Christian Wozny)

April 27, 2005 (NWFZ, 14:00, presenter: Christian Leibold)

O Jensen, JE Lisman (1996a) Physiologically realistic formation of autoassociative memory in networks with theta/gamma oscillations: role of fast NMDA channels. Learn. Mem. 3:243-256.
O Jensen, JE Lisman (1996b) Novel lists of 7+/-2 known items can be reliably stored in an oscillatory short-term memory network: interaction with long-term memory. Learn. Mem. 3:257-263.
O Jensen, JE Lisman (1996c) Theta/gamma networks with slow NMDA channels learn sequences and encode episodic memory: role of NMDA channels in recall. Learn. Mem. 3:264-278.
O Jensen, JE Lisman (1996d) Hippocampal CA3 region predicts memory sequences: accounting for the phase precession of place cells. Learn. Mem. 3:279-287.

April 20, 2005 (NWFZ, 10:30)

O Jensen, JE Lisman (2005) Hippocampal sequence-encoding driven by a cortical multi-item working memory buffer. Trends Neurosci. 28:67-72. (presenter: Christian Leibold)
A Dhillon, RSG Jones (2000) Laminar differences in recurrent excitatory transmission in the rat entorhinal cortex in vitro. Neuroscience 99:413-422. (presenter: Michael Bendels)

April 13, 2005

10:30 - 13:00 (ITB) Job talks for the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

WS 2004/2005

Hippocampus Journal Club (Oberseminar)

R. Kempter and D. Schmitz

April 6, 2005 (NWFZ, 14:00)

JJ Chrobak and G Buzsaki (1994) Selective activation of deep layer (V-VI) retrohippocampal cortical neurons during hippocampal sharp waves in the behaving rat. J Neurosci 14:6160-6170. (presenter: Nikolaus Maier)

March 23, 2005 (NWFZ, 10:30am) (Nikolaus Maier)

ME Hasselmo (1999) Neuromodulation: acetylcholine and memory consolidation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3:351-359. (Excerpt by Nikolaus Maier)

March 16, 2005

14:00 - 16:00 (ITB) Job talks for the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

March 9, 2005 (NWFZ, 10:30am) (Nikolaus Maier)

ME Hasselmo (1999) Neuromodulation: acetylcholine and memory consolidation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3:351-359.
S Gais and J Born (2004) Low acetylcholine during slow-wave sleep is critical for declarative memory consolidation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:2140-2144.

March 2, 2005, 9.00 - (ITB)

Job talks for the Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

February 24/25, 2005 SFB618 Begutachtung

February 23, 2005 (Johannes-Müller Institut für Physiologie, Tucholskystr. 2) (Benedikt Salmen)

RM Yoder and KCH Pang (2005) Involvement of GABAergic and cholinergic medial septal neurons in hippocampal theta rhythm ensemble code for space. Hippocampus xx:xx-xx.

February 17-20, 2005 Göttingen Neuroscience Meeting

February 16, 2005 (NWFZ) (Richard Kempter)

MA Wilson, BL McNaughton (1993) Dynamics of the hippocampal ensemble code for space. Science 261:1055-1058.
MA Wilson, BL McNaughton (1994) Reactivation of hippocampal ensembele memories during sleep. Science 265:676-679.
B Shen and BL McNaughton (1996) Modeling the spontaneous reactivation of experience-specific hippocampal cell assembles during sleep. Hippocampus 6:685-692.

February 9, 2005, 9.00 - (ITB)

Job talks for the Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

January 26, 2005, 14.00 - 18.00 h (ITB)

Job talks for the Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

January 19, 2005 (Johannes-Müller Institut für Physiologie, Tucholskystr. 2) (Livia de Hoz)

RD Burwell, MP Saddoris, DJ Bucci, and KA Wiig. Corticohippocampal contributions to spatial and contextual learning. J Neurosci 24:3826-3836.
SD Vann, JP Aggleton (2003) Evidence of a spatial encoding deficit in rats with lesions of the mammillary bodies or mammillothalamic tract. J Neurosci 23:3506-3514.

January 5, 2005 (NWFZ)

M Zugaro, L Monconduit, G Buzsaki (2005) Spike phase precession persists after transient intrahippocampal perturbation. Nat Neurosci 8 67-71. Published online 12 December 2004; doi:10.1038/nn1369 (Richard)

December 15, 2004 (ITB)

EY Song, YB Kim, YH Kim, MW Jung (2004) Role of active movement in place-specic firing of hippocampal neurons. Hippocampus xx:xx-xx. (DOI 10.1002/hipo.20023) (Benedikt Salmen)

December 8, 2004 (NWFZ, 9am)

Talk by Genela Morris. Here is a recent paper:
G Morris, D Arkadir, A Nevet, E Vaadia, H Bergman (2004) Coincident but distinct messages of midbrain dopamine and striatal tonically active neurons. Neuron 43:133-143.

December 1, 2004 (NWFZ)

DK Selig, RA Nicoll, and RC Malenka. Hippocampal long-term potentiation preserves the fidelity of postsynaptic responses to presynaptic bursts . J. Neurosci. (1999) 19:1236-1246. (Anja Gundlfinger)

November 24, 2004 (ITB)

CH Bailey, M Giustetto, Y-Y Huang, RD Hawkins and ER Kandel. Is heterosynaptic modulation essential for stabilizing Hebbian plasticity and memory? Nature Rev. Neurosci. (2000) 1: 11-20. (Robert Gütig)
O Steward and EM Schuman. Compartmentalized synthesis and degradation of proteins in neurons. Neuron (2003) 40:347-359. (Patrick Nicholson)

November 17, 2004 (NWFZ) (Richard Kempter)

AA Fenton and RU Muller (1998) Place cell discharge is extremely variable during individual passes of the rat through the firing field. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:3182-3187.

November 10, 2004 (ITB)

PT Huerta, LD Sun, MA Wilson, S Tonegawa. Formation of temporal memory requires NMDA receptors within CA1 pyramidal neurons. Neuron 25:473-480. (Benedikt Salmen)
I Lee, RP Kesner. Differential contribution of NMDA receptors in hippocampal subregions to spatial working memory. Nat Neurosci (2002) 5:162-168. (Christian Leibold)

November 3, 2004 (NWFZ) (Dietmar Schmitz)

U Frey and RGM Morris. Synaptic tagging: implications for late maintenance of hippocampal long-term potentiation. Trends Neurosci. (1998) 21: 181-188.

October 27, 2004 (Johannes-Müller Institut für Physiologie, Tucholskystr. 2)

MM Zeineh, SA Engel, PM Thompson, SY Bookheimer. Dynamics of the hippocampus during encoding and retrieval of face-name pairs. Science (2003) 299: 577-580. (Nikolaus Maier)
M Remondes and EM Schuman. Role for a cortical input to hippocampal area CA1 in the consolidation of a long-term memory. Nature (2004) 431:699-703. (Dietmar Schmitz)

October 20, 2004 (ITB) (Anja Gundlfinger)

M Mori, MH Abegg, BH Gähwiler, U Gerber. A frequency-dependent switch from inhibition to excitation in a hippocampal unitary circuit. Nature (2004) 431:453-456.

October 13, 2004 (ITB, no journal club)

Autumn School on "Learning and Memory" (October 11-13, 2004)

collection of papers

Neuron

October 6, 2004 (NWFZ) (Liva de Hoz)

NJ Fortin, SP Wright, and H Eichenbaum. Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus. Nature (2004) 431:188-191.

September 29, 2004 (no journal club)

September 22, 2004 (ITB)

A Ruiz, R Fabian-Fine, R Scott, MC Walker, DA Rusakov, and DM Kullmann. GABAA receptors at hippocampal mossy fibers. Neuron (2003) 39:961-973. (Dietmar Schmitz)
M Darstein, RS Petralia, GT Swanson, RJ Wenthold, SF Heinemann. Distribution of kainate receptor subunits at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. J. Neurosci. (2003) 23:8013-8019. (Dietmar Schmitz)

September 15, 2004 (NWFZ) (Anja Gundlfinger)

Jonas P, Major G, and Sakmann B. Quantal components of unitary EPSCs at the mossy fibre synapse on CA3 pyramidal cells of rat hippocampus. (no electronic version available) J. Physiol. (1993) 472:615-663.
AE Dityatev, RS Altinbaev, AV Astrelin, LL Voronin. Combining principal component and spectral analyses with the method of moments in studies of quantal transmission. J Neursoci Meth (2003) 130:173-199. (second part of the paper)

September 8, 2004 (ITB)

EM Izhikevich Resonate-and-fire neurons. Neural Networks (2001) 14:883-894. (Michael Bendels)

September 1, 2004 (NWFZ) (Marion Moisel)

AE Dityatev, RS Altinbaev, AV Astrelin, LL Voronin. Combining principal component and spectral analyses with the method of moments in studies of quantal transmission. J Neursoci Meth (2003) 130:173-199.

SS 2004

Hippocampus Journal Club (Oberseminar)

R. Kempter and D. Schmitz

August 25, 2004 (ITB)

JJ Knierim. Dynamic interactions between local surface cues, distal landmarks, and intrinsic circuitry in hippocampal place cells. J Neurosci (2002) 22:6254-6264. (Benedikt)
I Lee, D Yoganarasimha, G Rao, JJ Knierim. Comparison of population coherence of place cells in hippocampal subfields CA1 and CA3. Nature (2004) 430:456-459. (Benedikt)
A Treves. Computational constraints between retrieving the past and predicting the future, and the CA3-CA1 differentiation. Hippocampus (2004) 14:539-556. (Richard)
S Leutgeb, JK Leutgeb, A Treves, MB Moser, EI Moser. Distinct ensemble codes in hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1. Science (Published Online 22 July 2004) DOI: 10.1126/science.1100265. (Livia)

August 18, 2004 (NWFZ) (Richard Kempter)

JJ Hopfield (1995) Pattern recognition computation using action potential timing for stimulus representation. Nature 376:33-36. (copies will be available)

August 11, 2004 (ITB)

I Erchova, G Kreck, U Heinemann, AVM Herz Dynamics of rat enthorhinal cortex layer II/III cells: characteristics of membrane potential resonance at rest predicts oscillation properties near threshold. J Physiol, July 22, 2004, 10.1113, in press.

July 28, 2004 (NWFZ) (Dietmar Schmitz)

M Scanziani, PA Salin, KE Vogt, RC Malenka & RA Nicoll. Use-dependent increases in glutamate concentration activate presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors. Nature (1997) 385:630-634.

July 21, 2004 (ITB) (Livia de Hoz)

S Ribeiro, D Gervasoni, ES Soares, Y Zhou, S-C Lin, J Pantoja, M Lavine, MAL Nicolelis. Long-lasting novelty-induced neuronal reverberation during slow-wave sleep in multiple forebrain areas. PLOS Biology (2004) 2:126-137.

July 14, 2004 (ITB) (Richard Kempter)

BL McNaughton, CA Barnes, J Meltzer, RJ Sutherland. Hippocampal granule cells are necessary for normal spatial learning but not for spatially-selective pyramidal cell discharge. Exp Brain Res (1989) 76:485-496.
IQ Whishaw. Hippocampal, granule cell and CA3-4 lesions impair formation of a place learning-set in the rat and induce reflex epilepsy. Behav Brain Res (1987) 24:59-72.
S Daumas, H Halley, J-M Lassalle. Disruption of hippocampal CA3 network: effects on episodic-like memory processing in C57BLD6J mice. Europ J Neurosci (2004) 20:597 600.

July 7, 2004 (NWFZ)

Discussion of recent data.

June 30, 2004 (ITB) (Benedikt Salmen)

I Lee, G Rao, JJ Knierim. A double dissociation between hippocampal subfields: differential time course of CA3 and CA1 place cells for processing changed environments. Neuron (2004) 42:803-815.

June 23, 2004 (NWFZ) (Livia de Hoz)

Sleep, hippocampus, and memory consolidation.

June 16, 2004 (ITB) (Dietmar Schmitz & Richard Kempter)

Theoretical and experimental background of ongoing projects.

June 9, 2004 (NWFZ)

On recent data.

June 2, 2004 (ITB) (Anja Gundlfinger)

H Markram, M. Tsodyks. Redistribution of synaptic efficacy between neocortical pyramidal neurons. Nature 382:807-810, 1996.
MV Tsodyks, H Markram. The neural code between neocortical pyramidal neurons depends on neurotransmitter release probability. PNAS 94:719-723, 1997.
MV Tsodyks, A Uziel, H Markram. Synchrony generation in recurrent networks with frequency-dependent synapses. J Neurosci 20 RC50, 1-5, 2000.

May 26, 2004 (NWFZ) (Richard)

AD Ekstrom, J Meltzer, BL McNaughton, CA Barnes. NMDA receptor antagonism blocks experience-dependent expansion of hippocampal ``place fields''. Neuron 31:631-638, 2001.
O Melamed, W Gerstner, W Maass, M Tsodyks, and H Markram. Coding and learning of behavioral sequences. Trends Neurosci 27:11-14, 2004.
MR Mehta, AK Lee, MA Wilson. Response to Melamed et al.: Coding and learning of behavioral sequences open questions and potential solutions. Trends Neurosci 27:14-15, 2004.

May 12, 2004 (NWFZ) (Marion)

K Nakazawa, TJ McHugh, MA Wilson, and S Tonegawa. NMDA receptors, place cells and hippocampal spatial memory. Nature Rev Neurosci (2004) 5:361-372.

May 5, 2004 (NWFZ) (Christian)

J Csicsvari, H Hirase, A Mamiya, and G Buzsaki. Ensemble patterns of hippocampal CA3-CA1 neurons during sharp wave associated population events. Neuron (2000) 28:585-594.

April 28, 2004 (ITB) (Benedikt, Dietmar, Richard)

Y Fischer, R Dürr. Inhibitory control of intrinsic hippocampal oscillations? Brain Res (2003) 982:79-91.
Y Fischer. The hippocampal intrinsic network oscillator. J Physiol (2003) 554.1:156-174.
B Kocsis, A Bragin, G Buzsaki. Interdependence of multiple theta generators in the hippocampus: a partial coherence analysis. J Neurosci (1999) 19:6200-6212.

April 21, 2004 (NWFZ) (Dietmar)

Toth K, Suares G, Lawrence JJ, Philips-Tansey E, McBain CJ. Differential mechanisms of transmission at three types of mossy fiber synapse. J Neurosci (2000) 20:8279-8289.

April 14, 2004 (ITB) (Benedikt, Christian, Dietmar, Richard)

F Pouille, M Scanziani. Enforcement of temporal fidelity in pyramidal cells by somatic feed-forward inhibition. Science (2001) 293:1159-1163.
D Fricker, R Miles. EPSP amplification and the precision of spike timing in hippocampal neurons. Neuron (2000) 28:559-569.
G Stuart, B Sakmann. Amplification of EPSPs by axosomatic sodium channels in neocortical pyramidal neurons. Neuron (1995) 15:1065-1076.
N Axmacher, R Miles. Intrinsic cellular currents and the temporal precision of EPSPaction potential coupling in CA1 pyramidal cells. J. Physiol (2004) 555.3:713-725.

April 7, 2004 (NWFZ) (Dietmar Schmitz)

JJ Lawrence, CJ McBain. Containing the detonation feedforward inhibition in the CA3 hippocampus. Trends Neurosci. (2003) 26:631-640.

WS 2003/2004

Hippocampus Journal Club (Oberseminar)

R. Kempter and D. Schmitz

March 31, 2004 (ITB) (Kay Thurley)

A Bose and M. Recce. Phase precession and phase-locking of hippocampal pyramidal cells. Hippocampus (2001) 11: 204-215.

March 24, 2004 (no journal club)

March 17, 2004 (NWFZ) (Anja Gundlfinger)

S Hallermann, C. Pawlu, P. Jonas, and M. Heckmann. A large pool of releasable vesicles in a cortical glutamatergic synapse. PNAS (2003) 100:8975-8980.

March 10, 2004 (ITB) (Dietmar Schmitz)

Castillo PE, Malenka RC, Nicoll RA (1997) Kainate receptors mediate a slow postsynaptic current in hippocampal CA3 neurons. Nature 388:182-186.

February 25, 2004 (NWFZ) (Richard Kempter)

J O'Keefe and ML Recce (1993) Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and EEG theta rhythm. Hippocampus 3:317-330.

February 19-22, 2004

Symposium on Hippocampal function and dysfunction.
Feb 19, 12:30 - 22:30h: Robert-Koch-Hörsaal, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Dorotheenstr. 96, Charité Berlin
Feb 20-22: Schloss Blankensee

February 18, 2004 (ITB) (Benedikt Salmen)

A Kamondi, L Acsady, X-J Wang, G Buzsaki (1998) Theta oscillations in somata and dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal cells in vivo: activity-dependent phase-precession of action potentials. Hippocampus 8:244-261.

February 11, 2004 (NWFZ) (Katja Gebert)

Decoding the mossy fiber synapse.

February 4, 2004 (ITB) (Kay Thurley)

Y Yamaguchi, Y Aota, BL McNaughton, P Lipa. Bimodality of theta phase precession in hippocampal place cells in freely running rats. J. Neurophysiol. (2002) 87:2629-2642.

January 28, 2004 (NWFZ) (Christian Leibold)

T Klausberger, LF Marton, A Baude, JDB Roberts, PJ Magill, P Somogyi. Spike timing of dendrite-targeting bistratified cells during hippocampal network oscillations in vivo. Nat. Neurosci. (2004) 7:41-47.

January 21, 2004 (ITB) (Richard Kempter)

Magee JC. Dendritic mechanisms of phase precession in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. J. Neurophysiol. (2001) 86:528-532.

January 14, 2004 (NWFZ) (Kay Thurley, Richard Kempter, Nikolaus Maier)

On phase precession and properties of pyramidal cells in the hippocampus.
G Buzsaki. Theta oscillations in the hippocampus. Neuron (2002) 33:325-340. Nikolaus' summary

January 7, 2004 (NWFZ) (Dietmar, Richard)

F Mori-Kawakami, K Kobayashi, T Takahashi. Developmental decrease in synaptic facilitation at the mouse hippocampal mossy fibre synapse. J. Physiol. (2003) 553.1:37-48.
G Dragoi, KD Harris, G Buzsaki. Place representation within hippocampal networks is modified by long-term potentiation. Neuron (2003) 39:843-853. Here is Neuron's Preview.

December 17, 2003 (ITB) (Nikolaus)

2-3pm: Discussion of data analysis and modeling of the mossy fiber synapse.
3-3:50pm: G Buzsaki. Theta oscillations in the hippocampus. Neuron (2002) 33:325-340.

December 10, 2003 (NWFZ) (Christian)

2-3pm: Discussion of data analysis and modeling of the mossy fiber synapse.
MR Mehta, AK Lee, MA Wilson. Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code, Nature 417:741-746.

December 3, 2003 (ITB) (Kay and Richard)

2-3pm: Discussion of data analysis and modeling of the mossy fiber synapse.
Harris KD, Henze DA, Hirase H, Leinekugel X, Dragoi G, Czurko A, Buzsaki G. Spike train dynamics predicts theta-related phase precession in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature (2002) 417:738-741
Huxter J, Burgess N, O'Keefe J. Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells. Nature (2003) 425:828 - 832.

November 26, 2003, (NWFZ) (presenter: Katja and Marion)

Discussion of data analysis and modeling of the mossy fiber synapse.

November 19, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Kay Thurley)

2pm: discussion of data analysis and modeling of the mossy fiber synapse

3pm:

WE Skaggs, BL McNaughton, MA Wilson, CA Barnes. Theta phase precession in hippocampal neuronal populations and the compression of temporal sequences. Hippocampus (1996) 6:149-172. Here are the color figures.
MV Tsodyks, WE Skaggs, TJ Sejnowski, BL McNaughton. Population dynamics and theta rhythm phase precession of hippocampal place cell firing: a spiking neuron model. Hippocampus (1996) 6:271-280.

November 12, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Dietmar/Katja/Jörg)

Regehr WG, Tank DW. The maintenance of LTP at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses in independent of sustained presynaptic calcium. Neuron (1991) 7:451-459.
Regehr WG, Delaney KR, Tank DW. The role of presynaptic calcium in short-term enhancement at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse. J. Neurosci. (1994) 14:523-537.

Calyx-type terminals:

Schneggenburger R, Neher E. Intracellular calcium dependence of transmitter release rates at a fast central synapse. Nature (2000) 406:889-893. News & Views
Bollmann JH, Sakmann B, Borst JG. Calcium sensitivity of glutamate release in a calyx-type terminal. . Science (2000) 289:953-957.

November 5, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenters: Anja, Dietmar, Jörg)

We focus on the Ca dynamics in the mossy fiber presynaptic terminal:

PA Salin, M Scanziani, RC Malenka, RA Nicoll. Distinct short-term plasticity at two excitatory synapses in the hippocampus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1996) 93:13304-13309.

H Kamiya, S Ozawa, T Manabe. Kainate receptor-dependent short-term plasticity of presynaptic Ca2+ influx at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. J. Neurosci. (2002) 22:9237-9243.

M Blatow, A Caputi, N Burnashev, H Monyer, A Rozov. Ca2+ buffer saturation underlies paired pulse facilitation in calbindin-D28k-containing terminals. Neuron (2003) 38:79-88.

October 29, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Katja)

Focus on pages 355-368 of:

RS Zucker, WG Regehr. Short-term synaptic plasticity. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. (2002) 64:355-405.
''Hippocampus Club at 5pm'' (talk by Achim Behr)

October 22, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Richard/Christian/Dietmar)

Colgin LL, Kramar EA, Gall CM, Lynch G. Septal modulation of excitatory transmission in hippocampus. J. Neurophysiol. (2003) 90:2358-2366.
K. D. Harris, J. Csicsvari, H. Hirase, G. Dragoi & G. Buzsaki. Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampus. Nature (2003) 424:552-556.
T Seidenbecher, TR Laxmi, O Stork, H-C Pape. Amygdalar and hippocampal theta rhythm synchronization during fear memory retrieval. Science (2003) 301:846-850.

October 15, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Christian/Richard)

RS Zucker, WG Regehr. Short-term synaptic plasticity. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. (2002) 64:355-405.
Brief review of important papers on spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity: Sjostrom03 (Robert)

October 8, 2003 (cancelled)

October 1, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Richard Kempter)

MV Sokolov, AV Rossokhin, AM Kasyanov, S Gasparini, N Berretta, E Cherubini and LL Voronin. Associative mossy fibre LTP induced by pairing presynaptic stimulation with postsynaptic hyperpolarization of CA3 neurons in rat hippocampal slice. Europ. J. Neurosci. (2003) 17:1425-1437.
AV Astrelin, MV Sokolov, T Behnisch, KG Reymann, LL Voronin. Principal component analysis of minimal excitatory postsynaptic potentials. J. Neurosci. Meth. (1998) 79:169-186.
N Berretta, AV Rossokhin, AM Kasyanov, MV Sokolov, E Cherubini, LL Voronin. Postsynaptic hyperpolarization increases the strength of AMPAmediated synaptic transmission at large synapses between mossy fibers and CA3 pyramidal cells. Neuropharmacology (2000) 39:2288-2301.
Brief review of important papers on spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity: Sjostrom01 (Robert)

September 24, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Marion Moisel/Richard Kempter)

On Principal Component Analysis of mossy fiber EPSPs
Brief review of important papers on spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity: Magee97, Debanne98 (Robert/Roland)
''Hippocampus Club'' will start at 5pm (ITB).

September 17, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Dietmar Schmitz/Katja Gebert)

KE Vogt and RA Nicoll. Glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid mediate a heterosynaptic depression at mossy fiber synapses in the hippocampus. PNAS (1999) 96:1118-1122.
M-Y. Min, DA Rusakov and DM Kullmann. Activation of AMPA, kainate, and metabotropic receptors at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses: role of glutamate diffusion. Neuron (1998) 21:561-570.
Brief review of important papers on spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity: Markram97, Bi98 (Richard/Robert)

September 10, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Dietmar Schmitz/Richard Kempter)

M. Scanziani. GABA spillover activates postsynaptic GABAB receptors to control rhythmic hippocampal activity. Neuron (2000) 25:673-681.
Csicsvari J, Jamieson B, Wise KD, Buzsaki G. Mechanisms of gamma oscillations in the hippocampus of the behaving rat. Neuron (2003) 37:311-322.

Thursday, September 4, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Robert Gütig)

S. H. R. Oliet, R. C. Malenka, and R. A. Nicoll. Two distinct forms of long-term depression coexist in CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells. Neuron (1997) 18:969-982.

August 27, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Dietmar Schmitz)

Gillies MJ, Traub RD, LeBeau FE, Davies CH, Gloveli T, Buhl EH, Whittington MA. A model of atropine-resistant theta oscillations in rat hippocampal area CA1. J. Physiol. (2002) 543:779-793.
LeBeau FE, Towers SK, Traub RD, Whittington MA, Buhl EH. Fast network oscillations induced by potassium transients in the rat hippocampus in vitro. J. Physiol. (2002) 542:167-179.

August 20, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Nikolaus Maier)

A Bragin, G Jando, Z Nadasdy, J Hetke, K Wise, G Buzsaki. Gamma (40-100 Hz) oscillation in the hippocampus of the behaving rat. J. Neurosci. (1995) 15:47-60

August 13, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Christian Leibold/Dietmar Schmitz)

Y Fischer, BH Gähwiler and SM Thompson. Activation of intrinsic hippocampal theta oscillations by acetylcholine in rat septo-hippocampal cocultures. J. Physiol. (1999) 519.2:405-413.
Y Fischer, L Wittner, TF Freund and BH Gähwiler. Simultaneous activation of gamma and theta network oscillations in rat hippocampal slice cultures. J. Physiol. (2002) 539.3:857-868.
Fisahn A, Yamada M, Duttaroy A, Gan JW, Deng CX, McBain CJ, Wess J. Muscarinic induction of hippocampal gamma oscillations requires coupling of the M1 receptor to two mixed cation currents. Neuron (2002) 33:615-624.

August 6, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Dietmar Schmitz)

This is one paper of a series of closely related articles in Brain Research by Konopacki, Bland, and Roth, and a review by Konopacki:

Konopacki J, MacIver MB, Bland BH, Roth SH. Carbachol-induced EEG 'theta' activity in hippocampal brain slices. Brain Res. (1987) 405:196-198.
Konopacki J. Theta-like activity in the limbic cortex in vitro. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (1998) 22:311-323.

SS 2003

Hippocampus Journal Club (Oberseminar)

R. Kempter and D. Schmitz

July 30, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Nikolaus Maier)

F. Sotty, M. Danik, F. Manseau, F. Laplante, R. Quirion and S. Williams. Glutamatergic, cholinergic and GABAergic neurons contribute to the septohippocampal pathway and exhibit distinct electrophysiological properties: novel implications for hippocampal rhythmicity. J. Physiol. in Press; published online on July 15, 2003 as 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.046847

July 23, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Christian Leibold):

A. Fisahn, F. G. Pike, E. H. Buhl, and O. Paulsen. Cholinergic induction of networkoscillations at 40Hz in the hippocampus in vitro. Nature (1998) 394:186-189.
R. D. Traub et al. A model of gamma-frequency network oscillations induced in the rat CA3 region by carbachol in vitro. Europ. J. Neurosci. (2000) 12:4093-4106.

July 16, 2003 (Johannes-Müller-Institut für Physiologie, Emil Du Bois-Reymond seminar room, Tucholskystr. 2)

15:00 (talk by Valentin Stein, UC San Francisco)

Title: Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Synaptic Plasticity: PSD-95 Mimics LTP

V. Stein, D. R. C. House, D. S. Bredt, and R. A. Nicoll Postsynaptic density-95 mimics and occludes hippocampal long-term potentiation and enhances long-term depression. J. Neurosci. (2003) 23:5503-5506.

Background literature:

Si-Qiong June Liu & Stuart G. Cull-Candy. Synaptic activity at calcium-permeable AMPA receptors induces a switch in receptor subtype. Nature (2000) 405:454-458 ( News and Views)

July 9, 2003 (ITB)

For the mossy fiber project (4pm, presenter: Anja Gundlfinger), network project (5pm, presenter: Nikolaus Maier)

P. Ohliger-Frerking, S. P. Wiebe, U. Stäubli, and M. Frerking. GABAB receptor-mediated presynaptic inhibition has history-dependent effects on synaptic transmission during physiologically relevant spike trains. J. Neurosci. (2003) 23:4809-4814.
G. Buzsaki. Theta oscillations in the hippocampus. Neuron (2002) 33:325-340.

July 2, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Richard Kempter)

D. S. Rizzuto, J. R. Madsen, E. B. Bromfield, A. Schulze-Bonhage, D. Seelig, R. Aschenbrenner-Scheibe, and M. J. Kahana. Reset of human neocortical oscillations during a working memory task. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2003) 100:7931-7936.

June 28, 2003 (ITB) 9am - 5:30pm Seminar ''Learning and Memory''

June 25, 2003 (ITB) (presenter: Dietmar Schmitz)

Chevaleyre V, Castillo P. E. Heterosynaptic LTD of hippocampal GABAergic synapses: a novel role of endocannabinoids in regulating excitability. Neuron (2003) 38:461-472.

June 11, 2003 No meeting (Goettingen Neurobiology Conference)

June 4, 2003 (NWFZ) 3:00-3:50p (presenter: Dietmar Schmitz)

Wilson RI, Kunos G, Nicoll RA. Presynaptic specificity of endocannabinoid signaling in the hippocampus. Neuron (2001) 31:453-462.

May 28, 2003 (ITB) (discussion)

Oscillations continued:

Bragin A, Jando G, Nadasdy Z, van Landeghem M, Buzsaki G. Dentate EEG spikes and associated interneuronal population bursts in the hippocampal hilar region of the rat. J. Neurophysiol. (1995) 73:1691-1705.

5:00 - 6:00 pm: Hippocampus Club
Talk by Andreas Herz on ''Subthreshold membrane potential oscillations - one name for two distinct phenomena?''
starting at 6:00pm: Farewell barbecue for Irina

May 21, 2003 (NWFZ) (presenter: Nikolaus Maier and Christian Leibold)