Discussing recent papers in behavioral neuroscience with a focus on circuit dissection, new behavioral assays, and model characterization
Journal Club Format: the person who picks the paper preps a slide deck of the figures and any background they want to share, then we each take turns presenting a figure.
Anyone interested is welcome to participate!
When: First Tuesday of the month, 12:00p
Where: Neuroscience Research Building 8101 (NRB; Medical Campus) and Zoom
Organizer: Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
Click for Zoom link (WUSTL Key required)
Note that individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
2024 Fall Schedule
For inquiries contact Susan Maloney.
August 6, 2024 – Note new location: Fort NRB 8101
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Sex differences in the social motivation of rats: Insights from social operant conditioning, behavioural economics, and video tracking” Biology of Sex Differences (2024)
September 3, 2024
Josh Thorpe (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Anxiety Cells in a Hippocampal-Hypothalamic Circuit” Neuron (2018)
October 1, 2024
Andrew Spiedell (Yano lab, WashU Neurosurgery)
“Synaptic rearrangement of NMDA receptors controls memory engram formation and malleability in the cortex” Science Advances (2024)
CANCELLED – November 5, 2024
December 3, 2024
Katie McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Mouse helpers ensure maternal-infant survival” bioRxiv (2022)