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Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSF

NS201A - Fall 2009

NS201A - Fall 2009
Basic Concepts in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Course Directors:
Jenny LaVail
E-mail: lavailj@vision.ucsf.edu
Jeffrey Lansman

E-mail: jeff.lansman@ucsf.edu
Eric Huang
E-mail: eric.huang2@ucsf.edu

First class: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, S159, Parnassus 9am
Please view each date for the time and location of the class.
PH-Parnassus
MB-Mission Bay

Course Materials:
Materials will be located at right as they are added. If there is lecture missing, please contact Carrie Huckaba.

Class Schedule: (Please check for changes to the schedule)

Date
Time
Location
Subject
Lecturer
September
Tuesday, 9/1/2009     PIBS Retreat to Angel Island  
Wednesday, 9/2/2009 9am-11am PH-S159 Histology/Lab Jenny LaVail and David Sretavan
1pm-3pm PH-S159 Paper Discussion Jenny LaVail
Thursday, 9/3/2009 9am-10am PH-HSW303 Introduction Jenny LaVail
10-11:30am PH-HSW303 Spinal Cord Allan Basbaum
12pm-4pm PH-C343A Student/Advisor Lunch and NS Information Meeting
Friday, 9/4/2009 9-11am PH-N729 Stats 1 Loren Frank
1pm-3pm PH-N729 MatLab Orientation Loren Frank
Monday, 9/7/2009
No Class, Labor Day
Tuesday, 9/8/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Brainstem Jenny LaVail
1pm-3pm PH-S163 Stats Problem Set 1 Loren Frank
Wednesday, 9/9/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Stats 2 Loren Frank
12:30pm-2:30pm PH-S163 Imaging Tutorial Steve Finkbeiner
Thursday, 9/10/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Thalamus/Cortex Peter Ohara
1pm-3pm PH-S163 Electricity Tutorial Seth Shipman
Friday, 9/11/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Stats Problem Set 2 Loren Frank
1pm-3pm PH-S163 Stats 3 Philip Sabes
Monday, 9/14/2009 10am-12pm PH-S163 Stats Problem Set 3 Philip Sabes
1pm-3pm PH-S163 Stats 4 Philip Sabes
Tuesday, 9/15/2009 9am-11am PH-S1320 Gross Anatomy Lab Jenny LaVail, Maggie Carr and Matt LaVail
1pm-3pm PH-S159 Membrane Potentials Jeff Lansman
Wednesday, 9/16/2009 9am-11am PH-LARC Entrance, 3rd floor, Medical Science Building Animal Lab Sandy Canchola
1pm-3pm PH-S163 Stats Problem Set 4 Philip Sabes
Thursday, 9/17/2009 9am-11am PH-S163   Jeff Lansman
12pm-2pm PH-S163 Differential Equations Tutorial Kris Bouchard
Friday, 9/18/2009 10am-12pm PH-S163 Membranes Problem Set Jeff Lansman
Monday, 9/21/09
No Class, Asilomar
Wednesday, 9/23/2009 10am-12pm PH-S163 Hodgkin-Huxley I Jeff Lansman
Thursday, 9/24/09 1pm-3pm PH-N729 Hodgkin-Huxley II Jeff Lansman
Friday, 9/25/2009 10am-12pm PH-S163 Macromolecules Dan Minor
1pm-3pm PH-S163 Channel Diversity Jeff Lansman
Monday, 9/28/09
No Class - Yom Kippur
Wednesday, 9/30/2009 10am-12pm PH-S18 Problem Set Jeff Lansman
October
Friday, 10/2/2009 1pm-3pm PH-Library Classroom--CL222 Action Potential Lab Jeff Lansman
Monday, 10/5/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Single Channels I Julie Schnapf
Wednesday, 10/7/2009 9am-11am PH-S18 Single Channels II Julie Schnapf
Friday, 10/9/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Problem Set Julie Schnapf
Monday, 10/12/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Paper Discussion Julie Schnapf
Wednesday, 10/14/2009
NO CLASS
Thursday, 10/15/2009 9am-11am PH-Cole Hall Structure Function I Yuriy Kirichok
Friday, 10/16 to Wednesday, 10/21, No Class - SFN
Thursday, 10/22/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Structure Function II Yuriy Kirichok
Friday, 10/23/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Paper Discussion Yuriy Kirichok
Monday, 10/26/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Synaptic Transmission I Peter Sargent
Wednesday, 10/28/2009 9am-11am PH-HSW302 Synaptic Transmission II Peter Sargent
Friday, 10/30/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Synaptic Transmission III Peter Sargent
November
Monday, 11/2/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Synaptic Plasticity Roger Nicoll
Wednesday, 11/4/2009 9am-11am PH-S18 Paper Discussion Peter Sargent
Friday, 11/6/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Neurotransmitter Release Robert Edwards
Monday, 11/9/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Neurotransmitter Uptake/Transporters Robert Edwards
Tuesday, 11/10/2009 9am-11am PH-S180 Slow Potentials Dorit Ron
Wednesday 11/11/2009
No Class - UCSF Holiday
Friday, 11/13/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Paper Discussion Dorit Ron
11am   Exam Handed Out Jeff Lansman
Monday, 11/16/2009 9am MB-GH S261 Exam Due - Turn into Carrie Huckaba by 9am!
9am
MB-GH S261
Course Evaluation
Stavro Lomvardas
Tuesday,
11/17/2009
9:30am-11am PH-S214 Patterning Lateral Inhibition Ben Cheyette
Wednesday, 11/18/2009 9:30am-11am PH-S18 Patterning Morphogens Ben Cheyette
Friday, 11/20/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Tutorial Joe Donovan and Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimtriou
Monday, 11/23/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Growth Cone Louis Reichardt
Tuesday, 11/24/2009 9:30am-11am PH-N517 Axon Guidance I (Invertebrates) Ben Cheyette
Wednesday 11/25 to Friday 11/27, No Class - Thanksgiving
Monday, 11/30/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Axon Guidance II Louis Reichardt
December
Wednesday, 12/2/2009 9am-11am PH-S18 Axon Guidance III Louis Reichardt
Friday, 12/4/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Tutorial Caitlyn Gertz and Josh Bagley
Monday, 12/7/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Axon Guidance IV (RTKs) Eric Huang
Tuesday, 12/8/2009 9am-11am PH-N517 Neuronal Migration Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Wednesday, 12/9/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Dendrite Formation Yuh Nung Jan
Friday, 12/11/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Synapse Formation I Erik Ullian
Monday, 12/14/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Synapse Formation II Erik Ullian
Wednesday, 12/16/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Tutorial Caitlyn Gertz and Josh Bagley
Friday, 12/18/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Neurogenesis/Stem Cells Arnold Kriegstein
Monday, 12/21/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Gliogenesis David Rowitch
Tuesday, 12/22/2009 9am-11am PH-S163 Tutorial Caitlyn Gertz and Josh Bagley

Courses


Course Materials
(UCSF Access Only)

September

09/02/09 - Wednesday
Presentation (Morning)
Presentation (PowerPoint)
Presentation (PDF)
Paper (afternoon) Neuron 2007:53(5):639-647

09/03/09 - Thursday
Region Anatomy of the CNS
LaVail - Presentation (PowerPoint)
LaVail - Presentation (PDF)
Basbaum - Presentation (part 1)
Basbaum - Presentaiton (part 2)

09/04/09 - Friday
Mat Lab Notes
Mat Lab Lecture Code (mat lab file)
Lecture 1 overview (Probability)
Lecture 1 Problem set (Probability)

09/08/09 - Tuesday
LaVail-Brainstem handout
Eye Stimulation Model

09/09/09 - Wednesday
Stats lecture - Distributions
Stats problem set
Mat Lab - Gaussian
(mat lab file)
Mat Lab - Lecture code (mat lab file)
Imaging Lecture

Imaging Notes
Imaging References
Paper-Ann. Rev. Neurosci (2009)

09/10/09 - Thursday
Ohara - Presentation

09/11/09 - Friday

09/14/09 - Monday

09/15/09 - Tuesday
LaVail - Gross Brain Lab Instructions
Lansman - Syllabus for all Lansman Classes
Lansman - Kandel Chapters 7 & 8

Lansman - Membran Potentials
Lansman - review 1

Lansman - review 2

09/16/09 - Wednesday
Paper (PDF)
Handout - Paw Thermal Stimulator (PDF)
Handout - von Frey (PDF)
Handout - Hot-Cold Plate3 (PDF)

09/17/09 - Thursday
Lansman - Hodkin/Katz
Lansman - Problem set 1
Bouchard-math 1
Bouchard-math 2

09/18/09 - Friday and 09/23/09 - Wednesday
Lansman - HH Soln
Lansman - Hille Chapter 2
Lansman - HH Analysis
Background reading - Optional
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Paper 4
Paper 5
Paper 6

09/25/09 - Friday
Minor - Presentation
Lansman - Nat. Neuroscience
Lansman - Channel Diversity

09/30/09 - Wednesday
Lansman - Problem set 2


October

10/02/09 - Friday
Lansman - Simulation Lab

10/05/09 - Monday
Colquhoun & Hawkes
Readling List
Single Channel Lecture

10/07/09 - Wednesday
see 10/5/09

10/09/09 - Friday
Problem Set

10/12/09 - Monday
Miller
Rosenmund Stern-Bach Stevens
Study Guide

10/15/09 - Thursday
Presentation

10/22/09 - Thursday
Presentation

10/23/09 - Friday
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3

10/26/09 - Monday
Presentation

10/28/09 - Wednesday
Presentation
Reading List
Problem Set

10/30/09 - Friday
See 10/28!


November

11/02/09 - Monday

11/04/09 - Wednesday
Paper
Study Questions

11/06/09 - Friday
Handouts:
Endo
Exo
Trans

11/09/09 - Monday
See Friday 11/6/09

11/10/09 - Tuesday

11/13/09 - Friday
Paper

11/17/09 - Tuesday
Lecture

11/18/09 - Wednesday
Lecture

11/20/09 - Friday

11/23/09 - Monday
Lecture
Revised Lecture

11/24/09 - Tuesday
Lecture

11/30/09 - Monday
Lecture
Revised Lecture


December

12/02/09 - Wednesday
See file on 11/30/09
Revised Lecture

12/04/09 - Friday
Problem Set
Paper 1-grasshopper
Paper 2-photoact
Paper 3-Tessier-Lavigne
Paper 4-netrin

12/07/09 - Monday
Presentation

12/08/09 - Tuesday
Presentation
New Copy of Presentation

12/09/09 - Wednesday
Presentation

12/11/09 - Friday
Presentation

12/14/09 - Monday
Presentation

12/16/09 - Wednesday
Problem Set
Paper 1-Zong
Paper 2-Lee
Paper 3-Luo
Paper 4-Marin
Paper 5-Marin

12/18/09 - Friday
Presentation

12/21/09 - Monday
Presentation

12/22/09 - Tuesday