From cogling4edu from yahoo.com.br Tue Feb 12 15:19:20 2008 From: cogling4edu from yahoo.com.br (Andrea Matos) Date: Tue Feb 12 18:21:09 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] 2nd CFP: 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: <222884.51386.qm@web50301.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (apologies for cross-postings) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS University of Brighton, 8th of August, 2008, Brighton, UK Website: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Affiliated with the International Conference on Language and Cognition, running the 4th ? 7th of August, 2008. (www.languageandcognition.net for details.) The 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics provides a forum for postgraduate students working within Cognitive Linguistics, language and cognition, and related areas of research to share and discuss their individual research, current methodologies and frameworks, and future directions of study. Empirical, theoretical, methodological abstracts relating to the following topics are welcome: - Language and communication - Language and cognition - Metaphor - Grammar and conceptualisation - Knowledge structure - Applied cognitive linguistics - Cognitive semantics - Related areas of research Keynote speakers Dr Ewa D?browska, University of Sheffield, England, Vice President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, Editor of Cognitive Linguistics journal. Prof Vyvyan Evans, University of Brighton, England, President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association. Workshop chair Dr Daniel Casasanto, Stanford University, USA. Editor of Language and Cognition, an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science (2009 launch). Submission of abstracts Submissions are solicited for the three parallel sessions and the poster session. - Abstracts should not exceed 500 words?references are excluded from this count. - Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title. - Abstracts should be anonymous for purposes of blind review. - Abstracts should be formatted as Word, RTF or PDF documents. - Abstracts should be submitted electronically to UKPGCCL@gmail.com. - Please include the following information in the body of your email: title and name of author(s) affiliation email address for correspondence presentation title 3-5 keywords preference for presentation or poster session. Please state in the subject line of your email that this is an abstract submission, i.e., ?Abstract Submission: Name(s)? ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 2nd of April, 2008 For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Organisers The conference is organised by Andrea Morgado De Matos and Kyle Jasmin. Contact The conference email address is UKPGCCL@gmail.com Web details are available at: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Andrea Morgado de Matos Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o ?nico sem limite de espa?o para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/ From neuroschoolfias from googlemail.com Wed Feb 20 11:44:45 2008 From: neuroschoolfias from googlemail.com (neuroschoolfias@googlemail.com) Date: Wed Feb 20 12:54:43 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems (2-24 August 2008, Frankfurt, Germany) Message-ID: <1751447b-d3a1-46ff-bf40-c616de67c76e@n58g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Announcement and Call for Applications: The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is organizing a PENS-Blackwell Summer School on: Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems Frankfurt, Germany, August 2-24, 2008 We invite applications for this three-week summer school from graduate students and post-docs in experimental and computational neuroscience and theoretical physics. Up to 30 students will be accepted. The school is supported by PENS - the Programme of European Neuroscience Schools, an IBRO-FENS collaboration. Application deadline: Monday, April 7. School: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/ Application: http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/pens/2008/schools/frankfurt/ Scientific Directors: W. Maass, C. von der Malsburg, G. Pipa, W. Singer, J. Triesch, M. Tsodyks Lecturers and Tutors Include: * Dana Ballard, UT Austin, USA * Emery Brown, Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, USA * Yang Dan, UC Berkeley, USA * Sophie Deneve, CNRS, France * Rodney Douglas, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL, Switzerland * Ann Graybiel, MIT, USA * Mary Hayhoe, UT Austin, USA * Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam, Germany, * Jorg Lucke, FIAS, Germany * Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitat, Graz, Austria * Christoph von der Malsburg, FIAS, Germany * Sergio Neuenschwander, MPIH, Germany * Danko Nikolic, MPIH, Germany * Gordon Pipa, FIAS and MPIH, Germany * Austra Saudargiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania * Kerstin Schmidt, MPIH, Germany * Wolf Singer, MPIH, Germay * Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA * Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Germany * Peter Uhlhaas, MPIH, Germany * Raul Vicente, FIAS and MPIH, Germany * Cornelius Weber FIAS, Germany * Michael Wibral, MPIH, Germany * Kai Willadsen, FIAS, Germany * Junmei Zhu, FIAS, Germany Topics: mathematical and biological foundations of theoretical neuroscience; analysis of neural data; modelling of neurons and small networks; plasticity and learning; modelling higher cognitive functions, embodiment Format: - a 3-day pre-school to establish a common foundation and language - daily lectures by renowned international faculty - hands-on work on self-defined projects in interdisciplinary groups - round table discussions - a social and cultural program Registration Fees, Travel Expenses and Waivers: The school covers the expenses for accommodation and the cultural program. Students will have to pay a registration fee of 400 EURO. A small number of grants are available for students who need support for their travel expenses and a waiver for the registration fee. They are primarily intended for students from disadvantaged regions. If you consider applying for financial support, please indicate this in your application. We also need an estimate of your travel expenses (in EUROs). For further information, please contact: Neuro School Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany email: neuro_school@fias.uni-frankfurt.de tel: +49 69 798 47601 From connelly.bill from gmail.com Tue Feb 26 20:53:37 2008 From: connelly.bill from gmail.com (Bill) Date: Tue Feb 26 22:03:05 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Brain stem slices? Agar? Message-ID: <75666225-b2f7-479f-b4d2-211ba56bf4a9@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> Hey guys, Has anyone cut brain stem slices (for e-phys) here before? I'm thinking about cutting some coronal slices with the area around the facial nuclei (on the ventral surface) in them. My three ideas for doing this are: 1) Remove the whole brain, make a coronal cut at the level of the around level of the superior colliculus. Glue the more rostral section (containing the brain stem and the cerebellum) down by the surface created by the cut, and section it using a vibrotome, with the blade approaching from the ventral side. 2) Same as above, however, instead of gluing the cerebellum-brain stem block onto a vibrotome, I would carefully dissect off the cerebellum, and then lay the brain stem down on the stage of a McIlwain style chopper, and cut away. 3) Produce the brainstem like in either 1 or 2, but mount it in agar, and then use a vibrotome. Thoughts? Which brings me to my next question, I often see people mount brain tissue in agar before sectioning. When we make agar for filling oocyte electrodes or KCl bridges, it has to be nearly boiling to stay liquid, i.e. you don't want to boil your brain tissue in agar; how are people preparing their agar such that it is liquid at close to room temp, but solid at 'ice cold' 4 degrees? Thanks again. From Matthew.Kirkcaldie from removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au Tue Feb 26 22:33:00 2008 From: Matthew.Kirkcaldie from removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au (Matthew Kirkcaldie) Date: Wed Feb 27 12:52:39 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain stem slices? Agar? References: <75666225-b2f7-479f-b4d2-211ba56bf4a9@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: #1, but then try agar if it breaks apart. The pyramidal tracts will be your principal physical barrier. As for the agar - dissolve the agar in very hot water as usual, draw about 5ml into a 20ml syringe, aspirate about 10ml of air through it (or run cold water around the outside, tip it up to push the air out, repeat, until it's just warm on your skin (like testing a baby's bottle). At that point you have about 2-3 minutes before it sets. About a teaspoon per 100ml saline gives a consistency like brain tissue. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com From connelly.bill from gmail.com Wed Feb 27 19:32:38 2008 From: connelly.bill from gmail.com (Bill) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:12:41 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain stem slices? Agar? References: <75666225-b2f7-479f-b4d2-211ba56bf4a9@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <0432ca24-83e7-4516-b097-c697462df742@h25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Thanks for your Advice Matthew. On Feb 27, 4:33 pm, Matthew Kirkcaldie wrote: > #1, but then try agar if it breaks apart. The pyramidal tracts will be > your principal physical barrier. > > As for the agar - dissolve the agar in very hot water as usual, draw > about 5ml into a 20ml syringe, aspirate about 10ml of air through it (or > run cold water around the outside, tip it up to push the air out, > repeat, until it's just warm on your skin (like testing a baby's > bottle). At that point you have about 2-3 minutes before it sets. About > a teaspoon per 100ml saline gives a consistency like brain tissue. > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com From Matthew.Kirkcaldie from removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au Wed Feb 27 23:29:29 2008 From: Matthew.Kirkcaldie from removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au (Matthew Kirkcaldie) Date: Thu Feb 28 15:14:21 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain stem slices? Agar? References: <75666225-b2f7-479f-b4d2-211ba56bf4a9@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> <0432ca24-83e7-4516-b097-c697462df742@h25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: In article <0432ca24-83e7-4516-b097-c697462df742@h25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, Bill wrote: > Thanks for your Advice Matthew. No problem Bill. By the way, when I said "just warm on your skin" I meant squirt out some of the liquid agar on to the back of your hand - it should set more-or-less instantly without making you feel uncomfortable. Obviously you should wait until you're fairly sure it's just warm and no longer hot, or you could burn yourself! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com From gmsizemore2 from yahoo.com Thu Feb 28 06:44:58 2008 From: gmsizemore2 from yahoo.com (Glen M. Sizemore) Date: Thu Feb 28 15:14:48 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain stem slices? Agar? References: <75666225-b2f7-479f-b4d2-211ba56bf4a9@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> <0432ca24-83e7-4516-b097-c697462df742@h25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <47c69eb8$0$567$ed362ca5@nr2.newsreader.com> "Matthew Kirkcaldie" wrote in message news:Matthew.Kirkcaldie-B73C82.15292828022008@free.teranews.com... > In article > <0432ca24-83e7-4516-b097-c697462df742@h25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, > Bill wrote: > >> Thanks for your Advice Matthew. > > No problem Bill. By the way, when I said "just warm on your skin" I > meant squirt out some of the liquid agar on to the back of your hand - > it should set more-or-less instantly without making you feel > uncomfortable. Obviously you should wait until you're fairly sure it's > just warm and no longer hot, or you could burn yourself! Whew! Quick thinking there Matthew! You almost had a law suit on your hands! > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > From rbf from inf.ed.ac.uk Thu Feb 28 12:53:51 2008 From: rbf from inf.ed.ac.uk (Bob Fisher) Date: Thu Feb 28 15:15:09 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] ANN: 1 year MS/MSc course in Informatics at Edinburgh University Message-ID: The School of Informatics at Edinburgh University offers highly praised 1 year MSc (MS) degrees in Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science. You will specialise in * Bioinformatics * Computational Systems Biology We also offer other specialities: * Analytical and Scientific Databases * Computer Systems and Software Engineering * Fundamentals of High Performance Computing Systems * Geoinformatics * Intelligent Robotics * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Learning from Data * Natural Language and Language Engineering * Neural Computation and Neuroinformatics * Theoretical Computer Science The course consists of 6 months taught work, with modules selected from over 50 modules at masters level, followed by a supervised 6 month project. Studentships are available for students in some of the above specialties. More about the course can be seen at: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/msc.html Dissertations from previous projects can be seen at: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/msc.html The School of Informatics received an excellent rating in the most recent SHEFC Teaching Quality Assessment exercise. In the UK, the higher education funding bodies carry out a Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The last RAE exercise was held in 2001 and the University of Edinburgh was the only university in the UK awarded the top 5*A rating for Computer Science. Application ================ You must have a first or upper second class honours degree or its equivalent (A or B GPA average), normally in an area of Informatics, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science or Computer Science. You must have experience in computer programming. Applicants with degrees in these disciplines will also be considered: Education, Electrical Engineering, Psychology, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Physics. See here about application procedures: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html From Matthew.Kirkcaldie from removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au Fri Feb 29 01:53:58 2008 From: Matthew.Kirkcaldie from removethis.utas.andthis.edu.au (Matthew Kirkcaldie) Date: Fri Feb 29 11:08:29 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain stem slices? Agar? References: <75666225-b2f7-479f-b4d2-211ba56bf4a9@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> <0432ca24-83e7-4516-b097-c697462df742@h25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <47c69eb8$0$567$ed362ca5@nr2.newsreader.com> Message-ID: In article <47c69eb8$0$567$ed362ca5@nr2.newsreader.com>, "Glen M. Sizemore" wrote: > Whew! Quick thinking there Matthew! You almost had a law suit on your hands! It'd be an interesting court case: "Your honour, I read this advice on a newsgroup - and thinking it would be of the highest quality, followed it without question. By the way, we will need to extradite the guy from Australia." But that was the reason I posted the addendum of course - that, and the desire not to burn innocent people on the other side of the world. MK. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com From r_s_norman from _comcast.net Fri Feb 29 21:18:57 2008 From: r_s_norman from _comcast.net (r norman) Date: Sat Mar 1 12:42:22 2008 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Effects of weak electric fields on the activity of neurons and neuronal networks References: <1194332318.689188.90720@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <15fhs316jqmt9hdifvui79mdk4aes8ukhk@4ax.com> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:49:00 GMT, "ken" wrote: >Cross-posts removed. > >These 'days', I try to work >'solely' in bionet.neuroscience. > >"ken" wrote in message news:G_Txj.14958$o23.5582@trndny09... >| "r norman" wrote in message news:vjecs392sn975pljli4rp3tkpckd6pqg3h@4ax.com... >|| [...] >|| >[...] >| [...] > >| So the case, which includes every- >| thing that exists in physical reality, >| like all of "Chemistry" and "Physics" >| -- because "material" is comprised >| of 'atoms' which have relatively-dis- >| tinct and discrete EM reactivities >| [which is how and why stuff like >| MRIs work], is Closed -- in the >| Affirmative. >| [...] > >"Gees, 'louise'!" =Don't= 'panic'. > >Truth =Loves= Humanity. > >It's Leap-'year'-'day'. > >"Leap!" :-] > >With-Love. > >k. p. collins > Ken, the problem with your notion is that essentially everything we see everyday is caused by some aspect of electromagnetism. It explains all of chemistry, the structure of materials, pretty much everything except why we don't fall off the earth. So grand theories based on electromagnetism are not much use; that is what all theories are.