BIONB 7200

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BIONB 7200
Advanced Topics in Neurobiology and Behavior

Course information provided by the 2018-2019 Catalog.

Designed to provide several study groups each semester on specialized topics. A group may meet for whatever period is judged adequate to enable coverage of the selected topics. Discussion of current literature is encouraged. See course roster for offerings.


Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate standing or permission of instructor.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Comments For NBB concentration: these topics courses may be used toward the additional 7 credit requirement, but do not qualify as advanced courses.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Fundamentals of Behavioral Network Function

  • 16999 BIONB 7200   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIONB 2220 AND permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to: 15 graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Interested students should contact Prof. Harris-Warrick (rmh4), who will provide an enrollment code, if appropriate. Description: Networks that drive behavior are formed from neurons with complex intrinsic electrophysiological properties, connected by synapses that are highly plastic and variable. This course will read literature and discuss how these networks drive flexible behavior, at a cellular level of analysis. Topics include: using combinations of ion channels to build neurons with different firing properties; principles of network connectivity; mechanisms shaping different components of the behavior (ex., intensity, phasing, rhythm); modulatory inputs and plasticity mechanisms driving variable output from an anatomically fixed network; and evolution of neural networks. Examples will include Central Pattern Generators for locomotion and respiration, as well as other systems in vertebrates and invertebrates of the students’ choice.

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