Late tomorrow evening, I’ll grab a flight out of Boston for a quick trip back home. Thursday and Friday I hope to mainly make use of to catch back up with Krasnow events and issues, while at the same time preparing for the Neuroarchitecture Conference in Woods Hole the following week at the National Academy of Sciences property here–one of the most picturesque places to have a meeting I think.
In the meantime, I have to say that the quality of the lectures here has been incredible. Yesterday evening’s talk was “Homeostatic plasticity in developing cortical networks” by Gina Turrigiano, Associate Professor of Biology Brandeis University. Gina has published recently in Nature Neuroscience–the phenomenon that she has discovered and characterized initially in cell culture, but most recently in vivo is really interesting. Essentially it’s a kind of homeostatis-based plasticity, both at the intrinsic cell level and at the network level, that allows cortical pyramidal cells to continue firing away at a favored firing rate, even as the under-go vast changes in synaptic drive. We should think about inviting her to Krasnow for a talk I would think.
I’m looking forward to seeing all of you, if briefly.
Jim
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