BSTP 2021

Time: 16:30–18:30
Date Lec. # Title Lecturer
I. Cellular architecture and function
10/12/2021   Course Overview (16:00–16:30) Andrea Benucci / Motomasa Tanaka
1 The development and meaning of dendrite arbor shape Adrian Moore
10/19/2021 2 Synapses Yukiko Goda
10/26/2021 3 Brain Development: Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors Tomomi Shimogori
11/2/2021 4 Neural stem cells in the embryonic and adult brain Ryoichiro Kageyama
II. Systems
11/9/2021 5 Behavioral Methods Kazuhisa Shibata
11/30/2021 6 Neural dynamics Keiichi Kitajo
12/7/2021 7 Student Presentation Workshop Amanda Alvarez / PDFA
12/14/2021 8
Vision: low-level visual processing Andrea Benucci
12/21/2021 9
Somatosensory Masanori Murayama
1/11/2022 10
Executive Control Processes in Perception and Behavior Lukas Schmitt
III. Computational Method
1/18/2022 11 Multiscale computations of human brain Rei Akaishi
1/25/2022 12 Theoretical Models Taro Toyoizumi
2/1/2022 13 Neurological background of Behavior Control Shingo Shimoda
2/8/2022 14 Mid-term exam (please secure the whole afternoon)  
2/15/2022 15 Free energy principle Takuya Isomura
2/22/2022 16 Statistical Modeling Takeru Matsuda
17 Digital Brain Atlasing Alexander Woodward
3/1/2022 18 Computational Neuroscience Louis Kang
IV. Technology
3/8/2022 19 Deep learning for biomedical image analysis
(16:30–17:30,  1/2 Lec)
Henrik Skibbe
V. Learning and Memory
3/15/2022 20
Learning and memory Thomas McHugh
3/22/2022 21 Drosophila Neurobiology Hokto Kazama
3/29/2022 22 Learning and memory in C. elegans Asuka Takeishi
23 Neuronal Oscillations Shigeyoshi Fujisawa
VI. Emotion and Social Behaviors
4/5/2022 24 Language Development Reiko Mazuka
4/12/2022 25 Parent and infant relationship Kumi Kuroda
4/19/2022 26 Emotion Joshua Johansen
4/26/2022 27 Social Behavior Hitoshi Okamoto
VII. Diseases
5/10/2022 28 Glia
Jun Nagai
5/17/2022
17:30–19:30
29 Network, dynamics and disorders in the brain Takamitsu Watanabe (The Univ. of Tokyo)
5/24/2022 30 Prion Motomasa Tanaka
31 Brain Disorders Ryo Endo
5/31/2022 32 Synapse pathology in psychiatric disorders Akiko Hayashi-Takagi
33 Alzheimer's disease Hiroki Sasaguri (Dr.Saido's lab)
6/7/2022 34 Final exam (please secure the whole afternoon)  
6/14/2022 35 Course Review / Graduation Ceremony Andrea Benucci / Motomasa Tanaka