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• Talk in Göttingen

  

  I’m currently in Göttingen, Germany at the Bernstein Sparks Workshop: Beyond mean field theory in the neurosciences, a topic near and dear to my heart. The... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  The ever exciting and eclectic Kronos Quartet on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert.  Kronos has been a champion of contemporary music for the past forty years.  Here... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Journal Club

  Here’s the paper I will be covering in Journal Club tomorrow:Neurons for hunger and thirst transmit a negative-valence teaching signal J. Nicholas Betley,... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Steroid-regulated Gene Expression

  I am extremely pleased that the third leg of our theory on steroid-regulated gene expression is finally published.Theory of partial agonist activity of steroid... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  Two of the greatest violinists ever, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh, play my favourite piece, the Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043, by JS Bach. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Hazards of Rounding

  I parked at a meter today where the rate was 8 minutes per 25 cents. I threw in a nickel and the meter added 1 minute. I inserted in a dime and got and an... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  For May Day, here is Fanfare for the Common Man by American composer Aaron Copeland performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by James Levine. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Talk at Michigan

  I gave a talk in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan yesterday. The video of the talk is here. The talk... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Philosophy of Thomas the Tank Engine

  My toddler loves to watch the television show Thomas and Friends based on the The Railway Series books by the Rev. Wilbert Audry. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Part 1 with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. This piece... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• R Vs Matlab

  It has now been almost half a year since I switched from Matlab to open source software and I’ve been amazed at how easy the transition has been. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  For Good Friday, here is the famous aria Erbarme dich from Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, with mezzosoprano Marianna Pizzolato.If you have... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Gene Repression

  

  CC Chow, KK Finn, GB Storchan, X Lu, X Sheng, SS Simons Jr., Kinetically-Defined Component Actions in Gene Repression. PLoS Comp Bio. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Perils of Math Pedagogy

  It seems that the prevailing wisdom in teaching mathematics is to make abstract concepts as concrete as possible. The thinking is that if math can be related... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  Leonard Bernstein conducts the “Orchestre National de France” in Hector Berlioz’s (psychedelic) Symphonie Fantastique 5th Movement:Larghetto, Allegro (Songe... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Path Integrals

  Carson C. Chow and Michael A. Buice. Path Integral Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations. The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, 5:8 2015. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Selection of the Week

  The first movement of the Cello (and Piano) Sonata No.1 Op. 38 by Johannes Brahms played by Alisa Weilerstein, cello and  Ilan Rechtman, piano. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Jobs at the Allen Institute

  The Allen Institute for Brain Science is currently recruiting. The positions are listed on this link but in particular see below: SCIENTIST I – MODELING,... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Michael Buice on the Dress

  

  Read former LBM fellow Michael Buice’s explanation of the dress colour illusion.Huffington Post: …In the case of the dress, one’s assumptions about lighting hav... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Steroid-regulated Gene Expression

  Recent paper in Molecular Endocrinology 7:1194-206. doi: 10.1210/me.2014-1069:Research Resource: Modulators of glucocorticoid receptor activity identified by a... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE