NEUROSCIENTISTS TALK SHOP
By The University of Texas San Antonio
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Podcast Description
Neuroscientists Talk Shop is the University of Texas at San Antonio's (UTSA) Neurobiology Podcast, showcasing the current research of internationally renowned guest Neuroscientists. Each episode features a moderated discussion with a cross section of UTSA Neurobiology faculty, highlighting the featured guest's research, and the state of the art in the field at hand.
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Johannes Schul PhD | Johannes Schul (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) discusses the the katydid communication system and its unique strategy for sound segregation of behaviorally relevant information. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 22 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zen Faulkes PhD | Zen Faulkes (Assoc Professor, University of Texas Pan-American) discusses his work on characterizing nociceptors in crustaceans, and some of the issues surrounding ethical treatment of invertebrates that his work touches on. Visit Zen's blog Neurodojo.com for some fun content on neuroethology and beyond. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Sakshi Puri (Student, UT Pan Am) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Denard Simmons (PhD student, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 8 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neal Waxham PhD | Neal Waxham (Professor, Dept of Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Medical School at Houston) discusses molecular dynamics at the PSD, including CaMKII as a structural molecule, molecular trapping at the spine, and the potential modularity of the post synaptic density. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ulrich Mayr PhD | Ulrich Mayr (Professor, University of Minnesota) discusses cognitive inhibition during task switching, the common language of processing time between cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, and his neuroeconomics work on risk behavior and altruism. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Angelique Blackburn (PhD student, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 23 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gina Kuperberg MD PhD | Gina Kuperberg (Associate Professor, Tufts University & MGH) discusses her work on semantic processing during schizophrenia. She gives us a window into the use of language as a tool to probe cognitive processing during thought disorders. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 9 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura Colgin PhD | Laura Colgin (Asst Professor, UT Austin) talks with us about the early history of the study of brain oscillations, and discusses her work on the potential functional significance of frequency variations in the Gamma band. *Please note: The discussion covered a lot of ground, which required breaks in continuity due to edits. Duration: 34 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martha Flanders PhD | Martha Flanders (Professor, University Minnesota) discusses the ongoing debate in motor systems regarding modularity vs distributed organization in the motor planning system. The role of efference copy in models of motor planning is discussed, as is hand movement sequencing and coarticulation of letters in sign language. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 19 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Perkel PhD | David Perkel (Professor, Washington University School of Med) discusses the homology between the avian song system and the basal ganglia circuit, and the role of motor variability in the adult songbird learning circuit. The nature of cortex and its relation to cortex-like structures in the avian brain are considered. (Please excuse low audio levels; we're working on it!) Duration: 32 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 3 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karen Bales PhD | Karen Bales (Assoc Professor, UC Davis) discusses a monogamous primate model that she is using to study neural correlates of social bonding. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof UTSA) Michelle Valero (Graduate Student, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 27 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Lisberger, PhD | Stephen Lisberger (Professor, HHMI & UCSF) talks with Charles Wilson about solving the problem of how circuits generate behavior using low dimensional model systems, and why it is important to study variability in the nervous system. Duration: 30 minutes acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 20 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kamran Khodakhah PhD | Kamran Khodakhah (Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) talks with the group about information coding in cerebellar cortex and his foray into translational research with a model of rapid onset dystonia. The group discusses the current NIH push for translational research at the expense of basic science and debates the idea of cerebellum as a motor learning structure. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) James Bower (Prof, UTSA/UTHSCSA) Carlos Paladini (Assoc. Prof UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 13 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Helen Scharfman PhD | Helen Scharfman (Professor, NYU Langone School of Medicine) talks about aberrant neurogenesis following seizure activity in the dentate gyrus, and discusses models of how newly born granule cells may aid in information storage and retrieval in memory process. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 29 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Phillip Sabes PhD | Philip Sabes (Associate Professor, UCSF) talks about modeling complex behaviors that remain relevant and specifically tailored to the physiology of real neurons and neural circuits in real time. (Note to our listeners: Apologies for the rough audio on this one! It's a temporary problem and will be resolved in the next episode) Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Blanpied PhD | Thomas Blanpied (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine) talks about molecular organization at the post-synaptic density, models of receptor mobility, and visualization of living synapses in real time. (Note to our listeners: Apologies for the sound quality on this one! It's a temporary problem and will be resolved in the next episode) Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David McCormick PhD | David McCormick (Dorys McConnel Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine) talks about flexibility of information coding in neural systems, and the complexity of undertaking studies of functional connectivity in cortical networks. Duration: 40 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Joseph Beatty (Post-doc, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Soomin Song (PhD Student, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kara Federmeier PhD | Kara Federmeier (Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) talks about prediction in language production and comprehension, and how ERPs are used to reveal differences in the timecourse and components of language processing. Also discussed are the N400 as a measure of meaning, and general principles of language lateralization. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 13 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anne Young MD PhD | Anne Young (Julianne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard MGH) talks about her early studies of basal ganglia functional anatomy, and how they led to her famed dual pathway model of the basal ganglia. The group muses on the model's strengths and shortcomings over the decades, and discusses how it organized thinking in the field of basal ganglia research and continues to be relevant to clinicians and researchers today. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA) George Perry (Dean, College of Science UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 24 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dieter Jaeger PhD | Dieter Jaeger (Professor, Emory University) talks about the complexity of modeling systems whose biological function is ill-defined, and how to determine how complex a model needs to be. The possibility of building structured queriable databases for mining neuroscience data is discussed, as are thoughts on mouse model systems as an approximation of the human brain. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 10 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Brownell PhD | Rama Ratnam hosts William Brownell (The Jake and Nina Kamin Chair of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine) as he discusses electromechanical signal processing in the cochlea. Electromotility in the nervous system is discussed, specifically in the context of cochlear amplification. Duration: 47 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 3 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Cleland PhD | Thomas Cleland (Cornell University) discusses the idea of olfactory receptive fields, and the problems associated with compressing the high-dimensional parameters of odor space into two-dimensional brain space. Analogies to the retina are considered. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 24 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joshua Berke PhD | Charlie Wilson hosts Joshua Berke (Associate Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) in a discussion about action representations in the striatum. The problematic nature of the term "representation" is discussed, and analogies to the literature on spatial representations in the hippocampus are considered. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Michael Farries (Fellow, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 17 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Pillow PhD | Jonathan Pillow (Assistant Professor, UT Austin) talks about using assumption-free statistics to to extract structure from high dimensional data. The group discusses levels of analysis in computational modeling, and considers the merits of using functional behavior of neurons ("the what") in the absence of mechanism ("the how") as the starting point when modeling complex neural systems. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 3 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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J. Leigh Leasure PhD | Leigh Leasure (University of Houston) talks about the dueling effects of exercise and binge alcohol consumption on cell health and proliferation in the dentate gyrus. The idea that excercise may protect against binge-induced cell loss is discussed. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 27 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Spain MD | Bill Spain (Professor, University of Washington) talks about spike frequency adaptation in the avian auditory system and cortex, and considers the utility of adaptation for integrators vs coincidence detectors across various timescales. In addition Bill talks about dividing his time as a clinician, and how his clinical vantage point impacts his take on basic science research. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 2 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Narins PhD | Peter Narins (Professor, UCLA) talks about being a member of the founding generation of neuroethologists in the 1970s, and of his pivotal work describing both ultrasonic and subsonic communication in two very different species. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 14 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ranier Gutierrez PhD | Ranier Gutierrez (Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV, Mexico) talks about oscillations in the distributed network that regulates feeding behaviors, its entrainment by licking, and the significance of his finding that the responses of nucleus accumbens signal "meal-related" activity. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 7 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul E. Gold PhD | Paul E. Gold (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) discusses the idea of studying memory loss to study the process of memory formation and his studies of forgetting in aging populations. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 30 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Theoden Netoff PhD | Theoden Netoff (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) discusses seizure from a clinical and dynamical systems perspective, and weighs in on the debate as to whether epilepsy results from hypersynchrony or desynchrony of brain networks. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 23 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Quinlan PhD | Elizabeth Quinlan (University of Maryland, College Park) discusses the relevance of critical periods to plasticity, given current trends in post-critical period plasticity. She outlines her ideas about plasticity being latent and actively constrained by ongoing activity, rather than fundamental properties of the underlying anatomy. Please be aware that there are some discontinuities due to editing. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 9 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clive Bramham MD PhD | Clive Bramham (University of Bergen, Norway) discusses the BDNF and the immediate early gene ARC, and some of the history of LTP and how it came to be known as a potential mnemonic device in learning systems. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 22 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian Christie PhD | Brian Christie (Professor, University of Victoria BC) talks about proliferation and survival of newly born hippocampal neurons, and exercise as a modulator of neurogenesis in hippocampal granule cells. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 15 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neural Patterning Symposium | On April 9 2010, The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted a panel of esteemed Developmental Neurobiologists for a symposium on "Neural Patterning in the CNS." In this discussion, recorded after the day's talks, Salma Quraishi hosts the group in discussing a wide range of topics, including whether genetic lineage can be used to define functional cell groups, cortical protomaps in target-driven development, and the integrative future of developmental neuroscience. Duration: 30 minutes acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 9 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Poeppel PhD | David Poeppel (Professor, NYU) discusses the fundamental mismatch in the "conceptual inventory" of psycholinguists and neuroscientists in the study of language representation. How does one link the computational description of language to the neurobiological constraints of the brain? Read more about David Poeppel here Find his blog Talking Brains here Duration: 50 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 11 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Smotherman PhD | Mike Smotherman (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M) discusses speech motor control in bats and humans, and how approaches to mammalian vocalization have been approached in the literature. Duration: 53 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 11 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicholas Priebe PhD | Nicholas Priebe (Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin) discusses subthreshold inhibition in primary visual cortices, both as a tuning mechanism along sensory dimensions as well as a gain control mechanism to normalize excitation. Duration: 36 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Fellow, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 4 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janet Best PhD | Janet Best (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University) discusses her take as a math biologist on the interplay between applied math and biology. She and Kelly Suter (UTSA) talk about their collaboration in which they model the irregular firing patterns of GnRH neurons at puberty as mixed mode oscillators. Stay tuned after the credits for some sea squirt trivia, courtesy of C. Wilson. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Sayanti Bannerji (Graduate Student, OSU) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Kelly Suter (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 28 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel PhD | Suzana Herculano-Houzel (Professor, Universidad Federal de Rio) discusses cortical scaling rules across phylogeny, the theory of human cortical expansion in mammalian evolution, and how deceptively simple, almost minimalist experiments have the power to shake dogma. Duration: 36 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Jim Bower (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 21 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asif Ghazanfar PhD | Asif Ghazanfar (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) discusses the relationship between the brain, the body and environmental context, and how he is using the relationship between the statistical structure of speech and neural oscillations to probe the evolution of language. Duration: 53 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 3 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Katalin Gothard PhD | Katalin Gothard (Associate Professor, University of Arizona) expands on the role of amygdala in fear conditioning, emphasizing that the ecology of a species and the subtle social cues that drive its behavioral repertoire are key to undertaking studies of amygdala function. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Jose Bargas Diaz (Professor, UNAM) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 30 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Lodge PhD | Daniel Lodge (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, UT Health Sciences Center San Antonio) discusses mouse models of schizophrenia and how mesolimbic dopamine modulation by the ventral hypothalamus may underlie some of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Duration: 33 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 12 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nancy Wexler PhD, Alice Wexler PhD | Nancy Wexler (Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, President Hereditary Disease Foundation) and historian Alice Wexler (Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women) discuss the history of the Huntington's Disease Collaborative effort, and new efforts toward a search for the cure. Duration: 64 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) Musical credit: Jonathan Coulton "That Spells DNA". | 11 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ila Fiete PhD | Ila Fiete (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning & Memory, UT Austin) discusses the "how" and the "why" of rate coding, the principles of sparseness, capacity and optimality, drawing on her work on temporal coding of song in HVC and hippocampal grid cells. Duration: 47 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 5 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bernd Fritzsch PhD | Bernd Fritzsch (Professor & Chair, University of Iowa) provides an historical perspective on developmental genetics, and the changing concept of lineage from a genetic point of view. Duration: 52 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Professor, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 29 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garret Stuber PhD | Garret Stuber (Associate Scientist/Bonci Lab, Gallo Institute UCSF) discusses how he is adapting optogenetic tools to study reward learning. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 15 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dennis McFadden PhD | Dennis McFadden (Ashbel Smith Professor, UT Austin) discusses otoacoustic emissions, their purpose, and how he is using them as a possible measure of early sexual differentiation. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Michelle Valero (PhD Student, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 8 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brenton Cooper PhD | Brenton Cooper (Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University) discusses peripheral constraints (i.e., sensory feedback and motor control) on song development. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 24 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tianyi Mao PhD | Tianyi Mao, (Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University; currently Svoboda Lab, Janelia Farm) talk about characterizing cell types and neural circuits with optogenetic markers. Duration: 35 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 10 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Massimo Tabaton PhD | Massimo Tabaton, (Professor of Neurology, University of Genova) gives a critical appraisal of the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) George Perry (Dean, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 3 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dopamine Symposium Bruce Bean PhD Jim Surmeier PhD Carlos Paladini PhD Jochen Roper MD/PhD John Williams PhD Charles Wilson | On April 21st, The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted an all-star panel of physiologists for a symposium on "Ion Channels and Firing Patterns of Dopamine Neurons." This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, has Charles Wilson leading the group in covering a wide range of topics, including ionic mechanisms that drive tonic and phasic activity of dopamine neurons, the purpose of intrinsic pacemaking to dopamine signaling, and recent work that highlights how certain patterns of activity can facilitate calcium toxicity and cell death in Parkinson's Disease. Duration: 48 minutes acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music. | 15 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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