Neuroscientists Talk Shop

On October 28, 2021 we met with Asohn Amarsingham.  We discussed pitfalls in the discovery of neural codes, the practice of statistics in neuroscience, the quest to minimize our assumptions, and the origin of stochasticity in neural data.

Dr. Amarasingham is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, City College of New York. https://math.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/person/asohan-amarasingham/

Joining Us:

Francesco Savelli, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology at UTSA.

Todd Troyer, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology at UTSA.

Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology at UTSA.

Host:

Salma Quraishi, Assistant Professor of Research at UTSA & Associate Director of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute.

On September 23, 2021, UTSA neuroscientists had the opportunity to chat with Douglas Nitz, Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego about neural representation of space and movement in the hippocampus, and on the origin of concepts in the brain.

Dr. Nitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego

https://dnitz.bookmark.com/

Joining us:

Isabel Muzzio, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Francesco Savelli, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Host:

Salma Quraishi, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology

On September 16, 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Max Fletcher (UT Memphis HSC) for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop.  Charles J. Wilson, Lindsey Macpherson, and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about gustatory cortex, taste representations and decision making.

Dr. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center.

https://www.uthsc.edu/neuroscience-in...

Charles J. Wilson PhD is Ewing Halsell Chair of Biology at UTSA & Director of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute.

Lindsey Macpherson PhD is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology at UTSA.

Salma Quraishi PhD is Assistant Professor of Research at UTSA & Associate Director of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute. https://neuroscience.utsa.edu

Neuroscientists Talk Shop podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yxatz6fq

UTSA Neurosciences Institute: https://neuroscience.utsa.edu

The University of Texas San Antonio: https://www.utsa.edu

Thursday, May 5, 2021

We sat down with Josh Goldberg to talk about how the earliest prodromal symptoms of Parkinson's manifest at a cellular and network level in the autonomic nervous system. Charlie Wilson and Salma Quraishi talked with him about identifying distinct biophysical adaptations in an adult-onset mouse model, and how these changes are sufficient to explain one of the earliest signs of disease (hint: constipation!).  

Dr. Goldberg is Associate Professor of Medical Neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  http://www.goldberglab.net 

Charles J. Wilson PhD is Ewing Halsell Chair of Biology at UTSA

On April 30, 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Sergio Ferreira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) to discuss Alzheimer's Disease as a pathology of proteostasis.  Hyoung-gon Lee, Chris Gamblin and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about how he is targeting protein synthesis to rescue defective synaptic plasticity and restore memory performance in a specific amyloid model of Alzheimer's.

Dr. Ferreira is Professor of Biochemistry & Neuroscience in the Center for Health Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

https://www.ferreiralab.org/

Hyoung gon Lee PhD is Associate Professor of Biology at UTSA.

Chris Gamblin is Professor of Biology at UTSA

https://www.utsa.edu/biology/faculty/...

Salma Quraishi PhD is Assistant Professor Research at UTSA & Associate Director of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute. https://neuroscience.utsa.edu