Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Jon Sakata (McGill) talks about songbird plasticity in the zebra finch, and how brain circuits transduce social information to modulate the learning and control of birdsong.

Duration: 37 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

This episode is a panel discussion recorded as the conclusion of a two part series showcasing Present & Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience, an international workshop hosted by Horacio Rotstein (NJIT) & Fidel Santamaria (UTSA) through support of NSF’s Brain Initiative (see episode 194 for Part I).  Part II is a round table with a new group that recaps the themes of the workshop and reports on the main themes of the discussions that occurred in each of the five workgroups.  Many trainees were involved in the workshop, and two of them join the panel to highlight the value and necessity of fresh voices to any discussion about the future of theoretical neuroscience.  Workshop co-organizer Fidel Santamaria leads the panel.

Duration: 34 minutes

Panel:(in alphabetical order, pictured left to right)

Habiba Azab, PhD student, Ben Hayden lab, UMN - Student perspective on Organizing Theories Workgroup

Carmen Canavier, Professor & Vice Chair, LSU Health

Krešimir Josić, Professor, Univ of Houston; Chair, Gulf Coast Consortium for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

Farzan Nadim, Professor, NJIT-Rutgers Newark.  Organizing Theories Workgroup

Horacio Rotstein, Professor, NJIT, Workshop organizer and Co-chair

Matthew Singh, PhD student, Braver lab & Ching lab, WUStL

Fidel Santamaria, Professor, UTSA, Workshop organizer and Co-chair

Recorded at the Emily Morgan Hotel, San Antonio TX.

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Monday, February 4, 2019

This episode is a panel discussion recorded as Part I of a two part series on the recent Present & Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience, an international workshop hosted by Horacio Rotstein (NJIT) & Fidel Santamaria (UTSA) with support from the NSF’s Brain Initiative.  Part I is a preamble recorded on day one of the meeting, in which some friends of the podcast (see below) define the need for the workshop and identify their objectives as they undertake their workgroups.  Hosted by Salma Quraishi.

Stay tuned for Part II, which was recorded at the close of the workshop.  Part II will be posted separately as a follow up to summarize some of the critical discussions that transpired in the workgroups.

Duration: 33 minutes

Panel:(in alphabetical order, pictured left to right)

Veronica Alvarez, Senior Investigator, IRP NIAAA

Alain Destexhe, Research Director, CNRS Paris

Tatiana Engel, Assistant Professor, CSHL

Horacio Rotstein, Professor, NJIT

David Redish, Distinguished McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota

Fidel Santamaria, Professor, UTSA

Recorded at the Emily Morgan Hotel, San Antonio TX.

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Liberty Hamilton (UT Austin) talks about using electrocorticography to study the representation and processing of speech sounds in the auditory cortex.

Duration: 40 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA

Nicole Wicha (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Jeff Golden (Harvard Medical School) talks about dichotomies in mitochondrial dynamics observed in the migration of cortical neurons and interneurons in early development and neuronal patterning.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Jenny Hsieh (Semmes Foundation Chair, UTSA)

Asif Maroof (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.