Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Ulrich Hofmann (Freiburg University) discusses the priorities and realities in implementing control theory, computational models and engineering principles to build implantable devices that can read and write to the nervous system as an approach for treating CNS disorders like paralysis, epilepsy, depression, and others.

Duration: 45 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

John Mantsch (Marquette University) discusses various animal models of drug relapse that differentiate aspects of how stress impinges on reward circuits to promote drug seeking.

Duration: 40 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Professor, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Ed Stern (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) discusses corticostriatal networks in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Friday, February 9, 2018

Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2018 research symposium.  The group discusses the tripartite synapse concept, which was coined by two of our panelists, Phil Haydon and Alfonso Araque, in the late 1990s.  The group considers the diverse mechanisms of astrocyte-neuron communication and the magnitude of how we are beginning to redefine the neural circuits of behavior and disease based on this new framework.  Hosted by Salma Quraishi.

Duration: 49 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

The Panelists

Alfonso Araque, Robert & Elaine Larson Neuroscience Research Chair, University of Minnesota Medical School

Philip Haydon, Annetta and Gustav Grisard Professor of Neuroscience, Sackler School of Medicine, Tufts University

Erik Herzog, Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis

Carlos Paladini, Professor of Biology, UTSA

Joining the discussion

James Lechleiter, Professor of Cells Systems & Anatomy, UT Health San Antonio

Salma Quraishi, Assistant Professor of Research, UTSA

Matt Wanat , Assistant Professor, UTSA

Charles Wilson, Ewing Halsell Chair, Director of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Marco Gallio (Northwestern) talks about temperature sensation in Drosophila as a “fruitful” model system for examining sensory encoding and propagation of representations through a relatively reduced sensorimotor system.

Duration: 39 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Lindsey Macpherson (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.