Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Lee Goldstein (Boston University) discusses chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and how he is using mouse models to trace the salient features of the initiation and early neurogenic processes of the  disease.

Duration: 37 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

George Perry (Dean, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Matt Wanat (Asst. Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Russel Ray (Baylor College of Med) discusses gene editing techniques in building mouse model systems.  The group considers rhombomere origins and what role they might play in circuit organization.

Duration: 43 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 25, 2015

Anatol  Kreizer (UCSF/Gladstone Institutes) discusses his studies on opposing motor properties of the basal ganglia motor circuit within the framework of the prevailing model of basal ganglia circuits delineated by DeLong in 1989.  The group critically assesses the current model, and discusses some questions of extrapyramidal functional anatomy that have yet to be worked out in the field.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Javier Medina (Baylor College of Med) discusses the cerebellum, its fundamental circuit, and attempts to understand it’s role in behavior as well as abstract toward a fundamental computational role for  cerebellum.

Duration: 41 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Isabel Muzzio (Assoc. 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.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Christopher Olsen (Medical College of Wisconsin) discusses the brain's motivational system, and whether the same mechanisms contribute to drugs of abuse as to natural reward.

Duration: 37 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Matt Wanat (Asst. Prof, UTSA)

Gerard Beaudoin (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.