Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Ulrich Mayr (Professor, University of Oregon) 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.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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.

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.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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 discussed.

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.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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.

October 25, 2011

The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted a distinguished panel of language neurobiologists for a symposium on "The Bilingual Brain."  This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, has Salma Quraishi leading the group in covering a wide range of topics, including the cognitive advantages conferred by bilingualism, cross-modal bilingualism and critical periods for language acquisition.

Participants:

Karen Emmorey (San Diego State)

Judith Kroll (Penn State)

Lee Osterhout (UW Seattle)

Salma Quraishi (UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (UTSA)

Charles Wilson (UTSA)

Duration: 36 minutes

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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.