Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Brian Christie (Professor, University of Victoria BC) talks about proliferation and survival of newly born hippocampal neurons, and  exercise as a modulator of neurogenesis in hippocampal granule cells.

Duration: 32 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Jeremy Dasen (NYU School of Medicine)

Pasko Rakic (Yale School of  Medicine)

Gary Gaufo (UTSA), Raj Awatramani (Northwestern)

Goichi  Miyoshi (Fishell Lab, NYU School of Medicine)

On April 9 2010, The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted a panel of esteemed Developmental Neurobiologists for a symposium on "Neural Patterning in the CNS."   In this discussion, recorded after the day's talks, Salma Quraishi  hosts the group in discussing a wide range of topics, including whether  genetic lineage can be used to define functional cell groups,  cortical  protomaps in target-driven development, and the integrative future of  developmental neuroscience.

Duration: 30 minutes

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

David  Poeppel (Professor, NYU) discusses the fundamental mismatch in the  "conceptual inventory" of psycholinguists and neuroscientists in the  study of language representation.  How does one link the computational  description of language to the neurobiological constraints of the  brain?

Find his blog Talking Brains here

Duration: 50 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, February 11, 2010

Mike  Smotherman (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M) discusses speech motor  control in bats and humans, and how approaches to mammalian vocalization  have been approached in the literature.

Duration: 53 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, February 4, 2010

Nicholas  Priebe (Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin) discusses  subthreshold inhibition in primary visual cortices, both as a tuning  mechanism along sensory dimensions as well as a gain control mechanism  to normalize excitation.

Duration: 36 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Michael Farries (Fellow, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Janet  Best (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University) discusses her take as  a math biologist on the interplay between applied math and biology.  She and Kelly Suter (UTSA) talk about their collaboration  in which they  model the irregular firing patterns of GnRH neurons at puberty as mixed mode oscillators.

Stay tuned after the credits for some sea squirt trivia, courtesy of C. Wilson.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Sayanti Bannerji (Graduate Student, OSU)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Kelly Suter (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Suzana  Herculano-Houzel (Professor, Universidad Federal de Rio) discusses  cortical scaling rules across phylogeny, the theory of human cortical  expansion in mammalian evolution, and how deceptively simple, almost  minimalist experiments have the power to shake dogma.

Duration: 36 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Jim Bower (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Asif  Ghazanfar (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) discusses the  relationship between the brain, the body and environmental context, and  how he is using the relationship between the statistical structure of  speech and neural oscillations to probe the evolution of language.

Duration: 53 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Katalin  Gothard (Associate Professor, University of Arizona) expands on the  role of amygdala in fear conditioning, emphasizing that the ecology of a  species and the subtle social cues that drive its behavioral repertoire  are key to undertaking studies of amygdala function.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Jose Bargas Diaz (Professor, UNAM)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Daniel  Lodge (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, UT Health Sciences Center  San Antonio) discusses mouse models of schizophrenia and how mesolimbic  dopamine modulation by the ventral hypothalamus may underlie some of the  positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Duration: 33 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.