Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Nancy  Wexler (Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University  College of Physicians & Surgeons, President Hereditary Disease  Foundation) and historian Alice Wexler (Research Scholar, UCLA Center  for the Study of Women) discuss the history of the Huntington's Disease  Collaborative effort, and new efforts toward a search for the cure.

Duration: 64 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

Musical credit: Jonathan Coulton "That Spells DNA".

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Ila  Fiete (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning & Memory, UT  Austin) discusses the "how" and the "why" of rate coding, the principles  of sparseness, capacity and optimality, drawing on her work on temporal  coding of song in HVC and hippocampal grid cells.

Duration: 47 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Bernd  Fritzsch (Professor & Chair, University of Iowa) provides an  historical perspective on developmental genetics, and the changing  concept of lineage from a genetic point of view.

Duration: 52 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Professor, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Garret  Stuber (Associate Scientist/Bonci Lab, Gallo Institute UCSF) discusses  how he is adapting optogenetic tools to study reward learning.

Duration: 44 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Dennis  McFadden (Ashbel Smith Professor, UT Austin) discusses otoacoustic  emissions, their purpose, and how he is using them as a possible measure  of early sexual differentiation.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Michelle Valero (PhD Student, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Brenton  Cooper (Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University) discusses  peripheral constraints (i.e., sensory feedback and motor control) on  song development.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Melissa  Saenz, (Post-doc, Christof Koch Lab, CalTech) discusses cross modal  brain plasticity with respect to cortical specialization, and her  discovery of the new phenomenon, auditory synesthesia.

Duration: 40 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Tianyi  Mao, (Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences  University; currently Svoboda Lab, Janelia Farm) talk about  characterizing cell types and neural circuits with optogenetic markers.

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Massimo  Tabaton, (Professor of Neurology, University of Genova) gives a  critical appraisal of the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease.

Duration: 44 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

George Perry (Dean, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Christof  Koch, (Lois & Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive &  Behavioral Biology, Caltech) talks about the neural correlates of  consciousness in a discussion hosted by Fidel Santamaria.

Duration: 44 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.