Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Wednesday, April 21, 2009

Jim Surmeier (Northwestern University), Jochen Roeper (Goethe University,  Frankfurt), Bruce Bean (Harvard Medical School), Carlos Paladini  (UTSA), and John Williams (Oregon Health & Science University).

On April 21st, the UTSA Neurosciences Institute hosted an all-star panel of physiologists for a symposium on "Ion Channels and Firing Patterns of Dopamine Neurons."   This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, has Charles Wilson leading the group in covering a wide range of topics, including ionic  mechanisms that drive tonic and phasic activity of dopamine neurons, the  purpose of intrinsic pacemaking to dopamine signaling, and recent work  that highlights how certain patterns of activity can facilitate calcium  toxicity and cell death in Parkinson's Disease.

Duration: 48 minutes

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

David  Weiss, (Professor & Chair Dept of Physiology, University of Texas  Health Sciences Center - San Antonio) talks about modeling GABA receptor structure and function via fluorescence spectroscopy.

Duration: 44 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, April 9, 2009

Sridhar  Raghavachari, (Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University  Medical Center) talks about the breakdown of stochasticity in PSD  nanodomains.

Duration: 39 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nick  Spitzer (Professor & Co-director, Kavli Institute for Brain and  Mind at UCSD) discusses stimulus-driven neurotransmitter specification  in the dopamine system, and how calcium, electrical activity and  experience can rewire the brain.

Duration: 55 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Stephen  DeArmond, (Professor, UCSF School of Medicine) talks about his  pioneering work on the pathogenesis of prion-related neurodegenerative  disease.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

George Perry (Dean & Professor, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Fred  Dick, (Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Birkbeck College,  University of London) talks about current approaches to studying speech  and language, and discusses his fMRI studies of plasticity in audiomotor  areas strongly associated with speech.

Duration: 55 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

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.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Jian-Young Wu (Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center) discusses the use of voltage-sensitive dyes to visualize patterns of population electrical activity in the cortex.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants: (in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Richard  Palmiter (Professor, HHMI Investigator, University of Washington School  of Medicine) discusses the biological basis of motivational behavior,  and ends with a personal account of the early days of transgenic  technology.

Duration: 51 minutes

Discussants: (in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Michael Ryan (Professor, University of Texas at Austin) discusses sexual selection and communication in tungara frogs.

Duration: 32 minutes

Discussants: (in alphabetical order)

Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Elizabeth Torres (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University New Brunswick) discusses internal models in sensory-motor integration.

Duration: 32 minutes

Discussants: (in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA

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.