Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Gary  Westbrook (Co-director Vollum Institute, OHSU) talks about science  publishing, and muses on organizing principles in the CNS.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Greg  Macleod, (Assistant Professor, Dept of Physiology, UTHSCSA) talks about  mitochondrial mechanisms contributing to neuronal calcium homeostasis  in the Drosophila model.

Duration: 35 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)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Bard  Ermentrout, (University Professor, Dept of Mathematics, University of  Pittsburgh) talks about synchrony and oscillations in networks,  biological applications of math, (from mescaline induced seizures to  firefly mating behavior) and muses on the "how" vs "why" in mathematical  biology.

Duration: 49 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Jim Bower (Professor, UTSA)

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)

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

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Mark Bevan, (Associate Professor, Dept of Physiology, Northwestern  University) describes and comments on the classic model of basal ganglia  function.

Duration: 40 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Chris Deister (PhD student, UTSA)

Ramana Dodla (Fellow, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, 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, September 11, 2008

Tim  Lewis, (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of  California, Davis) talks about mathematical analysis of neuronal  synchrony, and the theory of weakly-coupled oscillators.

Duration: 44 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Ramana Dodla (Fellow, UTSA)

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)

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

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Michael  Mauk, (Professor of Neurobiology, Center for Learning and Memory,  University of Texas at Austin) talks about timing, prediction, and  mechanisms of information processing in cerebellar models of motor  learning.

Duration: 49 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)

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

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

William Armstrong, (Professor & Director, Neurosciences Institute, The University of Tennessee College of Medicine)  talks about vasopressin and oxytocin secreting neurons of the  hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system in a discussion hosted by Charles  Wilson.

Duration: 54 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

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

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Patricia Janak, (Principal Investigator, Ernest Gallo Instute - UCSF)  discusses theories of amygdala function, cue-reward learning and its  neural correlates in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi.

Duration: 41 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Brian Derrick (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

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

Thursday, April 17, 2008

David Linden, (Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) discusses reductionism, cerebellar learning and plasticity in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi.

Duration: 59 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

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

Monday, April 14, 2008

2007 Nobel Laureate Mario Capecchi, (co-Chair, Dept of Human Genetics, University of Utah) discusses the impact of his seminal gene targeting work on the future of neuroscience in a discussion hosted by Gary Gaufo.

Additional Links:

Nobel Lecture

Capecchi Laboratory

Duration: 58 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Edwin Barea-Rodriguez (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Brian Derrick (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

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