Neuroscientists Talk Shop

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Neuroscientists Talk Shop is the University of Texas at San Antonio's (UTSA) Neurobiology Podcast, showcasing the current research of internationally renowned guest Neuroscientists. Each episode features a moderated discussion with a cross section of UTSA Neurobiology faculty, highlighting the featured guest's research, and the state of the art in the field at hand.

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Episode 58 -- Peter Narins, PhD 14.10.2010 43:37

Thursday, October 14, 2010 Peter Narins (Professor, UCLA) talks about being a member of the founding generation of neuroethologists in the 1970s, and of his pivotal work describing both ultrasonic and subsonic communication in two very different species. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troye...

Episode 57 -- Ranier Gutierrez, PhD 07.10.2010 36:07

Thursday, October 7, 2010 Ranier Gutierrez (Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV, Mexico) talks about oscillations in the distributed network that regulates feeding  behaviors, its entrainment by licking, and the significance of his finding that the responses of nucleus accumbens signal meal-related activity. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Re...

Episode 56 -- Paul E. Gold, PhD 30.09.2010 36:57

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Paul E. Gold (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) discusses the idea of studying memory loss to study the process of memory formation and his studies of forgetting in aging populations. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgemen...

Episode 55 -- Theoden (Tay) Netoff, PhD 23.09.2010 41:25

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Theoden (Tay) Netoff (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) discusses seizure from a clinical and dynamical systems perspective, and weighs in on the  debate as to whether epilepsy results from hypersynchrony or desynchrony of brain networks. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (As...

Episode 54 -- Elizabeth Quinlan, PhD 09.09.2010 41:03

Thursday, September 9, 2010 Elizabeth Quinlan (University of Maryland, College Park) discusses the relevance of critical periods to plasticity, given current trends in post-critical  period plasticity.  She outlines her ideas about plasticity being latent  and actively constrained by ongoing activity, rather than fundamental  properties of the underlying anatomy. Please be awar...

Episode 53 -- Clive Bramham, MD PhD 22.04.2010 39:23

Thursday, April 22, 2010 Clive Bramham (University of Bergen, Norway) discusses the BDNF and the immediate early gene ARC, and some of the  history of LTP and how it came to be known as a potential mnemonic mechanism in learning systems. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson...

Episode 52 -- Brian Christie, PhD 15.04.2010 32:25

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) ackno...

Episode 51 -- Neural Patterning Symposium 2010 09.04.2010 29:44

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...

Episode 50 -- David Poeppel, PhD 11.03.2010 50:24

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...

Episode 49 - Mike Smotherman, PhD 11.02.2010 43:38

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 W...

Episode 48 -- Nicholas Priebe, PhD 04.02.2010 36:44

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....

Episode 47 - Janet Best, PhD 28.01.2010 38:05

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 so...

Episode 46 -- Suzana Herculano-Houzel, PhD 21.01.2010 36:03

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...

Episode 45 -- Asif Ghazanfar, PhD 03.12.2009 53:12

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 Qura...

Episode 44 -- Katalin Gothard, PhD 30.11.2009 52:58

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 (P...

Episode 43 -- Dan Lodge, PhD 12.11.2009 33:16

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) Car...

Episode 42 -- Nancy Wexler, PhD and Alice Wexler, PhD 11.11.2009 1:04:08

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 th...

Episode 41 -- Ila Fiete, PhD 05.11.2009 47:01

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 Fe...

Episode 40 -- Bernd Fritzsch, PhD 29.10.2009 52:25

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) Charl...

Episode 39 -- Garret Stuber, PhD 15.10.2009 44:32

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 Tep...

Episode 38 -- Dennis McFadden, PhD 08.10.2009 43:28

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...

Episode 37 -- Brenton Cooper, PhD 24.09.2009 40:18

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)...

Episode 36 -- Melissa Saenz, PhD 17.09.2009 40:10

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, UT...

Episode 35 -- Tianyi Mao, PhD 10.09.2009 34:43

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...

Episode 34 -- Massimo Tabaton, PhD 03.09.2009 43:14

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) acknow...