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Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Neuroscientists Talk Shop

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 217 -- Philip Starr MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/10/29

On October 29, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with UCSF Neurosurgeon Philip Starr for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Matt Higgs and Salma Quraishi chatted with Dr. Starr about state-of-the-art closed loop brain stimulation therapies in humans and pathological oscillations in the basal ganglia network. Philip Starr MD PhD is Professor of Neurosurgery; Dolores Cakebread Chair in Neurological Surgery; Surgical Director, Parkinson’s Disease

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Episode 216 -- Nicola Grissom PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/10/22

On October 22, 2020 the UTSA gang sat down with Nicola Grissom (UMN) for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Matt Wanat, Lindsey Macpherson & Salma Quraishi chatted with her about the impact of sex on executive function & how genetic factors interact with sex in autism. Nicola Grissom PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and part of the NeuroPRSMH (NeuroPlasticity Research in Support of Mental Health) Center for Computational Psychiatry at the

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Episode 215 -- Eliza Bliss-Moreau PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/10/15

On October 15, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Eliza Bliss-Moreau (UC Davis) for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Melanie Carless, Todd Troyer and Salma Quraishi chatted with her about frameworks for affective neuroscience and how she is using multi species approaches to decompose affect into tractable biological features, i.e., valence and arousal. Eliza Bliss-Moreau PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychologyand a Core

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Episode 214 -- Michael Hasselmo PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/10/08

On October 8, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Michael Hasselmo for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, Francesco Savelli and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about how models have guided the search for neural correlates of episodic memory, from grid cells, to time representations to egocentric boundary cells. Dr. Hasselmo is Warren Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences & Director of the Center for Systems

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Episode 213 -- Jacques Wadiche PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/04/24

Friday, April 24, 2020 Jacques Wadiche (UAB School of Medicine) talks to us about multivesicular neurotransmitter release (MVR) in the CNS. He takes us through recent work from his lab that gets at PKA-dependent molecular regulation of MVR whereby synaptic release depends on the number of docked vesicles available for release upstream of release probability. Duration: 51 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Matt Higgs (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson

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Episode 212 -- Timothy J. Petros PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/02/20

Thursday, February 20, 2020 Tim Petros (NICHD/NIH) talks about new single cell RNA and epigenetic approaches to understanding the intrinsic programs that determine interneuron diversity. The group discusses how to determine causation vs correlation in identifying candidate mechanisms that regulate interneuron fate decisions, and how historic concepts of cell type (based on morphology, connectivity, physiology, etc) map onto transcriptomic data clustering. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in

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Episode 211 -- Savio Chan PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/02/13

Thursday, February 13, 2020 Savio Chan (Northwestern) gives us his thoughts on cell diversity in the external globus pallidus. He weighs in on how to define cell type, when to stop mining for more diversity, and whether cell type may even be a relevant construct in thinking about a network’s function. In an interesting aside, Charlie bears out how Savio’s work delivers the key functional impact of a GPe-striatal connection that was originally left out of the basal ganglia wiring diagram because it

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Episode 210 -- Steve Small MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/02/06

Thursday, February 6, 2020 Steve Small (UT Dallas) discusses how well 19th and 20th century localizationist metaphors for the brain have served our understanding of behavior, especially in the realm of language, and what new strategies are replacing them in the new millennium. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 209 -- Matthijs van der Meer PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/01/23

Thursday, January 23, 2020 Matt van der Meer (Dartmouth) talks about the role of oscillations in routing information flow in the ventral striatum. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Francesco Savelli (Assistant Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 208 -- Stephen Maren PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/11/14

Thursday, November 14, 2019 Stephen Maren (Texas A&M) talks about the common neural circuitry mediating fear conditioning and drug relapse. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Isabel Muzzio (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 207 -- Ajay Dhaka PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/11/07

Thursday, November 7, 2019 Ajay Dhaka (UW) talks about distinctions in itch (pruritis) and pain (nociception) somatosensation, and his discovery of overlapping mechanisms for these sensations via direct activation of different populations of TRP channel-expressing somatosensory neurons in zebrafish. He also talks to us about developing zebrafish larvae as a behavioral screening tool for analgesic drug discovery. Duration: 35 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof,

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Episode 206 -- Sophie Caron PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/10/31

Thursday, October 31, 2019 Sophie Caron (U of Utah) discusses how sensory representations shift from ordered to random in the sensory system of drosophila. Duration: 35minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Lindsey Macpherson (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 205 -- Michelle T. Diaz PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/10/24

Thursday, October 24, 2019 Michelle Diaz (Penn State) discusses how language features might be organized in the neural architecture and talks about her structural and behavioral studies of how language production changes over the lifespan. Duration: 35minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Professor, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 204 -- Ottavio Arancio MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/10/10

Thursday, October 10, 2019 Ottavio Arancio discusses the problematic aspects of therapeutic strategies built upon the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease, and his work defining the synaptic effects of soluble beta amyloid and tau oligomers in the etiopathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Hyoung-gon Lee (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) George Perry (Semmes Chair, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair,

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Episode 203 -- Michael Smotherman PhD II

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/10/03

Thursday, October 3, 2019 Mike Smotherman joins us again to talk echolocation in bats, specifically howphysiological studies in his labinvestigate the circuitry that shapes sonar pulse acoustics. He discusses how bats in groups implement circuit plasticity to coordinate their sonar systems to minimize interference. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM

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Episode 202 -- Symposium 2019: Brain Oscillations in...

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/09/12

Thursday, September 12, 2019 Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2019 research symposium on September 12, 2019. Hosted by Charles Wilson Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Mark Bevan, Professor in Physiology, Northwestern University Robert Turner Professor, Pitt Jerrold Vitek, Mcknight Professor, University of Minnesota Judith Walters, Senior Investigator, NINDS Charles Wilson, Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA acknowledgement: JM Tepper for

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Episode 201 -- Maya Henry PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/04/18

Thursday, April 18, 2019 Maya Henry (UT Austin) talks to us about her imaging studies of patients suffering from primary progressive aphasias, what they tell us about speech and language networks, and how her rehabilitation studies are demonstrating speech gains for patients with an otherwise poor degenerative prognosis. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing

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Episode 200 -- Brian Kaspar PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/04/10

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Brian Kaspar (AveXis Inc) talks about the realities and promise of building a single-dose gene transfer therapy for treating the prime gene defect in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type I. He discusses his company’s modified adeno-associated virus 9 approach to human gene therapy that is currently in highly promising clinical trials, for SMA, and in development for Rett syndrome and one variant of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in

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Episode 199 -- Craig Blackstone MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/04/04

Thursday, April 4, 2019 Craig Blackstone (UT Health San Antonio) tells us about new vantage points on endoplasmic reticulum structure, dynamics and function through advanced imaging technologies in the context of his work on hereditary spastic paraplegias. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Hanna (Asst Professor of Practice, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM

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Episode 198 -- Sarah Hopp PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/03/21

Tuesday, March 21, 2019 Sarah Hopp (UT Health San Antonio) discusses tau seeding in the developing pathology of Alzheimer's disease, and the role that microglia may play in supporting it. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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