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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 235 -- Dan Butts PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2021/02/10

On February 10, 2022 we welcomed Dan Butts, to talk about studying sensory system function by statistical modeling of neuron populations in the awake state during natural or near-natural sensory stimulation. We discuss the use of machine learning tools for data analysis and the interaction between theories of natural perception and of deep neural networks Dr. Butts is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Maryland College

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Episode 221 -- Zane Lybrand PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2021/02/04

On February 4 , 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Zane Lybrand for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Jenny Hsieh, Chris Navara, and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about new work describing aberrant migration of adult born granule cells following pilocarpine insult, and its contribution to generation of spontaneous seizure. Zane Lybrand PhD is Assistant Professor of Biology at Texas Womens University. https://apps.twu.edu/my1cv/profile.as... Jenny Hsieh PhD

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Episode 220 -- Francesco Savelli PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2021/01/28

On January 28, 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with our own Francesco Savelli for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about spatial reference frames and computation in the hippocampal network. Dr. Savelli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and member of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute. https://www.utsa.edu/biology/faculty/... Charles J. Wilson PhD is Ewing Halsell Chair of

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Episode 219 -- Brian Wiltgen PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/12/03

On December 3, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Brian Wiltgen for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, Anthony Burgos-Robles and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about mapping mechanisms of memory consolidation and retrieval in hippocampus and cortex. Dr. Wiltgen is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology & a member of the Center for Neuroscience at UC Davis. https://wiltgenlab.sf.ucdavis.edu Anthony

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00:57:11

Episode 218 -- H. Tad Blair PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2020/11/19

On November 19, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Tad Blair for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Francesco Savelli, Todd Troyer and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about mapping brain states on behavior. Dr. Blair is Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology & a member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/pa... Charles J. Wilson PhD is Ewing Halsell Chair of Biology at

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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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