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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 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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Episode 197 -- Catharine Winstanley PhD

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2019/02/21

Thursday, February 21, 2019 Catharine Winstanley (UBC Vancouver) discusses mechanisms of impulsive and poor decision-making in gambling and its intersection with mechanisms of disparate drugs of abuse, addiction and relapse. The group considers whether addiction is a single disease, and whether catecholamine systems are the final common pathway for various addiction trajectories. (apologies for some uneven sound, it’s worth roughing it out!) Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical

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Episode 196 -- Jon Sakata PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/02/14

Thursday, February 14, 2019 Jon Sakata (McGill) talks about songbird plasticity in the zebra finch, and how brain circuits transduce social information to modulate the learning and control of birdsong. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:34:19

Episode 195 -- Future Frameworks in Theoretical...

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/02/07

Thursday, February 7, 2019 This episode is a panel discussion recorded as the conclusion of a two part series showcasing Present & Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience, an international workshop hosted by Horacio Rotstein (NJIT) & Fidel Santamaria (UTSA) through support of NSF’s Brain Initiative (see episode 194 for Part I). Part II is a round table with a new group that recaps the themes of the workshop and reports on the main themes of the discussions that occurred in each of the

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Episode 194 -- Future Frameworks in Theoretical...

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/02/04

Monday, February 4, 2019 This episode is a panel discussion recorded as Part I of a two part series on the recent Present & Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience, an international workshop hosted by Horacio Rotstein (NJIT) & Fidel Santamaria (UTSA) with support from the NSF’s Brain Initiative. Part I is a preamble recorded on day one of the meeting, in which some friends of the podcast (see below) define the need for the workshop and identify their objectives as they undertake their

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00:40:34

Episode 193 -- Liberty Hamilton PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/01/31

Thursday, January 31, 2019 Liberty Hamilton (UT Austin) talks about using electrocorticography to study the representation and processing of speech sounds in the auditory cortex. Duration: 40 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA Nicole Wicha (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 192 -- Jeff Golden MD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/01/24

Thursday, January 24, 2019 Jeff Golden (Harvard Medical School) talks about dichotomies in mitochondrial dynamics observed in the migration of cortical neurons and interneurons in early development and neuronal patterning. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Jenny Hsieh (Semmes Foundation Chair, UTSA) Asif Maroof (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original

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Episode 191 -- Sarah C. Woolley PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2019/01/17

Thursday, January 17, 2019 Sarah C. Woolley (McGill) discusses her work on the neural basis of song preference in female songbirds. She describes experiments that manipulate in vivo dopaminergic pathways in the auditory system to change song preference. Duration: 35 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc. Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 190 -- Maurice Chacron PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/11/01

Thursday, November 1, 2018 Maurice Chacron (McGill) talks about optimal coding mechanisms invoked in sensory perception of the electric fish. He discusses his “awake behaving” model, through which he has deciphered that feedback from descending inputs tunes sensory responses through a “temporal whitening” function which may be conserved across species. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Research Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson

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Episode 189 -- Josh Dudman PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/10/25

Thursday, October 25, 2018 Josh Dudman (HHMI Janelia) discusses his model of how the basal ganglia shape performance based on prior experience by controlling the gain of movement kinematics. The group considers this history-dependent gain computation model alongside the traditional action selection model. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Juan Morales (PhD student, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Asst Prof, UTSA) Denard Simmons (Postdoc, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof,

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Episode 188 -- Marisela Morales PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/10/04

Thursday, October 4, 2018 Marisela Morales (NIDA) discusses the anatomical and functional complexity of VTA projections, including the distinctive synaptic architecture of dual GABAergic glutamatergic synapses in the habenula, and the indispensability of electron microscopy for understanding the diversity of brain circuits. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Professor, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Matt Wanat

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Episode 187 -- Charles Gerfen PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/09/27

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Chip Gerfen (NIMH) talks about his defining work in describing the input-output organization of the basal ganglia, and how early ideas of pathway-level organization principles have yielded an appreciation of the explosive anatomical and molecular diversity of individual neurons within those pathways. The group discusses Chip’s new spearheading of single axon anatomical projection mapping in striatum, and what clues it may offer to our understanding of basal ganglia

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Episode 186 -- Ulrich Hofmann PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/03/22

Thursday, March 22, 2018 Ulrich Hofmann (Freiburg University) discusses the priorities and realities in implementing control theory, computational models and engineering principles to build implantable devices that can read and write to the nervous system as an approach for treating CNS disorders like paralysis, epilepsy, depression, and others. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof,

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Episode 185 -- John Mantsch PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/03/01

Thursday, March 1, 2018 John Mantsch (Marquette University) discusses various animal models of drug relapse that differentiate aspects of how stress impinges on reward circuits to promote drug seeking. Duration: 40 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Professor, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst 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 184 -- Ed Stern PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/02/22

Thursday, February 22, 2018 Ed Stern (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) discusses corticostriatal networks in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 183 -- Astrocytes in Synaptic Control Symposium

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2018/02/09

Friday, February 9, 2018 Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2018 research symposium. The group discusses the tripartite synapse concept, which was coined by two of our panelists, Phil Haydon and Alfonso Araque, in the late 1990s. The group considers the diverse mechanisms of astrocyte-neuron communication and the magnitude of how we are beginning to redefine the neural circuits of behavior and disease based on this new framework. Hosted by Salma

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