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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 102 -- Eric Fortune

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/09/12

Thursday, September 12, 2013 Eric Fortune (NJIT) discusses the neural bases of cooperative behavior in duetting songbird pairs. Duration: 50 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:41:09

Episode 101 -- Cameron McIntyre PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/09/05

Thursday, September 5, 2013 Cameron McIntyre (Case Western Reserve) discusses the idea of being able to "dose" deep brain stimulation (DBS), and how it is now being used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders like depression. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:46:04

Episode 100 -- Daniel Ansari, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/04/25

Daniel Ansari (University of Western Ontario) discusses the new field of Mind, Brain and Education (sometimes called Neuroeducation) which seeks tobring evidence based practice and empirical calculation into the fieldof education research and practice. He also discusses his work on the mathematical organization of the brain. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) James Bower (Professor, UTHSCSA) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst

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00:42:54

Episode 99 -- Samuel Pfaff, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/04/18

Thursday, April 18, 2013 Sam Pfaff (HHMI, Salk Institute) discusses the heterogeneity of spinalinterneurons, vertebrate neural development, and central patterngenerators. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Gerard Beaudoin III (Postdoc, UTSA) Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:41:52

Episode 98 -- Charles "Lee" Cox, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/04/11

Thursday, April 11, 2013 Lee Cox (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) discusses some of the challenges in investigating thalamic investigation, the contribution of the thalamus to sensory processing, the significance of rhythmicity in thalamocortical systems; the significance of interneuron species and the curiousness of feedforward and recurrent connectivity. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Joe Beatty (Postdoc, UTSA) Michael Farries (Postdoc, UTSA) Salma Quraishi

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00:43:34

Episode 97 -- Gordon M Shepherd, MD, DPhil

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/04/04

Thursday, April 4, 2013 Gordon Shepherd (Yale) discusses the idea that all cortical circuitry is basedon elaboration of a basic microcircuit. The group discusses ideasthat have shaped the understanding of cortical function, including thecortical column. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) James Bower (Prof, UTHSCSA) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Soomin Song (PhD student, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original

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Episode 96 -- Russell Poldrack

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/03/07

Thursday, March 7, 2013 Russell Poldrack (UT Austin) discusses how cognitive fMRI studies are evolving from a focus on "blobology" to the new emphasis on data mining methodsthat focus on network connectivity. He introduces the idea of phenomics as applied to cognitive phenotypes, and the virtues of data sharing infunctional studies of cognition. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof,

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00:42:06

Episode 95 -- Julie Kauer, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/02/28

Thursday, February 28, 2013 Julie Kauer (Brown University) discusses her work on plasticity andaddiction, specifically her discovery of the potentiation of GABA synapses (GABA-LTP) on dopamine neurons.The group discusses how acute drugs and stress produce a persistent block of GABA-LTP, and how this phenomenon might be significant to behavior, addiction and its relevance to the reward prediction error function of dopamine neurons. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos

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00:39:19

Episode 94 -- Barbara Finlay

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/02/21

Thursday, February 21, 2013 Barbara Finlay (Cornell University) discusses her comparative brain development database, "Translating Time."She takes questions from the group regarding the significance of comparing developmental events acrossspecies, and talks about applying an evo-devo approach to questions of cognition. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof,

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00:45:59

Episode 93 -- Jocubas Ziburkus, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/02/07

Thursday, February 7, 2013 JocubasZiburkus (University of Houston) talks about in vitro models of epilepsy, both pharmacological and genetic, and the role of inhibitoryinterneurons and neuromodulators in seizure mechanics. Duration: 53 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:52:42

Episode 92 -- William Armstrong, PhD, redux

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2013/01/31

Thursday, January 31, 2013 WilliamArmstrong (University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center) talks about developing the intracellular biocytin labeling technique. This is a follow up to our 2008 talk with Bill (episode 15), when he told us aboutfunctional studies of neurosecretary cells of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus. Duration: 53 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof,

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00:34:38

Episode 91 -- Simon Giszter, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/11/15

Thursday, November 15, 2012 Simon Giszter (Drexel School of Medicine) discusses spinal cord modularity based on the idea of motor primitives as optimization learning constraints that can be flexibly modulated by cortical inputs. He discusses ideas about the origins of motor primitives (are they built by evolution at the level of the species or online at the level of the task for individuals), and describes possible neural mechanisms for how spinal primitives may be orchestrated. Duration: 34

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00:28:38

Episode 90 -- Mark Laubach, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/09/27

Thursday, September 27, 2012 Mark Laubach (Yale School of Medicine) discusses mouse frontal cortex as amodel for human frontal cortical function. He talks about the anterior cingulate cortex as an area in the context of performance monitoring and adaptive control. Duration: 29 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:46:30

Episode 89 -- Barry Connors, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/09/20

Thursday, September 20, 2012 Barry Connors (Brown University) talks about the historical timeline ofresearch on electrical synapses. He discusses his experimental exploration of synchrony in cortical interneurons and considers theoretical models of weakly coupled oscillators. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Joseph Beatty (Postdoctoral Fellow, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for

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Episode 88 -- Anastassios Tzingounis, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/04/26

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Anastassios Tzingounis (University of CT) discusses the mysterious slowafter-hyperpolarization current, and talks about a candidate componentmechanism he has described that involves the calcium sensor hippocalcin. He also discusses how he is using atomic force microscopyto map changing distributions of ion channels on living cells. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria

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Episode 87 -- Erich Jarvis, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/04/24

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 ErichJarvis (Duke University/HHMI) discusses evolutionary origins of the vocal motor learning pathway in songbirds, his new work on vocal communication in a new mammalian species, and his spearheading of theAvian Brain Nomenclature forum as a consensus buildingeffort that shaped a decade of avian brain research. Duration: 55 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof,

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00:39:15

Episode 86 -- Bharath Chandrasekaran, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/04/12

Thursday, April 19, 2012 BharathChandrasekaran (UT Austin) discusses the corticocentric view of cognitive brain research, and how he has optimized of functional imaging techniques for study of auditory and speech processing, and the influence of music training on the development of auditory skills. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM

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Episode 85 -- Gordon Fishell, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/04/05

Thursday, April 5, 2012 Gordon Fishell (NYU School of Medicine) discusses developmental interneuron diversity, the debate between the "lumpers" and "splitters", and thepossibility of tracing psychiatric disorders to focal genetic origins. The group assesses approaches for relating molecular genetics to circuits and ultimately behavior. Duration: 55 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles

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00:40:07

Episode 84 -- Johannes Schul, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/03/22

Thursday, March 22, 2012 JohannesSchul (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) discusses the the katydid communication system and its unique strategy for soundsegregation of behaviorally relevant information, in a discussion hosted by Rama Ratnam. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:42:16

Episode 83 -- Neural Dynamics Symposium 2012

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/03/20

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted an all-star panel of computational neuroscientists for a symposium on "Neural Dynamics & Coding." This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, has Todd Troyer leading the group in covering a wide range of topics, including how to talk about coding as you move toward behavior, the distinction betweencoding and computation, and how much of neural computation is centralized vs. offloaded to peripheral systems. Participants: Uri

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