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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 82 -- Zen Faulkes, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/03/08

Thursday, March 8, 2012 Zen Faulkes (Assoc Professor, University of Texas Pan-American) discusses his work on characterizing nociceptors in crustaceans, and some of theissues surrounding ethical treatment of invertebrates that his work touches on. Visit Zen's blog Neurodojo.com for some fun content on neuroethology and beyond. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Sakshi Puri (Student, UT Pan Am) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Denard Simmons (PhD student, UTSA) Todd Troyer

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Episode 81 -- Neal Waxham, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/03/01

Thursday, March 1, 2012 Neal Waxham (Professor, Dept of Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Medical School at Houston) discusses molecular dynamics at the PSD, including CaMKII as a structural molecule, molecular trapping at the spine, and the potential modularity of the post synaptic density. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 80 -- Ulrich Mayr, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/02/23

Thursday, February 23, 2012 UlrichMayr (Professor, University of Oregon) discusses cognitive inhibitionduring task switching, the common language of processing time between cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, and his neuroeconomics work on risk behavior and altruism. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Angelique Blackburn (PhD student, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for

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Episode 79 -- Gina Kuperberg, MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/02/09

Thursday, February 9, 2012 Gina Kuperberg (Associate Professor, Tufts University & MGH) discusses her work on semantic processing during schizophrenia. She gives us awindow into the use of language as a tool to probe cognitive processing during thought disorders. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 78 -- Laura Colgin, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/02/02

Thursday, February 2, 2012 Laura Colgin (Asst Professor, UT Austin) talks with us about the earlyhistory of the study of brain oscillations, and discusses her work onthe potential functional significance of frequency variations in the Gamma band. Duration: 34 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 77 -- Martha Flanders, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2012/01/12

Thursday, January 19, 2012 Martha Flanders (Professor, University Minnesota) discusses the ongoing debatein motor systems regarding modularity vs distributed organization inthe motor planning system. The role of efference copy in models ofmotor planning is discussed, as is hand movement sequencing and coarticulation of letters in sign language. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof,

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Episode 76 -- David Perkel, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/11/03

Thursday, November 3, 2011 DavidPerkel (Professor, Washington University School of Med) discusses thehomology between the avian song system and the basal ganglia circuit,and the role of motor variability in the adult songbird learning circuit. The nature of cortex and its relation to cortex-like structures in the avian brain are discussed. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof,

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Episode 75 -- Karen Bales, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/10/27

Thursday, October 27, 2011 Karen Bales (Assoc Professor, UC Davis) discusses a monogamous primate modelthat she is using to study neural correlates of social bonding. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof UTSA) Michelle Valero (Graduate Student, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 74 -- Bilingual Brain Symposium 2011

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/10/25

October 25, 2011 The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted a distinguished panel of language neurobiologists for a symposium on "The Bilingual Brain." This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, has Salma Quraishi leading the group in covering a wide range of topics, includingthe cognitive advantages conferred by bilingualism, cross-modal bilingualism and critical periods for language acquisition. Participants: Karen Emmorey (San Diego State) Judith Kroll (Penn State) Lee Osterhout (UW

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Episode 73 -- Stephen Lisberger, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/10/20

Thursday, October 20, 2011 StephenLisberger (Professor, HHMI & UCSF) talks with Charles Wilson about solving the problem of how circuits generate behavior using low dimensional model systems, and why it is important to study variability in the nervous system. Duration: 30 minutes acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 72 -- Kamran Khodakhah, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/10/13

Thursday, October 13, 2011 Kamran Khodakhah (Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) talks withthe group about information coding in cerebellar cortex and his foray into translational research with a model of rapid onset dystonia. The group discusses the current NIH push for translational research at the expense of basic science and debates the idea of cerebellum as a motorlearning structure. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) James Bower (Prof, UTSA/UTHSCSA) Carlos

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Episode 71 -- Helen Scharfman, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/09/29

Thursday, September 29, 2011 Helen Scharfman (Professor, NYU Langone School of Medicine) talks aboutaberrant neurogenesis following seizure activity in the dentate gyrus, and discusses models of how newly born granule cells may aid ininformation storage and retrieval in memory process. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 70 -- Phillip Sabes, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/09/22

Thursday, September 22, 2011 Philip Sabes (Associate Professor, UCSF) talks about modeling complexbehaviors that remain relevant and specifically tailored to the physiology of real neurons and neural circuits in real time. Duration: 45 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 Tepper for original music.

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Episode 69 -- Thomas Blanpied, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/09/15

Thursday, September 15, 2011 Thomas Blanpied (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine) talks about molecular organization at the post-synaptic density, models of receptor mobility, and visualization of living synapses in real time. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 68 -- David McCormick, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/09/01

Thursday, September 1, 2011 David McCormick (Dorys McConnel Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine) talks about flexibility of information coding in neural systems, and the complexity of undertaking studies of functionalconnectivity in cortical networks. Duration: 40 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Joseph Beatty (Post-doc, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Soomin Song (PhD Student, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof,

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00:42:13

Episode 67 -- Kara Federmeier, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/04/14

Thursday, April 14, 2011 KaraFedermeier (Associate Professor, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign) talks about prediction in language production and comprehension, and how ERPs are used to reveal differences in the time course and components of language processing. Also discussed arethe N400 as a measure of meaning, and general principles of languagelateralization. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole

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Episode 66 -- Anne Young, MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/03/24

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Anne Young (Julianne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard MGH) talks abouther early studies of basal ganglia functional anatomy, and how they led to her famed dual pathway model of the basal ganglia. The group museson the model's strengths and shortcomings over the decades, and discusses how it organized thinking in the field of basal gangliaresearch and continues to be relevant to clinicians and researcherstoday. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical

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Episode 65 -- Dieter Jaeger, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/03/10

Thursday, March 10, 2011 Dieter Jaeger (Professor, Emory University) talks about the complexity of modeling systems whose biological function is ill-defined, and how to determine how complex a model needs to be. The possibility of building structured queryable databases for mining neuroscience data is discussed, as are thoughts on mouse model systems as an approximation of the human brain. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria

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Episode 64 -- William Brownell, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/03/03

Thursday, March 3, 2011 Rama Ratnam hosts William Brownell (The Jake and Nina Kamin Chair of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine) as he discusseselectromechanical signal processing in the cochlea. Electromotility in the nervous system is discussed, specifically in the context of cochlearamplification. Duration: 47 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM

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Episode 63 -- Thomas Cleland, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/02/24

Thursday, February 24, 2011 Thomas Cleland (Cornell University) discusses the idea of olfactory receptivefields, and the problems associated with compressing thehigh-dimensional parameters of odor space into two-dimensional brainspace. Analogies to the retina are considered. Duration: 41 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

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