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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 62 -- Joshua Berke, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/02/17

Thursday, February 17, 2011 Charlie Wilson hosts Joshua Berke (Associate Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) in a discussion about action representations in thestriatum. The problematic nature of the term "representation" is discussed, and analogies to the literature on spatial representations in the hippocampus are considered. Duration: 43 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Michael Farries (Fellow, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement:

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00:39:24

Episode 61 -- Jonathan Pillow, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/02/03

Thursday, February 3, 2011 Jonathan Pillow (Assistant Professor, UT Austin) talks about using assumption-free statistics to to extract structure from high dimensional data. The group discusses levels of analysis in computational modeling, and considers the merits of using functional behavior of neurons ("the what") in the absence of mechanism ("the how") as the starting point when modeling complex neural systems. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst

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Episode 60 -- J. Leigh Leasure, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2011/01/27

Thursday, January 27, 2011 Leigh Leasure (University of Houston) talks about the dueling effects of exercise and binge alcohol consumption on cell health and proliferation in the dentate gyrus. The idea that excercise may protect against binge-induced cell loss is discussed. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles

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Episode 59 -- William Spain, MD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/12/02

Thursday, December 2, 2010 Bill Spain (Professor, University of Washington) talks about spike frequencyadaptation in the avian auditory system and cortex, and considers theutility of adaptation for integrators vs coincidence detectors acrossvarious timescales. In addition Bill talks about dividing his time as a clinician, and how his clinical vantage point impacts his take on basicscience research. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama

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Episode 58 -- Peter Narins, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/10/14

Thursday, October 14, 2010 Peter Narins (Professor, UCLA) talks about being a member of the founding generation of neuroethologists in the 1970s, and of his pivotal workdescribing both ultrasonic and subsonic communication in two verydifferent species. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 57 -- Ranier Gutierrez, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/10/07

Thursday, October 7, 2010 RanierGutierrez (Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV, Mexico) talks aboutoscillations in the distributed network that regulates feeding behaviors, its entrainment by licking, and the significance of his finding that the responses of nucleus accumbens signal meal-relatedactivity. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof,

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Episode 56 -- Paul E. Gold, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/09/30

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Paul E. Gold (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) discusses the idea of studying memory loss to study the process of memory formation and his studies of forgetting in aging populations. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 55 -- Theoden (Tay) Netoff, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/09/23

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Theoden (Tay)Netoff (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) discusses seizure from a clinical and dynamical systems perspective, and weighs in on the debate as to whether epilepsy results from hypersynchrony or desynchrony of brain networks. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) 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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Episode 54 -- Elizabeth Quinlan, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/09/09

Thursday, September 9, 2010 Elizabeth Quinlan (University of Maryland, College Park) discusses the relevance of critical periods to plasticity, given current trends in post-critical period plasticity. She outlines her ideas about plasticity being latent and actively constrained by ongoing activity, rather than fundamental properties of the underlying anatomy. Please be aware that there are some discontinuities due to editing. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi

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Episode 53 -- Clive Bramham, MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/04/22

Thursday, April 22, 2010 CliveBramham (University of Bergen, Norway) discusses the BDNF and theimmediate early gene ARC, and some of the history of LTP and how itcame to be known as a potential mnemonic mechanism in learning systems. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:32:25

Episode 52 -- Brian Christie, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/04/15

Thursday, April 15, 2010 BrianChristie (Professor, University of Victoria BC) talks aboutproliferation and survival of newly born hippocampal neurons, and exercise as a modulator of neurogenesis in hippocampal granule cells. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 51 -- Neural Patterning Symposium 2010

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/04/09

Friday, April 9, 2010 Jeremy Dasen (NYU School of Medicine) Pasko Rakic (Yale School of Medicine) Gary Gaufo (UTSA), Raj Awatramani (Northwestern) Goichi Miyoshi (Fishell Lab, NYU School of Medicine) On April 9 2010, The UTSA Neurosciences institute hosted a panel of esteemed Developmental Neurobiologists for a symposium on "Neural Patterning in the CNS." In this discussion, recorded after the day's talks, Salma Quraishi hosts the group in discussing a wide range of topics, including whether genetic

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Episode 50 -- David Poeppel, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/03/11

Thursday, March 11, 2010 David Poeppel (Professor, NYU) discusses the fundamental mismatch in the "conceptual inventory" of psycholinguists and neuroscientists in the study of language representation. How does one link the computational description of language to the neurobiological constraints of the brain? Find his blog Talking Brains here Duration: 50 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 49 - Mike Smotherman, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/02/11

Thursday, February 11, 2010 Mike Smotherman (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M) discusses speech motor control in bats and humans, and how approaches to mammalian vocalization have been approached in the literature. Duration: 53 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 48 -- Nicholas Priebe, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/02/04

Thursday, February 4, 2010 Nicholas Priebe (Assistant Professor, University of Texas Austin) discusses subthreshold inhibition in primary visual cortices, both as a tuning mechanism along sensory dimensions as well as a gain control mechanism to normalize excitation. Duration: 36 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Fellow, 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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Episode 47 - Janet Best, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/01/28

Thursday, January 28, 2010 Janet Best (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University) discusses her take as a math biologist on the interplay between applied math and biology. She and Kelly Suter (UTSA) talk about their collaboration in which they model the irregular firing patterns of GnRH neurons at puberty as mixed mode oscillators. Stay tuned after the credits for some sea squirt trivia, courtesy of C. Wilson. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Sayanti Bannerji (Graduate

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00:36:03

Episode 46 -- Suzana Herculano-Houzel, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2010/01/21

Thursday, January 21, 2010 Suzana Herculano-Houzel (Professor, Universidad Federal de Rio) discusses cortical scaling rules across phylogeny, the theory of human cortical expansion in mammalian evolution, and how deceptively simple, almost minimalist experiments have the power to shake dogma. Duration: 36 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Jim Bower (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson

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Episode 45 -- Asif Ghazanfar, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/12/03

Thursday, December 3, 2009 Asif Ghazanfar (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) discusses the relationship between the brain, the body and environmental context, and how he is using the relationship between the statistical structure of speech and neural oscillations to probe the evolution of language. Duration: 53 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles

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00:52:58

Episode 44 -- Katalin Gothard, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/11/30

Monday, November 30, 2009 Katalin Gothard (Associate Professor, University of Arizona) expands on the role of amygdala in fear conditioning, emphasizing that the ecology of a species and the subtle social cues that drive its behavioral repertoire are key to undertaking studies of amygdala function. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Jose Bargas Diaz (Professor, UNAM) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM

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Episode 43 -- Dan Lodge, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/11/12

Thursday, November 12, 2009 Daniel Lodge (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, UT Health Sciences Center San Antonio) discusses mouse models of schizophrenia and how mesolimbic dopamine modulation by the ventral hypothalamus may underlie some of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Duration: 33 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for

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