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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 42 -- Nancy Wexler, PhD and Alice Wexler, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/11/11

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Nancy Wexler (Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, President Hereditary Disease Foundation) and historian Alice Wexler (Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women) discuss the history of the Huntington's Disease Collaborative effort, and new efforts toward a search for the cure. Duration: 64 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof,

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00:47:01

Episode 41 -- Ila Fiete, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/11/05

Thursday, November 5, 2009 Ila Fiete (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning & Memory, UT Austin) discusses the "how" and the "why" of rate coding, the principles of sparseness, capacity and optimality, drawing on her work on temporal coding of song in HVC and hippocampal grid cells. Duration: 47 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer

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00:52:25

Episode 40 -- Bernd Fritzsch, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/10/29

Thursday, October 29, 2009 Bernd Fritzsch (Professor & Chair, University of Iowa) provides an historical perspective on developmental genetics, and the changing concept of lineage from a genetic point of view. Duration: 52 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Professor, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:44:32

Episode 39 -- Garret Stuber, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/10/15

Thursday, October 15, 2009 Garret Stuber (Associate Scientist/Bonci Lab, Gallo Institute UCSF) discusses how he is adapting optogenetic tools to study reward learning. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:43:28

Episode 38 -- Dennis McFadden, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/10/08

Thursday, October 8, 2009 Dennis McFadden (Ashbel Smith Professor, UT Austin) discusses otoacoustic emissions, their purpose, and how he is using them as a possible measure of early sexual differentiation. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Michelle Valero (PhD Student, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:40:18

Episode 37 -- Brenton Cooper, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/09/24

Thursday, September 24, 2009 Brenton Cooper (Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University) discusses peripheral constraints (i.e., sensory feedback and motor control) on song development. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst 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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Episode 36 -- Melissa Saenz, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/09/17

Thursday, September 17, 2009 Melissa Saenz, (Post-doc, Christof Koch Lab, CalTech) discusses cross modal brain plasticity with respect to cortical specialization, and her discovery of the new phenomenon, auditory synesthesia. Duration: 40 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Fidel Santamaria (Asst 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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Episode 35 -- Tianyi Mao, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/09/10

Thursday, September 10, 2009 Tianyi Mao, (Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University; currently Svoboda Lab, Janelia Farm) talk about characterizing cell types and neural circuits with optogenetic markers. Duration: 35 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst 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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00:43:14

Episode 34 -- Massimo Tabaton, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/09/03

Thursday, September 3, 2009 Massimo Tabaton, (Professor of Neurology, University of Genova) gives a critical appraisal of the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) George Perry (Dean, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:44:17

Episode 32 -- Christof Koch, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/05/05

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Christof Koch, (Lois & Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology, Caltech) talks about the neural correlates of consciousness in a discussion hosted by Fidel Santamaria. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Fidel Santamaria (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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00:47:53

Episode 33 -- Ion Channels and Firing Patterns of...

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/04/21

Wednesday, April 21, 2009 Jim Surmeier (Northwestern University), Jochen Roeper (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Bruce Bean (Harvard Medical School), Carlos Paladini (UTSA), and John Williams (Oregon Health & Science University). On April 21st, the UTSA Neurosciences Institute hosted an all-star panel of physiologists for a symposium on "Ion Channels and Firing Patterns of Dopamine Neurons." This discussion, recorded after the day's talks, has Charles Wilson leading the group in covering a wide

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00:44:04

Episode 31 -- David Weiss, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/04/15

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 David Weiss, (Professor & Chair Dept of Physiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center - San Antonio) talks about modeling GABA receptorstructure and function via fluorescence spectroscopy. Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst 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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Episode 30 -- Sridhar Raghavachari, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/04/09

Thursday, April 9, 2009 Sridhar Raghavachari, (Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center) talks about the breakdown of stochasticity in PSD nanodomains. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 29 -- Nick C. Spitzer, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/03/05

Thursday, March 5, 2009 Nick Spitzer (Professor & Co-director, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD) discusses stimulus-driven neurotransmitter specification in the dopamine system, and how calcium, electrical activity and experience can rewire the brain. Duration: 55 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM

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00:42:37

Episode 28 -- Stephen De Armond, MD PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/02/19

Thursday, February 19, 2009 Stephen DeArmond, (Professor, UCSF School of Medicine) talks about his pioneering work on the pathogenesis of prion-related neurodegenerative disease. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) George Perry (Dean & Professor, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original

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00:56:08

Episode 27 - Frederic Dick, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/02/12

Thursday, February 12, 2009 Fred Dick, (Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London) talks about current approaches to studying speech and language, and discusses his fMRI studies of plasticity in audiomotor areas strongly associated with speech. Duration: 55 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof,

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00:42:32

Episode 26 -- Jian-Young Wu, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/01/29

Thursday, January 29, 2009 Jian-Young Wu (Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center) discusses the use of voltage-sensitive dyes to visualize patterns of population electrical activity in the cortex. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants: (in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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00:50:53

Episode 25 -- Richard Palmiter, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/01/22

Thursday, January 22, 2009 Richard Palmiter (Professor, HHMI Investigator, University of Washington School of Medicine) discusses the biological basis of motivational behavior, and ends with a personal account of the early days of transgenic technology. Duration: 51 minutes Discussants: (in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for

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00:45:18

Episode 24 -- Michael J. Ryan, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2009/01/15

Thursday, January 15, 2009 Michael Ryan (Professor, University of Texas at Austin) discusses sexual selection and communication in tungara frogs. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants: (in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doc, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

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Episode 22 -- Elizabeth Torres, PhD

Neuroscientists Talk Shop ·

2008/10/30

Thursday, October 30, 2008 Elizabeth Torres (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University New Brunswick) discusses internal models in sensory-motor integration. Duration: 32 minutes Discussants: (in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (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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