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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 7 hours 51 minutes
episode 38: Episode 38 -- Dennis McFadden, PhD
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...
episode 37: Episode 37 -- Brenton Cooper, PhD
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...
episode 36: Episode 36 -- Melissa Saenz, PhD
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...
episode 35: Episode 35 -- Tianyi Mao, PhD
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...
episode 34: Episode 34 -- Massimo Tabaton, PhD
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...
episode 32: Episode 32 -- Christof Koch, PhD
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...
episode 33: Episode 33 -- Ion Channels and Firing Patterns of Dopaminergic Neurons
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...
episode 31: Episode 31 -- David Weiss, PhD
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
David Weiss, (Professor & Chair Dept of Physiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center - San Antonio) talks about modeling GABA receptor structure and function via fluorescence spectroscopy.
Duration: 44 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
episode 30: Episode 30 -- Sridhar Raghavachari, PhD
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...
episode 29: Episode 29 -- Nick C. Spitzer, PhD
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...