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 28: Episode 28 -- Stephen De Armond, MD PhD
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...
episode 27: Episode 27 - Frederic Dick, PhD
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...
episode 26: Episode 26 -- Jian-Young Wu, PhD
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...
episode 25: Episode 25 -- Richard Palmiter, PhD
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...
episode 24: Episode 24 -- Michael J. Ryan, PhD
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.
episode 22: Episode 22 -- Elizabeth Torres, PhD
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Elizabeth Torres (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University New Brunswick) discusses internal models in sensory-motor integration...
episode 21: Episode 21 -- Gary Westbrook, MD
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Gary Westbrook (Co-director Vollum Institute, OHSU) talks about science publishing, and muses on organizing principles in the CNS.
Duration: 38 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music...
episode 20: Episode 20 -- Greg Macleod, PhD
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Greg Macleod, (Assistant Professor, Dept of Physiology, UTHSCSA) talks about mitochondrial mechanisms contributing to neuronal calcium homeostasis in the Drosophila model...
episode 19: Episode 19 -- Bard Ermentrout, PhD
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Bard Ermentrout, (University Professor, Dept of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh) talks about synchrony and oscillations in networks, biological applications of math, (from mescaline induced seizures to firefly mating behavior) and muses on the "how" vs "why" in mathematical biology...
episode 18: Episode 18 -- Mark Bevan, PhD
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Mark Bevan, (Associate Professor, Dept of Physiology, Northwestern University) describes and comments on the classic model of basal ganglia function.
Duration: 40 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Chris Deister (PhD student, UTSA)
Ramana Dodla (Fellow, UTSA)
Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res...