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.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neuroscientists-talk-shop
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 12 days 6 hours 19 minutes
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episode 145: Episode 145 -- Hillel Adesnik, PhD
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Hillel Adesnik joins us from the University of California at Berkeley, to discuss recent advances in cortical circuits. We discuss the various routes for the flow of activity within and across cortical layers in sensory cortex.
Duration: 33 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Alfonso Apicella (Asst. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)
Matthew Wanat (Asst...
episode 146: Episode 146 -- Mark Bevan, PhD Redux
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Mark Bevan joins us (once again) from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. We discuss changes in neuronal activity and network connectivity in models of Parkinson’s disease.
Duration: 35 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Gerard Beaudoin (Res Asst. Prof, UTSA)
Soomin Song (UTSA PhD student)
Matthew Wanat (Asst...
episode 147: Episode 147 -- Jagmeet Kanwal, PhD
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Jag Kanwal joins us from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. We discuss multi-functional specialization of the auditory cortex of the mustache bat to perception of communication sounds...
episode 148: Episode 148 -- Gordon MG Shepherd, MD PhD
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Gordon Shepherd joins us from the Northwestern University School of Medicine. We discuss the relevance and evolution of the idea of the "canonical" cortical circuit, and some of the ways in which cortical microcircuitry is being recast in light of new genetic tools.
Duration: 45 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Alfonso Apicella (Asst. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Assoc...
episode 149: Episode 149 -- Christopher Olsen, PhD
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Christopher Olsen (Medical College of Wisconsin) discusses the brain's motivational system, and whether the same mechanisms contribute to drugs of abuse as to natural reward.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Matt Wanat (Asst. Prof, UTSA)
Gerard Beaudoin (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
episode 150: Episode 150 -- Javier Medina, PhD
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Javier Medina (Baylor College of Med) discusses the cerebellum, its fundamental circuit, and attempts to understand it’s role in behavior as well as abstract toward a fundamental computational role for cerebellum.
Duration: 41 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Isabel Muzzio (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Assoc...
episode 151: Episode 151 -- Russel Ray PhD
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Russel Ray (Baylor College of Med) discusses gene editing techniques in building mouse model systems. The group considers rhombomere origins and what role they might play in circuit organization.
Duration: 43 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Gary Gaufo (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music...
episode 152: Episode 152 -- Lee Goldstein, MD PhD
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Lee Goldstein (Boston University) discusses chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and how he is using mouse models to trace the salient features of the initiation and early neurogenic processes of the disease.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
George Perry (Dean, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
Matt Wanat (Asst...
episode 153: Episode 153 -- Laura Colgin, PhD Redux
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Laura Colgin (Center for Learning and Memory, UT Austin) returns to discuss hippocampal gamma band oscillations and their functional importance to memory encoding and retrieval.
Duration: 37 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Brian Derrick (Prof, UTSA)
Isabel Muzzio (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
episode 154: Episode 154 -- Jim Lechleiter, PhD
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Jim Lechleiter (Cellular & Structural Biology, UTHSCSA) gets us up to speed on astrocytes, their role in brain health and homeostasis, and their properties as excitable cells.
Duration: 50 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Michael Beckstead (Assoc. Prof, UTHSCSA)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Res...
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