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 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 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 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 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 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 39: Episode 39 -- Garret Stuber, PhD
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.
episode 40: Episode 40 -- Bernd Fritzsch, PhD
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...
episode 41: Episode 41 -- Ila Fiete, PhD
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...
episode 42: Episode 42 -- Nancy Wexler, PhD and Alice Wexler, PhD
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...
episode 43: Episode 43 -- Dan Lodge, PhD
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...