Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Shaowen Bao (UC Berkeley) discusses auditory critical periods, the use of statistically complex, naturalistic auditory stimuli to probe species-specific auditory processing and representations.  He discusses the development of categorical perception, and the hierarchical development of sensory representations specific to auditory cortex...

Richard Zigmond (Case Western Reserve) discusses macrophage action in peripheral nerve regeneration.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Recorded: Thursday, January 30, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Nace Golding (UT Austin) discusses dendritic integration and microsecond temporal processing in the auditory cortex.

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

James Bower (Prof, UTHSCSA)

Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

Thursday, February 20, 2014

 Paul Colombo (Tulane) discusses the dynamic interactions between memory systems, and data that indicate that subjects use different strategies  that leverage different memory systems to accomplish the same task.  He also discusses his CREB viral vector model system for manipulating interactions between memory systems...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Patricio O'Donnell discusses integration of hippocampal and prefrontal inputs to the nucleus accumbens, and talks about transitioning from a successful academic research career to doing basic science research in an industrial setting...

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Massimo Scanziani (HHMI UCSD) discusses how cortical circuitry in primary visual cortex serves as an amplifier of preprocessed signals from thalamus, rather than building new representations.  He also theorizes about ways in which interneuron diversity may be catalogued and understood in the near future...

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Todd Roberts (UT Southwestern) discusses using optogenetics to probe how representation of the tutor song is encoded in songbird HVC.

Duration: 32 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Anand Kulkarni (PhD student, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Larry Zweifel (UW Seattle) discusses understanding the dopamine circuit and its behavioral consequences through genetic manipulations.

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gerard Beaudoin (Asst Prof UTSA)

Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Arturo Andrade (Lipscombe Lab, Brown University) discusses voltage sensitive calcium channels in pain and anxiety.  He introduces the constellation of CaVs, their diversity, and methods he is using to tie individual channel dynamics to behavior...

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Sam Sober (Emory/Ga Tech) discusses how the brain solves the problem of which errors to use to drive behavior and learning in the vocal learning system of songbirds.  He also discusses the importance of understanding  the biomechanics of the bird vocal organ as a way to understand the  mapping between neurons and the motor control involved in singing...