Neuroscientists Talk Shop

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…

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 minu…

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 …

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 minu…

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 h…

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 c…

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 per…

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Michael Ryan (Professor, University of Texas at Austin) discusses sexual selection and communication in tungara frogs.

Duration: 32 minutes

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Elizabeth Torres (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University New Brunswick) discusses internal models in sensory-motor integration.

Duration: 32 minutes

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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

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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…

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Bard  Ermentrout, (University Professor, Dept of Mathematics, University of  Pittsburgh) talks about synchrony and oscillations in networks,  biological applications of m…

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 minu…

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Tim  Lewis, (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of  California, Davis) talks about mathematical analysis of neuronal  synchrony, and the theory of…

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Michael  Mauk, (Professor of Neurobiology, Center for Learning and Memory,  University of Texas at Austin) talks about timing, prediction, and  mechanisms of information p…

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

William Armstrong, (Professor & Director, Neurosciences Institute, The University of Tennessee College of Medicine)  talks about vasopressin and oxytocin secreting neurons of th…

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Patricia Janak, (Principal Investigator, Ernest Gallo Instute - UCSF)  discusses theories of amygdala function, cue-reward learning and its  neural correlates in a discussion…

Thursday, April 17, 2008

David Linden, (Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) discusses reductionism, cerebellar learning and plasticity in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi.

Du…

Monday, April 14, 2008

2007 Nobel Laureate Mario Capecchi, (co-Chair, Dept of Human Genetics, University of Utah) discusses the impact of his seminal gene targeting work on the future of neuroscience…

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Jennifer Morgan, (Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin)  provides an overview and shares her perspectives on the "kiss and run"  vs collapse models of synaptic ve…