Fall 2025 Neuroscience Seminars
Presented by the UTSA NDRB Dept .
All seminars are held Thursdays, 12-1pm in the BSB Loeffler Rm, 3.03.02.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/28 | Ray Lee, PhD | UTHealth SA | The communication between two brains | MacPherson |
| 9/04 | Michael Roberts, PhD | Univ. Michigan | Determining the structure and function of microcircuits in the auditory midbrain | Silveira |
| 9/11 | Philipp Schmidpeter | UTSA | Lipid modulation of the cyclic nucleotide-gated channel SthK | Wanat |
| 9/18 | Ricardo Mozzachiodi, PhD | Texas A&M–Corpus Christi | Characterization of the mechanisms underlying formation and storage of the balance between defensive and appetitive behaviors | Apicella |
| 9/25 | Daniel Dombeck, PhD | Northwestern | Hippocampal spatial representations in complex environments | Savelli/Jones |
| 10/02 | Daniel Lodge, PhD | UTHealth SA | How Afferent Circuits Shape Dopamine Neuronal Activity: Relevance to Psychosis | Wanat |
| 10/09 | Sarah Swinford-Jackson, PhD | Texas A&M | Molecular mechanisms and neurocircuitry underlying psychostimulant intake and craving | Soshnev |
| 10/16 | Maria Geffen, PhD | Univ. Pennsylvania | TBD | Apicella/Moler |
| 10/23 | Peter Crino, MD, PhD | Univ. Maryland | Somatic Mutations in Epilepsy: mTOR and More | Hsieh |
| 10/30 | Exing Wang, PhD | UT Health SA | Advanced Optical Microscopy in Biomedical Research | MacPherson |
| 11/06 | Peter Fox, MD | UTHealth SA | TBD | Hseih |
| 11/13 | Maria Diehl, PhD | Kansas State Univ. | Should I stay, or should I go? Social context shapes prefrontal circuits of avoidance in rats | Burgos |
| 11/20 | Cristian Lasagna-Reeves | Baylor College of Medicine | TBD | Lee |
| 12/04 | Mike Beckstead, PhD | OMRF | Ventral tegmental area dopamine hyperexcitability in mouse Alzheimer's models | Wanat |
