Fall 2023 Neuroscience Seminars
Presented by the UTSA NDRB Dept & UTSA Neuroscience.
All seminars are held Thursdays, 12-1pm in the BSB Loeffler Rm, 3.03.02.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/18 | Itamar Lerner, PhD | UTSA | The contradictory effects of REM Sleep on the processing of stress | Wilson |
| 1/25 | Michael Long, PhD | NYU School of Medicine | Neural mechanisms of interactive communication | Wilson |
| 2/1 | Lori Holt, MD | UT Austin | Listening in on auditory learning | Wicha |
| 2/8 | Joshua Neunuebel, PhD | Univ. Delaware | Decoding Mouse Ultrasonic Communication During Social Behavior | Apicella |
| 2/15 | Yarimar Carrasquillo, PhD | NIH/NCCIH | Dialing pain up and down in the amygdala | Macpherson |
| 2/22 | Janko Gospocic, PhD | UT Southwestern | Hormones and High Society: Control of Caste Identity in Ants | Barton |
| 2/29 | Dwight Bergles, PhD | Johns Hopkins Univ. | Sounds in Silence: how non-sensory cells in the ear initiate maturation of the auditory system | Silveira |
| 3/7 | Lynn Dobrunz, PhD | Univ. Tennessee Health Science Center | Role of the Anti-Anxiety factor Neuropeptide Y in Synaptic Plasticity and Traumatic Stress | Silveira |
| 3/14 | Spring Break | |||
| 3/21 | Dennis Sparta, PhD | Univ. Illinois Chicago | Dissecting extended amygdala circuits in aberrant motivated behavior | Wanat |
| 3/28 | Bradley Lega, MD | UT Southwestern | Multi-method characterization of human episodic memory circuits | Hsieh |
| 4/4 | Kara Marshall, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine | Feeling the force: the role of PIEZO ion channels in interoception | Macpherson |
| 4/11 | Guo-Qiang Zhang, PhD | UT Health Houston | Rapid Standing Up of Specimen and Sequencing Library Portals for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network | Hsieh |
| 4/18 | Nancy Philp, PhD | Thomas Jefferson University | Eye candy: re-examining the role of glucose and aerobic glycolysis in function | Camacho |
| 4/25 | Annual Neuroscience Symposium | |||
| 5/2 | Skirmantas Janusonis, PhD | Univ. California, Santa Barbara | An Axon Matrix That Should Not Exist: Serotonergic Fibers, Reimaged and Reimagined | Santamaria |
