Presented by the UTSA Neuroscience, Developmental & Regenerative Biology (NDRB) Dept.  Seminars are held Thursdays during the academic year, 12-1pm CST in the BSB Loeffler Rm, 3.03.02.

Fall 2025 Neuroscience Seminars

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 SthKWanat
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

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