Fall 2024 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/29 | Melanie Carless, PhD | UTSA | From Strands to Stars: Cracking the Epigenetic Code in Complex Disorders | Apicella |
| 9/05 | Timothy Balmer, PhD | Arizona State Univ. | Top-down modulation in the auditory system | Silveria |
| 9/12 | Brian Lundstrom, MD, PhD | Mayo Clinic Rochester | Neural Adaptation, Fractional Dynamics, and Brain Stimulation | Santamaria |
| 9/19 | Alfonso Apicella, PhD | UTSA | The role of cortical long-range GABAergic inhibition on emotional learning and decision-making | Wilson |
| 9/26 | Jones Parker, PhD | Northwestern Univ. | Nigrostriatal Circuit Dysfunction in Neuropsychiatric Disease | Wanat |
| 10/03 | Massimo Pasqualetti, PhD | Univ. Pisa | Development and plasticity of the serotonergic circuitry | Apicella |
| 10/10 | Ranmal Samarasinghe MD, PhD | UCLA | Insights into neural network development and dysfunction in neurological disease using human brain organoids | Estevez |
| 10/17 | Eric Fortune, PhD | NJIT | Time for neurophysiological control of behavior | Savelli |
| 10/24 | Charles Anderson, PhD | West Virginia University | Synapse and cell-type specific effects of synaptically released zinc on neural circuits in mouse auditory cortex | Apicella |
| 10/31 | Raju Metherate, PhD | UCI | Functional connectivity and cholinergic modulation in auditory cortex | Apicella |
| 11/07 | Carlos Bassetto, PhD | UTSA | Understanding the biophysics of excitability with novel technique | Santamaria |
| 11/14 | Claudio Punzo, PhD | UMass | Age-related Macular Degeneration: From Humans to mice | Camacho |
| 11/21 | Jonathan Fadok, PhD | Tulane Univ. | From Freezing to Flight: How Distributed Brain Circuits Regulate Defensive Behavior | Burgos-Robles |
| 12/5 | Ching-Kang Chen, PhD | UT Health San Antonio | Visual signal transduction: mysteries and insights beyond your textbooks | Camacho |
| 12/12 | Annual Neuroscience Symposium |
