Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, March 13, 2008 Linda Wadiche, (Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine) discusses the past, present and future of adult neurogenesis research in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 John Lisman, (Zalman Abraham Kekst Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems)  discusses his perspectives on the neural code, theta/gamma  oscillations, and integrative approaches to looking at the brain, in a  discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  49 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Brian Derrick (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) David Senseman (Assoc. Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 28, 2008 Ian Davison, (Research Associate, HHMI/Duke University) talks about sensory coding in the mouse olfactory bulb, in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Michael Farries (Fellow, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, February 14, 2008 John Layne, (Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati) discusses models of homing and path integration in the fiddler crab, in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi.  Duration:  58 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Michael Farries (Postdoc UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 24, 2008 Matt Tresch, (Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)  talks about the search for muscle synergies in spinal motor systems and  provides historical perspectives on issues in motor control in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  49 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Chris Deister (Neurobiology Graduate Student, Wilson Lab) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, January 17, 2008 Gloster Aaron, (Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University)  talks about listening in on repetitive "motifs" in neuronal networks  and intrinsic pattern generation in the neocortex in a discussion hosted  by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  27 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Farries (Post-doctoral Fellow, Wilson Lab) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, November 29, 2007 Fabrizio Gabbiani, (Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine)  talks about sensorimotor information processing in the locust visual  system and the neuroscience brain drain from physics in a discussion  hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Kelly Suter (Asst Prof. UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, November 15, 2007 William Ross (Professor, New York Medical College, Valhalla),  in a candid discussion of his pioneering role in the history of imaging  subcellular dynamics, and perspectives on its future. Hosted by Salma  Quraishi. Duration:  51 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Friday, November 2, 2007 UTSA  Assistant Professor, Fidel Santamaria, on the quest to derive function  from morphology, his take on the Beam Hypothesis, and anomalous  diffusion in dendrites, in a discussion hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration:  59 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Brian Derrick (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Colleen Witt (Research Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: R Ratnam for generous loan of recording equipment; JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 Jim Tepper (Professor II, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University)  talks to us about his past, present and future in the world of basal  ganglia research, in a discussion hosted by UTSA Professor Charles  Wilson. Duration:  59 minutes Discussants: (in alphabetical order) Gary Gaufo (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Paladini (Asst Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Research Coord, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)