NEUROSCIENTISTS TALK SHOP

Stephen Maren (Texas A&M) talks about the common neural circuitry mediating fear conditioning and drug relapse. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Isabel Muzzio (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Sophie Caron (U of Utah) discusses how sensory representations shift from ordered to random in the sensory system of drosophila. Duration: 35minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Lindsey Macpherson (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Michelle Diaz (Penn State) discusses how language features might be organized in the neural architecture and talks about her structural and behavioral studies of how language production changes over the lifespan. Duration: 35minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Nicole Wicha (Professor, UTSA) Charles Wilson (

Ottavio Arancio discusses the problematic aspects of therapeutic strategies built upon the amyloid hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease, and his work defining the synaptic effects of soluble beta amyloid and tau oligomers in the etiopathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Hyoung-gon Lee (Assoc Prof, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res As

Mike Smotherman joins us again to talk echolocation in bats, specifically how physiological studies in his lab investigate the circuitry that shapes sonar pulse acoustics. He discusses how bats in groups implement circuit plasticity to coordinate their sonar systems to minimize interference. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTS

Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2019 research symposium on September 12, 2019. Hosted by Charles Wilson Duration: 44 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Mark Bevan, Professor in Physiology, Northwestern University Robert Turner Professor, Pitt Jerrold Vitek, Mcknight Professor, University of Minnesota Judith Walters, Senior Inve

Maya Henry (UT Austin) talks to us about her imaging studies of patients suffering from primary progressive aphasias, what they tell us about speech and language networks, and how her rehabilitation studies are demonstrating speech gains for patients with an otherwise poor degenerative prognosis. Duration: 39 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof

Brian Kaspar (AveXis Inc) talks about the realities and promise of building a single dose gene transfer therapy for treating the prime gene defect in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type I. He discusses his company’s modified adeno-associated virus 9 approach to human gene therapy that is currently in highly promising clinical trials, for SMA, and in development for Rett syndrome a

Craig Blackstone (UT Health San Antonio) tells us about new vantage points on endoplasmic reticulum structure, dynamics and function through advanced imaging technologies in the context of his work on hereditary spastic paraplegias. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Michael Hanna (Asst Professor of Practice, UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Sa

Sarah Hopp (UT Health San Antonio) discusses tau seeding in the developing pathology of alzheimer’s disease, and the role that microglia may play in supporting it. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.