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Neuroscientists Talk Shop is the University of Texas at San Antonio's (UTSA) Neurobiology Podcast, showcasing the current research of internationally renowned guest Neuroscientists. Each episode features a moderated discussion with a cross section of UTSA Neurobiology faculty, highlighting the featured guest's research, and the state of the art in the field at hand.
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Marco Pagani PhD from 2022-05-04T02:35:47.401495
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Hojoon Lee PhD from 2022-04-28T15:00:07
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Eric Olson PhD from 2022-04-25T16:00:35
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Heidi Meyer PhD from 2022-04-21T15:03:21
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Consuelo Walss-Bass PhD from 2022-04-14T09:02:58
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Jill R. Crittenden PhD from 2022-04-11T16:29:21.480512
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Alfredo Fontanini PhD from 2022-04-11T16:29:21.477061
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Joshua A. Goldberg PhD from 2022-04-11T16:29:21.470861
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Srdjan Antic MD from 2022-04-11T16:29:21.453844
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Bennett Novitch PhD from 2022-04-11T16:29:21.386871
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Aryn Gittis PhD from 2022-04-11T16:29:21.373328
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Tom Finger PhD from 2022-03-24T11:12:09
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Caitlin Orsini PhD from 2022-02-28T17:00:23
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Sara Burke PhD from 2022-02-22T16:49:29
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Lee Goldstein MD PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.477504
Lee Goldstein (Boston University) discusses chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and how he is using mouse models to trace the salient features of the initiation and early neurogenic processes of the ...
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Yoland Smith PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.472559
Yoland Smith (Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University) discusses how the motor symptoms of Parkinsonism may not connect with our emerging understanding of the the complex interconnectivity of the b...
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Geoffrey Schoenbaum MD PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.471104
Geoffrey Schoenbaum (National Institutes of Drug Abuse) discusses the advantages of using principles of learning theory in physiological investigations of associative learning and decision making. ...
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David Weinshenker PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.470119
David Weinshenker (Emory U School of Med ) discusses norepinephrine physiology and it’s relevance to the neuropathology of degenerative diseases and addiction. Duration: 47 minutes Discussants...
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Harel Shouval PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.467978
Harel Shouval (UT Health, Houston) discusses building models for how time constants of neural circuits adapt to reflect the time constraints of the world. For instance, learning requires associati...
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Peter Kalivas PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.467283
Peter Kalivas (Medical University of South Carolina) discusses how he is incorporating the tetrapartite synapse (pre-synapse, post-synapse, glia and extra-cellular matrix) into understanding addict...
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Christiane Linster PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.465555
Christiane Linster (Cornell) discusses the theory and experimental realities at play in modeling learning, memory and neuromodulation in the olfactory system of rodents. Duration: 40 minutes Di...
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Nick Hollon PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.464837
Nick Hollon (Fellow, Xin Jin Lab, Salk Institute) leads us in a fantastic discussion on neuroeconomic approaches to understanding the neural correlates that govern value-based decision making. D...
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James Tepper PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.462428
James Tepper (Rutgers Newark) joins us 10 years down the line to revisit the topic of our inaugural podcast discussion, which centered on the diversity and origins of striatal interneurons. A numb...
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Suzanne Haber PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.459541
Suzanne Haber (U Rochester Med Ctr) talks about defining anatomy and structural connections in the context of function in the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic system. Duration: 37 minutes Discuss...
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Aurelio Galli PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.454447
Aurelio Galli (UAB) discusses the biophysics of the dopamine transporter, its relevance to disease, and how he is leveraging drosophila to study behavioral phenotypes of dopamine transporter mutat...
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Marco Gallio PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.452656
Marco Gallio (Northwestern) talks about temperature sensation in Drosophila as a “fruitful” model system for examining sensory encoding and propagation of representations through a relatively reduc...
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Astrocytes in Synaptic Control Symposium from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.448089
Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2018 research symposium. The group discusses the tripartite synapse concept, which was coined by two of our panelists, P...
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John Mantsch PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.446340
John Mantsch (Marquette University) discusses various animal models of drug relapse that differentiate aspects of how stress impinges on reward circuits to promote drug seeking. Duration: 40 mi...
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Marisela Morales PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.444114
Marisela Morales (NIDA) discusses the anatomical and functional complexity of VTA projections, including the distinctive synaptic architecture of dual GABAergic glutamatergic synapses in the habenu...
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Maurice Chacron PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.442381
Maurice Chacron (McGill) talks about optimal coding mechanisms invoked in sensory perception of the electric fish. He discusses his “awake behaving” model, through which he has deciphered that fee...
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Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop, Part I from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.439245
This episode is a panel discussion recorded as Part I of a two part series on the recent Present & Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience, an international workshop hosted by Horacio Rotstei...
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Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop, Part 2 from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.438465
This episode is a panel discussion recorded as the conclusion of a two part series showcasing Present & Future Frameworks in Theoretical Neuroscience, an international workshop hosted by Horacio Ro...
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Craig Blackstone MD PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.401259
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...
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Steve Small MD PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.393478
Steve Small (UT Dallas) discusses how well 19th and 20th century localizationist metaphors for the brain have served our understanding of behavior, especially in the realm of language, and what new...
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Savio Chan PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.392736
Savio Chan (Northwestern) gives us his thoughts on cell diversity in the external globus pallidus. He weighs in on how to define cell type, when to stop mining for more diversity, and whether cell...
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Michael Hasselmo DPhil from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.390184
On October 8, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Michael Hasselmo for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, Francesco Savelli ...
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Brian Wiltgen PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.385592
On December 3, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Brian Wiltgen for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, Anthony Burgos-Roble...
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Zane Lybrand PhD from 2022-02-22T12:24:06.383531
On February 4 , 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Zane Lybrand for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Jenny Hsieh, Chris Navara, and Salma Quraishi chatted ...
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Dan Butts PhD from 2022-02-10T16:44:52
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Jason Stein, PhD from 2021-11-11T14:51:06
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Asohn Amarasingham PhD from 2021-10-28T15:33:23
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Douglas A. Nitz PhD from 2021-09-23T14:40:54
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Max Fletcher PhD from 2021-09-16T17:54:38
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Sergio Ferreira PhD from 2021-04-29T15:14:22
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Kamran Diba PhD from 2021-04-15T13:15:06
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Kay Tye PhD from 2021-03-25T15:05:23
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Sachin Deshmukh PhD from 2021-03-18T14:55:57
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Lara S. Hwa PhD from 2021-02-25T14:03:30
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Ajay Dhaka PhD from 2021-02-17T08:16:47.510796
Ajay Dhaka (UW) talks about distinctions in itch (pruritis) and pain (nociception) somatosensation, and his discovery of overlapping mechanisms for these sensations via direct activation of differe...
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Michael Hasselmo PhD from 2021-02-17T08:16:47.504510
On October 8, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Michael Hasselmo for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, Francesco Savelli ...
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Francesco Savelli PhD from 2021-01-28T17:56
On January 28, 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with our own Francesco Savelli for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Isabel Muzzio, and Salm...
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H. Tad Blair PhD from 2020-11-19T18:24:11
On November 19, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Tad Blair for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Francesco Savelli, Todd Troyer and Sal...
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Philip Starr MD PhD from 2020-10-29T15:35:36
On October 29, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with UCSF Neurosurgeon Philip Starr for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Matt Higgs and Sal...
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Nicola Grissom PhD from 2020-10-22T13:23:47
On October 22, 2020 the UTSA gang sat down with Nicola Grissom (UMN) for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Matt Wanat, Lindsey Macpherson & Salma Quraishi chatted with her...
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau PhD from 2020-10-15T13:20:39
On October 15, 2020, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Eliza Bliss-Moreau (UC Davis) for an episode of Neuroscientists Talk Shop. Charles J. Wilson, Melanie Carless, To...
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Jacques Wadiche PhD from 2020-04-24T11:56:28
Jacques Wadiche (UAB School of Medicine) talks to us about multivesicular neurotransmitter release (MVR) in the CNS. He takes us through recent work from his lab that gets at PKA-dependent molecula...
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Timothy J. Petros PhD from 2020-02-20T11:24:20
Tim Petros (NICHD/NIH) talks about new single cell RNA and epigenetic approaches to understanding the intrinisic programs that determine interneuron diversity. The group discusses how to determine ...
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Matthijs van der Meer PhD from 2020-01-23T09:56:44
Matt van der Meer (Dartmouth) talks about the role of oscillations in routing information flow in the ventral striatum. Duration: 37 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Francesco Savel...
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Stephen Maren PhD from 2019-11-14T13:56:34
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 P...
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Sophie Caron PhD from 2019-10-31T10:41:07
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 Qura...
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Michelle T. Diaz PhD from 2019-10-24T17:22:01
Michelle Diaz (Penn State) discusses how language features might be organized in the neural architecture and her structural and behavioral studies of how language production changes over the lifesp...
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Ottavio Arancio MD PhD from 2019-10-17T16:05:20
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 amyl...
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Michael Smotherman PhD II from 2019-10-10T15:15:13
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...
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Symposium 2019: Brain Oscillations in Parkinson’s Disease from 2019-09-12T10:55:07
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 alphabet...
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Maya Henry PhD from 2019-04-18T11:34:47
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 rehabilitatio...
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Brian Kaspar PhD from 2019-04-10T12:27:17
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 discu...
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Sarah Hopp PhD from 2019-03-26T12:43:21
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 Discussant...
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Catharine Winstanley PhD from 2019-02-21T12:23:38
Catharine Winstanley (UBC Vancouver) discusses mechanisms of impulsive and poor decision making in gambling and its intersection with mechanisms of disparate drugs of abuse, addiction and relapse. ...
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Jon Sakata PhD from 2019-02-14T14:44:49
Jon Sakata (McGill) talks about songbird plasticity in the zebrafinch, and how brain circuits transduce social information to modulate the learning and control of birdsong. Duration: 37 minutes ...
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Liberty Hamilton PhD from 2019-01-31T11:13:07
Liberty Hamilton (UT Austin) talks about using electrocorticography using electrocorticography to study the representation and processing of speech sounds in the auditory cortex. Duration: 40 mi...
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Jeff Golden MD from 2019-01-24T08:51:48
Jeff Golden (Harvard Medical School) talks about dichotomies in mitochondrial dynamics observed in the migration of cortical neurons and interneurons in early development and neuronal patterning. ...
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Sarah C. Woolley PhD from 2019-01-17T12:39:29
Sarah C. Woolley (McGill) discusses her work on the neural basis of song preference in female songbirds. She describes experiments that manipulate in vivo dopaminergic pathways in the auditory sys...
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Josh Dudman PhD from 2018-10-25T12:01:56
Josh Dudman (HHMI Janelia) discusses his model of how the basal ganglia shape performance based on prior experience by controlling the gain of movement kinematics. The group considers this history...
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Charles Gerfen PhD from 2018-09-27T11:14:27
Chip Gerfen (NIMH) talks about his defining work in describing the input-output organization of the basal ganglia, and how early ideas of pathway-level organization principles have yielded to an ap...
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Ulrich Hofmann PhD from 2018-03-22T13:38:14
Ulrich Hofmann (Freiburg University) discusses the priorities and realities in implementing control theory, computational models and engineering principles to build implantable devices that can rea...
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Ed Stern PhD from 2018-02-22T14:06:33
Ed Stern (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) discusses corticostriatal networks in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Duration: 42 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Alfonso Apicella (Asst ...
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Dwight Bergles PhD from 2018-01-18T11:29:37
Dwight Bergles (Johns Hopkins) discusses his work characterizing a fourth mysterious class of CNS glial cells, called oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphab...
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Lori Knackstedt PhD from 2017-10-26T15:05:49
Lori Knackstedt (UF Gainesville) discusses glutamate homeostasis mechanisms in the nucleus accumbens in mediating relapse to cocaine-seeking in rodent models of cue-induced extinction and abstinenc...
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Veronica Alvarez PhD from 2017-10-23T10:41:57
Veronica Alvarez (NIAAA) discusses using drugs of abuse to probe D2 mechanisms in striatal circuitry, and effects on behavior. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Alfonso A...
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Ann Graybiel PhD from 2017-10-12T15:04:08
Ann Graybiel (MIT) discusses her work on cortical-basal ganglia loops and habit formation. Duration: 46 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Alfonso Apicella (Asst Prof, UTSA) Carlos Pal...
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Dean Buonomano PhD from 2017-09-21T12:16:52
Dean Buonomano (UCLA) talks about strategies that neural networks might use to store information about time in the states of neural networks. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical o...
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Neural Codes of Navigation Symposium from 2017-09-14T11:29:19
Recorded as a panel discussion following the UTSA Neurosciences Institute’s 2017 research symposium on September 14, 2017. Hosted by Salma Quraishi. Duration: 38 minutes Discussants:(in alphab...
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Mark Shapiro PhD from 2017-08-24T09:40:56
Mark Shapiro (UT Health, San Antonio) talks about visualizing how the anchoring protein AKAP79/150 orchestrates functional coupling of ion channel assemblies using super-resolution microscopy. Dur...
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Joanna Phillips MD PhD from 2017-04-13T11:10:07
Joanna Phillips (UCSF) fields our questions about the cellular microenvironment: how cell signaling and interactions are mediated by glycocalyx proteoglycans and components of the extracellular ma...
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D. James Surmeier PhD from 2017-04-10T11:37:51
Jim Surmeier (Northwestern University) talks to us about integrating circuit, ion channel and bioenergetic vantage points to define quantitative, neuron-specific mechanisms of pathology in Parkinso...
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Alan J Lerner MD from 2017-03-30T13:43:25
Alan Lerner (Case Western Reserve) offers his perspective as a clinician-scientist in understanding the scope of Brain Health as a “big science” initiative. He describes how a broad alignment of p...
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Gemma Casadesus-Smith PhD from 2017-03-23T12:00:47
Gemma Casadesus-Smith (Kent State) discusses new strategies in thinking about Alzheimer’s disease and its prevention, and what we understand about the disease process through clinical indicators. ...
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Bennet Ibey PhD from 2017-02-16T13:47:36
Bennet Ibey (Air Force Research Laboratory) discusses the biophysics of how membranes react to electric field pulses. The discussion centers around our reference point for this phenomenom, electro...
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Henry Yin PhD from 2017-01-26T11:55:09
Henry Yin (Duke) discusses a take on hierarchical movement control based on integrative approaches that marry kinematics and optogenetically controlled behavioral assays. The discussion referen...
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Leslie Whitaker PhD from 2017-01-19T15:55:11
Leslie Whitaker (NIDA Fellow) talks about how silent synapses in neuronal ensembles might underlie associative learning in the ventral tegmental area and prefrontal cortex. Duration: 39 minutes...
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Arthur Riegel PhD from 2016-10-27T00:54:12
Art Riegel (Medical University of South Carolina) talks with the group about competing ideas of a dopamine neuron archetype and our deepening sense of the heterogeneity of dopamine neurons. He dis...
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Susan Patterson PhD from 2016-09-22T13:58:58
Susan Patterson (Temple University) introduces neuro-immune interactions in the CNS, and discusses her ideas about how immune dysregulation and cognitive vulnerability may collide in the aging brai...
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Howard Eichenbaum PhD from 2016-09-20T13:40:37
Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University) discusses “memory fields” in hippocampus as a way to think about the fundamental associative properties of the hippocampus. He introduces place cells, and dis...
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Jim Lechleiter PhD from 2016-08-25T10:00:01
Jim Lechleiter (Cellular & Structural Biology, UTHSCSA) gets us up to speed on astrocytes, their role in brain health and homeostasis, and their properties as excitable cells. Duration: 50 min...
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Laura Colgin PhD, 2.0 from 2016-04-14T14:41:15
Laura Colgin (Center for Learning and Memory, UT Austin) discusses hippocampal gamma band oscillations, their functional importance to memory encoding and retrieval. This is her second visit; find...
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