DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
The 2023-2024 Distinguished Lecture Series will be a Virtual / In-person Hybrid.
For hybrid talks, it will be in 124 Petit Science Center & shown at the link below.
Click on each speaker to view info on the speaker’s research, selected papers & title.
Department Contact for Lecture Series: Liz Weaver
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2023-2024 Line-up
Title: Why Should You Care About the Vagus?: Implications for Emotion, Cognition, and Health
Location: In person in 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Erin Tone, B&B Psychology Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Stress and health. A review of psychobiological processes
2. Stress and aging. A neurovisceral integration perspective
3. How heart rate variability affects emotion regulation brain networks
Title: Differential Equations and Causal Mechanisms in Physiology
Location: In-person in 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Andrey Shilnikov, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. R-on-T and the initiation of reentry revisited: Integrating old and new concepts.
2. Branching patterns emerge in a mathematical model of the dynamics of lung development.
3. Bifurcation and chaos in a model of cardiac early afterdepolarizations.
4. Pattern formation by vascular mesenchymal cells.
5. Preventing ventricular fibrillation by flattening cardiac restitution.
Title: Homeobox genes encode neuronal cell type diversity
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Anne Murphy, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Homeobox genes and the specification of neuronal identity
2. Unique homeobox codes delineate all the neuron classes of C. elegans
3. Widespread employment of conserved C. elegans homeobox genes in neuronal identity specification
Title: Neural circuit mechanisms shaping social encounters
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Kim Huhman, Ph.D.
Selected Papers:
1. Social trauma engages lateral septum circuitry to occlude social reward
2. A critical role for cortical amygdala circuitry in shaping social encounters
3. Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula modulate aggression reward
Title: Minding the Nose: More than meets the AI?
Location: Virtual
Host: Neil Van Leeuwen, Ph.D. & Noelle Stroud, Ph.D. B&B Philosophy Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Review: Molecules to perception
2. From molecules to perception :Philosophical investigations of smell
3. More than meets the AI : The possibilities and limits of machine learning in olfaction
Title: Exploring innovative approaching for treating Alzheimer’s disease
Location: Virtual
Host: Debra Bangasser
Selected Papers:
1. Review: The amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease at 25 years
2. Amyloid redirects norepinephrine signaling to activate the pathogenic GSK3 tau cascade
3. A peptide blocking the ADORA1-neurabin interaction is anticonvulsant and inhibits epilepsy in an Alzheimer’s model
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Location: Virtual
Host: Neuroscience Graduate Student Association & Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
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