DLS Archive

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Location: Virtual at Zoom link above
Host: Javier Stern, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Direct physiologic evidence of a heteromodal convergence region for proper naming in human left anterior temporal lobe.

2. Impaired naming of famous musical melodies is associated with left temporal polar damage.

3. The left temporal pole is a convergence region mediating the relation between names and semantic knowledge for unique entities: Further evidence from a “recognition-from-name” study in neurological patients.

4. The left temporal pole is important for retrieving words for unique concrete entities.

Title: Lipids and the demise of neurons

Location: Petit Science Center, Room 101
Host: Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:

1. Glial lipid droplets and ROS induced by mitochondrial defects promote neurodegeneration
2. The glia-neuron lactate shuttle and elevated ROS promote lipid synthesis in neurons and lipid droplet accumulation in glia via APOE/D
3. Phospholipase PLA2G6, a Parkinsonism-associated gene, affects Vps26 and Vps35, retromer function, and ceramide levels, similar to alpha-Synuclein gain
4. Review: Sphingolipids in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism

Title: Combinatorial Creatures:  Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes

Location: Petit Science Center, Room 101
Host: Aras Petrulis, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Not all cortical expansions are the same_the coevolution of the neocortex and the dorsal thalamus in mammals
2. The combinatorial creature_cortical phenotypes within and across lifetimes
3. The multiple representations of complex digit movements in primary motor cortex form the building blocks for complex grip types in Capuchin monkeys

Title: Integrating structural and molecular imaging in dementia imaging

Location: Petit Science Center, Room 101
Host: Jess Turner, Ph.D. B&B Psychology Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Tau PET in autosomal dominant Alzheimers disease_relationship with cognition, dementia and other biomarkers
2. Regional variability of imaging biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimers disease
3. Molecular imaging in dementia_Past, present, and future
4. Quantification of white matter cellularity and damage in preclinical and early symptomatic Alzheimers disease

Title: Tools for Analyzing and Controlling Brain Circuits

Location: 101 Petit Science Center
Host: Michael Black, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Review Paper: Expansion microscopy_principles and uses in biological research.
2. Cortical column and whole brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution.
3. Population imaging of neural activity in awake behaving mice.
4. Temporally precise single-cell-resolution optogenetics.

Title: The control of movement. Taking dopamine for a spin. 

Location: PSC 101
Host: Gennady Cymbalyuk, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Dopamine: a parallel pathway for the modulation of spinal locomotor networks.
2. Modulation of Rhythmic Activity in mammalian spinal networks Is dependent on excitability state.
3. Parallel descending dopaminergic connectivity of A13 cells to the brainstem locomotor centers.

Title: Neural circuits mediating adaptations to stress.

Location: PSC 101
Host: Kim Huhman, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Inflammation and vascular remodeling in the ventral hippocampus contributes to vulnerability to stress

2. Sphingosine 1 phosphate receptor 3 in the medial prefrontal cortex promotes stress resilience by reducing inflammatory processes

3. The gut microbiome regulates the increases in depressive type behaviors and in inflammatory processes in the ventral hippocampus of stress vulnerable rats

Title: Hormonal effects on ultrasonic vocalizations and location preferences In a monogamous rodent species.

Location: PSC 101
Host: Walt Wilczynski, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. The challenge hypothesis revisited. Focus on reproductive experience and neural mechanisms

2. Changes in behavior and ultrasonic vocalizations during pair bonding and in response to an infidelity challenge in monogamous California mice.

3. The function of ultrasonic vocalizations during territorial defence by pair bonded male and female California mice

4. Male fidelity expressed through rapid testosterone suppression of ultrasonic vocalizations to novel females in the monogamous California mouse

Centennial Hall
12:30-6:45pm
RSVP to Liz Weaver

Title: Molecular mechanisms of long term memory

Location: Speakers Auditorium
Host: Marise Parent, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Infantile amnesia, A critical period of learning to learn and remember.
2. Infantile amnesia reflects a developmental critical period for hippocampal learning.
3. Mechanisms of critical period in the hippocampus underlie object location learning and memory in infant rats.

Title: Developmental and adult neurogenesis, learning, and neurological disorders

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Kim Huhman, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:

1. Re-evaluating the link between neuropsychiatric disorders and dysregulated adult neurogenesis_Review.
2. Adult neurogenesis and psychiatric disorders_Review.
3. Dentate gyrus neurogenesis ablation via cranial irradiation enhances morphine self-administration and locomotor sensitization.
4. Stimulation of entorhinal cortex–dentate gyrus circuitry is antidepressive.
5. Whole-Body exposure to 28Si-Radiation dose-dependently disrupts dentate gyrus neurogenesis.

Title: Chemical communication and social behavior

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Aras Petrulis, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. State-dependent responses to sex pheromones in mouse - Review.
2. Mammalian Pheromones - Review.
3. Cyclic regulation of sensory perception by a female hormone alters behavior.
4. Voluntary urination control by brainstem neurons that relax the urethral sphincter.

Title: Memory suppressor genes and active forgetting

Location: Speakers Auditorium
Host: Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. The biology of forgetting - A perspective - Review.
2. Stromalin constrains memory acquisition by developmentally...
3. Dopamine neurons mediate learning and forgetting through bidirectional modulation of a memory trace.

Title: Smooth muscle physiology and neural rhythms

Location: Speaker's Auditorium
Host: Gennady Cymbalyuk, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Interstitial cells- Review.
2. Inhibitory regulation of ICC-DMP.
3. Clusting of Ca2+ transients.
4. Temporal sequence of activation of cells involved in purinergic neurotransmission in the colon.

Title: Primate brain evolution

Location: Speaker's Auditorium
Host: David Washburn, Ph.D. B&B Psychology Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Brain plasticity and human evolution
2. Are we wired differently?
3. A cerebellar substrate for cognition evolved multiple times independently in mammals

Title: Molecular biology of synaptic connections

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Angela Mabb, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Activity-dependent trafficking of lysosomes in dendrites and dendritic spines.
2. AB-induced synaptic alterations require the E3 ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-1.
3. Synaptic strength Is bidirectionally controlled by opposing activity-dependent regulation of Nedd4-1 and USP8.
4. Ubiquitin dependent trafficking and turnover of ionotropic glutamate receptors.

Title: Neuroprosthetics in human patients and non-human primates

Location: Speaker's Auditorium
Host: TBD, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Subcortical neuronal ensembles. An analysis of motor task association, tremor, oscillations, and synchrony in human patients.
2. Assimilation of virtual legs and perception of floor texture by complete paraplegic patients receiving artificial tactile feedback.
3. Expanding the primate body schema in sensorimotor cortex by virtual touches of an avatar.

4. Are we at risk of becoming biological digital machines?

Centennial Hall
12:30-6:45pm
RSVP to Liz Weaver

Neuroimaging markers of risk and resilience to bipolar disorder

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Jessica Turner, Ph.D. B&B Psychology Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Review: A systems neuroscience perspective of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
2. Connectomic markers of disease expression, genetic risk and resilience in bipolar disorder
3. The role of intrinsic brain functional connectivity in vulnerability and resilience to bipolar disorder

Disorders of Consciousness: Neurotechnologies and Neuroethics
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Neil Van Leeuwen, Ph.D. B&B Philosophy Faculty

Selected Papers:

1. Neuroethics Review
2.Why Libet’s studies don’t pose a threat to free will
3.Agency and Intervention
4.Mind Reading, Lie Detection, and Privacy

Neuroprosthetics in human patients and non-human primates
Location: TBD
Host: Sarah Pallas, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1.Subcortical Neuronal Ensembles: An Analysis of Motor Task Association, Tremor, Oscillations, and Synchrony in Human Patients
2.Expanding the primate body schema in sensorimotor cortex by virtual touches of an avatar
3. Assimilation of virtual legs and perception of floor texture by complete paraplegic patients receiving artificial tactile feedback
4. Are we at risk of becoming biological digital machines?

A multisensory internal model of gravity and its role in spatial orientation
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Sarah Pallas, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. The brain compass. A perspective on how self-motion updates the head direction cell attractor.
2. Gravity orientation tuning in macaque anterior thalamus
3. Neural representation of orientation relative to gravity in the macaque cerebellum

Circadian rhythms in Drosophila
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Circadian rhythms and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster
2. A peptidergic circuit links the circadian clock to locomotor activity
3. Identification of Redeye, a new sleep regulating protein whose expression is modulated by sleep amount

The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Walt Wilczynski, Ph.D. (Neuroscience) & Martin Norgaard, Ph.D. (School of Music Faculty)

Selected Papers:
1. The evolutionary biology of musical rhythm: Was darwin wrong?
2. The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis.
3. Predictive and tempo-flexible synchronization to a visual metronome in monkeys.

Neural control of rhythmic activity
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Gennady Cymbalyuk, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Microcircuits in respiratory rhythm generation: commonalities with other rhythm generating networks and evolutionary perspectives.
2. A novel excitatory network for the control of breathing.
3. When norepinephrine becomes a driver of breathing irregularities: How intermittent hypoxia fundamentally alters the modulatory response of the respiratory network.

Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by ion channels and myosin molecules in hair cells of the inner ear

Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Andrey Shilnikov, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. The physics of hearing- fluid mechanics and the active process of the inner ear. review
2. Thermal excitation of the mechanotransduction apparatus of hair cells
3. Integrating the active process of hair cells with cochlear function
4. Daple coordinates organ-wide and cell-intrinsic polarity to pattern inner-ear hair bundles
5. Elastic force restricts growth of the murine utricle

Centennial Hall
12:30-6:45pm
RSVP to Liz Weaver