DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
The 2022-2023 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. Also, be sure to check out previous lectures and exclusive interviews with the speaker. Click here to check out exclusive interviews with our speakers in this podcast series facilitated by B&B Fellow Greg Suess.
Department Contact for Lecture Series: Liz Weaver
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2022-2023 Line-up
Title: Innate and adaptive immunity in vascular cognitive impairment and neurodegeneration
Location: Virtual at Zoom link above
Host: Javier Stern, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Dietary salt promotes cognitive impairment through tau phosphorylation
Title: Neural mechanisms that promote nicotine use in vulnerable populations
Location: Zoom Link Above
Host: Kyle Frantz, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Female rats display greater nicotine withdrawal-induced cellular...
2. Converging vulnerability factors for compulsive food and drug use
3. The emergence of insulin resistance following a chronic high-fat diet...
Title: The making of a specialist fly: investigating the neurobiology of ecological niche adaptations
Location: Virtual
Host: Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Review: Drosophila sechellia: A Genetic Model for Behavioral Evolution and Neuroecology
2. Evolution of Acid-Sensing Olfactory Circuits in Drosophilids
3. Olfactory Receptor and Circuit Evolution Promote Host Specialization
Title: Oxytocin, synaptic plasticity, and maternal behavior
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Michael Black, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Oxytocin, neural plasticity, and social behavior
2. Innate and plastic mechanisms for maternal behaviour in auditory cortex
3. Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour
Title: Auditory imagery in the mind and the brain
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Martin Norgaard, Ph.D. B&B Music Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Auditory imagery and the poor-pitch singer
Title: Genes, Temperament and Mood: A New Perspective from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Location: Virtual
Host: Aras Petrulis, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Review: Endogenous Opioids at the Intersection of Opioid Addiction, Pain, and Depression. The Search for a Precision Medicine Approach
2. Revisiting the Stress Concept. Implications for Affective Disorders
3. The Fibroblast Growth Factor Family. Neuromodulation of Affective Behavior
Title: The comparative neurobiology of social bonds
Location: 124 Petit Science Center
Host: Sarah Brosnan, Ph.D. B&B Psychology Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. Review: Titi Monkeys as a Novel Non-Human Primate Model for the Neurobiology of Pair Bonding
2. What is a Pair Bond?
3. Effects of Pairing on Color Change and Central Gene Expression in Lined Seahorses
4. Long Term Effects of Chronic Intranasal Oxytocin on Adult Pair Bonding Behavior and Brain Glucose Uptake in Titi Monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus)
Title: How do astrocytes sculpt synaptic circuits?
Location: Virtual at Zoom link above
Host: Jessica Bolton & Anne Murphy, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty
Selected Papers:
1. HepaCAM controls astrocyte self-organization and coupling
2. Cell adhesion molecules regulating astrocyte-neuron interactions
3. Chemico-genetic discovery of astrocytic control of inhibition in vivo
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