DLS Archive

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

Title: Pain goes viral: neural mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 pain and airway inflammation

Location: Virtual
Host: Neuroscience Graduate Student Association & Dan Cox, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Getting in touch with mechanical pain mechanisms

2. The signaling lipid sphingosine 1-phosphate regulates mechanical pain

3. SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease activates nociceptors 1 to drive sneeze and pain

TBD

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

2. Covert singing in anticipatory auditory imagery

3. Mapping specific mental content during musical imagery

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

TBD

Title: Bidirectional links between the circadian clock and homeostatic circuits maintaining body hydration

Location: TBD
Host: Javier Stern, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Review: Central and peripheral roles of vasopressin in the circadian defense of body hydration.

2. Clock-driven vasopressin neurotransmission mediates anticipatory thirst prior to sleep

3. Sodium regulates clock time and output via an excitatory GABAergic pathway

Title: Drosophila receptors controlling chemical and textural taste sensation

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

Selected Papers:
1. Review: Peripheral coding of taste

2. Calcium Taste Avoidance in Drosophila

3. The Basis of Food Texture Sensation in Drosophila

4. Functions of Opsins in Drosophila Taste

Title: State-dependent cortical circuits

Location: Virtual
Host: Michael Black, Ph.D. B&B Neuroscience Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Dual color mesoscopic imaging reveals spatiotemporally heterogeneous coordination of cholinergic and neocortical activity.

2.Arousal and Locomotion Make Distinct Contributions to Cortical Activity Patterns and Visual Encoding

3. Developmental Dysfunction of VIP Interneurons Impairs Cortical Circuits

4.Mesoscopic Imaging: Shining a Wide Light on Large-Scale Neural Dynamics

Title: Gut Instincts: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis Across the Lifespan

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

Selected Papers:
1. Enduring behavioral effects induced by birth by caesarean section in the mouse

2. Microbiota-brain interactions: Moving toward mechanisms in model organisms

3. Microbiota from young mice counteracts selective age-associated behavioral deficits

Title: Neural circuits for decision-making: does excitatory cell class matter?

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

Selected Papers:
1. Review: Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

2. Pyramidal cell types drive functionally distinct cortical activity patterns during decision-making

3. Single-trial neural dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements

Title: Control of neuron activity by microglia

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

Selected Papers:
1. Epigenetic regulation of brain region-specific microglia clearance activity

2. Innate sensing of mechanical properties of brain tissue by microglia

3. Negative feedback control of neuronal activity by microglia

Title: Flow, effort and feeling of effort

Location: Virtual at Zoom link above
Host: Neil Van Leeuwen, Ph.D. B&B Philosophy Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Intentions and motor representations: the interface challenge

2. Intentions: The dynamic hierarchical model revisited

3. Beyond automaticity the psychological complexity of skill

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Title: Characterizing the Role of Neurobiology in Mental Health and Adaptive Performance: A Big-Data Approach

Location: Virtual at Zoom link above
Host: Rob Latzman, Ph.D. B&B Psychology Faculty

Selected Papers:
1. Review: Incorporating neurophysiological measures into clinical assessments: Fundamental challenges and a strategy for addressing them.

2. Pursuing the developmental aims of the triarchic model of psychopathy: Creation and validation of triarchic trait scales for use in the USC-RFAB longitudinal twin project.

3. Neurobiology and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: Progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology.

4. Quantifying inhibitory control as externalizing proneness: A cross-domain model.

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