DLS Archive

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

TBD

Cancelled

Virtual Lecture

Virtual Lecture

Virtual Lecture

Virtual Lecture

Virtual Lecture

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