Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.
Spring Semester 2021 |
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Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Jan. 20 | Janna Moen THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Anna Lee "Regulation and Function of Ventral Tegmental Area Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors at the Interface of Alcohol and Nicotine Reward" |
| Jan. 29 | Priyanka Mehta Advisor: Ben Hayden "Value-Based Decision Making in Foraging" |
| Feb. 3 | Wenhui Qu Advisor: Ling Li "Protein prenylation in health and Alzheimer’s Disease" |
| Feb. 10 | Carey Lyons Advisor: Alessandro Bartolomucci "Chronic stress induces cellular senescence in mice" |
| Feb. 17 | Maria Linn-Evans Advisor: Colum MacKinnon "Modeling the effects of pallidal deep brain stimulation in people with Parkinson's disease" |
| Feb. 24 | No Colloquium |
| Thur. Feb.25 12:00-1:00PM |
Cody Walters - THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: David Redish "Neural Computations Underpinning Anxiety in Health and Disease" |
| Mar. 3 | Hillary Handler Advisor: Harry Orr "Nuclear localization in SCA1 pathology" Alex Doyle Advisor: Matthew Johnson "Quantitative Assessment of Parkinsonian Gait in MPTP-treated Non-human primates" |
| Mar. 10 | Carli Poisson Advisor: Ben Saunders "Superior colliculus inputs to dopaminergic centers" Bethany Stieve Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "Bayesian Optimization of Seizure Intervention" |
| Mar. 17 | Armani Del Franco Advisor: Eric Newman "Regulation of Blood Flow Through Cerebral Capillaries" Jessica Froula Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "Effects of cerebellar modulation on hippocampal interneurons" |
| Mar. 24 | Dakota Palmer Advisor: Jocelyn Richard "Value encoding of ventral pallidum projections to the ventral tegmental area" Nicole Zarate Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor "The role of HSF1 in thalamo-striatal synapse dysfunction in Huntington's Disease" |
| Mar. 31 | Tim Monko Advisor: Yasushi Nakagawa "Extrinsic regulation of cortical neurogenesis by axons projecting from the thalamus" |
| Katie Hamel Advisor: Marija Cvetanovic "Region-Specific Cerebellar Pathogenesis in SCA1" |
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| Apr. 7 | Julianna Goenaga Advisors: Alfonso Araque and Paul Mermelstein "Estrogen Signaling in Nucleus Accumbens Astrocytes" |
| Apr. 14 | Jennifer Brown Advisor: Sylvain Lesne "Sex- dependent effects of alpha synuclein" |
| Brian Trieu Advisors: Patrick Rothwell "TBD" |
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| Apr. 21 | Dieter Brandner Advisors: Patrick Rothwell and Paul Mermelstein "Behavioral Sensitivity to Opioids in NL3 Knock-out mice" |
| Chloe Cable Advisor: Eric Newman "Glial Modulation of Electrical Synapses in the Retina" |
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| Apr. 28 |
Sarah Mulloy Advisor: Anna Lee "Cholinergic regulation of alcohol consumption and reward " |
Fall Semester 2020
Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Sep. 16 | Janna Moen Advisor: Anna Lee "TBD" Martina Bazzaro "UNC-45A is microtubule (MT) severing protein in and a molecular target for Alzheimer's disease (AD)." |
| Sep 23 | Haleigh Mulholland Advisor: Gordon Smith "Optogenetic modulation of developing networks in visual cortex" |
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Andrew Venteicher |
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| Sep. 30 | Megan Monko Advisor: Sarah Heilbronner "Structural and functional connectivity of the posteromedial cortex" Cheryl Olman "Engagement 2020/2021" |
| Oct. 7 | Awards |
| Carrie Sheeler Advisors: Marija Cvetanovic and Harry Orr "SCA1 in hiPSC-derived Motor Neurons" Zhe Chen "TBD" |
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| Oct. 14 | Alexandra Scott Advisor: Jocelyn Richard "Ventral Pallidal GABAergic Neurons in Cue Elicited Reward Seeking" Emilia Lefevre - Postdoc Rothwell lab "Morphine on the brain: Patterns matter" |
| Oct. 21 | Natalie Lopresti Advisor: Paul Mermelstein "Sex differences in morphine reward" Danni Li "TBD" |
| Oct. 28 | SFN - TBD |
| Nov. 4 | Amy Nippert Advisor: Eric Newman "TBD" Aleta Steevens - Postdoc Low lab "NeuroD1-mediated Astrocyte to Neuron Reprogramming and Neuroprotection following Traumatic Brain Injury" |
| Nov. 11 | Nolan Trevino Advisor: Lihsia Chen "A non-developmental neuronal role for L1-CAMs" Thomas Bastian "Iron Deficiency and Neurodevelopment - Potential Targets for Intervention from Pre-Clinical Models" |
| Nov. 18 | Roman Tyshynsky Advisors: Lucy Vulchanova and John Osborn, Jr. "Periglomerular Afferent Fibers in the Renal Cortex" Laura Stone "Low back pain and epigenetics: from the periphery to the CNS" |
| Nov. 27 | Thanksgiving |
| Dec. 2 | Cody Walters Advisor: David Redish "Representational dynamics underlying risky decision-making" Suhasa Kodandaramaiah "Neurotechnologies for neural sensing at multiple scales" |
| Dec. 9 | Colum MacKinnon “Neuroplasticity in early Parkinson's disease” Scott Thompson "TBD" |