Time: 12:15 pm - 1:15 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.
Spring Semester 2022 |
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Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Feb. 2 | THESIS DEFENSE - Alex Doyle Advisor: Matthew Johnson "Investigating the effects of subthalamic nucleus stimulation on gait and pedunculopontine nucleus activity in a preclinical animal model of Parkinson’s disease" |
| Feb. 9 | Katie Hamel Advisor: Marija Cvetanovic "Differences Across the Cerebellar Cortex in SCA1 Pathology" Sarah West Advisor: Tim Ebner "Wide-field Calcium Imaging of Dynamic Cortical Networks During Locomotion" |
| Feb. 16 | Gunner Drossel Advisor: Anna Zilverstand "Subtypes in Individuals With Current Cocaine Use Disorder and Their Impairments in Negative Emotionality and Executive Function" |
| Feb. 23 | No Colloquium |
| Mar. 2 | Carli Poisson Advisor: Ben Saunders "Superior colliculus inputs to the dopaminergic midbrain during learning" Dakota Palmer Advisor: Jocelyn Richard "Value encoding of ventral pallidum projections to the ventral tegmental area during cue-elicited reward seeking" |
| Mar. 9 | Spring Break - No Colloquium |
| Mar. 16 | Alex Roman Advisor: Walter Low "NeuroD1-based gene therapy approach for spinal cord injury" |
| Mar. 23 | Jessica Froula Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "Effects of cerebellar stimulation on hippocampal interneurons" |
| Mar. 30 | Luna Kettlewell Advisor: Gordon Smith "Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Developing Visual Cortex" |
| Adrine Kocharian Advisors: Patrick Rothwell and David Redish "Dopaminergic contributions to neuroeconomic decision making " |
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| Apr. 6 | Sarah Mulloy Advisors: Anna Lee "Regulation of alcohol reward by cholinergic midbrain nuclei" Armani Del Franco Advisor: Eric Newman "Norepinephrine Alters Astrocyte Volume in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex" |
| Apr. 13 | THESIS DEFENSE - Carlee Toddes Advisor: Patrick Rothwell "Mu opioid receptor modulation of social behavior" |
| Apr. 14 | THESIS DEFENSE - Melissa Asher Advisor: Stanley Thayer "A functional endocannabinoid system in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical cultures" |
| Apr. 15 | THESIS DEFENSE - Margot DeBaker Advisors: Anna Lee and Kevin Wickman "Patterns of drug-related behavior: role of VTA DA neurons and inhibitory GPCR-dependent signaling" |
| Apr. 20 | Jennifer Brown Advisor: Sylvain Lesne "The sex-specific effects of alpha synuclein" |
| Lauren Glassburn Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "A novel hippocampal GABAergic projection and its potential role in spatial recognition" |
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| Apr. 27 |
Kristina Fredriksen Advisor: Ling Li "Correcting APOE function to ameliorate APOE4-related Alzheimer’s disease pathology in human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived models" Anne Huntemer-Silveira Advisors: Ann Parr and Lucy Vulchanova "The Role of Stem Cell Derived Dorsal Spinal Interneurons in Restoring Functional Connectivity after Spinal Cord Injury" |
| May 4 | Elizabeth Souter Advisors: Julia Lemos "Novel ventral pallidum population expressing corticotropin releasing factor receptor 1" |
| Chloe Cable Advisor: Eric Newman "Glial Modulation of Electrical Synapses in the Retina" |
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| May 11 | Julianna Goenaga Advisors: Alfonso Araque and Paul Mermelstein "Estrogen Signaling in Hippocampus Astrocytes" |
| Ally Scott Advisor: Jocelyn Richard "Ventral Pallidal GABAergic Neurons in Cue Elicited Reward Seeking" |
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| May 18 | THESIS DEFENSE - Dieter Brandner Advisors: Patrick Rothwell and Paul Mermelstein "Neuroligin-3 Modulates Opioid-Evoked Changes in Behavior and Brain Function " |
| May 25 | DEIC Presentation Angela Carter, PhD & Jessica Horvath Williams, PhD "Interrogating Disability and Race: A Cross-disciplinary Conversation" 1:00 PM THESIS DEFENSE - Carey Lyons Advisor: Alessandro Bartolomucci "TBD" |
| May 26 | THESIS DEFENSE - Bethany Stieve Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "TBD" |
| June 1 | Sam Montoya Advisor: Michael-Paul Schallmo "Visual Perception in Visual Snow Syndrome" Adriana Cushnie Advisor: Sarah Heilbronner "TBD" |
| June 8 | THESIS DEFENSE - Brian Trieu Advisor: Patrick Rothwell "TBD" |
| June 23 | THESIS DEFENSE - Roman Tyshynsky Advisor: Lucy Vulchanova & John Osborn, Jr. "TBD" |
Fall Semester 2021
Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Sep. 15 | Ben Clark & Mark Thomas "MDT-A Cores" |
| Sep 22 | GPN Welcome Lunch |
| Sep. 29 | Megan Monko Advisor: Sarah Heilbronner "Comparing the functional and structural corticostriatal connectivity of the posteromedial cortex" |
| Oct. 6 | Awards |
| Roberto Lopez Cervera Advisor: Ben Hayden "Foraging Behavior and Electrophysiology in Freely Moving Rhesus Macaques" Audrey Sederberg "Quantitative theory in neuroscience" |
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| Oct. 13 | David Maisson Advisors: Jan Zimmermann and Ben Hayden "Prefrontal spatial coding in freely moving macaques" Prakash Kara "Getting ready to image millions of neurons with the world’s first large-field three-photon microscope" |
| Oct. 20 | Patrick Rothwell & Martha Streng "DEI" |
| Oct. 27 | THESIS DEFENSE - Amy Nippert Advisor: Eric Newman "Cerebral Vasodilation during Hypoglycemia: A Critical Role for Astrocytes" |
| Nov. 3 | Bayardo Garay Advisor: Rita Perlingeiro "Understanding the transcriptional networks and physiologic adaptations governing the clinical manifestations of Duchenne muscular dystrophy" Lorene Lanier "DRC" |
| Nov. 10 | Ally Scott Advisor: Jocelyn Richard "TBD" Stephanie Groman "Identifying the neurodevelopmental trajectories mediating drug use susceptibility" |
| Nov. 17 | Jackson Scheib Advisor: Aaron Kerlin "The role of dendritic spikes in motor learning" Carrie Sheeler Advisor: Marija Cvetanovic "Unraveling the molecular pathology of SCA1 in a human iPSC-derived motor neuron model of disease" |
| Nov. 26 | Thanksgiving |
| Dec. 1 | Melissa Asher Advisor: Stanley Thayer "TBD" Haleigh Mulholland Advisor: Gordon Smith "Optogenetic modulation reveals network interactions of the early visual cortex" |
| Dec. 8 | Thesis Defense -TBD |
| Dec. 15 | Joe Emerson Advisor: Cheryl Olman “A Recurrent Network Model for Context Integration in V1” Eric Mitten Advisor: Kevin Wickman "The role of ventral tegmental area GABA neurons in anxiety-like behaviors" |