Time: 12:15 pm - 1:15 p.m.
Location: JacH 2-137 & Zoom
Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.
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 "TBD" Audrey Sederberg "TBD" |
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| Oct. 13 | David Maisson Advisors: Jan Zimmermann and Ben Hayden "Prefrontal spatial coding in freely moving macaques" Prakash Kara "TBD" |
| Oct. 20 | Patrick Rothwell & Martha Streng "DEI" |
| Oct. 27 | Thesis Defense - TBD |
| 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" |
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 " |