Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.
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" |
Spring Semester 2020 |
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Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Jan. 22 | 3-125 Mayo Maria Linn-Evans Advisor: Colum MacKinnon "Neural Correlates of Rigidity Enhancement in Parkinson's Disease" Carlee Toddes Advisor: Patrick Rothwell "Mu opioid receptor modulation of social behavior." |
| Jan. 29 | Sarah West Advisor: Timothy Ebner "Mesoscopic imaging of the mouse cerebral cortical network dynamics during locomotion" |
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Roman Tyshynsky |
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| Feb. 5 | Mariah Wu Advisor: Stanley Thayer "HIV Tat selectively impairs CB1 receptor-mediatd presynaptic inhibition at excitatory but not inhibitory synapses" Alex Doyle Advisor: Matthew Johnson "Changes in Gait with the onset of Parkinsonism in a freely-moving non-human primate" |
| Feb. 12 | MN State Brain Bee |
| Feb. 19 | Adriana Cushnie Advisor: Sarah Heilbronner "Characterizing the Anatomical and Functional Connectivity of the Salience Network " |
| Paloma Gonzalez Belido - Ecology, Evolution and Behavior "Target classification by the aerial predator Laphria saffrana" |
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| Feb. 26 | Justin Lines Advisor: Alfonso Araque "Astrocytes modulate sensory-evoked neuronal network activity" |
| Austin Ferro Advisors: Marija Cvetanovic and Alfonso Araque "Putative roles of astroglia in SCA1" |
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| Mar. 4 | Julia Lemos "Dissecting the actions of corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) in the nucleus accumbens" |
| Mar. 11 | No Colloquium - Spring Break |
| Mar. 18 | Alexandra Scott Advisor: Jocelyn Richard "The role of Ventral Pallidal GABAergic Neurons in Cue Elicited Reward Seeking" Haleigh Mulholland Advisor: Gordon Smith "Optogenetic modulation of large-scale networks in developing neocortex" |
| Mar. 25 | Priyanka Mehta Advisor: Ben Hayden "Changes of neural subspace in vmPFC guide transitions during a foraging task" Tyler Cash-Padgett Advisor: Ben Hayden "Latent orbitofrontal cortex dynamics underlying value-based decision making" |
| Apr. 1 | Chloe Cable Advisor: Eric Newman "Glial Modulation of Electrical Synapses" |
| Reshma Gore Advisor: Lucy Vulchanova "BDNF and TrKB expression in spinal cord following nerve injury" |
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| Apr. 8 | Margot DeBaker Advisors: Anna Lee and Kevin Wickman "Dissecting the influence of D2 dopamine and GABAB receptor signaling pathways in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons on drug-induced behavior" Armani Del Franco Advisor: Eric Newman "Norepinephrine Modulation of Extracellular Space and Synaptic Transmission in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex" |
| Apr. 15 | Hillary Handler Advisor: Harry Orr "Establishing a Molecular Model of Premature Lethality in SCA1" |
| Carrie Sheeler Advisors: Marija Cvetanovic and Harry Orr "Ataxin1 Expression and Phosphorylation in Mouse and Human Motor Neurons: Assessing a Potential Therapeutic Target" |
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| Apr. 22 | Melissa Asher Advisor: Stanley Thayer "A functional endocannabinoid system in human iPSC-derived neurons" |
| Dieter Brandner Advisor: Patrick Rothwell "Behavioral sensitivity to opioids in neuroligin-3 knockout mice" |
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| Apr. 24 Friday 2:00-3:00pm |
Min-Yoon Park THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Matthew Chafee "Dynamic routing of information between neural populations mediates cognitive control in primate prefrontal local circuits" Zoom Webinar only https://umn-private.zoom.us/j/677661378 |
| Apr. 29 | Wenhui Qu Advisor: Ling Li “TREM2 deficiency sustains cognitive functions and synaptic plasticity during aging" Nicole Zarate Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor "The Role of Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) in excitatory synapse dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease" |
| May 6 |
Timothy Monko Advisor: Yasushi Nakagawa "Regulation of neurogenesis by thalamocortical axons and microglia" |
| Bethany Stieve Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "Bayesian optimization of seizure-intervention" |
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| May 29 Friday 1:00-2:00pm |
Rebecca Speltz Paiz THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Donald A. Simone "MMG22: A Novel Bivalent Ligand for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain" Zoom Webinar only |
| June 17 Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm |
Amanda Barks THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Michael Georgieff "The effect of developmental iron deficiency on gene expression, TET proteins, and DNA hydroxymethylation in the rodent brain" Zoom Webinar only |
| June 19 Friday 1:00-2:00pm |
Mariah Wu THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Stanley Thayer "Modulation of the endocannabinoid system by HIV Tat protein" Zoom Webinar only |
| August 5 Wednesday 2:00-3:00pm |
Zachary Zeidler THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "Site-specific hippocampal modulation in disease and health: temporal lobe epilepsy and cerebello-hippocampal influence" Zoom Webinar only |
| August 6 Thursday 12:00-1:00pm |
Maya Wang THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Benjamin Hayden Co-Advisor: Sarah Heilbronner "Neural basis for the use and update of cognitive maps" Zoom Webinar only |
| August 7 Friday 10:00-11:00am |
Michael Yoo THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Benjamin Hayden "Untangling theory as a theoretical framework for understanding the functions of brain systems dedicated to economic decision-making" Zoom Webinar only |
| August 26 Wednesday 11:00am-12:00pm |
Morgan Newhoff THESIS DEFENSE Advisor: Karen Mesce "An investigation of the cellular mechanisms underlying ultrasound neuromodulation" Zoom Webinar only |