Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: 2-101 Nils Hasselmo Hall
Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.
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 |
Fall Semester 2019
Date |
Speaker and Topic |
| Sep. 11 | Jan Zimmerman "Choice stochasticity, value sensitivity and it’s relation to environmental statistical regularities" Andrew Venteicher "Neurodevelopmental programs coopted in primary human gliomas" |
| Sep 18 | Kendrick Kay "The Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD): massive high-quality whole-brain 7T fMRI during visual perception and memory" |
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Rita Perlingeiro |
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| Sep. 25 | Amy Nippert Advisor: Eric Newman "Alterations in Neurovascular Coupling in the Awake Mouse" Janna Moen Advisor: Anna Lee "Bidirectional Sex-Dependent Regulation of Nicotinic Receptors and Associated Reward Behaviors by Protein Kinase C Epsilon" |
| Oct. 2 | Morris Smithberg Award Ceremony |
| Gordon Smith "Inhibition in developing cortical networks" Cheryl Olman "New ideas for public engagement" |
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| Oct. 9 | Anna Zilverstand "Neurobiological Subtypes Underlying Different Cognitive-Emotional Profiles in Cocaine Addiction" Harald Junge "Blood-CNS barriers catch the eye" |
| Oct. 16 | Brendan Hasz Advisor: David Redish "Representation of context and prospection in HPC and dmPFC" Megan Monko Advisor: Sarah Heilbronner "The Posteromedial Cortex across species" |
| Oct. 23 | SFN |
| Oct. 30 | Amanda Barks Advisor: Michael Georgieff "Developmental iron deficiency alters TET methylcytosine dioxygenase activity and global DNA hydroxymethylation in the rat cerebellum " Angela Neitz - Postdoc Ebner "Cerebellar output modulates cerebral cortical functional connectivity" |
| Nov. 6 | Michael Koob "Full Gene-Replacement Mouse Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases" Sade Spencer "Potential of repurposing an old drug for a new treatment for cocaine addiction" |
| Nov. 13 | Natalie Lopresti Advisor: Paul Mermelstein "Probing neuroplasticity in drugs of abuse" Cody Walters Advisor: David Redish "Representational dynamics underlying risky decision-making" |
| Nov. 20 | Jurgen Konczak "A non-invasive neuromodulation treatment for focal dystonia: From basic science to a medical device" Sidney Kuo - Postdoc Newman "Regulation of glutamate spillover in the retina" |
| Nov. 27 | Thanksgiving |
| Dec. 4 | Wensheng Lin "Mechanisms for maintaining proteostasis in oligodendrocytes and neurons" Amy Yang "Cortical representations of social deficits gated by cerebellum dysregulation" |
| Dec. 6 Friday 1:00pm |
Elias Boroda - THESIS DEFENSE - 2-137 Jackson Hall Advisor: Kelvin Lim "Modulating Human Brain Plasticity with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): Basic and Clinical Applications" |
| Dec. 11 | Rocio Gomez-Pastor “Protein Kinase CK2a' regulates neurotoxic astrocytes induction in Huntington's Disease” Marija Cvatonovic "Thinking cerebellum" |
| Dec. 17 Tuesday 10:00am |
Habiba Azab - THESIS DEFENSE - 2-530 MOOS TOWER Advisor: Benjamin Hayden "Foundations for Improved Models of Value-Based Decision-Making: Neural Correlates in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and their Implications" |
| Jan. 10 Friday 2:00pm |
Brendan Hasz - THESIS DEFENSE - TBD Advisor: A. David Redish "Model-Free and Model-Based Influence on Choice in Rodents and Interactions between Hippocampus and Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex during Deliberation" |