GPN Colloquium Series

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 p.m. 
Location: See below & Zoom

Colloquia time and location remain the same unless otherwise noted below.

Spring Semester 2025

Date

Speaker and Topic

Jan 22 - NHH 2-101Sang-Hyun Oh
"Toward blood-based diagnostics for Parkinson's disease" 
Jan 29NO Colloquium
Feb. 5 - Mayo AuditoriumBrain Bee
Feb. 12 - 12:30 -1:30 PM MoosT 2-530

Daniel Mendez
Advisor: Thomas Bastian
"Analysis of Mitochondria Function and UltraStructure in a Mouse Model of Hippocampal Neuron Specific Iron Deficiency"

Sam Brunson
Advisor: Matt Chafee
"Neural Representations of Cognitive States in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Schizophrenia" 

Feb. 19NO Colloquium
Feb. 26 - Mayo AuditoriumNic Glewwe
Advisors: Nicola Grissom and Alik Widge
"Enhanced cognitive flexibility in female mice in a novel touchscreen Set Shift task" 

Marcus Phan 
Advisor: Shauna Yuan
"Age-Related Regulation of the Unfolded Protein Response in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy"
Mar. 5 - Zoom OnlyAllison Chang
Advisor: Ling Li
"APOE genotype modulates mitochondrial function and multi-omic profiles in humanized mouse models" 

Adem Selimovic 
Advisor: Marija Cvetanovic
"Removal of mutant ATXN1 from microglia ameloriates Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 phenotypes"
Mar. 12 - MoosT 2-530Spring Break - No Colloquium
Mar. 19 - MoosT 2-530

Karianne Sretavan Wong
Advisors: Matt Johnson & Noam Harel 
"Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Identifying Pathway Activation Patterns for Improving Cognitive Control"

Daniela Herrera Moro Chao
"Role of hypothalamic astrocytes in the regulation of glucose homeostasis and energy balance"

Mar. 26 - MoosT 2-530

Amy Gottschalk
Advisor: Arif Hamid
"Valuation Mechanisms that Shape the Interaction of Phasic and Tonic Dopamine "

Megan Brickner
Advisors: Ben Saunders & Mark Thomas
"TBD "

Apr. 2 - MoosT 2-530

Louisa Kuper
Advisor: Ben Saunders
"The parafascicular thalamus signals cue attention, movement, and reward during Pavlovian learning"

Laura Padilla
Advisor: Kathryn Cullen
"TBD"

Apr. 9 - MoosT 2-650

Elizabeth Kiffmeyer
Advisor: Zhe Chen 
"Molecular control of temporal progression in cortical neurogenesis" 

Oscar Miranda-Dominguez
"TBD"

Apr. 16 - MoosT 2-650Shayne Hastings
Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson
"TBD" 

Margaret Stelzner
Advisor: Ben Saunders
"VTA GABA neurons’ role in reinforcement" 
Apr. 23 - MoosT 2-650Kieran McCluskey
Advisor: Madhu Kannan
"Dissecting the role of layer 1 interneurons in visuomotor integration" 

Anoo Maskeri
Advisor: Sade Spencer 
"TBD"
Apr 30 - MoosT 2-650
 
Madison Waldron
Advisors: Walt Low & Ann Parr
"Characterization of exogenic spinal neurons in interspecies rat-mouse chimeras generated via blastocyst complementation " 

Rebecca Younk
Advisor: Mark Thomas 
"Characterizing Brain Networks Involved in Drug-Cue Responsivity"
May 7 - TBD

Christopher Apgar
Advisor: Gordon Smith
"Local Functional Connectivity of Developing Cortical Columns" 

Julie Bailard
Advisor: Thomas Bastian
"Sex-Specific Reprogramming of Hippocampal Metabolism by Early-Life Iron Deficiency"

May 14 - TBDAnne Huntemer-Silveira
Advisors: Ann Parr & Lucy Vulchanova
"Development of 3D Printed Dorsal Spinal Neural Progenitor Cell Scaffolds for Use in Spinal Cord Injury Therapeutics" 

Ross Armant 
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell 
"Using Typical Mice to Judge the Social Behavior of ASD & Schizophrenia Mouse Models"
May 21 - TBD

Jacob Noeker
Advisor: Alfonso Araque
"Serotonin-induced astrocyte neuromodulation" 

Crystal Lemchi
Advisor: Lauren Slosky
"TBD"

May 28 - TBD

Jackson Scheib 
Advisor: Aaron Kerlin
"Thalamic projecting L5 pyramidal cell activity during motor learning" 

Lauren Glassburn
Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson
"Hippocampal inhibitory neurons target burst-firing supramammillary cells"

Fall Semester 2024

Date

Speaker and Topic

Sep. 4 12:30 PMGPN Welcome Lunch
Sep. 11 Brady Atwood
"The impact of binge alcohol drinking on anterior insular cortex synaptic inputs to the dorsolateral striatum"

Kurt Fraser
"Spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal acetylcholine-dopamine interactions encode value"
Sep. 18John Neumaier Seminar
Host: Alik Widge
"The role of negative emotional states in fentanyl self-administration and withdrawal"
Sep. 25Chloe Puglisi
Advisor: Helen Vuong
"Determining the role of gestational gut-associated metabolites in thalamocortical circuit development and adolescent somatosensory behavior"

Angel White
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"Contribution of protein kinase CK2a' to neurodegeneration in Frontotemporal dementia"
Oct. 2

Nicole Quintus
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Leveraging endogenous opioid signaling to enhance behavioral and transcriptomic signatures of resilience"

Rachel Dick 
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Functional, structural, and computational consequences of NMDA receptor ablation in mPFC neurons"

Oct. 9 HSEC 2-132

Ross Pelzel
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"TBD"

Ellie Sachse
Advisor: Alik Widge
"TBD"

Oct. 16Andi Maxwell
Advisor: Anna Zilverstand
"Gender-Specific Links between Stress, Social Relationship Quality, Orbitofrontal Cortex Reactivity, and Problematic Alcohol Drinking"

Guldamla Kalender
Advisor: Alik Widge
"Measuring Neuroplastic Effects of Oscillation-Locked Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation"
Oct. 23

Nic Glewwe
Advisors: Nicola Grissom & Alik Widge
"Sex differences in computational strategies underlying cognitive flexibility" 

Blair Vail 
Advisor: Alex Herman & David Darrow
"Characterizing Naturalistic Pursuit and Avoidance Using Human Intracranial Recordings" 

Oct. 30Vanessa Morgan
Advisors: Damien Fair & Audrey Sederberg 
"Critical Dynamics within Resting State Brain Networks

Disa Sullivan
Advisor: David Darrow
"Spinal Cord Stimulation for Spinal Cord Injury"
Nov. 6Kenny Person
Advisor: Walt Low
"Mitochondrial Transplantation in an AD Mouse Model"

Oscar Miranda-Dominguez
"Leveraging brain-behavior associations to inform interventions."
Nov. 13

Rachel Schorn
Advisors: Lucy Vulchanova & Anna Lee
 "Chronic alcohol consumption impacts tactile hypersensitivity in mouse models of persistent pain"

Nick Rozema
Advisor: Rocio Gomez-Pastor
"Behavioral consequences of HSF1-mediated thalamostriatal synapse loss

Nov. 20Joe Emerson
Advisors: Cheryl Olman & Audrey Sederberg
 "Circuit mechanisms for contextual modulation in V1

Jacob Gable
Advisor: Aaron Kerlin
"Identifying synaptic inputs patterns in premotor cortex critical to sensorimotor control"
Nov. 27NO Colloquium - Thanksgiving
Dec. 4DEI Presentation
Dec. 11Kelsey Person
Advisor: Lauren Slosky
"Evaluating the Contribution of the Dopamine Receptor D2 to the Effects of Biased Neurotensin Receptor 1 Modulators in Models of Methamphetamine Misuse"

Brianna Dailey-Krempel
Advisor: Lucy Vulchanova & John Osborn
"TBD"