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 2-101	Sang-Hyun Oh "Toward blood-based diagnostics for Parkinson's disease"
Jan 29	NO Colloquium
Feb. 5 - Mayo Auditorium	Brain 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. 19	NO Colloquium
Feb. 26 - Mayo Auditorium	Nic 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 Only	Allison 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 2-530	Spring 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 "Basolateral amygdala dopamine signals during valenced discrimination learning"
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 "Adolescent Brain Changes Associated with Suicide Risk"
Apr. 9 - MoosT 2-650	Elizabeth Kiffmeyer Advisor: Zhe Chen "Molecular control of temporal progression in cortical neurogenesis" Oscar Miranda-Dominguez "Precision TMS: Optimal Target Selection with Personalized Brain Function Maps for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation"
Apr. 16 - MoosT 2-650	Shayne Hastings Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson "Exploring Cerebellar Targeted Neuromodulation Methods for Seizure Control" Margaret Stelzner Advisor: Ben Saunders "VTA GABA neurons’ role in reinforcement"
Apr. 23 - MoosT 2-650	Kieran McCluskey Advisor: Madhu Kannan "Dissecting the role of layer 1 interneurons in visuomotor integration" Anoo Maskeri Advisor: Sade Spencer "A Budding Opportunity: Investigating Cannabis Use in Genetically Diverse Rats"
Apr 30 - MoosT 2-650	Madison Waldron Advisors: Walt Low & Ann Parr "Generation of Exogenic Spinal Cord Neurons in Intraspecies Mouse-Mouse Chimeras Generated via Blastocyst Complementation" Rebecca Younk Advisor: Mark Thomas "Characterizing Brain Networks Involved in Drug-Cue Responsivity"
May 7 - MoosT 2-520	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 - MoosT 2-520	Ross Armant Advisor: Patrick Rothwell "Using Typical Mice to Judge the Social Behavior of Mice with Genetic Variants Linked to ASD & Schizophrenia"
May 21 - MoosT 2-520	Crystal Lemchi Advisor: Lauren Slosky "Understanding the role of NTSR1-expressing mPFC projections to the NAc in the context of relapse to opioid seeking" Jacob Noeker Advisor: Alfonso Araque "Serotonin-induced astrocyte neuromodulation"
May 28 - MoosT 2-520	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 PM	GPN 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. 18	John Neumaier Seminar Host: Alik Widge "The role of negative emotional states in fentanyl self-administration and withdrawal"
Sep. 25	Chloe 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. 16	Andi 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. 30	Vanessa 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. 6	Kenny 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. 20	Joe 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. 27	NO Colloquium - Thanksgiving
Dec. 4	DEI Presentation
Dec. 11	Kelsey 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"

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Fall Semester 2024

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