GPN Colloquium Series

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 p.m. 
Location: HSEC 3-110 & Zoom

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

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
"TBD"
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"

Spring Semester 2024

Date

Speaker and Topic

Feb. 7Brendon Tervo-Clemmens
"Tailoring Psychiatric Neuroscience to Translational Goals" 

Emilia Lefevre
"Neural circuitry of opioid addiction" 
Feb. 14 - MCB 2-120Brain Bee
Feb. 21

Filip Hanak 
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell
"Domain-specific Regulation of Opioid Peptide Signaling by the Angiotensin-converting Enzyme" 

Kristin Artinger
"Genetic and epigenetic regulation of neural crest development"

Feb. 28Emily Lecy 
Advisors: Colum MacKinnon & Matt Johnson
"Neural pathways associated with reduced rigidity with pallidal deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease" 

Jackson Scheib 
Advisor: Aaron Kerlin
"The role of dendrititc spikes in motor learning"
Mar. 6Spring Break - No Colloquium
Mar. 13

Alex Roman
Advisor: Walt Low
"NeuroD1 reprogramming platform for functional recovery after spinal cord injury" 

Carli Poisson 
Advisor: Ben Saunders
"Superior colliculus co-excites dopamine and gaba in the VTA and creates unique motor outputs"

Mar. 20

Pierre-Gilles Henry
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy in Friedreich Ataxia"

Megan Brickner
Advisor: Ben Saunders
"Basolateral amygdala dopamine tracks dynamic drug-seeking behaviors"

Mar. 27

Adem Selimovic
Advisor: Walt Low
"Investigating the role of microglia in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type "

Martha Streng
"interrogating cerebellar network dynamics in health and epilepsy"

Apr. 3 -Zoom OnlyAnne Huntemer-Silveira
Advisors: Ann Parr & Lucy Vulchanova
"Application of hiPSC-derived Spinal Neural Progenitor Cells in Spinal Cord Injury Therapeutics"
Apr. 10

Sam Montoya
Advisors: Michael-Paul Schallmo & Stephen Engel 
"Visual Perception in Visual Snow Syndrome" 

Alyssa Soles
Advisors: Marija Cvetanovic & Harry Orr
"A Neural Basis for Abnormal Respiration in Mouse Models of SCA1"

Apr. 17Elizabeth Eckenwiler (Souter)
Advisor: Julia Lemos 
"Modulation of ventral pallidum arkypallidal neuron activity by corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) signaling and stress exposure" 

Taner Akkin
"Label-free imaging and mapping the brain with serial optical coherence scanner"
Apr. 24Shayne Hastings
Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson 
"TBD" 

Lauren Glassburn
Advisor: Esther Krook-Magnuson 
"A hippocampal GABAergic projection to the supramammillary area"
May 1 - MoosT 2-580
 
Kristina Fredriksen
Advisor: Ling Li
"Targeting APOE4- related dysfunction and Alzheimer’s pathology in iPSC-derived models and in vivo." 

Chris Apgar
Advisor: Gordon Smith 
"Local Functional Connectivity of Developing Cortical Columns"
May 8 - MoosT 2-580

Swati More
"TBD" 

Jacob Noeker
Advisor: Alfonso Araque 
"Serotonin-induced astrocyte activity: neuromodulatory control of fear behavior"

May 15 - MoosT 2-580Madison Waldron 
Advisors: Ann Parr & Walt Low
"The generation of exogenic neurons as a general approach for repair of the spinal cord after injury" 

Ross Armant 
Advisor: Patrick Rothwell 
"Evaluating Angiotensin Converting Enzyme as a Social Behavior Neuromodulator"
May 22 - MoosT 2-580

Margaret Stelzner
Advisor: Ben Saunders
"VTA GABA neurons role in salience encoding and reinforcement" 

Christophe Lenglet
"TBDr"

May 29 - MoosT 2-580

Luna Kettlewell 
Advisor: Gordon Smith
"Stereotyped Propagating Activity in Developing Neonatal Visual Cortex" 

Laura Padilla
Advisor: Kathryn Cullen
"Addressing Teen Mental Health Through Creativity"