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Neuroscientists Talk Shop Neuroscientists Talk Shop
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Neuroscientists Talk Shop is the University of Texas at San Antonio's (UTSA) Neurobiology Podcast, showcasing the current research of internationally renowned guest Neuroscientists. Each episode features a moderated discussion with a cross section of UTSA Neurobiology faculty, highlighting the featured guest's research, and the state of the art in the field at hand.
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Episode 256 -- Shannon Macauley, PhD
On December 1, 2022, we got the opportunity to talk to Shannon Macauley about the multiplicity of causes and effects in the etiology of Alzheimers Disease, and her experimental work on the contributions of sleep patterns, age, blood and brain glucose and lactate, and insulin.
Guest:
Shannon Macauley, Associate Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, and the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Participating:
Melanie Carless, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Uchit Bhaskar, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Host:
Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA -
Episode 255 -- Susan Sangha, PhD
On November 17, 2022 we talked with Susan Sangha about brain mechanisms of learned fear and safety, and the neural circuits in the amygdala, cerebral cortex and hippocampus that evaluate threat and mediate our responses to it.
Guest:
Susan Sangha, Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Stark Neuroscience Research Institute.
Participating:
Anthony Burgos-Robles, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Host:
Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA -
Episode 254 -- Harold Zakon, PhD
On November 3rd, 2022 we talked with Harold Zakon about the cells that enable weakly electric fish to generate electric fields around themselves and to use them as a sensory and social communication system. Harold described the remarkable independent evolution of this capability twice, in the African and in the South American electric fish, and the host of coordinated genetic changes that were required to create this entirely new sensory modality.
Guest
Harold Zakon, Departments of Neuroscience, and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Participating
Todd Troyer, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Host
Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA -
Episode 253 -- Michael Scofield, PhD
On October 27, 2022 we got the opportunity to talk to Michael Scofield about methods used to study the structure and synaptic function of astrocytes, and some of the advances that have resulted from their use, especially for glutamatergic synapses in the cerebral cortex.
Guest:
Michael Scofield, Departments of Neuroscience and Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Medical University of South Carolina.
Participating:
Matt Wanat, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Host:
Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA -
Episode 252 -- Symposium 2022: 3D Models of Human Cortex and Development
On Thursday, October 20, we held our 13th annual Neuroscience Symposium. The topic was organoid models of cortical development. Brain organoids are 3-dimensional tissues grown from pluripotent stem cells. For studying cortical development, the stem cells are cultured under conditions that promote differentiation into cerebral cortex neurons. The participants in the symposium spoke on the use of organoids as a model to study human cortical development and disorders of development.
After the symposium, the speakers met for a panel discussion, which was recorded.
Participating:
Jenny Hsieh, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Giorgia Quadrato, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
Vanesa Nieto-Estevez, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Fikri Birey, Emory University School of Medicine
Host:
Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA -
Episode 251 -- Mel B Feany, MD, PhD
On October 13, 2022 we sat down to chat with Mel B. Feany about the molecular processes underlying the neuropathology of alpha-synuclein and Parkinson's disease. We focused on her findings implicating the actin cytoskeleton as an intermediary in mitochondrial dysfunction and other cellular mechanisms that contribute to pathology and cell death.
Guest:
Mel B Feany, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Participating:
Chris Gamblin, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Hyoung-gon Lee, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Host:
Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSA
Customer Reviews
Great podcast, audio sometimes poor
The discussions in this podcast contain a lot of interesting info, and the material is not "watered down" for popular consumption. However, the audio sometimes isn't very good, such as when a speaker is too far from the microphone.
fascinating
extremely interesting discussion
Really Great Tool
It requires some knowledge, and sometimes there are sound problems, but it's a unique, useful podcast for learning more about particular neuroscience topics!