NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES ARCHIVE

2021 Archive

2020 Archive

2019 Archive

2018 Archive

2021 Archive

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST
Jan 14, 2021 Virtual Event	Randy McIntosh, PhD University of Toronto	Theory and Application of Connectome-Based Modelling with TheVirtualBrain	Ana Solodkin, PhD
Jan 21 Virtual Event	Thomas Szabo-Pardi PhD Student, UT Dallas	Investigating Cell-Specific Mechanisms Driving Sex Differences in the Development of Neuropathic Pain	Michael Burton, PhD
Feb 4 Virtual Event	Jayme McReynolds, PhD University of Cincinnati	Endocannabinoid Regulation of Stress-Escalated Cocaine Use in Rats	Christa McIntyre, PhD
Feb 11 Virtual Event	Sheel Dodani, PhD UT Dallas	Optical Imaging Tools for Elucidating the Roles of Anions in Cellular Signaling	Theodore Price, PhD
Feb 18 EVENT CANCELED	Natalia Lucia dos Santos PhD Student, UT Dallas	Sex-Specific Changes to Neuroimmune Function and Pain During Aging	Michael Burton, PhD
Feb 25 Virtual Event	Meono Kume PhD Student, UT Dallas	Evaluation of a Novel Protease Activated Receptor 2 (PAR2) Antagonist as a Treatment of Chronic Pain	Theodore Price, PhD
Mar 5 Virtual Event	Ron de Kloet, PhD Leiden University Medical Center	Stress in the Brain	Rimenez De Souza, PhD
Mar 11 Virtual Event	Ream Al-Hasani, PhD Washington University School of Medicine	Peripheral Kappa Opioid Receptor Activation Drives Cold Hypersensitivity in Mice	Ben Kolber, PhD
Mar 25 Virtual Event	David McCormick, PhD University of Oregon	Rapid Changes in Brain State Explain Variation in Neuronal and Behavioral Variance	Katy Thorn, PhD
Apr 8 Virtual Event	Vivek Kumar, PhD New Jersey Institute of Technology	Engineered Peptide Assemblies for Drug Design	Benedict Kolber, PhD
Apr 23 Virtual Event	Kasia Bieszczad, PhD Rutgers University	Specific Memory Traces in the Auditory Cortex Revealed by Epigenetic Manipulation	Crystal Engineer, PhD
Apr 29 Virtual Event	Takaki Komiyama, PhD UC, San Diego	Specificity and Mechanisms of Learning-Induced Cortical Plasticity	Camilo Sanchez, PhD Student, UT Dallas
May 7 Virtual Event	Mackenzie Mathis, PhD Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	Using Deep Learning for the Measurement of Behavior	Ching-Tzu Tseng, PhD Student, UT Dallas
Aug 26, 2021 Virtual Event	Kate Sadler, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin	Identification of Novel Chronic Pain Targets Using Sickle Cell Disease Mice	Center for Advanced Pain Studies
Sep 23 In-Person and Virtual Event	Lingyong Li, PhD Baylor College of Medicine	Synaptic Plasticity in Chronic Pain Modulation
Sep 30 In-Person and Virtual Event	Darshan Sapkota, PhD UT Dallas	Alternative Modes of mRNA Translation and Their Neurobiological Significance
Oct 14 Virtual Event	Georgy Bakalkin, PhD University of Uppsala	The Left-Right Side-Specific Endocrine System: Challenging the Neurological Dogma
Oct 21 Virtual Event	Elise Na, PhD Texas Women’s University	The Diverse Actions of MeCP2 in the Brain
Nov 18 Virtual Event	Liberty Hamilton, PhD UT Austin	A Parallel Pathway for Speech That Bypasses Primary Auditory Cortex
Dec 2 Virtual Event	Ed Korzus, PhD University of California, Riverside	Prefrontal Circuits and Function in Fear Discrimination Learning
Dec 9 In-Person and Virtual Event	Vanessa Shirazi, PhD UT Dallas	Journey From Academia Into Industry
Dec 16 Virtual Event	Fabricio Do Monte, DVM, PhD UT Health, Houston	Overcoming Fear To Obtain Food: A Neural Circuit Study

2020 Archive

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST
Jan 30 Lecture is 1:00-2:30pm in RL 3.204	Peter Grace, PhD MD Anderson	Targeting Nrf2 to Alleviate Neuropathic Pain
Feb 27 Lecture is 4:00-5:00pm in CRA 12.110	Armando Salinas, PhD Laroratory for Integrative Neuroscience	Use of a Novel, Genetically-Encoded Biosensor to Study Real-Time Acetylcholine Release in Awake, Freely-Behaving Mice
Sep 24, 2020 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Amanda Alvarez Dieppa, PhD Reata Pharmaceuticals and Chris de Solis, PhD Columbia University	Where to Go From Here?	Christa McIntyre, PhD
Oct 1 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Garret Stuber, PhD The University of Washington	Neural Circuits for Motivation and Reward	Sven Kroener, PhD
Oct 8 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Hajira Elahi PhD Student, UT Dallas	First Year Project Defense — Electroconvulsive Shock Inhibits the Extinction but not the Reconsolidation of Cued and Contextual Pavlovian Threat Memory	Jonathan Ploski, PhD
Oct 15 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Matthew Hearing, PhD Marquette University	Sex-Specific Opioid Plasticity in Prefrontal-Accumbens Circuits: Implications for Impaired Cognitive Control	Sven Kroener, PhD
Oct 22 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Eyo Ukpong, PhD The University of Virginia	Microglial P2Y12 Receptors: Critical Regulators of Microglial Identity and Interactions in Physiology and Pathology	Michael Burton, PhD
Oct 29 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Dan Tracey, PhD Indiana University Bloomington	Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Somatosensation in Drosophila	Theodore Price, PhD
Nov 5 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Fusao Kato, PhD Jikei University, Japan	The Central Amygdala as the Detector and Regulator of Inflammatory Pain	Ben Kolber, PhD
Nov 13 Virtual Event 9:00AM	Benno Roozendaal, PhD Donders Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands	Stress Hormone Effects on Accuracy and Generalization of Memory	Christa McIntyre, PhD
Nov 19 Virtual Event 4:00PM	Peder Olofsson, MD, PhD Karolinska Institute, Sweden	Reaching Beyond Innervation: Mapping Mechanisms of Neural Regulation of Inflammation	Michael Burton, PhD
Nov 20 Virtual Event 9:00AM	Gustavo Deco, PhD Pompeu Fabra University, Spain	Turbulence in Human Brain Dynamics: Phenomenology, Whole-brain Modeling and Convenience	Ana Solodkin, PhD
Dec 17 Virtual Event 9:00AM	Temugin Berta, PhD University of Cincinnati	Unravelling the Biology and Function of Satellite Glial Cells in Pain	Theodore Price, PhD

2019 Archive

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
Feb 28 Lecture is 11:30am-12:30pm in RL 3.204	Jose Moron-Concepcion, PhD	Opioid-Induced Plasticity and the Intersection with Pain
Mar 7 Lecture is 4-5pm in CRA 12.110	Amy Arguello, PhD	Influence of Adolescent Context-Drug Associations on Drug-Seeking Behavior
Mar 14 Lecture is 4-5pm in CRA 12.110	Jason Shepherd, PhD	Viral-Like Mechanisms of Intercellular Communication in the Brain
Apr 11 Lecture is 4-5pm in CRA 12.110	Jun Ding, PhD	Dopamine Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity-Balance Between Co-Released Neurotransmitters
Aug 29, 2019	Michael Scofield, PhD Medical University of South Carolina	Cocaine Abstinence Duration-Induced Alterations in Corticostriatal Structural Plasticity
Nov 7 10-11am RL 3.204 No Videolink	Dr. Ewan St. John Smith University of Cambridge	Molecular Sensors of Pain in Health and Disease
Nov 7 4-5pm CRA 12.120	Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD University of Pennsylvania	Genetic and Behavioral Dissection of Pain Neural Circuits
Nov 14 4-5pm CRA 12.120	Carolyn Harley, PhD Memorial University	Locus Coeruleus Activation and Neural Plasticity

2018 Archive

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
Feb 1 4pm in CRA 12.110	Christopher Lapish, PhD Indiana University School of Medicine	Intention Signals in Prefrontal Cortex and Compulsive Drinking
Mar 8 4pm in CRA 12.110	Jasper Smits, PhD and Mark Powers, PhD UT Austin	Recent Advances in the Treatment of PTSD and Reviewing Research on d-cycloserine (DCS) Augmentation of Exposure Therapy
Apr 19 4pm in CRA 12.110	David Self, PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center	Morphological and Circuit Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Affecting Motivation and Mood Cocaine Addiction
May 17 4pm in CRA 12.110	Robert Butera, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology	kHz Stimulation to Block Nerve Conduction – Application and Insight into Mechanisms
Jul 19 4pm in CRA 12.120	Jonathan Carp, PhD New York State Department of Health/NY University at Albany	Studies of Urinary Dysfunction After Spinal Cord Injury In Vivo and In Vitro
Aug 31 2pm in CRA 12.110	Michela Marinelli, PhD UT Austin	Factors and Pathways that Enhance Addiction Liability
Sep 27 4pm in CRA 12.110	Theresa Desrochers, PhD Brown University	Studies of Sequential Control Across Species Using Electrophysiology and fMRI
Oct 4 4pm in CRA 12.110	Linda Watkins, PhD University of Colorado Boulder	“Listening” and “Talking” to Neurons: Non-neuronal Cells Amplify Pain and Drug Reward — Pathways from Basic Science to Human and Veterinary Clinical Trials
Oct 11 4pm in CRA 12.110	Tina Gremel, PhD UC San Diego	Action Control in Alcohol Dependence
Oct 25 4pm in CRA 12.110	Z Jim Wang, PhD The University of Illinios at Chicago	Phosphorylation Mechanisms Underlying Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Nov 1 4pm in CRA 12.110	Beatriz Lindstrom, PhD Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Applied Pharmacology in Drug Discovery
Nov 15 4pm in CRA 12.110	Patrick Sheets, PhD Indiana University	Dissecting Functional Changes to Defined mPFC Neurons in Mouse Models of Neuropathic Pain
Nov 29 4pm in CRA 12.110	Fan Wang, PhD Duke University	General Anesthesia, Sleep, and Pain