NSC BROWNBAG SERIES ARCHIVE
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 |
2018 Archive
2017 Archive
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| Jan 12 3:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Anna Moore, PhD | A Novel Molecular Mechanism Underlying Experience-Dependent Plasticity |
| Jan 19 3:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Xiaojing Ye, PhD | Uncovering the Mechanisms of How Memory Retrieval Enhances Versus Suppresses Fear Memory |
| Jan 26 3:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Qian Sun, PhD | Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Hippocampal Information Processing |
| Feb 2 4:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Aparna Suvrathan, PhD | Synaptic Learning Rules and their Role in Circuit Function |
| Feb 9 4:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Anthony Grace, PhD, University of Pittsburgh |
Translating from Animal Models to Human Schizophrenia: Insights into Pathophysiology, Treatment and Prevention |
| Feb 23 4:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, PhD, NIH |
The Dopamine Prediction Error: It’s Not What you Think It Is |
| Mar 2 4:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Hubert Lim, PhD, University of Minnesota |
New Approaches for Treating Hearing Disorders and Pain: Invasive to Noninvasive and Brain to Body |
| Mar 3 10:00am in CRA 12.120 |
Daniel Hulsey | TBA |
| Mar 31 10:00am in CRA 12.120 |
Ray Velasco | TBA |
| Apr 7 10:00am in CRA 12.110 |
Alfredo Kirkwood, PhD Johns Hopkins University |
Rewarding Cortical Neurons |
| Apr 13 4:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
Oswald Steward, PhD, Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences |
Protein Synthesis at Synapses, Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Consolidation: Chance Favors the Prepared Mind |
| Apr 14 10:00am in CRA 12.120 |
Lindsey Noble | TBA |
| Apr 20 4:00pm in CRA 12.110 |
James McGaugh, PhD, Director, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine |
Making Lasting Memories |
| Apr 21 10:00am in CRA 12.120 |
Jacob Lackovic | TBA |
| Aug 24
4:00PM |
Takaki Komiyama, PhD University of California San Diego |
Imaging Neural Ensembles During Learning |
| Sep 21
4:00PM |
Matthew Dalva, PhD Thomas Jefferson Medical School |
Visualizing the Dynamics in Synaptic Formation and Function |
| Oct 5
4:00PM |
Jeff Waring, PhD Abbvie Pharmaceuticals |
Harnessing Human Genetics for New Disease Therapies |
| Nov 2
4:00PM |
Asaf Keller, PhD University of Maryland |
The Parabrachial Complex: A Nexus of Ascending and Descending Pain Systems |
| Dec 7
4:00PM |
Mark Baccei, PhD University of Cincinnati |
Remembrance of Things Past: Pain Circuits After Neonatal Injury |
2016 Archive
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| Jan 15 | Ray Velasco | Neuronal Phenotypes of the Dorsal Root Ganglion and a Novel Model of Chronic Pain |
| Jan 22 | Stephanie Shiers | Exploration of Prefrontal Cortex Structural Plasticity Caused by Persistent Neuropathic Pain |
| Jan 29 | Ted Price, PhD | The NRSA Mechanism |
| Feb 5 | Amanda Alvarez | The Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Abnormal Emotional Learning and Social Anxiety in an Animal Model of Autism |
| Feb 12 | Ted Price, PhD | Writing an NRSA Aims Page |
| Feb 19 | Candler Paige | Microglial Activation in the Hyperalgesic Priming Model |
| Feb 26 | Jordan Straight | Behavioral Correlates of Neuronal Allocation in Auditory Fear Conditioning |
| Mar 4 | Erica Underwood (Defense) | TBA |
| Mar 11 | Jacob Lackovic | TBA |
| Mar 25 | Talk Cancelled | No Talk |
| Apr 1 | Jessica Pruett | Mechanisms of Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Tool to Enhance Extinction from Drug-seeking |
| Apr 8 | Lindsey Noble | The Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on an Animal Model of PTSD |
| Apr 15 | Anthony Nguyen | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Forelimb Strength Recovery and Promotes Motor Plasticity After Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury |
| Apr 29 | Chris Desolis | TBA |
| Jun 14 | Brad Pfeiffer, PhD | Hippocampal Reactivation and Circuit-Level Mnemonic Mechanisms |
2015 Archive
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| Jan 16 | Lindsey Noble | The Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Anxiety |
| Jan 23 | Armen Akopian, PhD | Female-specific Regulation of Postoperative Pain |
| Jan 30 | Perry Fuchs, PhD | The Past, Present and Future of Preclinical Pain Research (Talk Cancelled) |
| Feb 13 | Erin Horne | Age-related Differences in Event-related Functional Connectivity During Associative Encoding |
| Feb 20 | Xuejun Song, MD, PhD | EphrinB-EphB Receptor and WNT Signaling: A New Avenue to Understanding and Treating Neuropathic and Cancer Pain |
| Feb 27 | Mike Borland | (Talk Cancelled) |
| Mar 6 | Amanda Alvarez-Dieppa | VNS-paired Extinction in a VPA-induced Animal Model of Autism |
| Mar 13 | Shayne Hassler | Protease Activated Receptor 2 (PAR2) in a Novel Mouse Model of Migraine Pain |
| Mar 27 | Feng Tao, PhD | AMPA Receptor Phosphorylation and Pain Chronification After Surgery |
| Apr 10 | Mark Baccei, PhD | Aberrant Synaptic Signaling in Spinal Pain Circuits After Neonatal Tissue Damage (Talk Cencelled) |
| Apr 17 | David Pruitt, Derek Wills | TBA |
| Apr 24 | Amanda Alvarez | (Talk Cancelled) |
| May 1 | Anthony Nguyen | VNS-paired Motor Training in a 6-OHDA rat model of Parkinson’s Disease |
| Nov 6 | David Pruitt | Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired with Motor Training on Contralesional Cortical Plasticity After Brain Injury |
| Nov 13 | Erica Underwood | High-fat Diet Differentially Alters Spatial Memory, Hippocampal Excitability, and Neuronal Insulin Sensitivity |
| Dec 4 | Jamie Moy | eIF4E Phosphorylation Links BDNF mRNA Translation to Pathological Pain Plasticity |
2014 Archive
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| Jan 17 | Michael Borland | TBA |
| Jan 24 | Bart Rypma, UTD | Do age-related Blood-flow Changes Affect Neural Activity in Older Brains? |
| Jan 31 | David Pruitt | The Effects of Paired Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Functional Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Feb 7 | Vivek Jeevakumar | The Effects of Developmental Ketamine Administration on PV-interneuron Physiology and PFC-dependent Behaviors in Mice |
| Feb 14 | Jane Johnson, UTSW | Transcriptional Control of Neuronal Diversity: Balancing the Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons in the Spinal Cord |
| Feb 21 | Jay Gibson, UTSW | Pre- and Postsynaptic Roles for FMRP in Excitatory Neurotransmission in the Cortex |
| Mar 7 | Todd Roberts, UTSW | Neural Mechanisms for Vocal Learning |
| Mar 14 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 21 | Amanda Alvarez | Role of CaMKII and NMDAR in VNS-enhanced Extinction of Fear |
| Roopa Holehonnur | Role of NR2A and NR2B Subunits in Amygdala Dependent Learning and Memory | |
| Mar 28 | Gagan Wig, CVL | The Human Brain as a Social Network: How Brain Connectivity Changes Across the Adult Lifespan |
| Apr 4 | Julian Meeks, UTSW | Understanding How Inhibitory Interneurons Shape Information and Guide Behaviors in the Mouse Accessory Olfactory System |
| Apr 11 | Erica Underwood, Anthony Nguyen | Research Presentations |
| Apr 18 | Crystal Engineer | Speech Training Improves Auditory Cortex Responses to Speech Sounds in a Rat Model of Autism |
| Navid Khodaparast | Translational Potential of Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Promote Recovery of Function After Stroke | |
| Apr 25 | Chris Desolis, Lindsey Noble | TBA |
| May 2 | Jessica Pruett, Daniel Hulsley | TBA |
| May 19 | Andrew Tan, PhD | Synaptic Input to Single Cortical Neurons in Rodents and the Behaving Primate (Room Change: GR 4.428/Time Change: 12:00-1:00 p.m.) |
| Sep 19 | Fu-Chia Yang, PhD | Formation of Cutaneous Versus Deep Tissue Pain Pathways |
| Sep 26 | Robyn Crook, PhD | Shared Patterns of Nociceptive Sensitization in Molluscs, Agnathans and Mammals Reveal Evolutionary Functions of Pain States |
| Oct 3 | Anwesha Banerjee | The Molecular Basis of Fear Learning Abnormalities Observed in an Environmentally Induced Animal Model of Autism |
| Oct 10 | IASP | |
| Oct 17 | Daniel Hulsey | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Dependent Enhancement of Cortical Plasticity Requires Cholinergic Innervation of the Cortex |
| Oct 24 | Erica Underwood | TBA |
| Oct 31 | Chris de Solis | TBA |
| Nov 14 | SfN | |
| Nov 21 | Jessica Pruett | Effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Extinction from Drug-seeking and Associated Changes in Metaplasticity in the Infralimbic to Basolateral Amygdala Pathway |
| Dec 5 | Jamie Moy | Translation Regulation in Pain Plasticity |