Behavioral Neuroscience Research Seminar, PSYC 5200
Archive
Spring 2014 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
February 6 Scott Cruikshank , Brown University, Providence RI
Dynamic shifts of thalamocortical and corticothalamic valence
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February 13 -WEATHER-CANCELLED- Farran Briggs , Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover NH
Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of attention
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February 20 Alexander Jackson , UConn, PNB
Synaptic transmission in hypothalamic circuits regulating arousal and energy balance
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February 27 BNS student talk: Alexandra Palmisano
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March 6 Michael Weisend , The Wright State Res Institute, Beavercreek OH
On the neuro-horizon: The use of electrical and magnetic non-invasive brain stimulation for cognitive enhancement
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March 13 BNS student talk: Beata Kaminska
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March 16 – 22 Spring Break
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March 27 Merce Correa , Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain
Runners vs. couch potatoes: The role of dopamine in selection of physical activity, and the importance of previous experience
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April 3 Robert McDonald , University of Lethbridge, AB Canada
Interactions amongst complex systems: from memory-based behaviour to brain disease etiology
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April 10 Nicolas Brunel ,University of Chicago IL
What determines the speed of the response of a population of neurons to fluctuating inputs?
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April 17 BNS student talk: Tabitha D’Souza
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April 24 BNS student talk: Amanda Rendall, Hector Contreras
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May 1 BNS student talk: Jinah Yoon, Margaret Rowland
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May 8 Biosafety training, David Cavallaro
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Fall 2013 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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September 25 ( Wednesday ) Jun Zhuang , BNS, PhD defense
Layer 4 in Awake Primary Visual Cortex: Response Properties and Effects of Brain States
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September 26 Ian Stevenson , UConn, Psychology, BNS
Learning and Decoding Spatio-temporal Patterns in Neural Data
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October 3 John Salamone , UConn, Psychology, BNS
Neurotransmitter interactions regulating tremor in animal models of parkinsonism
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October 8 ( Tuesday ) Ulf Eysel, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
The Retinal Lesion Model of Visual Plasticity
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October 14 ( Monday ) Patrick Randall, BNS, PhD defense, room 109, 8:30am
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October 17 BNS student talk: Jinah Yoon
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October 24 BNS student talk: Hector Contreras
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November 7 BNS student talk: Amanda Rendall, Alexandra Palmisano
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( November 14 Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego )
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November 21 Nick Bannon , BNS
Adenosine regulation of neocortical synaptic transmission
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December 5 Theodore Dumas , George Mason University, Fairfax
Deliberative spatial navigation: Influences of development, cognitive constraints, and neural competition
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December 5 NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS
Christine Portfors, Washington State University, Vancouver
Neuronal encoding of species-specific auditory signals in bat, rat and mouse
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Spring 2013 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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February 7 Robert Astur, UConn, Psychology, BNS:
Conditioning Humans to Prefer Virtual Reality Places paired with Food
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February 14 (Feb 13, Feb 15 – Psychology Job Talks)
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February 21 BNS student talk: Xiaojuan Hei (Feb 18– Psychology Job Talk)
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February 28 (Feb 25, Feb 27 – Psychology Job Talks)
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March 7 BNS student talk: Munzareen Khan
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March 28 BNS student talk: Christie Lee, Samantha Yohn
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(April 3, Wednesday) Nicholas Bannon, Masters’ defense
Modulation of Synaptic Transmission by Adenosine in Layer 2/3 of the Rat Visual Cortex In Vitro
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April 4 Maxim Volgushev, UConn, Psychology, BNS:
Heterosynaptic plasticity in the neocortex
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(April 17, Wednesday) Maxim Volgushev, tenure talk
Visual perception: Why details of action potential generation matter
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April 18 BNS student talk: Hector Contreras
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April 25 Patrick Randall, BNS
Winners, Losers, Workers, Slackers: Examining the effort-related motivational symptoms of depression in animal models
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May 2 BNS student talk: Roman Goz, Amanda Rendall
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May 9 Jose Manuel Cimadevilla, University of Almeria
Brain Function and Virtual Reality
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Fall 2012 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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September 27 BNS student talk: Nick Bannon
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October 4 ( Oct 5, Friday 2:30 pm Lauren Long, Masters defense)
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October 11 BNS student talk: Roman Goz, Amna Sarwar
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October 25 Kenneth Miller, Columbia University NY
The stabilized supralinear network: A unifying circuit motif underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex
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November 1 BNS student talk: Samantha Yohn, Christie Lee
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November 8 BNS student talk: Amanda Swanson, Hector Contreras
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November 15 Fred Wolf, Max-Planck Inst. for Dynamics & Self-Organization, Göttingen
Rewinding the Evolution of Orientation Columns
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November 29 Neuroscience at Storrs: Charles Liberman, Harvard Peabody Institute
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December 6 BNS student talk: Amanda Rendall, Xiaojuan Hei
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Spring 2012 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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February 2 Yulia Bereshpolova, UConn, BNS
Individual differences and shifting theta frequencies during diverse behavioral substates
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February 9 BNS student talk: Nick Bannon
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February 16 BNS student talk: Amanda Smith, Samantha Podurgiel
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February 23 April Benasich, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Longitudinal behavioral and neural assessments in infants at risk for language disabilities
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March 1 Irina Beloozerova, Barrow Neurologucal Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Thalamocortical network in locomotion
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March 8 BNS student talk: Roman Goz
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March 22 BNS student talk: Jenn Corriveau, Guest student: Tracy Rosen
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March 29 BNS student talk: Samantha Yohn, Amanda Swanson
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April 5 BNS student talk: Rothem Kovner, Christie Lee
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April 12 BNS student talk: Natasha Chase, Matt Hylemon
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April 19 Michael Halassa, Massachusets General Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Thalamo-cortical state dynamics: optical and molecular dissection of neural and glial elements
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Fall 2011 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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September 15 BNS student talk: Roman Goz…….
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(not a BNS seminar, but please note PhD defense Douglas Storace, 12:30, Room 160 )..
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September 22 Robert Astur, UConn, Waterbury
Cocaine and Nicotine Conditioned Place Preferences with Virtual Reality Environments
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September 29 BNS student talk: Nick Bannon and Rothem Kovner
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October 6 Michael Treadway, McLean/Harvard Medical School, Vanderbilt University
Translational models of anhedonia in humans
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October 13 BNS student talk: Samantha Podurgiel and Amanda Swanson
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October 27 BNS student talk: Xiaojuan Hei and Lauren Long
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November 3 BNS student talk: Jenn Corriveau and Cassie Larossa
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December 1 BNS student talk: Amanda Smith and Samantha Yohn
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December 8 Susan Masino, Trinity College, Hartford
Ketogenic diet and adenosine: new insights and opportunities
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Spring 2011 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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January 20 Xiao-Jing Wang, Yale University
Cortical rhythms in cognition: past, present and future
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February 3 Larry Cohen, Yale University
What the nose tells the olfactory bulb about odors and how the bulb responds: 1-photon and 2-photon measurements
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February 10 James Chrobak, UConn, BNS
Theta and gamma: Magic, structure and function at distinct hierarchical levels within the mammalian forebrain
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March 10 Evgeny Nikitin, Inst Higher Nervous Activity & Neurophysiology, RAS, Moscow
Delayed nonsynaptic neuronal plastisity as a substrate for long-term memory in a molluscan model system
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March 17 Jonathan Oler, University of Wisconsin
Developmental Risk for Anxiety and Depression: A Translational Neuroscience Approach
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March 24 BNS student talk: Amanda Smith and Nickie Paul
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March 31 Stefan Wawzyniecki Jr. , Chemical Safety Training
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April 7 BNS student talk: Jessica Santerre and Lauren Long
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April 14 BNS student talk: Xiaojuan Hei and Jenn Corriveau
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April 21 BNS student talk: Samantha Podurgiel
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April 28 Mark Brandon, Boston University
Spatial Coding and Theta Oscillations in the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuit
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Fall 2010 BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR
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September 16 Sylvain Chauvette, Laval University Quebec
Slow oscillation during sleep and anesthesia
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September 30 BNS student talk: Lauren Long and Jennifer Corriveau
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October 7 Etan Markus, UConn, BNS Bats and rats
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October 14 Mark Yeckel, Yale University New Haven
Ionic and Second Messenger Determinants of Prefrontal Cortex Excitability
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October 21 BNS student talk: Christopher Lee
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October 28 BNS student talk: Xiaojuan Hei and Amanda Smith
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November 4 4pm: BNS student talk: Pei Zhang
5pm: Neuroscience at Storrs, Biology/Physics Building, Room BPB 131 Guoping Feng, MIT, Boston
Synaptic and Circuitry Mechanisms of Compulsive/Repetitive Behavior
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November 11 BNS student talk: Samantha Podurgiel and Jessica Santerre
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December 2 John Lisman, Brandeis University, Boston
Gamma-theta oscillations in the hippocampal circuit and short term memory
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December 9 Vladislav Vyazovskiy, Univ Wisconsin, Madison
Spontaneous neuronal firing in the neocortex and sleep homeostasis
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December 16 BNS student talk: Nickie Paul
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