Archive (Fall 2010 – Spr 2014)

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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