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Neuroscience Seminar Series

Seminars are presented August - April each academic year. NGP students select and host four guest speakers; other guest speakers are hosted by NGP faculty. The seminar series also features NGP faculty and students.

Except as noted in red, seminars are now in hybrid mode – in-person in MSB 4051 and also by Zoom:

Meeting ID 834 4830 9613 | Passcode 177782

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2024/2025 Academic Year

Speaker Affiliation Date Talk Title
Ian Walling, Aleksandr Taranov
UC NGP
29-Aug-24
Ian: Stimulating breathing through locomotor circuits"; Alek - "Choroid plexus: a safeguard against injury"
Daniel Vogt, PhD (Talk is at noon)
Michigan State University
5-Sep-24
Impact of Ras/MAPK hyperactivity during cortical GABAergic interneuron development: New insights into a well-studied pathway."
Jeremy Borniger, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
12-Sep-24
A brain-body feedback loop driving HPA-axis dysfunction in breast cancer
Michael Lacagnina, PhD
CCHMC
19-Sep-24
B cells drive neuropathic pain via IgG-Fc gamma receptor signaling 
Sofia Gonzalez, Meranda Quijas
UC NGP
26-Sep-24
Sofia - "Dopaminergic encoding of visual stimuli in the striatum"; Meranda: "Sex-dependent effects of prolactin receptor on muscle hypersensitivity following ischemic insult"
Erica Glasper, PhD
Ohio State University
3-Oct-24
Increased social vigilance and altered central and peripheral immune activity to early-life adversity: adaptation or maladaptive responses?
Ivanka Rainer, Kassidy Grover
UC NGP
17-Oct-24
Ivanka - "Pavlovian conditioned approach and behavioral flexibility in Long-Evans rats using time-restricted feeding"; Kassidy - "A novel mouse model of MAPK1-related Rasopathy recapitulates several features of the human syndrome"
Diego Fernandez, PhD
CCHMC
24-Oct-24
Integration of sensory and circadian signals within brain circuits controlling affective behavior
Kat Propsom, Emily Devine
UC NGP
31-Oct-24
Kat - "B cell and autoantibody contributions to chronic pain"; Emily - "Traumatic stress-induced glucocorticoid signaling and rat behavior"
Kaejaren Caldwell, Sarah Yaser
UC NGP
7-Nov-24
 
Brian Lundstrom, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic Rochester
14-Nov-24
KJ - "Characterization and validation of an ex vivo ischemia model for neurochemical analysis"; Sarah - "Impact of Raptor and Rictor deletion on hippocampal dentate granule cell pathology following status epilepticus"
Nicholas Timme, PhD
UC COM
21-Nov-24
Aversion-resistant alcohol drinking in rodent and computational models
Andrew Stewart, PhD
University of Kentucky
5-Dec-24
Challenges and advancements with overcoming a sustained disruption in the neuronal phosphoproteome after spinal cord injury
Anne Murphy, Ph.D 
Georgia State University
16-Jan-24
Impact of gestational opioid exposure on immune signaling in male and female rats
Diana Goode, PhD
University of Maine
23-Jan-24
Neuron, present yourself! Factors driving CD4+ T cell populations in CPIN
Nien-Pei Tsai, PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
30-Jan-25
Searching for New Therapeutic Strategies for Fragile X Syndrome and Autism
Adrienne Antonson, PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
6-Feb-25
Prenatal originas of neurodevelopmental dysfunction: Viruses, microbes, microglia, and IL-17
Kimaya Raje, Kristen Oshima
UC NGP
13-Feb-25
Kimaya - "Behavioral and dopaminergic effect of a DRD1-specific conditional knockout of the ADHD risk-gene, Latrophilin-3 (LPHN3)"; Kristen - "Characterizing immune cell populations in frontotemporal dementia: Exploring changes in the periphery and Brain"
Lilian Jerow, Fady Eid
UC NGP
20-Feb-25
Lilian - "Deletion of TSC2 from inhibitory neurons"; Fady - "Early life stress modulates neonatal somatosensation and the transcriptional profile of immature sensory neurons"
Ram Madabhushi, PhD
UT Southwestern
27-Feb-25
Mechanisms and consequences of activity-dependent DNA double-strand breaks in neurons
Gloria Choi, PhD
MIT
6-Mar-25
TBD
Elizabeth Stegemoller, PhD
Iowa State University
13-Mar-25
Singing in Parkinson's Disease
Zoe Cappel, Kelly Bosis
UC NGP
27-Mar-25
Zoe- "Molecular and circuit mechanisms of visual hypersensitivity in neurofibromatosis type 1 model mice"; Kelly - "Stress-induced formation of DNA neuronal DNA double strand breaks lead to molecular adaptations in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus"
Tristan Shuman, PhD
Mt Sinai 
3-Apr-25
Closed-loop control of inhibitory spike timing in health and disease
Lori Knackstedt, PhD
University of Florida
10-Apr-25
Rodent models of voluntary polysubstance use as platforms for screening medications to reduce drug seeking
Gregory Schwartz, PhD
Northwestern
17-Apr-25
Displaced amacrine cells of the Mouse Retina: Genes, Form, and Function

2024 Spring Semester

DateNameDescription
January 11, 2024

Aleksandr Taranov, NGP Doctoral Student

Ivanka Rainer, NGP Doctoral Student 

Cerebrospinal fluid and metabolic processes

Sign-Goal Tracking in a model of obesity

January 18, 2024Cassie Gipson-Reichardt, Associate Professor, U Kentucky

Nicotine use induces sex-specific neuroimmune dysregulations that regulate glutamate dyshomeostasis and underlie sex-specific efficacy of nicotine cessation therapeutics

January 25, 2024

Amanda McGann, NGP/MSTP Doctoral Student

Kassidy Grover, NGP Doctoral Student

Characterizing a novel mouse model of MAPK1-mediated Rasopathy
February 1, 2024

Sophia Gonzalez, NGP Doctoral Student

Judy Yoo, NGP/MSTP Doctoral Student

Dopaminergic Encoding of Visual Stimulus in the Striatum

Early life injury alters spinal astrocyte development

February 8, 2024Kate Sadler, Assistant Professor, UT DallasGastrointestinal chemosensation drives chronic sickle cell disease pain
February 15, 2024Diego Fernandez, Assistant Professor, CCHMCpostponed
February 22, 2024

Meranda Quijas, NGP Doctoral Student

Kat Propsom, NGP Doctoral Student

The sex specific role of RNA-binding protein, pAUF1, in prolonged hypersensitivity following ischemia with reperfusion injury

Autoimmune Mechanisms of Chronic Pain

March 7, 2024Franck Kalume, Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery Seattle Children's Hospital (NRC)  
March 21, 2024

Austin Drake, NGP/MSTP Doctoral Student

Emily Devine, NGP Doctoral Student

 
March 28, 2024Vivianne Tawfik, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford 
April 4, 2024

Kaejeran Caldwell, NGP Doctoral Student

Taylor Zuelger, NGP Doctoral Student


April 11, 2024Anne Murphy, Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State U 
April 18, 2024Paul Territo, Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Med 

Past Neuroscience Seminar Series

August 25, 2022
September 1, 2022
September 8, 2022
September 22, 2022
September 15, 2022 — Zoom only
October 13, 2022
September 29, 2022
October 20, 2022
November 3, 2022
October 27, 2022
December 1, 2022
January 12, 2023
January 19, 2023
January 26, 2023
February 2, 2023
February 9, 2023
February 16, 2023
February 23, 2023
March 2, 2023
March 9, 2023
March 23, 2023
April 6, 2023
April 13, 2023
April 20, 2023

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