Fall 2018
| Sep 6 | Neuroscience Fellows | Data Blitz |
| Oct 11 | Eric Nunes, Yale University | VTA cholinergic receptors mediates cocaine seeking, mood-related behaviors and phasic dopamine release in NAc |
| Oct 18 | Student Talk: Naixin Ren | Model-based detection of putative synaptic connections from multi-electrode spike recordings |
| Oct 25 | Greg Sartor, UConn Pharmacy | Epigenetic pharmacotherapy for substance use disorder |
| Nov 1 | Student Talk: Samantha Marques Student Talk: Caitlyn Cody |
Categorical Perception of Auditory Stimuli: Studying Onset Slope and Duration Cues Enhancing Categorical Sound Perception with Envelope Timing Cues |
| Nov 15 | Student Talk: Ruth McLeod Student Talk: Michael Gyetvan |
Cancelled due to weather |
| Nov 29 | Mariana Pereira, UMass | How do mothers mother? Flexibility and Plasticity in the Maternal Circuitry across the Postpartum Period |
| Dec 6 | Alex Kwan, Yale | Frontal cortical dynamics during decision-making |
| Dec 13 | Student Talk: Carla Carratala Student Talk: Sarah Ferrigno |
Animal models of preference for physical activity vs inaction: Impact of dopamine depletion and antidepressants Investigating the neurobiology of motivational deficiencies in Major Depressive Disorder: 5-HT1B receptor mechanisms |
Spring 2018
| Feb 1 | Susana Mingote, Columbia University | Uncovering the Function of Dopamine Neuron Glutamate Cotransmission |
| Mar 8 | Student Talk: Naixin Ren Student Talk: Ruth McLeod |
Inferring Synaptic Connections Using Spike Data Effects of Caffeine and Sex on Preterm Hypoxic Ischemia Outcomes |
| Mar 22 | Student Talk: Peter Perrino | Developing a novel rule learning paradigm in mice |
| Mar 29 | Sam McKenzie, NYU Medical College | Excitatory control of feedback inhibition in the hippocampus |
| Apr 5 | Jake Hinman, Boston University | Navigating with Multiple Reference Frames: Entorhinal and Striatal Representations of Space |
| Apr 12 | Student Talk: Renee Rotolo Student Talk: Rose Presby |
Serotonin Receptors and Effort-related Choice: 2A, 2C, 2B… or not 2B? The Inflamed side of Depression: Cytokines, Motivation and Major Depressive Disorder |
| Apr 19 | Linnaea Ostroff, PNB UCONN | Local protein synthesis at synapses during consolidation of fear memory |
| Apr 26 | Student Talk: Ryan Troha | New directions in examining observational learning in rats |
| May 3 | Andrie Kozlov, Imperial College, London UK | Gating without swinging: a two-channel model of hair-cell mechanotransduction with membrane-mediated cooperativity |
Fall 2017
| Sep 21 | Student Talk: Peter Perrino | Behavioral Assessment of USH2A KO Mice |
| Sep 28 | Stephen Macknik, SUNY Downstate | The Temporal Neural Mechanisms Underlying Brightness and Visibility Perception |
| Oct 12 | Student Talk: Rose Presby | For the love of chocolate: Effects of lisdexamfetamine on behaviors supported by foods with varying degrees of palatability |
| Oct 26 | Douglas Storace, Yale | Defining the functions of olfactory bulb processing |
| Nov 2 | Student Talk: Naixin Ren | Interaction Between Social Categories in the Composite Face Paradigm |
| Nov 9 | Student Talk: Ruth McLeod Student Talk: Caitlin Cody |
Behavioral Outcomes of Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Injury in Rats After temperature Modulation Investigating the effects of varied species-specific vocalizations in rats |
| Nov 30 | Student Talk: Ryan Troha Student Talk: Michael Gyetvan |
Observational learning in a foraging paradigm for rodents The Role of Adenosine A1 Receptors in Learning |
| Dec 7 | Student Talk: Rebecca Schwartz Student Talk: Renee Rotolo |
Examining the Effects of the Novel Dopamine Transport Blocker CE-123 on Effort-Related Choice Behavior in Rats Effects of the serotonin transport inhibitor fluoxetine on effort-related decision making in male and female rats |
Spring 2017
| Jan 19 | Alexander Petrenko, RAS | Cellular alkali sensor: a new chapter in homeostasis physiology |
| Jan 26 | Student Talk: Fatemeh Khatami | Neural Coding and Models for Natural Sounds Recognition |
| Feb 2 | Jocelyn Richard (Johns Hopkins) 3:30p | Neural Circuits Underlying the Invigoration of Reward Seeking |
| Feb 6 | Elizabeth Lucas (Mt Sinai) 3:30p | Losing Your Inhibition: GABAergic Plasticity in Emotional Learning |
| Feb 9 | Kathryn Nautiyal (Columbia) 3:30p | Distinct circuits underlie the effects of serotonin on impulsive and aggressive behavior |
| Mar 9 | Etan Markus | The hippocampus, episodic memory, navigation and more… – insights from rats |
| Mar 16 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 23 | Christine Constantinople, Princeton Rob Froemke, NYU (5pm) |
Economic decision making in rats Synaptic plasticity in ‘real life’: maternal behavior and cochlear implants |
| Mar 30 | Josh McDermott, MIT | Computational Neuroimaging of Human Auditory Cortex |
| Apr 6 | Student Talk: Peter Perrino Student Talk: Ryan Troha |
Behavioral Assessment of USH2A KO Mice Developing an observational learning paradigm: comparing an escape and foraging task in female rats |
| Apr 13 | Ben Saunders (Johns Hopkins) | Midbrain Circuit Mechanism of Motivated Behavior |
| Apr 20 | Student Talk: Jen-Hau Yang Student Talk: Rose Presby |
Catechol-o- methyltransferase (COMT) functions and Val 158 Met polymorphisms: A review and behavioral study. Pharmacological Studies of Effort-related Choice Behavior in Mice |
| Apr 27 | Student Talk: Renee Rotolo Student Talk: Erica Eddy |
Reversing Effort-Related Impairments with the Adenosine A2A Antagonist Preladenant Overcoming the Behavioral Discrimination Biases in a Two-Alternative Forced Choice Paradigm |
| May 4 | Student Talk: Tommy Lee | From place cell to behavior: Functional processing along the hippocampus longitudinal axis |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sep 1 | Organizational Meeting | |
| Sep 8 | ITL Workshop | Effective Scientific Communication |
| Sep 15 | Student Talk: Justin Ellenberg Student Talk: Ryan Troha |
Proportional suppression of NMDA and AMPA mediated synaptic responses… by adenosine Effects of artificial sweeteners, sugar, and high-fat diet on glucose homeostasis in rats |
| Sep 22 | Student Talk: Mike Jacobs Student Talk: Rose Presby |
Spatiotemporal patterns of rat cortical activation during auditory discrimination Binge Eating Disorder: A review of various models with a look to the future |
| Sep 29 | Student Talk: Peter Perrino Student Talk: Renee Rotolo |
The use of touchscreen operant systems to study complex cognitive behavior in mouse models Chronic Caloric Restriction and Behavioral Tasks Ameliorate Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis… |
| Oct 6 | Student Talk: Emily Errante | Fear Within Virtual Reality Environments |
| Oct 13 | Rebecca Shansky, Northeastern | A neural basis for sex differences in fear expression |
| Oct 20 | Kamal Sen, BU | Cortical Spatial Computations for Solving the Cocktail Party Problem |
| Oct 27 | Steve Chang, Yale University | Supralinear enhancements of social gaze dynamics with oxytocin under opioid antagonism |
| Nov 3 | Student Talk: Jen-Hau Yang | Behavioral economics and dopamine function: The VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine… |
| Nov 10 | No Seminar – SfN | |
| Nov 17 | No Seminar – SfN | |
| Nov 24 | Fall Break | |
| Dec 1 | Student Talk: Abed Ghanbari | Estimating short-term synaptic plasticity from pre- and post-synaptic spiking |
| Dec 8 | Student Talk: Erica Eddy | Understand Temporal Cue Discrimination in Rats via SRAF Auditory Cortical Region |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 21 | Organizational Meeting | |
| Feb 4 | Karen Menuz, UConn PNB | Molecular components underlying olfactory signaling in insects |
| Feb 11 | Beata Jarosiewicz, Brown University | BrainGate: Toward a self-calibrating intracortical brain-computer interface for people with tetraplegia |
| Mar 10 | Student Talk: Soniya Assudani | The Effects of Estrogen on Memory in Females |
| Mar 17 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 24 | Jeff Beeler, Queens College | The sound of silence: new frontiers on dopamine and thrift |
| Mar 31 | Student Talk: Charlie Wasserman | Finding the Beat: Neural Responses to Missing Pulse Rhythms |
| Apr 7 | PhD Defense: Samantha Yohn (BOUS160 @ 2pm) | Induction and Treatment of Motivational Dysfunctions… |
| Apr 20 | PhD Defense: Nicholas Bannon (BOUSA101A @ Wed, 11am) | Modulation of Homosynaptic and Heterosynaptic Plasticity… |
| Apr 21 | PhD Defense: Amanda Smith (BOUS160 @ 2pm) | The Detrimental Effects of Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury… |
| Student Talk: Emily Errante Student Talk: Jen-Hau Yang |
Fear Within Virtual Reality Environments Assessment of effort-related motivational function in mouse models |
|
| Apr 28 | Student Talk: Kodi Udeh Student Talk: Tommy Lee |
Spike-timing neural discrimination of sound envelope shape in primary and non-primary auditory cortices Analyzing Single Unit Recordings in the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus to Investigate the Processing of Spatial Memories |
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sep 3 | Organizational Meeting | |
| Sep 10 | Student Talk: Samantha Yohn | Not all Antidepressants are created equal: differential effects of monoamine uptake inhibitors on effort-related choice behavior | Oct 1 | Student Talk: Jen-Hau Yang | Dissociable contribution of nucleus accumbens and dorsolateral striatum to the acquisition of risk choice behavior in the rat | Oct 7 | Donna Korol, Syracuse Note: Wed, 3:30p A106 | Jog Your Memory with Physical and Mental Activity |
| Oct 22 | No Seminar – SfN | |
| Oct 29 | Student Talk: Tommy Lee | Effects of muscimol inactivation of mPFC, dorsal, or ventral hippocampus in a temporal order spatial navigation task |
| Nov 5 | Memming Park, Stony Brook University | Dynamic correlations between visual and decision areas during perceptual decision-making |
| Nov 11 | Student Talk: Nick Bannon Note: Wed, 3:30p, BOUS160 | Adenosine and Synaptic Plasticity in the Neocortex |
| Nov 12 | Student Talk: Soniya Assudani | The Effects of Estrogen on Memory in Females |
| Nov 19 | David Moorman, UMass | Candy, drugs, and alcohol: Neural systems underlying motivation, decisions and addictions |
| Nov 26 | Fall Break | |
| Dec 2 | Dan Sanes, NYU Note: Wed, 3:30p, A106 | Cortical encoding of auditory temporal cues is enhanced during task engagement |
| Dec 3 | Student Talk: Charlie Wasserman | Finding the Beat: Neural Responses to Missing Pulse Rhythms |
| Dec 10 | Student Talk: Kodi Udeh Student Talk: Emily Errante |
Laminar response differences in the primary auditory cortex to vocalizations and discrimination Fear Within Virtual Reality Environments |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan 22 | Sabine Kastner, Princeton University | Neural Network Dynamics for Attentional Selection in the Primate Brain |
| Feb 18 | Manolo Malmierca, USal (note: Wed at 3:30p) | Cortical feedback for adaptations to sounds |
| Feb 25 | James Chrobak, UConn (note: Wed at 3:30p) | Theta/gamma, motion/memory, and space/time |
| Feb 26 | Christopher Harvey, Harvard Medical School | Neuronal circuit dynamics in the mouse parietal cortex during virtual navigation |
| Mar 5 | Student Talk: Megan Rowland | Assessing antidepressants with animal models of effort-related motivation in depression |
| Mar 12 | Student Talk: Nick Bannon | Neuromodulation and synaptic plasticity: searching for balance in a changing brain |
| Mar 19 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 25 | Sara Lazar, MGH (note: Wed at 3:30p) | Meditation and Neuroplasticity |
| Apr 2 | Jared Schwartzer, Mount Holyoke College | Maternal Allergic Asthma and its Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Apr 9 | Student Talk: Alex Palmisano | Effects of Nicotine on Conditioning, Extinction, and Reinstatement |
| Apr 16 | Student Talk: Soniya Assudani Student Talk: Xiao Li |
The Effects of Estrogen on Memory in Females Analysis of Running Speed During Acquisition of a Place and Response Task |
| Apr 23 | Student Talk: Jinah Yoon | Changes in Hippocampal Theta Oscillations during Place and Response Task Learning in Rats |
| Apr 30 | Student Talk: Tommy Lee Student Talk: Charlie Wasserman |
Temporal order spatial navigation: A behavioral analysis using a radial arm water maze Discrimination of Temporal Cues In Rats and Humans |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 28 | PSYC5200 Organizational Meeting | |
| Sep 4 | Lab Safety & Chemical Waste Management Training | Note: BOUS A106, 4:00-5:30p |
| Sep 18 | Yael Amitai, Ben Gurion University | Long-range Noise Correlations in the Barrel Cortex Reveal Distinct Roles for the Cortical Layers |
| Oct 2 | Elissa Chesler, The Jackson Laboratory | Integrative Genetic and Genomic Strategies for the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders |
| Oct 9 | Student Talk: Charlie Wasserman Student Talk: Chris Lee |
Working in and with Noise: The Impact of Audio Environment Spike-timing Error Encodes Sound Envelope Shape in Ventral Auditory Cortical Fields |
| Oct 16 | Student Talk: Alex Palmisano | Factors Affecting Conditioned Place Preference in a Virtual Reality Environment |
| Oct 23 | Shig Kuwada, UConn Health Center | Neural Processing of Sound Location & Content |
| Oct 30 | Steve van Hooser, Brandeis University | Choosing which way to go: the development of direction selectivity in visual cortex |
| Nov 6 | Student Talk: Emily Errante & Aileen Haque | Recording of Muscle and Neural Activity in a Pharmacological Rodent Model of Parkinsonism |
| Nov 13 | No Seminar – SfN | |
| Nov 20 | Student Talk: Jinah Yoon | Changes in Hippocampal Theta Oscillations during Place and Response Task Learning in Rats |
| Nov 27 | Fall Break | |
| Dec 4 | Carmen Varela, MIT | Thalamo-Cortico-Hippocampal Interactions and Memory Consolidation |
| Dec 11 | Student Talk: Soniya Assudani Student Talk: Tommy Lee |
The Effects of Estrogen on Memory in Females Relationship Between Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampal Inactivation on Spatial Navigation |