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6 September Sep

JINRA Seminar: Ali Zahalka

Thu Sep 06 2018, 3:00 PM

901, Rose F Kennedy Center

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Junior Investigator Neuroscience Research Award *Spring 2017 Awardee*

“The roles of adrenergic nerves in aging and cancer”

Dendritic integration in cortical circuits

The Attenuation of Adult Neurogenesis by Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus and its Implications for Dentate Gyrus Function

Vascular amyloidosis and the gliovascular unit in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Auditory attention is not a spotlight: Evidence for the representation of unattended sound sources in working memory and their impact on target processing during selective listening

Eye to brain: What changes in vision tell us about pathophysiology and symptom formation in schizophrenia

Role of the actomyosin cytoskeleton in the synaptic effects of the CB1 receptor

The impact of neuroscience on criminal law cases

Dinner, wine and informal discussion on neuroscience and the law

How do correlations in the neuronal population determine a neuron’s capacity to convey sensory information

The neuroimmunology of anhedonia in youth

The role of the REST-Corepressor 2 (Rcor2) in cortical neurogenesis and callosal development

Single-cell transcriptomics in the brain: implications for schizophrenia

The neurobiology of homeostasis

Exploring and harnessing the power of microglia in the aged and Alzheimer’s disease brain

Mechanisms underlying trigger-induced motor attacks in the episodic ataxia type 2 mouse model tottering

Neural substrates for perception and decision-making in the auditory cortex

Imaging learning at synapses and circuits

New tools to image network dynamics in health and models of disease

A developmental scaffold for hippocampal function

The price of being awake and the function of sleep: synaptic homeostasis

Inflammation-sensitized neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

The role of frontostriatal circuits in temporal processing

Nerves at forefront of hematopoietic aging and cancer

Physiopathological relevance of the new astrocyte AQP4 isoforms generated by translational readthrough

Neural mechanisms of social reward

"Transcribing memories: Encoding of contextual memories by transcriptionally-defined active neuronal ensembles"

XR-naltrexone for Opioid Use Disorder: improving treatment initiation and the place in OUD care algorithm

“Merging Next Generation Genomics and Medicine”

Dopaminergic and Cholinergic Regulation of Motivated Behavior: Insight in the Neurobiological Bases of Substance Abuse and Mood Disorders

"The clinical markers, boundaries,and comorbidities of developmental language disorder"

"Eye to Brain: What Changes in Vision Tell us About Pathophysiology and Symptom Formation in Schizophrenia"

"Malaria Purine transporter: Novel Target for Development of New Antimalarial Drugs"

Dissociable neural circuits underlie competition during task-switching, with a novel role for the posterior cingulate cortex

"Evolution of experience-dependent brain plasticity"

"Balancing survival and death to sculpt the developing nervous system"

"Circadian regulation of sleep and metabolism"

"Wiring the Nervous System"

“Representations of novelty and familiarity in a mushroom body compartment”

“In vitro modeling of complex neurological diseases: Functional analysis of Parkinson’s disease-associated risk variants”

"Nucleus accumbens opioids promote approach to high-fat reward in the absence of caloric need"

“Brain circuits for triggering and reversing emotional memories”

“Neural plasticity and motivational drive: how sleepiness and hunger persist in time”

"Cortical modulation by behavioral and social context"

"Molecular control of brain wiring: insights into intellectual disabilities and social behavior"

"Epigenetic Regulation in Neuronal Function and Neurodevelopmental Disorders."

From RNA to reward: dissecting habenular circuit activity during motivated behavior

Neural correlations in the sound localization system of the barn owl and their relevance for coding

The central amygdala circuits in fear learning and anxiety.

"Transcriptional control of glutamatergic system development."

"Early life stress increases lifelong risk for depression via transcriptional and epigenetic alterations in reward circuitry."

Next-generation single-cell approaches in synapse research

Cerebellar output can predict the severity of cerebellar-induced motor disorders

Modulation of dopamine release by benzodiazepines: implications for drug addiction

Rheotaxis in larval zebrafish

Microtubules in wound healing and nerve regeneration

Inferior olive and movement: A role for electrical synapses and their plasticity

Historical examples of politics, morality, innovation and fraud in physical science and technology

Biochemical computation in single synapses

Dissecting active zone functions in neurotransmitter and neuromodulator secretion

Gap junctions between the axons of pyramidal cells and their role in very fast oscillations (ripples)

Identifying and reversing synaptic deficits in Alzheimer's disease: Time and place for new therapeutic strategies

Regulation of AMPA-type glutamate receptors by the SynDIG family of accessory proteins

The gut-brain axis and brain health: lessons from animal models

Translational control in filial imprinting

Neurobiology of social decision-making

The duality of Pannexin1 in epilepsy and pain

Using transgenic technology to probe circuit dysfunction and therapy in Alzheimer's disease

Assembly and trafficking of neurotropic herpes viruses

How the cortex regulates the thalamus

"Cocaine place conditioning strengthens location-dependent hippocampal inputs to nucleus accumbens"

Junior Investigator Neuroscience Research Award Spring 2017 Awardee