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16 October Oct

Seminar: Dr. Alipasha Vaziri

Wed Oct 16 2019, 12:00 PM

1st Floor Auditorium, Kennedy Center

Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Optical tools for large-scale in vivo recording of neuronal activity

Balancing brain plasticity/stability

TBA

Diverse Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity and Metaplasticity in the Hippocampus

Towards Targeted Molecular Therapy for FGF Receptors: Development of Aptamers Specific for FGFR3

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of neuron diversification

Neural mechanisms of spatial navigation in Drosophila

Uncertainty in the primate visual system

Addiction as learning (not disease): Narrowing brains in narrowing environments

Combining subjective and scientific accounts to help understand the nature of addiction

Mapping Emotions: Discovering structure in mesoscale electrical brain recordings

Central mitochondrial dynamics in metabolism regulation

Engineering of bacterial phytoreceptors for near-infrared imaging, sensing and light-control in mammals

Synaptic and circuit mechanisms underlying the vulnerability for drug abuse

Mechanisms of sensory circuit dysfunction in mouse autism models

The processing of stress-related memories in hippocampal-cortical circuits

Striatal circuits for reward learning and decision making

Deconstructing the visual working memory impairment in people with schizophrenia

Visual shape completion deficits arise in first-episode and chronic schizophrenia, but are less severe in bipolar disorder: Evidence for a novel behavioral biomarker

When is it time to eat? How neuropeptides and fast neurotransmitters interact to transmit time-of-day signals that regulate circadian feeding and metabolism

Circuit Approaches to Stress Susceptibility

The eclectic cerebellum - from neurons to circuits and behavior

Assessment of therapeutics and disease pathogenesis in mucolipidosis type IV

Psychiatric neuroscience for the whole body: neurocircuitry related to metabolic and cognitive processes

The Neurobiology of Hunger

Mapping Emotions: Discovering Structure in Mesoscale Electrical Brain Recordings

Patterns matter: Temporal codes in neural signaling, synaptic plasticity and behavior

Weaving a brain: glia-neuron crosstalk paves the way to circuit assembly

Integration of plasticity mechanisms within a single sensory neuron of C. elegans actuates a memory

Neuroimaging markers of risk and resilience to bipolar disorder

Stress-induced plasticity of the electrical connectome of C. elegans

Identifying factors that confer regenerative ability to aging neurons and tissues

Cellular mechanisms for efficient coding in the Drosophila visual system

Sexually dimorphic control of anxiety and sociosexual behaviors by oxytocin receptor interneurons

Inhibitory regulation of cerebellar plasticity and learning

Socioeconomic inequality and children’s brain development

Socioeconomic inequality and children's cognitive and brain development

Functional diversity of genetically-defined lateral hypothalamus and extended amygdala circuits driving motivated behaviors

Towards a molecular understanding of synapse formation

The central dogma...well, it's complicated: recoding nervous function in RNA

Cerebellar Modulation of the Reward Circuitry: Implications for Addictive & Social Behaviors

Active control of arousal by a locus coeruleus GABAergic circuit

The Social Brain in Typical and Atypical Development

*Joint Seminar with Molecular Pharmacology* "C. elegans astroglia: illuminating underlying principles of nervous system development and function"

Hemispheric lateralization in the rodent hippocampus

Neuroscience, technology, and collaboration: a personal view

Molecular and neuron subtype mechanisms in depression

Thinking outside the hippocampus box: novel cells and hippobellum interactions

Chemogenetics-based neurotheranostics for precision psychiatry

The Role of the G beta5/RGS7/R7AP complex in neuronal signaling and human disease

Functions and mechanisms of synaptic nanostructure

Monosynaptic cerebellar modulation of substantia nigra

Regulation of firing rate homeostasis by sleep and wake states

Molecular mechanisms of synapse formation and synapse specification

Neuronal control of feeding and emotion

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

Joint Seminar with Molecular Pharmacology "C. elegans astroglia: illuminating underlying principles of nervous system development and function"

Junior Investigator Neuroscience Research Award Spring 2017 Awardee