PhD Thesis Defense and Final Examination
Brandon Thomas Bizup
School of Medicine
Center for Neuroscience – School of Medicine/Neurobiology Graduate Program
"The Duality of Zinc Signaling in Normal and Pathological Auditory Processing"
Tuesday October 3
9:00 am
Biomedical Science Tower 3 Room 6014
Major Advisor: Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Chairperson: Amanthah Thathiah, PhD
Committee Members: Christopher L. Cunningham, PhD
Christopher Donnelley, PhD
George Michalopoulos, MD, PhD
Michael Michaelides, PhD
Grand Rounds
Melissa McGovern, PhD
Assistant Professor
McGovern Lab
“Towards Hearing Restoration: Investigating the Genetic Restrictions on Hair Cell Regeneration in the Mature Inner Ear”
Wednesday June 7
7:00am
PHRC Research Series
Gabriela Medina
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cunningham Lab
Endoplasmic reticulum stress and hearing loss in the cochlea
Friday May 12
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Rebecca Krall
Postdoc
Williamson Lab
Contributions of auditory cortex to the acquisition and expression of a sound categorization task
Friday April 14
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Jack Toth
Post-bacc Researcher
Insanally Lab
Contributions of diverse cortical neuron responses to auditory perceptual learning
Friday March 3
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Brandon Bizup
CNUP Graduate Student
Tzounopoulos Lab
Noise-trauma induced dysregulation of vesicular zinc promotes cochlear damage and hearing loss
Friday, January 13
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Keith Kaufman
CNUP Graduate Student
Williamson Lab
Diverse influences of pupil-linked arousal on cell-type specific auditory processing
Friday, December 9
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Blake Sidleck
Post-baccalaureate researcher
Insanally Lab
Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by diverse cortical responses
Friday, November 18
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Nathan Schneider
Graduate Student
Williamson Lab
Extratelencephalic neurons encode learned auditory stimulus categories and behavioral choice
Martha Canto-Bustos, PhD
Postdoc
Tzounopoulos Lab
Noise-induced hearing loss strengthens L2/3 excitatory synapses on L2/3 interneurons in mouse auditory cortex
Jack Toth
Post-baccalaureate Researcher
Insanally Lab
Contributions and synaptic basis of diverse cortical neuron responses to auditory-driven task performance
Laura Marinos
Graduate Student
Cunningham Lab
Gene Therapy for Congenital Hearing Loss: from Cochlea to Cortex
Friday, October 14
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Seminar
Anne E. Takesian, PhD
Assistant Professor
Eaton-Peabody Laboratories
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Harvard Medical School
Diverse Cortical Layer 1 Circuits for Auditory Perception and Learning
Tuesday, June 14
1:00 pm
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
PhD Dissertation Defense and Final Examination
Amanda Henton
School of Medicine
Center for Neuroscience – School of Medicine/Neurobiology Graduate Program
Mechanisms of Plasticity in Mouse Auditory Cortex After Peripheral Damage
Wednesday, June 15
10:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, Room 520
Major Advisor and Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Chairperson: Srivatsun Sadagopan, PhD
Committee Members: Elias Aizenman, PhD
Caroline Runyan, PhD
Anne Takesian, PhD
Ross Williamson, PhD
All Members of the Graduate Faculty of the University are Invited
PHRC Research Series
Manoj Kumar, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Cell-type-specific roles of inhibitory interneurons in the rehabilitation of auditory cortex after peripheral damage
Friday, June 10
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Williamson Lab Presents a Seminar
Carsen Stringer (Janelia)
Making sense of large-scale neural and behavioral data
Friday, May 20, 2022
10:00 am
Biomedical Science Tower S100
PHRC Research Series
Priya Agarwal
Lab Technician
Insanally Lab
Dynamic gating of perceptual flexibility by non-classically responsive neurons.
Friday, May 13
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
PHRC Research Series
Nathan Schneider
Graduate Student
Williamson Lab
Extratelencephalic contributions to auditory-guided behavior
Friday, April 8
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Seminar
Melissa M. McGovern, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
A Recipe for Hearing Restoration: Making, Breaking, and Regenerating Hair Cells
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
10:00am- 11:00am
Eye and Ear Institute, Room 520
Williamson Lab Presents a Postdoc Candidate Seminar
Madan Ghimire
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Primary Auditory Cortex: Aging and Tinnitus
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:00 pm
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98275147486 Meeting ID: 982 7514 7486
PHRC Research Series
Amanda Henton
Graduate Student
Tzounopoulos Lab
Biophysical mechanisms underlying cell-type-specific cortical plasticity after cochlear damage
Friday, March 4
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Postdoctoral Candidate Seminar
Cunningham Lab
Gabriela Medina Ruiz
National Autonomous University of Mexico
F-actin Redox Regulation by Nox in Cerebellar Granule Neurons
Friday, January 28
1:00 pm
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99326624820 Meeting ID: 993 2662 4820
BioE PhD Dissertation Defense of
Patrick Cody
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Cortical neuromodulatory mechanisms of adaptations to sound contrast and their effects on contrast-dependent changes in pupil size
Friday, December 10
10:00 am
In-person: SBST (BST South) Room S120
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/95140893833 Meeting ID: 951 4089 3833 Passcode: 974722
Advisor: Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD.,
Endowed Professor and Vice Chair of Research,
Department of Otolaryngology
Committee Members: Takashi Kozai, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Matthew Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and
Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University
Sandra Kuhlman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological
Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Srivatsun Sadagopan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of
Neurobiology
PHRC Research Series
Chris Cunningham, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
Exploring Mechanisms by Which TOMT Regulates Mechanotransduction and Hearing
Friday, November 19
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Seminar
Karl R. Koehler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Sensory Organoids for Modeling Development and Disease
Monday, October 18, 2021
2:30 pm
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98407829018
Meeting ID: 984 0782 9018
Seminar
Hari Bharadwaj, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language,
and Hearing Science & Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
Cochlear Deafferentation and Central Gain in "Normal" Hearing
Thursday, October 14, 2021
1:00 pm
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92291391146
Meeting ID: 922 9139 1146
Sponsored by
The Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology
and the Department of Communication Science and Disorders
PHRC Research Series
Jack Toth
Research Technician
in the Insanally Lab
Distinct synaptic plasticity mechanisms determine the diversity of cortical responses during behavior
Friday, October 8
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
PHRC Research Series
Rebecca Krall
Postdoc
in the Williamson Lab
Contribution of the Auditory Cortex to a Sensory Guided Behavior
Friday, Sep 10
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 6014
Williamson Lab Presents a Postdoc Candidate Seminar
Hariprakash Haragopal
Ohio University
Neural correlates of directional hearing in the inferior colliculus of Dutch-belted rabbits with noise-induced hearing loss
Thursday, October 1, 2020
3:00 pm
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91641594538
Seminar
Christopher L. Cunningham, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Protein Assembly and Transport in the Auditory System
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
10:30 am
Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/7782651103
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Zizhen Wu, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mechanotransduction, Auditory Perception, and Repair
Postdoctoral Candidate Seminar
(Insanally, Sadagopan, and Williamson Labs)
Samer Masri, PhD
Postdoc, Department of Neuroscience
University of Arizona
Sustained Parvalbumin-Positive Interneuron Activity Enhances Cortical Responses to Preferred Sounds
Tuesday, March 10
2:00 pm
Eye and Ear Institute, Room 520
Department of Otolaryngology
Auditory and Vestibular Training Program Presents
Ruth Litovsky, PhD
Professor and Chair
Communication Science & Disorders
Professor of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Impact of Deafness on Auditory Processing and Cognitive Load in Complex Listening Environments
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
4:00 pm
Eye and Ear Institute, Room 520
Reception will follow the talk
Friday Seminar Series
Silas Buck
Graduate Student
in the Freyberg Lab
They're dropping like flies out here: Dopamine neuron VGLUT expression in a drosophila model of Parkinson's disease
&
Jennifer Burns
Graduate Student
in the McClung Lab
Clock∆19 mutation leads to increased adolescent development of parvalbumin interneurons in mouse frontal cortex
Friday, Feb 14
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower South, Room S123
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Postdoctoral Candidate Seminar
Srinivasa Kommajosyula, PhD
Postdoc, Department of Pharmacology
Southern Illinois University
School of Medicine
Stimulus Salience-Dependent Coding of Medial Geniculate Body Neurons - A Property Derived from Corticothalamic Projections
Monday, February 24
10:00 am
Biomedical Science Tower-3, Room 3019
For access to this room please call: 412-383-8625
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Ear2Brain
Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Director, Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center
Endowed Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Otolaryngology
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Driving Drug Discovery and Development for Tinnitus
Friday, February 3, 2020
3:00-5:00 pm
CMU, Gates Hillman Center 8102
Seminar
Hiroyuki Kato, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Center
Recurrent Network Dynamics Shape Tuning for Simple and Complex Sounds in Primary Auditory Cortex
Wednesday, January 15
3:00 pm
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Brandon Bizup
Graduate Student
in the Tzounopoulos Lab
Synaptic zinc regulates cochlear resilience to noise-induced hearing loss
&
Fiona Song
Graduate Student
in the Herrup Lab
Neurotoxic consequence of microglia promoted inflammation in neurodegenerative disease
Friday, Jan 10
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower South, Room S123
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Seminar
Jonathan Fritz, PhD
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Transformation from Sound to Meaning in the Ferret Auditory System - Contributions of Top-Down Projections During Active Listening
Thursday, January 9, 2020
1:00-2:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower Room 1695
Communication Science and Disorders Presents
Tracy M. Centanni, PhD
Assistant Professor
Texas Christian University
Neural and Genetic Mechanisms of Letter-Sound Learning
Thursday, December 12, 2019
12:00-1:00 pm
Forbes Tower Room 4065
Seminar
Laurence O. Trussell, PhD
Professor, Oregon Hearing Research Center
Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Novel Modes of Synaptic Transmission Used by Cerebellar Interneurons
Tuesday, November 26
4:00 pm
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
PhD Dissertation Defense and Final Examination
Nathan Vogler
School of Medicine
Center for Neuroscience – School of Medicine/Neurobiology Graduate Program
Mechanisms of Synaptic Zinc Plasticity in Mouse Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus
Tuesday, November 26
9:00 am
Biomedical Science Tower, Room 1495
Major Advisor and Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Chairperson: Anne-Marie Oswald, PhD
Committee Members: Elias Aizenman, PhD
Yan Dong, PhD
Stephen Meriney, PhD
Laurence Trussell, PhD
All Members of the Graduate Faculty of the University are Invited
Friday Seminar Series
Xiyu (Jason) Zhu
Graduate Student
in the Grace Lab
Stress During Critical Periods of Development and Risk of Schizophrenia
Friday, November 22
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Friday Seminar Series
Joe Brague, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
in the Seal Lab
Transiently Elevated Dopamine Pretreatment Alleviates Motor Impairments in a 6-OHDA Model of Parkinson's Disease
&
Eileen Nguyen
Graduate Student
in the Ross Lab
Cellular basis of Morphine-induced itch
Friday, November 8
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Sonja Plasil
Graduate Student
in the Homanics Lab
Ethanol-responsive IncRNA TX2
&
Andreea Bostan, PhD
Postdoc
in the Strick Lab
Functional neuroanatomy of cortico-basal ganglia circuits in non-human primates
Friday, October 11
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Postdoctoral Candidate Seminar
Zahra Ghasemahmad
Department of Neuroscience
Kent State University, School of Biomedical Sciences
Emotional Vocalizations: Behavioral and Neurochemical Responses in Mice
Friday, September 27
10:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Cody Wolfe
Graduate Student
in the Koldamova-Lefterov Lab
Impact of Trem2 deficiency on the onset and growth kinetics of amyloid plaques in human APOE3 AND APOE4 expressing APP/PS1 mice
&
Amanda Gleixner, PhD
Postdoc
in the Donnelly Lab
Consequences of altered nuclear pore complex proteins in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Friday, September 27
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Maryanna Owoc
Graduate Student
in the Kandler Lab
A Cell-based Approach for Increasing Central Auditory Inhibition
&
Kristen Smith-Edwards, PhD
Postdoc
in the Davis Lab
Mapping Intrinsic Enteric and Extrinsic Autonomic Circuits that Coordinate Colon Function
Friday, September 13
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Brue Nmezi, PhD
Postdoc
in the Padiath Lab
The Role of Lamin B1 in Myelin Regulation, Development and Disease
&
David Bortz, PhD
Postdoc
in the Grace Lab
The Medial Septum Enhances Reversal Learning via Opposing Actions on Ventral Tegmental Area and Substantia Nigra Dopamine Neurons
Friday, August 23
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Kristine Ojala
Graduate Student
in the Meriney Lab
When Gene Therapy isn't Enough: Treating Neuromuscular Weakness Caused by Spinal Muscular Atrophy
&
Ross Williamson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
What Goes Up Must Come Down: Sensory Information Flow in the Auditory Corticofugal System
Friday, August 9
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Darius Becker-Krail
Graduate Student
in the McClung Lab
Astrocyte Molecular Clock Function in the Nucleus Accumbens is Important for Reward-Related Behavior
&
Yusuke Sekine, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Molecular Links Between Acetyl-CoA Metabolism, Nucleolar Phase Separation and Stress Responses
Friday, May 10
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Charlie Otte
Physician Scientist Training Program Student
in the Pandey and Donnelly Lab
Optogenetic Induction of TDP-43 Proteinopathy in Drosophila
&
Shiori Sekine, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Tug of War Between Mitochondrial Import Machineries and Proteases Regulates PINK1 Activity
Friday, April 12
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Communication Science and Disorders Presents
Aravind Parthasarathy, PhD
Instructor
Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard School of Medicine
Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston Massachusetts
Age-Related Changes in Auditory Temporal Processing: Peripheral Declines and Central Effects
Monday, April 15, 2019
11:30-12:50 pm
Forbes Tower Room 4060
Friday Seminar Series
Charlie Otte
Physician Scientist Training Program Student
in the Pandey and Donnelly Lab
Optogenetic Induction of TDP-43 Proteinopathy in Drosophila
&
Shiori Sekine, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Tug of War Between Mitochondrial Import Machineries and Proteases Regulates PINK1 Activity
Friday, April 12
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Communication Science and Disorders Presents
Viji Easwar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Intervention Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss: A Neural Outlook
Thursday, April 4, 2019
11:30-12:50 pm
Forbes Tower Room 4060
Communication Science and Disorders Presents
Erika Skoe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences
University of Connecticut
Mechanistic Insights into the Human Auditory System from Studying Musicians
Thursday, March 21,2019
11:30-12:50 pm
Forbes Tower Room 4060
Friday Seminar Series
Aditi U. Gurkar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
DNA Damage and Aging: It’s All About REACTION
&
Nicholas Fitz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
APOE Isoform Specific Effects on Amyloid-β Induced Changes in Microglial Response
Friday, March 8
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Maria Ly
Medical Scientist Training Program Student
in the Aizenstein Lab
Machine Learning-Based Brain Age Prediction & Potential Applications
&
Martha Canto-Bustos, PhD Cancelled
Friday, January 25
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the first talk
Friday Seminar Series
Anthony J. Schulien
Physician Scientist Training Program Student in the
Aizenman Lab
Targeting Kv2.1 Potassium Channel Cluster Dispersal as a Neuroprotective Strategy in the Context of Acute Cerebral Ischemia
&
Mark T. Curtis
Graduate Student
in the Salisbury Lab
Does Structure Inform Functioning? Relating Structural Deficits to Abnormal Functioning in First-Episode Schizophrenia
Friday, December 14
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
The PHRC is pleased to announce the recruitment of Dr. Ross Williamson.
Ross Williamson, PhD, recently accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Otolaryngology and the PHRC. Dr. Williamson earned his PhD in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the University College London and is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Harvard Medical School under the supervision of Daniel Polley, PhD.
Using the mouse auditory system, cutting-edge computational auditory neuroscience methods, and statistical neural data analysis, Dr. Williamson investigates the interactions between the neocortex and its various axonal targets, and their role in sound perception.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ross Williamson to the PHRC!
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Michele N. Insanally, PhD
Department of Otolaryngology
New York University School of Medicine
Neural Coding Principles and Technologies for Translational Auditory Neuroscience
Wednesday, December 5
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Starr Welty
Graduate Student in the
Lan Lab
Oxidative Damage & Selective Neuronal Vulnerability in Alzheimer's Disease
&
Issam Al Diri, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
Chromatin Topology During Retinal Development
Friday, November 9
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Seminar
Susan E. Shore, PhD
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Michigan
Harnessing Brain Stem Multisensory Plasticity to Treat Tinnitus
Wednesday, November 7
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Joshua M. Lorenz-Guertin
Graduate Student in the
Jacob Lab
Diazepam Accelerates GABAAR Synaptic Exchange and Alters Intracellular Trafficking
&
Stylianos Kouvaros, PhD
Postdoc in the
Tzounopoulos Lab
A Novel Modulator of Cortical Inhibition
Friday, October 12
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Seminar
Matthew A. Xu-Friedman, PhD
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Buffalo
Synaptic and Intrinsic Adaptions for Enhancing Reliability in an Auditory Relay
Wednesday, October 10
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Becca Krall
Graduate Student in the
Tzounopoulos and Aizenman Lab
The ZnT1 Zinc Transporter Regulates Zinc Inhibition of NMDA Receptors
&
Chengcheng Huang, PhD
Postdoc in the
Doiron Lab
Circuit Models of Low Dimensional Shared Variability in Cortical Networks
Friday, September 28
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Brikha R. Shrestha, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Diversity Through Activity: Molecular Bases and Emergence of Neuronal Heterogeneity in the Auditory Periphery
Wednesday, September 26
10:30 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Susan Sonnenschein
Graduate Student in the
Grace Lab
Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Regulation of Dopamine Neuron Activity: Investigating Developmental Implications in a Rodent Model of Schizophrenia
&
Matthew Phillips
Graduate Student in the
Johnson Lab
Effects of Intracellular Calcium on NMDA Receptor Inhibition by Channel Blockers
Friday, August 10
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Matthew T. Rich
Graduate Student in the
Torregrossa Lab
Thalamo-Amygdala Neuroplastic Changes Underlie Cocaine-Cue Memory Associations
&
Emily M. Parker
Graduate Student in the
Sweet Lab
The b Subunit of Voltage-gated Ca2+ Channels and Dendritic Spine Morphology Over Normal and Pathological Development
Friday, July 13
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Matthew J. Boring
Graduate Student in the
Ghuman Lab
Interdigitation of Word and Face Selectivity in the Ventral Visual Stream
&
Lyndsay L. Leach, PhD
Postdoc in the
Gross Lab
Elucidating the Mechanisms Underlying Zebrafish Retinal Pigment Epithelium Regeneration
Friday, June 8
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Provost's Inaugural Lecture
Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Endowed Chair in Auditory Physiology
School of Medicine
Understanding and Treating Tinnitus: From Ion Channels to Precision Medicine
Thursday, May 31, 2018
4:00 pm
Scaife Hall, Lecture Room 6
Reception to follow
Friday Seminar Series
Sarah Najjar
Graduate Student in the
Albers Lab
Optogenetic Investigation of Sensory Signaling in the Gut
&
Junshi Wang, PhD
Postdoc in the
Dong Lab
Cascades of Homeostatic Dysregulation Promote Incubation of Cocaine Craving
Friday, May 4
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Briana De Miranda, PhD
Postdoc in the
Greenamyre Lab
Mitochondrial Toxicants and LRRK2; a New Gene-environment Interaction for Parkinson’s Disease
&
Samantha Skobel
Graduate Student in the
Rubio Lab
Sex-Dependent AMPAR Subunit Expression and Noise Sensitivity in the Cochlea
Friday, April 6
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Meghan Bucher
Graduate Student in the
Hastings Lab
Viral-Mediated Dysregulation of Vesicular Monoamine Packaging is Toxic to Dopaminergic Neurons
&
Jane E. Hartung, PhD
Postdoc in the
Gold Lab
Sex, Stress, and Headache
Friday, March 23
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Melanie Grubisha
Postdoc in the
Sweet Lab
Impaired Dendritic Morphogenesis in Schizophrenia: Role of the p75/NGR/KAL9 Pathway
&
Yang Yeh
Graduate Student in the
Aizenman Lab
Targeting Kv2.1 for Neuroprotection
Friday, March 9
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Friday Seminar Series
Lily Francis
Graduate Student in the
Chu Lab
Neuropathology of POLG-Related Mitochondrial Diseases in Patient iPSC-Derived Neurons
&
Sanjeev Khanna
Graduate Student in the
Smith Lab
Spatial and Temporal Receptive Field Structure in Prefrontal Cortex
Friday, February 23
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Todd Mowery, PhD
Center for Neural Science
New York University
The Effects of Transient Hearing Loss on the Development of the Auditory Corticostriatal Circuit
Wednesday, February 21
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Jake Wright
Graduate Student in the
Dong Lab
Silent Synapses Underlie the Reconsolidation of Cocaine-associated Memories
&
Jay Couey, PhD
Research Assistant Professor in the
Hook Lab
Subcellular Mapping of Synaptic Inputs to Motor Cortex Inhibitory Neurons.
Friday, February 9
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Daniel Stolzberg, PhD
Center for Neural Science
New York University
Role of Auditory Cortex in an Animal Model of Tinnitus
Wednesday, February 7
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Friday Seminar Series
Jacob Mann
Graduate Student in the
Donnelly Lab
Optogenetic Induction of Neurodegenerative Proteinopathies
&
Hannah Bos, PhD
Postdoc in the
Doiron Lab
Dissecting Stability and Gain Modulation in Interneuron Circuits
Friday, January 26
4:00 pm
Biomedical Science Tower 3, Conference Room 6014
Happy Hour will follow the talks
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Tejbeer Kaur, PhD
Department of Otolaryngology
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Hearing Loss and Inflammation: Neuroprotective Mechanisms
Wednesday, January 24
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Seminar
Nace L. Golding, PhD
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Texas at Austin
Beyond Jeffress: New Insights into the Sound Localization Circuitry in the Medial Superior Olive
Friday, January 19
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Seminar
Maria Geffen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
University of Pennsylvania
Cortical Circuits for Auditory Perception and Learning
Wednesday, January 17
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Ross Williamson, PhD
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Harvard Medical School
Synergistic Processing of Stimulus- and State-dependent Features in Deep Layer Cortical Projection Neurons
Wednesday, January 10
11:00 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Melissa Caras, PhD
Center for Neural Science
New York University
Practice and Improvement: Cortical Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning
Wednesday, December 6
10:30 am
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Jennifer Resnik, PhD
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Harvard Medical School
Tracking Cortical Excitatory and Inhibitory Dynamics after Sensory Loss
Wednesday, November 29
1:00 pm
Eye and Ear Institute, 5th Floor, Boardroom 520