Neuroscience Student Seminars

Name

Seminar

Date

Jeffrey Malins


Christian Battista

"An fMRI Investigation of Mandarin Tonal Processing Using Short-Interval Habituation."

"The Development of a Customized Arithmetic Training Program."

September 12, 2011

Christina Merkley


Li Xin

"The Role of the Kisspeptin in the Regulation of GnRH Secretion in the Sheep."

"The Aspartic Acid Residue D3 is Critical for the Electrophysiological Properties of Cx50 Gap Junction Channel."

September 19, 2011

CANCELLED

September 26, 2011

Melanie Kok


Robert Whitwell

"Amplified extrastriate visual cortical projections to auditory cortical regions following deafness."

"Object vision in action: No sight, some sight, and blindsight."

October 3, 2011

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Thanksgiving Holiday

October 10, 2011

Kelly Foley


Daniel Wood

"Effects of prenatal administration of propionic acid and lipopolysaccharide on the development and behaviour of rats."

"Cognitive modulation of predictive fingertip force optimization."

October 17, 2011

October 24, 2011

Invited Speaker - Dr. Michael Poulter

October 31, 2011

Jennifer Milne


James Kryklywy

"Behavioural applications and neural correlates of natural human echolocation."

"Effects of stimulus valence on the what and where pathways of auditory processing."

November 7, 2011

**** 

SFN - No seminars

November 14, 2011

Michaela Hamel


Matthew Barrett

"Perturbed auditory feedback causing changes in vowel production of children."

"Memory consolidation and reconsolidation in the black-capped chickadee."

November 21, 2011

Invited Speaker - Dr. Douglas Wylie

November 28, 2011

Joseph Paciocco


Tasha Ahmad

"Uncovering the neural correlates of pantomime and real tool use."

"Cannabinoid transmission in the prefrontal cortex and basolateral amygdale: Sub-cortical control of opiate reward and memory encoding.

December 5, 2011

Invited Speaker - Dr. Wei-Yang Lu

December 12, 2010

Alisha Weichers 


Rick Ezekiel

"Episode-like memory for who-when in the Black-capped Chickadee."

"Toward a functional characterization of cognitive control networks."

January 9, 2012

Danika Lyons


Katie Knapp

"Formation of associative memories in opiate addiction: Role of MEK and CaMK II."

"Top-down modulation of category specific extrastriate cortex in a task switching paradigm." 

January 16, 2012

Sabeeha Hussein 


Mia Segal

"Effects of dorsolateral prefrontal deactivations on rule maintenance in the macaque."

"Effects of menstrual cycle related estrogen fluctuations on working memory."

January 23, 2012

Invited Speaker - Dr. Marion Wittman

"M1 Muscarinic receptor allosteric potentiation: A new strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease."

January 30, 2012

Sahand Babapoor


Lisa King

"Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Saccade Generation."

"The Role of Situational Information in Processing Abstract Concepts."

February 6, 2012

Tyler Peel


Ben Wheal

"Behavioural effects of unilateral cryogenic inactivation of FEF."

"Spatiotemporal dynamics of cytosolic calcium in osteoclasts: Distinct patterns associated with lamellipod extension and uropod retraction."

February 13, 2012

February 20, 2012

Invited Speaker - Dr. Paul Frankland

February 27, 2012

Loretta Norton


Jeffrey Wong

March 5, 2012

Amber Good 


Samantha Podrebarac

"Toxin-induced gustatory conditioning in rats: The dose relationship between oral ingestion of lithium chloride and drinking behaviour."

"Haptic and visual perception of objects."

March 12, 2012

Danielle Bell Boucher


Brittany Draycott

"A novel genetic model of Parkinson disease: Multichannel tetrode recordings in the basal ganglia."

"The effects of cortical cannabinoid transmission on emotional learning and memory."

March 19, 2012

March 26, 2012
**To be held in the UH Auditorium A

Stacey Holbrook


Jordan Robinson


Heather McGregor

"Temporal changes of behaviour and neuropathology following a single intracerebroventricular infusion on propionic acid in rats."

"The pedunculopontine tegmentum nucleus, brainstem cholinergic function, and Parkinson's disease."

"Mapping functional changes in resting-state sensorimotor networks following motor learning."

April 2, 2012

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Easter Monday  -  No Seminars

April 9, 2012

 Adriana Diez Mendieta

Alvin Chin

Taylor Parrott

"Testing the template hypothesis of vocal learning in songbirds."

"An empirical exploration of optimal motor learning."

"Examining memory for beat based rhythms."

April 16, 2012

William Fields


Laura Beamish


Matt Hutchison

"The non-neuronal release of the acetycholine by murine neonatal cardiomyocytes."

"The influence of speech encoding on the use of auditory feedback during speech production."

"Dynamic brain connectivity."

April 23, 2012

Invited Speaker, Dr. Stephen Matthews

"Fetal Programming of Brain, Hormones, and Behaviour Across Generations."

April 30, 2012

May 7, 2012
*To be held in SSC 2050

Peter Nguyen

Scott MacDonald

May 14, 2012

May 21, 2012

May 28, 2012 

June 4, 2012