Episode 333 - Courtney Rouse, PhD
On April 30, 2026, we met with Dr. Courtney Rouse from the Southwest Research Institute. We discussed approaches to designing machine learning methods for neuroscience data analysis.Guest:Courtney Rou...
4 Mai 39min
Episode 332 - Vanesaa Nieto-Estévez and Parul Varma, PhDs
On April 23, 2026 I met with Drs. Vanesa Nieto Estévez and Parul Varma to talk about brain organoids made from cells derived from patients with genetic childhood epilepsy. Vanesa and Parul explained h...
27 Apr 36min
Episode 330 - Marcelo Marucho, PhD
On April 9, 2026 I spoke with Dr. Marcelo Marucho, on the electrical properties of actin filaments and microtubules, ubiquitous components of the cytoskeleton of nearly all cells. He explained how the...
13 Apr 33min
Episode 329 - Daniel Llano, MD, PhD
On April 2, 2026 we met with Dr. Daniel Llano to discuss the organization of the largest subcortical auditory brain structure, the inferior colliculus. He told us about the three major subnuclei withi...
6 Apr 42min
Episode 328 - Place Cells and Spatial Imagination
On March 26, 2026, we held our annual UTSA Neuroscience Symposium entitled "From Place Cells to Cognition", featuring 5 speakers presenting original research on the cognitive functions of hippocampal ...
30 Mar 38min
Episode 327 - Se-Woong Park, PhD
On March 19, 2026 we spoke with Dr. Se-Woong Park about the idea that many of the symptoms of Autism may arise from changes in brain mechanisms that allow us to predict events in the near future from ...
23 Mar 45min
Episode 326 - Peter Fox, MD
On February 26, 2026 we were joined by Dr. Peter Fox to talk about quantitative brain imaging methods and how they can reveal localized changes in brain structure in brain disorders that traditionally...
2 Mar 44min
