Episode 42 -- Nancy Wexler, PhD and Alice Wexler, PhD
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Nancy Wexler (Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, President Hereditary Disease Foundation) and historian Alice W...
11 Nov 20091h 4min
Episode 41 -- Ila Fiete, PhD
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Ila Fiete (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning & Memory, UT Austin) discusses the "how" and the "why" of rate coding, the principles of sparseness, capacity and opti...
5 Nov 200947min
Episode 40 -- Bernd Fritzsch, PhD
Thursday, October 29, 2009 Bernd Fritzsch (Professor & Chair, University of Iowa) provides an historical perspective on developmental genetics, and the changing concept of lineage from a genetic po...
29 Okt 200952min
Episode 39 -- Garret Stuber, PhD
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Garret Stuber (Associate Scientist/Bonci Lab, Gallo Institute UCSF) discusses how he is adapting optogenetic tools to study reward learning. Duration: 44 minutes Discussan...
15 Okt 200944min
Episode 38 -- Dennis McFadden, PhD
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Dennis McFadden (Ashbel Smith Professor, UT Austin) discusses otoacoustic emissions, their purpose, and how he is using them as a possible measure of early sexual differen...
8 Okt 200943min
Episode 37 -- Brenton Cooper, PhD
Thursday, September 24, 2009 Brenton Cooper (Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University) discusses peripheral constraints (i.e., sensory feedback and motor control) on song development. Durati...
24 Sep 200940min
Episode 36 -- Melissa Saenz, PhD
Thursday, September 17, 2009 Melissa Saenz, (Post-doc, Christof Koch Lab, CalTech) discusses cross modal brain plasticity with respect to cortical specialization, and her discovery of the new pheno...
17 Sep 200940min
Episode 35 -- Tianyi Mao, PhD
Thursday, September 10, 2009 Tianyi Mao, (Assistant Professor, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University; currently Svoboda Lab, Janelia Farm) talk about characterizing cell types and neu...
10 Sep 200934min
