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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 44min
Episode 325 - Dayu Lin, PhD.
On February 19, 2026 we were visited by Dr. Dayu Lin to hear about her work on some of the cell groups that make up the hypothalamus and their function in activating innate social behaviors in mice, i...
23 Feb 42min
Episode 324 - Jonathan Bohmann, PhD
On February 5, 2026 we met with Dr.Jonathan Bohmann to learn about the structure and function of acetylcholinesterase, the extracellular enzyme that controls the strength and time course of neurotrans...
5 Feb 39min
Episode 323 - Fidel Santamaria, PhD
On January 30, 2026, Fidel Santamaria returned to the podcast (after 18 years) to talk about the thermodynamics of ion channel activation and deactivation, and the changes in neuronal activity that oc...
2 Feb 35min
