"Exploring the role of spinal dopamine in the transition to chronic pain"
Presented by Angela Smith
Graduate student in Dr. Kathleen Sluka's lab
"Leaving the Lamina Terminalis: Investigating Thirst Circuitry Downstream of the Median Preoptic Nucleus"
Presented by Trevor Butler
Graduate student in Dr. Jon Resch's lab
"Building a Social Brain: Genes, Circuits and Behavior"
Presented by Maya Opendak, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Solomon H. Snyder Dept of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (RAMP)"
Presented by Katherine Hadlandsmyth, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Anesthesia
University of Iowa
"Development of the Human Neocortex: from Progenitors to Circuits"
Presented by Li Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
The Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar Series highlights trainees and junior faculty from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in neuroscience. We meet virtually once each month—featuring one Big Ten institution—for presentations and discussion/networking. Seminars are scheduled for afternoons on the third Friday of each month. Zoom link is provided by the host institution. If not added in the event listing, please email iowa-neuroscience-institute@uiowa.edu the week of the seminar to...
"How to change your mind: Molecular mechanisms of excitatory synapse development and plasticity"
Presented by Elva Denise Diaz, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
UC Davis School of Medicine