Translational Neurosciences - Seminars

Details: New Neuroscience Research in Progress Seminar CTS 696N / WIPPS
Seminar Title: miRNA signature matching for neurological disorders
Speaker: Briana Byrne, BS, PhD, Student (CTS); From the Labs of Dr. Isabelle Schrauwen, Department of Translational Neurosciences and Dr. Vladimir Vladimirov, Department of Psychiatry

Details: New Neuroscience Research in Progress Seminar CTS 696N / WIPPS
Seminar Title: What happens when the lights go out? Maladaptive plasticity in the P23H mouse
Speaker: Thomas Christopher Brown, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow; From the Lab of Dr. Aaron McGee, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: Auditory Processing and Modulation in the Auditory Cortex
Chalk Talk: Circuit-specific roles and regulation of myelin across development and repair
Speaker: Franziska Auer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience Institute; NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: Predictive and movement-correlated modulation in the auditory midbrain
Chalk Talk: Circuit and physiological mechanisms underlying flexible auditory processing
Speaker: Alexandria Lesicko, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Details: New Neuroscience Research in Progress Seminar CTS 696N / WIPPS
Seminar Title: Homeostatic Kappa Opioid Receptor-Cdk5 Signaling in Cocaine Addiction 
Speaker: Shahram Zarrabian, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, from the Lab of Dr. James Bibb, Department of Translational Neurosciences and Brittany Phelps, MS, CTS PhD Student from the Lab of Dr. Isabelle Schrauwen, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Details: New Neuroscience Research in Progress Seminar CTS 696N / WIPPS
Seminar Title: Neuroinflammation: From Spark to Wildfire
Speaker: Jessica Contreras, MS, Research Professional I. From the Lab of Dr. James Bibb, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: New Insights into Old Neurons by Protein Tagging
Speaker: Ian Guldner, PhD, Instructor, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University.

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Anti-sense Oligonucleotide development for treating rare neurogenetic pediatric movement disorders
Speaker: Robert Schafer, BS, Research Technician II, from the lab of Dr. Michael Kruer, Medical Director, Pediatric Movement Disorders Program, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Department of Child Health and Neurogenetics.

Details: Faculty Candidate Seminar and Chalk Talk
Seminar Title: Computational Approaches in Biophysics and Vaccine Design
Chalk Talk: Computational and AI-Driven Strategies for Antibody Design and Therapeutic Optimization
Speaker: Myungjin Lee, PhD; Senior Scientist, Computational Science OncoC4, Inc., Rockville, MD

Details: Special Guest Seminar and Chalk Talk
Seminar Title: Auditory Processing and Modulation in the Auditory Cortex
Chalk Talk: Synaptic Mechanisms for Movement Processing in the Auditory Cortex
Speaker: Kyunghee Kim, PhD, Staff Scientist, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine.

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Regulation of midbrain dopamine neuron ramping activity
Speaker: Gokul Krishna, MPharm, PhD, Research Scientists III, From the Lab of Dr. Melissa Warden, Associate Professor, Department of Translational Neurosciences.

Details: Department of Translational Neurosciences - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Seminar Title: FKBP5 Drives Myeloid Inflammatory Responses in Multiple Sclerosis and Preclinical Models
Speaker: Claudia Cantoni, PhD; Assistant Professor, Barrow Neurological Institute 

Details: Department of Translational Neurosciences - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Seminar Title: Dissecting the Synaptic Basis of Learning In Vivo
Speaker: William (Jake) Wright, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurobiology Section, University of California, San Diego 

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: Harnessing neuromodulation to investigate amygdala encoding of affect
Speaker: Sean Piantadosi, PhD, Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: Conformal Organ Interfaces for Real-Time, Chronic, Physiological Insight
Speaker: Philipp Gutruf, PhD, Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Arizona 

Details: Special Guest Seminar
Seminar Title: Mechanisms of somatosensory cortical map plasticity in the healthy and stroke injured brain.
Speaker: William Zeiger, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of Neurology, University of California – Los Angeles

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Somatic PIK3CA activating mutation in a plexiform lesion of a patient with HHT and PAH
Speaker: Tucker Hallmark, PhD, Research Scientist III, from the Lab of Dr. Katharina Schimmel, Department of Child Health and Phoenix Children's Research Institute

Details: Department of Translational Neurosciences - Fall 2025 Seminar Series
Seminar Title: Evolution of adaptive circuitry in mammalian neocortex
Speaker: Joshua Trachtenberg, PhD; Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Department of Neurobiology, and UCLA Brain Institute 

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Lateral habenula circuits for the regulation of goal-directed behavior
Speaker: Pamela Miranda, PhD, Post‐Doctoral Research Assoc.; From the Lab of Dr. Melissa Warden, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Exploring the role of glia in visual circuit plasticity
Speaker: Hongtao Ma, PhD, Research Scientist III, From the Lab of Dr. Aaron McGee, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Seminar Title: Age-related hearing loss: New insights from animal models and human histopathology
Speaker: M. Charles Liberman, PhD, Schuknecht Professor of OHNS, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Study of mechanisms mediating auditory function paragangliomas
Speaker: Dolores Columba Perez Flores PhD, Research Scientist III, Department of Translational Neurosciences; Lab of Dr. Ebenezer Yamoah 

Seminar Title: Synaptic Transmission between Type 1 hair cells and afferent in the vestibular inner ear
Speaker: Donatella Contini, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois College of Medicine

Seminar Title: Vocal communication: from behavior to neurons
Speaker: Julie Elie, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California - Berkeley

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Rotational traumatic brain injury: Bridging preclinical models to clinical relevance
Speaker: Julián Ramos, BS; Research Scientist/Technician, Department of Translational Neurosciences; Lab of James A. Bibb, PhD 

Seminar Title: Cell-type specific mechanisms of depression in the nucleus accumbens
Speaker: Hee-Dae Kim, Researcher/Scientist IV in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Lab of Dr. Deveroux Ferguson.

Seminar Title: Exploring opioid receptor pharmacology and the discovery of novel therapeutic targets 
Speaker: Todd Vanderah, PhD, Department Head and Professor of Pharmacology and Co-Director, MD/PhD Dual Degree Program 

Details: New Works in Progress & Pizza Seminars (WIPPS)
Seminar Title: Hypoxic mechanisms in pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas 
Speaker: Kuldeep Gupta, PhD, Research Scientist III. From the lab of James Bibb, PhD, Department of Translational Neurosciences    

Seminar Title: Effects of posterior caudatoputamen indirect pathway activity on auditory cortical activation in female rats
Speaker: Talal Zafar, PhD, Research Technician II. From the lab of James A. Bibb, PhD, Department of Translational Neurosciences     

Seminar Title: Internet- and Mobile Lab-Based Approaches for the Study of Cognition: Scale and Diversity to Empower Precision Aging
Speaker: Matt Huentelman, PhD. Professor and Co-Director of the Early Detection and Prevention Division. Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

Seminar Title: Novel gene discovery methods for neurodevelopmental disorders
Speaker: Anushree Acharya, MS, Research Scientist III. From the lab of Dr. Isabelle Schrauwen, Department of Translational Neurosciences
 

Seminar Title: From neuroscience to neuroendocrine cancer and back again
Speaker: Andres Diaz, MD/PhD Candidate, Cancer Biology Graduate Program. From the Lab of Dr. James Bibb, Department of Translational Neurosciences

Seminar Title: PHX Neuroscience Community Data Blitz
Details: Join us for an engaging session hosted by the Department of Translational Neuroscience. Dinner will be provided to all attendees. Please note that Zoom will not be available for this meeting.

Seminar Title: Role of Reduced HGF/MET Signaling in Synaptic Pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models
Speaker: Jing Wei, PhD, Assistant Scientific Investigator. From the Lab of Dr. Shenfeng Qiu, Department of Basic Medical Sciences.

Seminar Title: Illuminating Microglia: A Time-Lapse Journey into the Brain's Response to Injury
Speaker: Daniel Griffiths, BS, Researcher/Scientist III working in the Lab of Dr. Jonathan Lifshitz, Psychiatry.