Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

Title: "Neuroscience of dyslexia"

Presenter: Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychological Sciences & Director of BIRC, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Relevant Citations:
1) Hancock R, Pugh KR, Hoeft F. The neural noise hypothesis of developmental dyslexia. Trends Cogn Sci (TiCS) 2017;21(6):434-448. PMID: 28400089; PMCID: PMC548955
2) Ho TC, Sanders SJ, Gotlib IH, Hoeft F. Intergenerational Neuroimaging of Human Brain Circuitry. Trends Neuroscience (TiNS). 2016;39(10):644-648. PMID: 27623194; PMCID: PMC5067069

Host: Dr. Riqiang Yan, riyan@uchc.edu

Neuroscience Journal Club

Dea Gorka
Graduate Assistant
Chamberlain Lab

"Cholinergic Interneurons Amplify Thalamostriatal Excitation of Striatal Indirect Pathway Neurons in Parkinson’s Disease Models."

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.12.004

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Role of Bioinformatics in Precision Medicine at UConn Health"

Presenter:
Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD, Assistant Professor, Genetics & Genome Sciences, UConn Health, Farmington, CT

Citation:
Zeeshan Ahmed, Minjung Kim, Bruce T Liang; MAV-clic: management, analysis, and visualization of clinical data, JAMIA Open, ooy052, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooy052

Host: Dr. Royce Mohan, mohan@uchc.edu

Neuroscience Journal Club

Title: “Ferreting out cerebral cortical development.”

Presenter: BYOUNG-IL BAE, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Neuroscience
UConn Health, Farmington, CT

Citation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0035-0

***Due to the impending storm, the following seminar has been cancelled for tomorrow. Will be rescheduled for April 9th***

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Function and regulation of SLO-2 potassium channel".

Presenter:
Bojun Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, Farmington, CT

Relevant Citation: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/5/1073.long

Neuroscience Journal Club

Emily Fabrizio-Stover
Graduate Assistant

"Ube3a reinstatement mitigates epileptogenesis in Angelman syndrome model mice."

Citation Link: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/120816

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

"Inner ear mechanics: new techniques and new insights."

Presenter:
Marcel van der Heijden, Neurosciences Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands

Host: Dr. Leslie Bernstein, lbernstein@uchc.edu

Neuroscience Journal Club

Presenter:
Michal Ragan
Graduate Assistant


Paper to be presented:
"Dopaminergic neurons inhibit striatal output through non-canonical release of GABA"

Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944587/

Sponsored by the Kim Family Fund

“Cellular and Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Depression and Resilience to Social Stress: From the Preclinical Model to the Patient”

Presenter:
Ming-Hu Han, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Director, Center for Neuropharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Host: Dr. Xin-Ming Ma, ma@uchc.edu

Relevant links:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24744379

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Rapid+regulation+of+depression-related+behaviours

Neuroscience Journal Club

Title of paper to be presented:
"Clearance of senescent glial cells prevents tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline"

Presenter:
Ramalakshmi Ramasamy
Graduate Assistant

Citation & link:
Bussian TJ, Aziz A, Meyer CF, Swenson BL, van Deursen JM, Baker DJ. (2018): Clearance of senescent glial cells prevents tau-dependent pathology and cognitive decline. Nature. 562(7728):578-582

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0543-y