The Seminars in Integrative Neuroscience (SINS) is held in person at 9:00 am on select Wednesdays in the 6th floor conference room (room 600) in the Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Emory Clifton Campus.
Seminars in Integrative Neuroscience in run by Dr. Shawn Hochman. Harriet Moore is the website manager.
Please send requests for e-mail inclusion on the seminar listserv to Dr. Hochman.
Spring 2025:
January 8:
January 15:
January 22: CANCELLED - Rescheduled until January 29.
January 29: Speakers: Custer Liu & Eric Kent; Title: Contributions of Somatosensory System Components to Texture Discrimination; Host: Alan Emanuel, PhD, Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine
February 5:
February 12:
February 19:
February 26: Speaker: William McCallum, Ph.D. Candidate, NRSA Fellow, Emory University, Neuroscience Ph.D. Program; Title: Inhibitory spinal cord circuits controlling motor output.
March 5:
March 12:
March 19:
March 26:
April 2:
April 9:
April 16:
April 23:
April 30:
May 7:
May 14:
May 21:
May 28:
Past Seminars
Fall 2024:
September 4:
September 11:
September 18:
September 25:
October 2:
October 9: SfN meeting
October 16:
October 23:
October 30: Speaker: Matt Rowan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine; Talk Title: "Surprising Functional Differences Between Layer 5 and Layer 2/3 Neuron Dendrites". Host: Shawn Hochman, PhD, Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine.
November 6:
November 13: Speaker: Shawn Hochman, PhD, Professor, Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine; Talk Title: "Spinal cord injury-induced corruption of sensory signaling and neuropathic pain".
November 20:
November 27: THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 4:
December 11:
December 18:
December 25: HOLIDAY RECESS
Spring 2024:
February 14, 2024: Speaker: Maria F. Bandres, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University in St. Louis; Title: "Promises of spinal stimulation for multi-modal rehabilitation after SCI: The dreams of the spinal cord, and the blurry borders of spinal sensory transmission after injury"; Host: Shawn Hochman, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine.
February 21:
February 28:
March 6:
March 13:
March 20:
March 27:
April 3: Speaker: Olivia Kalimon, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky; Title: "Characterizing mitochondrial dysfunction in female mice after severe TBI”; Host: Candace Floyd, PhD, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine.
April 10:
April 17: Speaker: Wanyi Liu, PhD Candidate, Vicario Lab at Rutgers University; Title: "Adaptive Coding of Phonetic Categories and Acoustic Features in the Songbird Forebrain"; Host: Alan Emanuel, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine.
April 24:
May 1: Speaker: David Gimbel, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine; Title: “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Requires Cellular Prion Protein in an Alzheimer’s Like Molecular Pathway”; Host: Candace Floyd, PhD, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine.
Fall 2023:
September 6: Speaker: Zeynab Alshelh, PhD, (Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychophysics and Imaging Neuroscience (PaIN) Lab, Emory University; Title: "PET and fMRI imaging in chronic pain conditions"; Host: Daniel Harper, PhD, Emory University.
September 13:
September 20: Speaker: T Richard Nichols, PhD, FAPS, (Professor Emeritus, Physiology Group, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology); Title: TBA; Host: Shawn Hochman, PhD, Emory University.
September 27:
October 4:
October 11:
October 18: Speaker: Cassandra Wolsh, (Graduate Student - Cellular and Integrative Physiology, UT Health, San Antonio); Title: TBA; Host: Candace Floyd, PhD, Emergency Medicine.
October 25: Speaker: Shawn Hochman, PhD, Professor, Cell Biology, Emory School of Medicine; Title: Principles of sympathetic CNS control of the final common output.
November 1:
November 8: Speaker: Candace Floyd, PhD, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Emory School of Medicine; Title: Developing a choice maze for assessing spontaneous pain in pigs.
November 15:
November 22: NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving week
November 29:
December 6:
December 13: Dr. Veronika Koren (Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf); Title: "Efficient multilayer spiking network as a model of the somatosensory pathway between mechanoreceptors and S1"; Host: Alan Emanuel, PhD, Emory Cell Biology.
December 20:
December 27: NO SEMINAR - Winter recess
Spring 2023:
January 4, 2023: No Speaker
January 11, 2023: Speaker: Matt Bryson (PhD student - Hochman lab); Talk Title: "Spinal cord injury induces epileptiform activity in spinal sensory circuits"; Host: Shawn Hochman.
January 18, 2023: Speaker: Rachel Jang (PhD student - Garraway Lab); Talk title: "TrkB-mediated responses in primary sensory neurons decrease after spinal cord injury"; Host: Sandra Garraway.
January 25, 2023: No Speaker
February 1, 2023: Speaker: Tana Sue Pottorf (PhD Student - Alvarez lab); Talk Title: "Death, Destruction, and Destiny: Microglia-Motoneuron Interactions in the Spinal Cord Following Peripheral Nerve Injury"; Host: Franciso Alvarez.
February 8, 2023: Speaker: Shawn Hochman, PhD; Talk Title: "Ectopia and sensory circuit degeneracy after spinal injury".
February 22, 2023:
March 1, 2023:
March 8, 2023: Speaker: Olivia Mistretta, MS (PhD student - Alvarez Lab and English Lab); "A Novel Technique for Analyzing Coordinated Rhythmic Movement"; Host: Paco Alvarez and Art English.
March 15, 2023:
Speaker:
Candace L. Floyd, PhD
Director, Emory Neurotrauma Translational Research Center (ENTiRe)
Director, Brain Research Laboratory (BRL)
Acting Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
March 22, 2023
March 29, 2023: Speaker: Astrid A. Prinz, PhD (Associate Professor, Emory Department of Biology); Talk Title: "Temporal dynamics of Na/K pump mediated memory traces: insights from conductance-based models of Drosophila neurons"
April 5, 2023: Speaker: Alan Emanuel, PhD (Assistant Professor, Emory Department of Cell Biology); Talk Title: "Melanopsin Neurons Balance Persistent Activity with Adaptation to Encode Light Intensity"; Host: Shawn Hochman.
April 12, 2023: Speaker: Adam Hamilton (PhD Student - Sampson Lab); Talk Title: TBA; Host: Timothy Sampson.
April 19, 2023: Speaker: Viktor Olah, PhD (Postdoc - Rowan Lab); Tentative Talk Title: "'Hidden’ HCN channels in cortical L2/3 pyramidal neurons and their critical role in sensory information processing"; Host: Matt Rowan.
April 26, 2023
May 3, 2023
May 10, 2023
May 17, 2023: Speaker: Mallika Halder (PhD Student - Hochman lab); Talk Title: TBA; Host: Shawn Hochman.
Fall 2022:
September 7, 2022
September 14, 2022
September 21, 2022
September 28, 2022
October 5, 2022
October 12, 2022: Speaker: Nora Vrieler; Talk Title: “Network connectivity and action potential generation in the inferior olive nucleus”; Host: Marie Claude Perreault.
October 19, 2022
October 26, 2022
November 2, 2022: Speaker: Travis Rotterman, PhD; Talk Title: "Minocycline treatment rescues Ia synapse structure but not function following peripheral nerve injury." ; Host: Francisco Alvarez.
November 9, 2022: Speaker: Andrew Worthy (PhD student, Alvarez lab); Talk Title: "V1 Interneurons Expressing Foxp2 are a Highly Heterogeneous Clade."; Host: Francisco Alvarez.
November 16, 2022
November 30, 2022
December 7, 2022: Speaker: Chris Rodgers, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgey, Emory School of Medicine; Talk Title: "Active auditory and tactile sensory processing"; Host: Shawn Hochman.
December 14, 2022:
December 21, 2022:
Spring 2022:
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| January 12, 2022 | Shawn Hochman, PhD |
"Axonal branch point failure: state-dependent modifiability in autonomic motor unit size"
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| February 9, 2022 | Jacob Davis: PhD student; Texas A&M | "The impact of anesthesia on pain-induced deficits following spinal cord injury in rats" | Sandra Garraway, PhD |
| February 15, 2022: TUESDAY INSTEAD OF WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK |
Nick Au Yong, MD, PhD: Emory Neurosurgery
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"Neuromodulation of Phrenic Sympathetics to Restore Diaphragm Function" |
Shawn Hochman, PhD |
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| April 27, 2022 | |||
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| May 11, 2022 |
Frank Bosmans, PhD Professor
Ghent University School of Medicine
Basic & Applied Medical Sciences
Molecular Physiology & Neurophysics Lab |
"Sodium channels and sensory perception" |
Shawn Hochman, PhD |
| May 18, 2022 |
Matt Rowan, PhD Assistant Professor Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine |
"Implementation of high-throughput, intersectional methods to uncover early physiological deficits in neurodegenerative disease" |
Shawn Hochman, PhD |
| May 25, 2022 |
Fall 2021:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
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| October 27, 2021 |
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| November 3, 2021 | Shawn Hochman, PhD |
"Spinal sensory circuit driven epileptiform burst spiking in primary afferent axons"
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Shawn Hochman, PhD |
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| November 24, 2021 | |||
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| December 15, 2021 | Daniel Harper, PhD | "Unbiased measurement of pain sensitivity in warmth-insensitive fields" | Shawn Hochman, PhD |
| December 22, 2021 |
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