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NBIO Recruitment Candidate Seminar: Wendy Xin (University of California, San Francisco) "Myelination: a gateway for brain plasticity"
Seminar title:
"Myelination: a gateway for brain plasticity"
Abstract:
Wendy is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She obtained a BSc at the University of Toronto and a PhD in Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on the influence of oligodendrocytes and their myelin sheaths on neuronal circuit function and plasticity. Wendy will present evidence that the progression of myelination is modulated by sensory experience during postnatal development and, in turn, regulates the ability for cortical neurons to undergo experience dependent plasticity. These results establish a crucial role for oligodendrocytes in shaping the maturation and stabilization of cortical circuits and support the concept of developmental myelination acting as a functional brake on neuronal plasticity.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Recruitment Candidate Seminar: Mark Gradwell (Rutgers University) "From Touch to Pain: Insights into the spinal and supraspinal circuits that underlie the way we feel and move."
Talk title:
From Touch to Pain: Insights into the spinal and supraspinal circuits that underlie the way we
feel and move.
Abstract:
Our somatosensory system encodes a wide range of tactile stimuli essential for object recognition, texture discrimination, and sensory-motor coordination. My research integrates advanced electrophysiology, optogenetics, molecular genetics, and behavior analysis to explore how tactile information is encoded from the skin to the brain, shaping both sensory perception and motor function.
This work addresses three interrelated themes: (1) Segregation of Spinal Cord Touch and Pain Circuits, where I identified a critical role for inhibitory interneurons in maintaining distinct sensory modalities within the spinal cord dorsal horn, and mechanisms by which touch can aberrantly engage pain circuits; (2) The Role of the Dorsal Column Nucleus (DCN) in Neuropathic Pain, where I characterized the cellular and synaptic organization of this major brainstem relay and demonstrated its…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Recruitment Candidate Seminar: Marito Hayashi (Harvard Medical School) "Intestinal sensory cells that differentially control ingestion-related physiology and behavior"
Title:
Intestinal sensory cells that differentially control ingestion-related physiology and behavior
Short abstract:
Signals emanating from the gastrointestinal tract regulate a myriad of physiological and behavioral
programs such as food consumption, metabolism, digestion, food preference learning, and visceral pain.
The primary sensory cells within the gastrointestinal tract are termed enteroendocrine cells, but it is not
well understood how signal detection by enteroendocrine cells leads to these diverse responses. In this
talk, I will discuss how we established mouse genetic models to identify multiple gut-brain sensory cells
that differentially regulate ingestion-related physiology and behavior. Our studies establish in vivo
genetic modulation of enteroendocrine cells as a tractable strategy to reveal mechanistic insights into
the organization of the gut-brain axis in health and disease, where I aim to uncover the sensory origins
and circuit mechanisms of the gut-brain axis in my future lab.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Recruitment Candidate Seminar: Sven Dorkenwald (Allen Institute and University of Washington)
Talk title and abstract coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Recruitment Candidate Seminar: Deepa Ramamurthy (UC Berkeley)
Talk title and abstract coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Recruitment Candidate Seminar: Vikram Vijayan (The Rockefeller University and HHMI)
Talk title and abstract coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G-328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Presents: Courtney Glavis-Bloom (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Presents: Ted Erclik (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.
NBIO Presents: Arif Hamid (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center G (HSG). Campus room: G328. Accessibility Contact: nbio@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM.