RIC Lecture Series

All Talks are at 3 pm and in room 2.534 of the Research Imaging Center, unless otherwise specified.

• Jul 25, 2008: Peter T. Fox, M.D. Director, Research Imaging Center, UT Health Science Center "3T Trio Upgrade"
• Jul 18, 2008: Peter T. Fox, M.D. Director, Research Imaging Center, UT Health Science Center "State of the RIC"
• Jul 3, 2008 10 AM: Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University of California "A Critique of Pure Vision"
• May 30, 2008: Emily Stanley, Social Science Research Associate I, Research Imaging Center, UTHSCSA "Tone Language Study: ERPs and Behavior"
• May 23, 2008: Allan D. Coop, PhD, Computational Biology Initiative, UTHSCSA/UTSA, Instructor/Research "Information Theoretic Analysis of Biological Processes"
• May 9, 2008: John Buchanan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, "Integrating and Switching Motor Primitives to Adapt Rapid Aiming Responses to Changing Environmental Conditions"
• May 2, 2008: Nicole Wicha, Ph.D., TBA
• April 11, 2008: J. Daniel Ragland, Ph.D., University of California at Davis Imaging Research Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences "How Prefrontal Control Relates to Episodic Memory Impairment in Schizophrenia"
• April 4, 2008: Iris T. Facundo, "Faculty Training in Grants"
• March 28, 2008: Jennifer Robinson, Ph.D., Psychiatric Neuroimaging Core, Department of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA "Neurophysiological Effects of Exogenous Cortisol Administration"
• March 21, 2008: Jennifer Robinson, Post-doctoral Fellow, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Core, Department of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA "Neurophysiological Effects of Exogenous Cortisol Administration"
• March 14, 2008: Keith A. Bartels, Ph.D. Manager, Biomedical Engineering Section, Southwest Research Institute "FDA Oversight of Medical Device Design, Manufacturing & Marketing"
• Wednesday, March 12, 2008: Dr. Kirrie J. Ballard, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia "Genotype-phenotype relationships in speech disorders: FOXP2 as example"
• February 29, 2008: Elena Salillas, Ph.D. Department of Biology, UTSA and Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Trieste, Italy "Numbers, Space & Language: Linked Domains? Data from TMS & ERP"
• February 22, 2008: Yusheng Feng, Associate Professor and Director, Computational Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Univeristy of Texas at San Antonio "MR Thermal Imaging Guided Laser Therapy for Prostate Cancer Treatment and Real Time Optimal Control"
• February 15, 2008: Natalie Ceballos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pschology, Texas State University, San Marcos "Substance Abuse & Co-Morbid Disorders: Brain Maturation in Adolescents at Risk"
• February 8, 2008: Todd Troyer, UTSA "A Behavioral Analysis of the Motor Code for Birdsong"
• February 1, 2008: Jennifer Robinson, Post-doctoral Fellow, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Core, Department of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA "Neurophysiological Effects of Exogenous Cortisol Administration"
• January 25, 2008: Matt Cykowski, UTHSCSA "A preliminary study of developmental stuttering with diffusion tensor imaging"
• January 18, 2007: David Resse McKay, Student of Neuroscience Imaging, UTHSCSA "Compartmental TMS"
• Dec 14^th 2007: Dr. Timothy P. Mottet, Professor & Henry W. & Margaret Hauser Chair Department of Communication, The University of Texas-Pan American "Exploring the Effects of TBIs on Social Communication & Relational Outcomes"
• 1:00 PM Dec 7^th 2007: Claudia S. Robertson, M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine "Erythropoietin Neuroprotection" and
  Robert M. Bryan, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine "Increased Vascular Resistance after TBI"
• Nov 30^th 2007: Hugo Cornelis, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow "Computational Model Publication: a Neuroscience Case Study"
• Oct 12^th 2007: Daniel Perugini, D.O B.G. USA (Ret.), Associate Vice President for Research, Office of the Vice President for Research "Security 101 at the Research Imaging Center" MANDATORY for all RIC personnel and affliates
• Sep 28^th 2007: Robin Hilsabeck, PhD, ABPP-CN Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry "Relationship between Inteferon-alpha and Cognitive Dysfunction in Patients with Hepatitis C"
• Jul 13^th 2007: Peter T Fox, M.D. "PubMed Plus: New Directions in Publishing and Data Mining"
• Jun 29^th 2007: Jack L Lancaster, Michael Martinez. "Preview of Mango a Freely Distributed Image Analysis Application."
• Tue, Jun 5^th 2007: Angela Laird, Ai-Ling Lin & Shalini Narayana. "OHBM Practice Talks."
• Jun 1^th 2007 at 3:30 PM: Mark A Smith, PhD, Case Western Reserve University. "Molecular Mechanisms in Alzheimer Disease: Facts and Fictions."
• May 25^th 2007: Luis Schettino, PhD, Trinity University. "Temporal Parameters of Handshape Determination During Grasping."
• Tuesday May 22^th 2007 at 12:00 PM: Jack de la Torre, PhD, Case Western Reserve University. "Neuroimaging techniques to predict candidates for Alzheimer's disease."
• May 18^th 2007: Evangelos Christou, PhD, Texas A & M University. "Aging and the neuromuscular control of fine motor output."
• May 4^th 2007: Timothy Schallert, PhD, University of Texas at Austin. "Behavior-dependent neuroplasticity and cell survival in animal models of Parkinson's disease and stroke."
• Apr 20^th 2007: Barbara T Conboy, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, The University of Washington. "Dual language experience in infancy: Language experience, cognitive factors, and brain development."
• Apr 13^th 2007: Charles J Wilson, PhD, Professor of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio. "Ionic mechanisms governing the spontaneous activity of striatal cholinergic interneurons."
• Mar 30^th 2007: Amy Ramage, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, Research Imaging Center. "Adaptation to perturbations in normal sentence comprehension: Evidence from behavioral and fMRI data."
• Mar 23^rd 2007: Swathi Kiran, PhD, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin. "Treatment for naming deficits in aphasia."
• Mar 9^th 2007: Thomas Coyle, PhD, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio. "Using Factor Analysis to Identify Frontal Brain Networks Involved in Executive Function in Older Adults."
• Mar 2^nd 2007: George Bartzokis, MD, Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine-UCLA, Director, UCLA Memory Disorders & Alzheimer's Disease Clinic, Director, Clinical Core-UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Ctr. "Brain aging and age-related risk factors for neurodegenerative disorders."
• Feb 6^th 2007: Christopher A. Rábago, PT, MPT, MEd., Doctoral Student, Research Imaging Center, UTSA/UTHSCSA Biomedical Engineering, PhD Candidacy Proposal Defense. "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Based Neuro-evaluative and Neuro-modulatory Tools."
• Jan 12^th 2007: Julie Wambaugh, PhD, CCC/SLP, Associate Professor, University of Utah. "Treatment for Acquired Apraxia of Speech."
• Jan 26^th 2007: Timothy Q Duong, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology & Radiology, Director, Yerkes Imaging Center, Yerkes Research Center, Emory University. "Recent technical advances in MRI: Application to stroke and retinal diseases."
• Dec 15^th 2006: Adam Jacks, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTHSCSA, Research Imaging Center. "Exploring the neural mechanisms of speech motor control."
• Dec 8^th 2006: Jennifer Robinson PhD, UTHSCSA. "Physiological and Cognitive Consequences of Emotion Regulation."
• Wednesday, Dec 6^th 2006: Kihak Lee, PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering, UTHSCSA/UTSA. "A Positron-probe for Arterial Input Function Quantification:  Implementation and H2O15 Characterization in Rodents and Humans."
• Wednesday, Dec 6^th 2006: Felipe S. Salinas, PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering, UTHSCSA/UTSA. "Detailed 3-D Models of the Induced Electric Field of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coils."
• Dec 1^st 2006: Baxter P. Rogers, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science. "Connectivity Modeling of fMRI Data."
• Nov 17^th 2006: Dr Ashley Acheson, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Imaging Center. "Animal and human laboratory models of a form of impulsivity."
• Oct 20^th 2006: Tom Arnow, Research Imaging Center. "From vision modeling to visual search - A long sad saga."
• Oct 13^th 2006: Hugo Cornelis, PhD, Research Imaging Center. "Computational neuroscience simulators: Software design and application to cerebellar purkinje cell modeling."
• Sep 29^th 2006: Dr. Angela Laird PhD, UTHSCSA, Research Imaging Center."Modeling functional neuroimaging data using BrainMap, meta-analysis, and structural equation modeling."
• Sep 15^th 2006: Roger Ingham, PhD & Janis Ingham, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara. "An overview of the grant project Stuttering Therapy and Neurophysiological Interaction."
• Sep 8^th 2006: David Glahn, PhD, Research Imaging Center, Department of Psychiatry. "Neurocognitive and Neuroimaging Endophenotypic Markers for Psychotic Illnesses."
• Aug 25^th 2006: Lisa D. Nickerson, Harvard Medical School. "Experiences and Progress on My NIDA K Award: Novel Use of fMRI to Study Substance Abuse Problems."
• Feb 16^th 2006: Matthew Cykowski, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, Research Imaging Center. "A preliminary study of central sulcus morphology."
• Feb 9^th 2006: Donald A. Robin, PhD, Professor, Research Imaging Center, Depts. of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery & Physical Therapy. "Apraxia of speech: a disorder of motor programming."