When:
Friday, May 27, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Ward Building, Neuroscience Conference Room 5-230, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Emily Larsen
Group: Department of Neuroscience Seminars
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Joshua Goldberg, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medical Neurobiology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract:
In my talk I will describe two of our recent studies of how cholinergic interneurons (CINs) impact striatal processing. In the first part, I will demonstrate that CINs delay the spiking of spiny projection neurons via tonic activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on GINs. In the second part, I will propose that dendritic nonlinearities in CINs (that we interrogate optogenetically) help them differentially process their two afferent excitatory inputs from cortex and thalamus.