Graduate Students participate in many departmental activities related to teaching and research:

TEACHING:

Brain, Mind and Behavior - Course for health science professional students

Laboratory Instruction

Review Sessions 

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience – Course for graduate students

Discussion Sessions

OTHER:

Brain Awareness Week presentations. Annual national program sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience. Graduate students present to area schools to increase interest in the neurosciences.

MedCamp presentations. Sponsored by NEOUCOM. Presented to high school students interested in careers in health sciences.

Tours of research facilities for undergraduate science majors from area colleges.

RESEARCH:

Presentations at National Conferences

Marsh, R.A. and Wenstrup, J.J. (2002). Responses to combinations of tones in the cochlear nucleus of awake mustached bats. Twenty-fifth Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup, J.J. (2002) Role of inhibition in shaping neural responses to complex stimuli in the inferior colliculus of mustached bat. Twenty-fifth Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup, J.J. (2002) Temporal properties of inhibition in combinatorial interactions in the mustached bat inferior colliculus. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Volume 28:Program No. 762.6.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup, J.J. (2003) Temporal Features of Spectral Interactions in the Inferior Colliculus of Mustached Bat. Twenty-sixth Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup, J.J. (2003). Neural mechanisms analyzing sonar and social vocalizations. First International Conference on Acoustic Communication by Animals.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup, J.J. (2004). Inhibitory combinatorial interactions in nuclei of the lateral lemniscus: Physiological response features and roles of glycinergic and GABAergic inhibition. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 30:Program No. 304.14.

Sanchez, J.T., Gans, D., and Wenstrup, J. (2004). Differential roles of ionotropic glutamate receptors on temporal response properties of inferior colliculus neurons. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 30:Program No. 952.4.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup, J. (2005). Role of glycinergic and gabaergic inhibition in inhibitory combinatorial interactions in the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus. Twenty-eighth Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Abstract 127

Sanchez, J.T., Gans, D., and Wenstrup, J. (2005). Roles of AMPA and NMDA mediated excitation on temporal response properties of inferior colliculus neurons. Twenty-eighth Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Abstract 123.

Sanchez, J.T., Gans, D., Wenstrup, J.J. (2005). Effects of glutamatergic receptor antagonist on inferior colliculus neurons. American Academy of Audiologists. Abstract #PP606.

Sanchez, J., Gans, D., and Wenstrup, J. (2006). Dominant role of inhibitory inputs in combination-sensitive facilitation: comparison of glycinergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission. Twenty-ninth Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Abstract 691.

Sanchez, J.T., Gans, D., Wenstrup, J.J. (2006). Spectral integration in the mustached bat’s inferior colliculus is mediated by glycinergic inputs. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Program No. 543.

Publications

Marsh, R.A., Fuzessery, Z.M., Grose, C.D., and Wenstrup, J.J. (2002). Projection to the inferior colliculus from the basal nucleus of the amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience 22:10449-10460.

Fuzessery, Z.M., Wenstrup, J.J., Hall., J.C., and Leroy, S. (2003) The role of inhibition in shaping response latency in the inferior colliculus. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 4:60-73.

Wenstrup, J.J., Leroy, S.A, Portfors, C., and Grose, C.D. (2003) Neural mechanisms underlying the analysis of target distance. In: Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins, J. Thomas, C. Moss, and M. Vater, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 146-153.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup J.J. (2005) Roles of inhibition in creating complex auditory responses in the inferior colliculus: facilitated combination-sensitive neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:3294-3312.

Marsh, R.A., Nataraj, K., Gans, D., Portfors, C.V., and Wenstrup, J.J. (2006) Auditory responses in the cochlear nucleus of awake mustached bats: precursors to complex properties in the auditory midbrain. Journal of Neurophysiology 95:88-105.

Nataraj, K. and Wenstrup J.J. (2006) Roles of inhibition in complex auditory responses in the inferior colliculus: inhibitory combination-sensitive neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 95:2179-2192.