College of Medicine - Phoenix, Department of Translational Neurosciences
When
Where
Health Sciences Education Building, Room B302
435 N. Fifth St., Phoenix AZ 85004
Event Description
In this Department of Translational Neurosciences guest seminar, Alexandria Lesicko, PhD, of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a talk titled "Predictive and movement-correlated modulation in the auditory midbrain."
Presenter Details
Alexandria Lesicko, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Lesicko is interested in deviance detection and multisensory processing in the auditory midbrain, or inferior colliculus. She uses optogenetics and in vivo electrophysiology to determine how projections from the auditory cortex affect metrics of deviance detection in the inferior colliculus. She has found that input from the auditory cortex regulates processing of both repetition and prediction cues in the inferior colliculus.
She has also received funding from the BRAIN Initiative to study how auditory and somato-motor information are encoded in the inferior colliculus using a combination of two-photon imaging, behavior and network analysis techniques. She completed both her bachelor’s degree (molecular and cellular biology) and PhD (neuroscience) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied modularity in the multisensory inputs and local connections of the inferior colliculus with Dr. Daniel Llano. She is one of the co-organizers of the EARS seminar series.