{"id":1767,"date":"2025-03-21T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2025-03-31T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:44:32","slug":"3-28-25-alex-tiriac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/03\/21\/3-28-25-alex-tiriac\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/28\/25 Alex Tiriac: Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Neuroscience Brown Bag<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/bio\/alexandre-tiriac\/\">Alex Tiriac<\/a>, PhD<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1770 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/21202107\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-152051-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/21202107\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-152051-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/21202107\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-152051.png 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>Hooley Family Dean\u2019s Faculty Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The Vanderbilt Brain Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Friday, March 28, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>1:25-2:15 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Wilson Hall 316<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Spontaneous neural activity is a hallmark of the developing nervous system, playing critical roles in circuit formation and refinement. The Tiriac Lab investigates how these intrinsically generated activity patterns shape neural development, with a particular emphasis on the visual system. Utilizing multidisciplinary approaches, including imaging techniques, electrophysiological recordings, and genetic manipulation, we have characterized the spatial and temporal dynamics of spontaneous activity and revealed its essential contributions to visual circuit maturation. In this talk, I will present an overview of our lab&#8217;s past and current projects, highlighting novel insights about the circuits that may influence spontaneous activities and the tools we are building to study the role of spontaneous activity on visual system development. I will also briefly introduce a new research direction in the lab aiming at understanding the role of spontaneous activity on the development of proprioceptive maps.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience Brown Bag Alex Tiriac, PhD Hooley Family Dean\u2019s Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. The Vanderbilt Brain Institute Date: Friday, March 28, 2025 Time:\u00a01:25-2:15 pm Location:\u00a0Wilson Hall 316 &nbsp; Understanding the role of spontaneous activity on brain development Spontaneous neural activity is a hallmark of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/21192724\/Screenshot-2025-03-21-142709.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}