Conte Center@UCI 9th Annual Symposium, featuring Keynote Speaker, Dr. Diego Pizzagalli

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering 100 Academy Wy, Irvine, CA, United States

Join the UCI Conte Center at its 9th Annual Symposium titled, Origins of Mental Health and Disease: Research and Reality, happening on March 23, 2022. The event features keynote speaker, Diego Pizzagalli, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the Center Director for a Silvio O. Conte Center for Basic Translational Mental Health Research…

Free

Conte Center Seminar Series with Katie McLaughlin, PhD

Virtual Event

Katie McLaughlin, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Harvard University Seminar Topic: “Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms Linking Childhood Adversity with Psychopathology Across the Life-Course” Host: Tallie Z. Baram

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“How neurons encode memory: Mechanisms of memory formation and persistence”

4201 Natural Sciences II Irvine, CA 92697, Irvine, CA, United States

Abstract: Learning and memory are essential for day-to-day living. Equally important, their alterations are thoughtto underlie neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. Prior work in the field has found many key features of learning and memory—including long-term potentiation and memory engram neurons. However, many gaps in knowledge remain, particularly mechanisms at the molecular level. Here, I will…

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“New Mouse Models to Ask Old Questions About the Role of Complement in Alzheimer’s Disease”

Pacific Ballroom D 311 W Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, United States

We are excited to announce that the 13th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium has been rescheduled to occur on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at Pacific Ballroom D, UCI Student Center & Event Services. Please join REMIND and UCI MIND with keynote speaker, Cynthia Lemere, PhD, HMS Associate Professor at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Her talk is titled, “New mouse…

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How Educational Inequities in the U.S. South Pre- and Post-Brown Shape Dementia Risk for Black and White Older Adults

Virtual Event

Although education is a key determinant of cognitive function, its role in determining Black-White disparities in cognitive function is unclear. This may be due, in part, to data limitations that have made it difficult to account for systemic educational inequities in the U.S. South experienced by older adults. In this talk, guest speaker and health…

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Conte Center Seminar Series – Mathias V. Schmidt – Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Virtual/Hybrid Event (In person at Gross Hall 4th Floor Conference Room) Irvine, CA, United States

Mathias V. Schmidt, Ph.D. Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Routes to Enhance Stress Resilience: Manipulation of Genes or Environment Host: Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD Monday, May 9th, 2022, 4 – 5 p.m. PT In-person at Gross Hall 4th Floor Conference Room Refreshments and Pastries to be provided Also will be Telecast via Zoom…

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Neuro-ophthalmology with Vivek R. Patel, MD

Virtual Event

Join the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute for a virtual community lecture in which Vivek R. Patel, MD, will talk about neuro-ophthalmology.

Free

Ted Abel, PhD

CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom

James L. McGaugh Distinguished Lecture Molecular Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage Please join the UCI Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in a hybrid event featuring Dr. Ted Abel of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute from the University of Iowa. Abstract: Research in the Abel lab at the University of Iowa focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying the…

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2022 CNLM Awards Ceremony

CNLM Herklotz Conference Center Irvine, CA, United States

Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for the 2021 CNLM Awards Ceremony The CNLM offers awards to exceptional postdoctoral researchers, graduate trainees, undergraduates students, and faculty.  Awardees will be presented with a plaque and $1,000 stipend and will be invited to present their work in brief Elevator Pitch format to the UCI…

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Dr. Lim, Stanford Neurosurgery Distinguished Lecture

Hybrid Event (In person at Tamkin Hall, Telecast via Zoom) Irvine, CA, United States

The UCI Medical Scientist Training Program will be hosting the Chair of Neurosurgery at Stanford University, Dr. Michael Lim, for our final Distinguished Lecture of the year, to present his research entitled “Overcoming Immune cell Exhaustion in Glioblastoma”. If you could distribute our attached fliers and info to your department’s faculty, students, and other members,…

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33rd Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference

Irvine Marriott Hotel 18000 Von Karman Ave, Irvine, CA

Dementia across the lifespan... Join UCI MIND, Alzheimer’s Orange County, and Alzheimer’s Association for the 33rd Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference. This hybrid conference will cover a wide range of topics across the lifespan, such as Down syndrome, frontotemporal dementia, early-onset Alzheimer’s, the oldest-old, and even more.To view the agenda, see our exhibitors, read…

$75 – $125