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SUMMARY:Garret Anderson\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The department of Anatomy & Neurobiology will host guest speaker Garret Anderson from UC Riverside\, who will give a talk on ““Latrophilin cell-type specific expression and implications for neural circuit development”
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/garret-anderson-phd/
LOCATION:Plumwood House\, 1003 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, CA 92617\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T110000
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SUMMARY:Krishna Jayant\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The department of Anatomy & Neurobiology will host guest speaker Dr. Krishna Jayant\, an assistant professor from Purdue University. \nA translaminar space-time code supports touch-evoked traveling waves \nTraveling waves in mammalian cortex mediate vital aspects of animal cognition\, such as stimuli perception and working memory. Theoretical results suggest that these waves preserve timing and are critical for plasticity across long-range neural circuits. Therefore\, revealing the circuit mechanisms underlying sensory-evoked traveling waves is critical to understanding the neural basis of sensory perception. In this talk\, I will describe our recent efforts in using 2D nanotextured transparent ECoG style electrodes to map circuits orchestrating wave dynamics. Specifically\, by simultaneously mapping local-field-potentials and cellular ensemble dynamics (via 2P calcium imaging)\, we will describe the circuit features tied to traveling waves under active and passive whisker touch. We will show that in awake mice\, both passive and active whisker touch elicited traveling waves within and across barrels\, with both an early and late component lasting hundreds of milliseconds.  Strikingly\, wave dynamics reflected the value of the tactile stimulus\, and was found to be shaped by reinforcement learning. We will also describe how the late wave component is i) strongly modulated by motor feedback\, ii) complements a sparse ensemble pattern across layer 2/3 which we resolved via a balanced-state network model with distributed top-down feedback\, and iii) aligns with regenerative Layer 5 apical dendritic Ca2+ spikes. Our results establish a model in which translaminar spacetime patterns\, organized by motor cortical feedback\, sculpt touch-evoked traveling waves.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/krishna-jayant-phd/
LOCATION:Plumwood House\, 1003 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, CA 92617\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:Presidential Leadership and Disability
DESCRIPTION:The age of presidential candidates has become a salient concern\, but age is not the only physical factor that should concern citizens. Presidents can also suffer various forms of illness\, both physical and psychological. This talk highlights the nature of these concerns and how we might work to mitigate their impact on political outcomes. \nFree registration is open now: https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m5HtweYgSh6t9sGnAa_hOQ#/registration \nFor more details\, please visit: https://sites.uci.edu/centerforneuropolitics/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/presidential-leadership-and-disability/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T110000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Johansen\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The department of Anatomy & Neurobiology will host guest speaker Dr. Joshua Johansen from the RIKEN Center for Brain Science \nConstructing Emotional Representations in the Brain \nDescription: \nInnately aversive experiences profoundly alter brain processing to produce emotional states which coordinate physiological and behavioral responses and instruct memory formation. However\, more complex emotions occur through an evaluation of the environment in the context of past experiences and the current physiological condition of the organism. My lab studies the neural circuits and cell coding mechanisms which translate aversive experiences into simple and complex emotional states in the brain to regulate memory formation and guide behavior. I will describe our recent work identifying a brainstem neural circuit which conveys both external-sensory and internal-motor features of innately aversive experiences to create a sensorimotor state in the amygdala for producing aversive memory formation. Contrasting with this bottom-up circuit\, we’ve also found that the medial prefrontal cortex encodes more complex emotional states by building an internal associative model to perform emotional inference through top-down projections to the amygdala. These studies support a new hierarchical circuit model of emotion in which sensory\, bodily and cognitive factors shape neural processing across distributed neural circuits to adaptively and flexibly control defensive responding and memory formation.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/anatomy-neurobiology-seminar-dr-joshua-johansen/
LOCATION:Plumwood House\, 1003 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, CA 92617\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:Darren Schreiber\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Center for Neuropolitics for their lecture with Darren Schreiber\, PhD\, JD\, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeterin. \nGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 2024? How Partisan Identity Politics is Taking Over America \nThe past twenty years have demonstrated the role of biology in our political predispositions\, with evidence from twin studies\, genetics\, and brain imaging. Recent trends have highlighted political polarization on an emotional\, identity-driven level where the other side is seens as a hated enemy. The consequences have ranged from increasing dissatisfaction with democracy to a rise in violent extremism.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/darren-schreiber-phd/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:2024 CNLM Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for the 2024 CNLM Awards Ceremony. \nThe CNLM offers awards to exceptional postdoctoral researchers\, graduate trainees\, undergraduates students\, faculty\, and alumni.  Student and trainee awardees will be invited to present their work in brief Elevator Pitch format to the UCI academic community and the public at our annual CNLM Awards Ceremony. \n \nFor more information\, please visit: https://cnlm.uci.edu/awards/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/2024-cnlm-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:Irvine Improv\, 527 Spectrum Center Dr\, 527 Spectrum Center Dr\, 92618\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T090000
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SUMMARY:EpiCenter Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 EpiCenter Symposium will celebrate the 20th year of the NIH T32 program in epilepsy research. Talks will feature speakers working to solve important problems related to epilepsy in the laboratory\, the clinic and the community.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/epicenter-symposium/
LOCATION:Sue Gross Auditorium\, 854 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:2024 Second Annual Symposium for the Center for Neurotherapeutics
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the Symposium will be to familiarize attendees with the UCI Center for\nNeurotherapeutics and introduce attendees to the exciting translational\nneuroscience research happening right on our campus and in labs across the country. We\nhope that attendees will: \n\nLearn about the vision that drives us at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics and our\nongoing effort to advance drug development on campus.\nBecome acquainted with cutting-edge approaches being applied to develop innovative\nmodels and novel therapeutic solutions for neurological diseases. Lecture topics will\ninclude drug discovery and high-throughput screening methods to identify rational\ndrug targets. Experts from diverse disciplines will explain how they are tackling the\nchallenge of delivering small molecules and biological agents across the blood-brain\nbarrier.\nAppreciate the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction and collaboration\nin this field. Our number one core value at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics is to\npromote collaboration across campus\, especially between faculty in the physical\nsciences and the biological sciences. We believe that only by combining such multi-\ndisciplinary expertise and diverse perspectives will it be possible to unlock new\navenues of discovery and accelerate progress toward developing meaningful solutions\nfor therapy development.\n\nOur exceptional line-up of guest speakers and UCI faculty speakers include: \n\nAnabella Villalobos (Biogen); Neurological/Rare Disease Therapies\nDonna Huryn (University of Pennsylvania); Academic Drug Discovery Challenges\nEthan Lippmann (Vanderbilt); siRNA Brain Delivery via Albumin\nSu Guo (UC San Francisco); GPCR Targeting in Parkinson’s\nHang Lu (Georgia Tech); Microtechnology & AI in Drug Screening\n Errol Arkilic (UC Irvine); Beall Applied Innovation\nLeslie Thompson (UC Irvine); Huntington’s Disease Treatment Advances\nJennifer Prescher (UC Irvine); Nature-Inspired Imaging Tools\nChristopher Hughes (UC Irvine); Blood-Brain Barrier Neurovascular Model\nMelanie Cocco (UC Irvine); Voxelotor for Red Blood Cell Modulation\n\nWhether you are a student\, postdoctoral trainee\, faculty member\, or staff member\, we\nencourage you to join us\, so please mark your calendars! \nRegistration is free! \nPlease register by Friday\, September 27\, 2024.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/2024-second-annual-symposium-for-the-center-for-neurotherapeutics/
LOCATION:Samueli Integrative Health Institute Sue Gross Auditorium\, 856 Health Sciences Quad\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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SUMMARY:Lisa Feldman Barrett\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory will host guest speaker Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett\, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. \nThree Lessons About the Brain \n  \nEver wonder how your brain really works? Join us for the 3rd Annual McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett\, an author and expert in psychology and neuroscience\, as she breaks down three key ideas about the brain’s inner workings. In this talk\, you’ll learn: \n\nHow your brain’s most important job is keeping your body running smoothly.\nHow your brain is constantly predicting what will happen next rather than reacting to the world.\nHow feeling and thinking and even seeing follow from your brain’s plan for action; your brain prepares your behavior first and creates your lived experience in the process.\n\nDr. Barrett will show how these brain functions affect how you feel\, how you think\, and what you do.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/lisa-feldman-barrett-ph-d/
LOCATION:Irvine Barclay Theater\, 4242 Campus Drive\, Irvine\, CA\, 92612\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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