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SUMMARY:Rongxin Fang\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Analysis of Cortical Evolution with Specially Resolved Transcriptome Imaging \nJoin the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Rongxin Fang. Dr. Fang is currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow of the Dameon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D in Bioinformatics at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/rongxin-fang-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221004T110000
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SUMMARY:Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar with Dr. Alan Urban
DESCRIPTION:How can functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) impact your research\, and what’s next? \nJoin the UCI Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in a hybrid seminar featuring Dr. Alan Urban\, Assistant Professor of the Department of Neurosciences of KU Leuven Research. \nAbstract: \nFunctional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) is based on Doppler ultrasound to track changes in cerebral blood volume as an indirect readout of evoked neuronal activity. It is similar to fMRI but with better spatiotemporal resolution and fewer technical constraints. Indeed\, fUSI can be performed in head-fixed or freely behaving rodents and allows volumetric images of the entire mouse brain. Proof of concept studies has been conducted in many species\, including primates and humans. fUSI has reached maturity\, and open access hardware and software solutions developed at NERF contribute to a faster and broader adoption by the neuroscience community. This seminar aims to introduce the physical basis of fUSI and present state-of-the-art in the field while providing detailed examples of the most impactful fUSI research. I will also discuss the latest capabilities of fUSI and suggest routes for improving the fUSI technology in the next few years. \nHybrid Event\nThe seminar will be live-streamed via zoom and in person.\nPlease RSVP to let us know how you will attend and receive zoom link. \nIn-Person Meeting: Dale Melbourne Herklotz Conference Room\, the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 300 Qureshey Research Lab
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/neurobiology-and-behavior-seminar-with-dr-alan-urban/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T100000
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SUMMARY:Serena M. Dudek\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Serena M. Dudek \, Deputy Chief and Neurobiology Laboratory and Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/serena-m-dudek-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T120000
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SUMMARY:BME Seminar Series: How does neuronal activity protect the cortex from stroke?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Stroke is the fifth leading cause for death in the U.S. and No. 1 cause for long term disability. Traditionally\, stroke has been studied in animal models using cellular and molecular techniques\, but little attention has been paid to neuronal activity. In this talk\, I will describe surprising findings in a rat model of ischemic stroke relating sensory stimulation-evoked neuronal activity and stroke. Depending on delivery timing\, sensory stimulation-evoked neuronal activity can protect the cortex from impending damage or exacerbate the damage. I will further elucidate the neuronal and vascular mechanisms underlying the protection and exacerbation processes and describe our accumulating evidence that neuronal activity and cortical structure-function relationship are pivotal players in understanding ischemic stroke outcome. \nBiography: Ron D. Frostig is a professor of neurobiology and behavior and biomedical engineering at UCI. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology and his master’s degree in neurobiology from the Hebrew University\, Israel. He received his doctorate in neuroscience at UCLA\, and was a postdoctoral research scholar in neurobiology at the Rockefeller University. His lab’s major research interests include basic and pre-clinical studies of neocortical structure and function with an emphasis on plasticity.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/bme-seminar-series-how-does-neuronal-activity-protect-the-cortex-from-stroke/
LOCATION:McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium\, 314 Los Trancos Drive\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:Sean Foxley\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a hybrid seminar featuring Dr. Sean Foxley of the University of Chicago.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/sean-foxley-phd/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:UC Irvine Neuropolitics Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Cognitive Decline and Political Leadership \nJoin the UCI Center for Neuropolitics in a virtual symposium to discuss cognitive decline among politicians. \nCognitive deterioration of politicians (including diminished memory\, impaired decision-\nmaking\, mood alterations\, and dementia) is a critical emerging issue. This Symposium\nwill address the current state and future directions of assessment of cognitive function\nand decline among politicians. As professions such as law and medicine are addressing\ncognitive effects of age\, their insights may inform development of the proper strategy\nwithin politics. \n  \nClick here to view the symposium agenda
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/uc-irvine-neuropolitics-symposium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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SUMMARY:Li Zhang\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:“Neural circuits for valence coding\, emotional states\, and motivated behaviors” \nJoin the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a hybrid seminar featuring Dr. Li Zhang of USC Medical School. \nAbstract: \nThe topic is about our recent studies on neural circuits in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) of the hypothalamus. MPOA plays a critical role in parental and prosocial behaviors via subpopulations of its GABAergic neurons. We now show that MPOA can be more generally viewed to serve as a critical hub to mediate both negative and positive emotional states and related behaviors through its glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons\, respectively\, with the former encoding extremely negative valence and mediating anxiety-like behaviors\, and the latter\, oppositely\, encoding positive valence and producing rewarding effects.  I will discuss the circuitry underlying how MPOA coordinately and antagonistically mediates behaviors related to different emotional states.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/li-zhang-ph-d-2/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom\, 419 Physical Sciences Quad\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T130000
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SUMMARY:NextGen Epilepsy Seminar: Jessie Buth and Christos Lisgaras
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Epilepsy Research Center in a virtual seminar of their NextGen Epilepsy Seminar Series featuring Jessie Buth\, PhD Student of the Novitch Lab at UCLA and Christos Lisgaras\, PhD\, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Scharfman Lab at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. \nThe seminar will be hosted by Robert Hunt\, PhD and will feature Jessie Buth presenting Investigating the Role of KDM6B in Human Brain Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Stem Cell Models and Christos Lisgaras presenting Deciphering the Role of Hippocampal Area CA2 in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Closed-Loop Optogenetics. 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/nextgen-epilepsy-seminar-jessie-buth-and-christos-lisgaras/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T140000
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SUMMARY:Rajendra Morey\, MD\, MS
DESCRIPTION:Leveraging Team Science at a Global Scale to Investigate the Neurobiology of PTSD \nJoin the Conte Center @ UCI for a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Rajendra Morey\, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/rajendra-morey-md-ms/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221028T120000
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CREATED:20221027T192301Z
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SUMMARY:Patrick J. Lao\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCI Center for Aging Research in Down Syndrome (CFAR-DS) Oct. 28 at 11 am PT  for their Seminar Series presentationtitled Alzheimer’s disease and vascular neuroimaging in adults with Down syndrome\, presented by Patrick J. Lao\, PhD. \nPatrick J. Lao\, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology Sciences at the Taub Institute\, Sergeivsky Center\, and Department of Neurology at Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Medical Physics and completed his postdoctoral training at Columbia University in vascular MRI and applied cross-cultural neuropsychology. His research uses multimodal neuroimaging and plasma-based biomarkers to study Alzheimer’s disease. Areas of interest include applying these methods to adults with Down syndrome and in community-based settings. \nThis event will take place via Zoom: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://ucihealth.zoom.us/j/92151970794?pwd=NkMxbWh2aklXWFU4K1hsRUZqOEpKZz09 \nMeeting ID: 921 5197 0794\nPasscode: 954508
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/patrick-j-lao-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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