Faculty

Dopamine waves as a mechanism for spatiotemporal credit assignment. Join the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience in a virtual ICAN Seminar featuring Arif Hamid, PhD, from Brown University. Abstract Significant evidence supports the view that dopamine shapes reward-learning by encoding prediction errors. However, it is unknown whether dopamine decision-signals are tailored to the functional specialization…

Alpha-Herpesvirus Neuroinvasion: Deciphering the Long Path Toward Latency Please join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a virtual seminar with Dr. Orkide Koyuncu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics of the UCI School of Medicine. Free to attend. Registration required.  For more information, please visit:  www.cncm.som.uci.edu/seminars

Transcriptomic and epigenomic consequences of early life stress The Conte Center @ UCI will be hosting Catherine J. Peña, PhD, Assistant Professor, from Princeton Neuroscience Institute. To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/95134666233?pwd=QitYQnZXVXVJY09WZlhzdzJBSGU3QT09

Parallel Dopamine Circuits Mediate Unique Aspects of Cocaine-Induced Behavioral Plasticity    Please join the UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences in a virtual seminar featuring Kevin Beier, Ph.D.   Abstract: My research is focused on identifying how experience modulates activity dynamics in neural circuits, both acutely and chronically. I aim to develop new methods…

Opportunities and Obstacles: Investigating the Orexin System Beyond Food Preference The CNLM will be hosting Dr. Kimberlei Richardson, from the Department of Pharmacology of Howard University College of Medicine, in a virtual colloquium where she will present her latest research. Co-sponsored by the UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) and the UC…

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Seminar Series:   Intergenerational Trauma: Two-hit Mechanism and Early Preventive Interventions Please join the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in a research seminar featuring UC Irvine Associate Professor, Dr. Amal Alachkar. Abstract: The deleterious impacts of existential trauma during pregnancy are doubled as they affect the mental health of two generations (the mothers’…

Neural circuits for feeding regulation, the return of the amygdala. Join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Haijiang Cai, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, of the University of Arizona.

Title: "Neural circuits regulating reward-approach vs. threat-avoidance responses" Please join the Conte Center at UCI in a virtual seminar featuring Fabricio H. Do Monte, DVM, Phd. Dr. Do Monte is an Assistant Professor from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy.