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SUMMARY:Aaron Bornstein\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Aaron Bornstein\, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. Description: Reconciling adaptive and maladaptive responses to uncertainty: Data and theory.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/aaron-bornstein-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151052
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SUMMARY:Kei Igarashi\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Circuit mechanisms of associative memory in health and Alzheimer’s disease \nCNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Kei Igarashi\, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine. \nDescription:\n\nMounting evidence shows that dopamine in the striatum is critically involved in reward-based reinforcement learning. However\, it remains unclear how dopamine reward signals influence the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit\, another brain network critical for learning and memory. Using in vivo optogenetic and electrophysiological approaches\, we recently found that dopamine signals from the ventral tegmental area control encoding of cue-reward association rules in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) (Lee et al.\, Nature\, 2021). Our results suggest that LEC represent a cognitive map of abstract task rules\, and LEC dopamine facilitates the incorporation of new memories into this map. I would like to discuss how we can unify the roles of two central\, but previously independent\, players in learning – dopamine and the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit – in future studies. In the second part of the talk\, I will share our results on how neuronal activities in the entorhinal-hippocampal memory circuit are lost in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease (Jun et al.\, Neuron\, 2020)\, and discuss how the systems neuroscience approach can contribute to the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/kei-igarashi-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151052
CREATED:20220922T152849Z
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SUMMARY:Georg Striedter\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nWhich model system is “best”?  An argument from toxicology. \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Georg Striedter\, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at UC Irvine. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \nAs researchers seek to find treatments for various disorders\, they tend to use diverse model systems\, but which models are “best” for a given aim? Dr. Striedter has recently published a book on this topic and\, in this talk\, will discuss the challenges of model system selection from a perspective rarely mentioned at the CNLM\, namely that of toxicology. As toxicologists examine whether a particular compound is toxic to humans\, should they study cultured cells\, mice\, guinea pigs\, monkeys\, or (of course) multiple models? As the number of studied models goes up\, what happens to the risk of obtaining false positives? Which research strategy is most cost effective? These questions have clear analogs when it comes to selecting models for research on human diseases\, neurological or otherwise. Dr. Striedter will discuss these analogies briefly\, using Alzheimer’s disease as a CNLM-relevant example. He intends to leave plenty of room for discussion.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/georg-striedter-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230321T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151052
CREATED:20221006T220515Z
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SUMMARY:Pierre Baldi\, Ph.D. - NEW DATE
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Pierre Baldi\, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at UC Irvine. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \n\n\n\nThe quest for how the brain learns \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe will first showcase two cutting-edge applications of modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedical imaging and in reasoning. These applications\, as well as most modern AI applications (e.g.\, ChatGPT\, AlphaFold\, AlphaGO\, Google Translate\, Self-Driving Cars) are based on deep learning\, a modern rebranding of neural networks\, or connectionist methods\, dating back to the 1980s\, or even the 1950s.  We will then briefly review the neuroscience-inspired\, tortuous\, historical path that has led to deep learning\, and the key discoveries made along the way\, highlighting the synergies and discrepancies between neuroscience and deep learning. One key conclusion is that approximate gradient descent is essential for learning. However\,  the standard gradient descent algorithm of deep learning called backpropagation  is not biologically-plausible for multiple reasons. We will examine these reasons one-by-one and identify biologically-plausible solutions for each one of them. In particular\, we will introduce and demonstrate a general class of neural architectures and learning algorithms capable of learning from data in a largely unsupervised and asynchronous manner\, without the need for symmetric connectivity.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/pierre-baldi-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230328T110000
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SUMMARY:Kevin T. Beier\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Kevin T. Beier\, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at UC Irvine. \nMolecular mechanisms of memory stability and the molecular and circuit determinants of cocaine addiction \n  \nDescription: \nI will speak on two separate projects in our lab. First\, we have uncovered the molecular mechanism by which administration of the Zeta Inhibitory Peptide (ZIP) causes memory loss. While it was previously believed that ZIP administration perturbs memory stability through disruption of constitutive kinase activity\, recent studies have cast doubt on this hypothesis. However\, ZIP’s effects on memory stability are robust\, raising the question of what the actual mechanism is by which ZIP exerts its function. We have identified the basic molecular and pathways engaged by ZIP\, and use this information to identify an inhibitor that\, together with ZIP\, enables bidirectional modulation of synaptic plasticity. Second\, we are exploring the biological factors that influence the behavioral response to the administration of drugs of abuse. Some individuals that take drugs of abuse are susceptible to developing dependence\, while others are resilient. The fundamental source of this variation is not understood. We will discuss our work implicating circuit- and molecular-level changes in the globus pallidus that facilitate individual differences in response to cocaine administration\, and share the identification of a novel small molecule compound\, isolated from rosemary\, that blunts drug reward and volitional intake. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/kevin-t-beier-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230404T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230404T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151052
CREATED:20220926T155054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230320T182242Z
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SUMMARY:Megan Peters\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Megan Peters\, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. \nNeurocomputational approaches to the study of perceptual awareness \nDescription: When our brains process sensory information\, they transform it into a coherent\, conscious experience that we use to drive adaptive decisions and learning. In this talk I will describe several ongoing lines of research in my group that focus on understanding the neural and computational substrates of our subjective sense of the world around us. Specifically\, separating the study of phenomenology from the study of signal processing capacity is challenging\, so our group has been focusing on how the study of metacognitive evaluation (confidence judgements in our perceptual decisions) may shine light on these processes. Using a combination of behavior/psychophysics\, computational modeling\, noninvasive neuroimaging\, and machine learning in humans\, we seek to understand how the brain is capable of efficiently using sensory information and how this ability relates to our qualitative\, phenomenal experiences. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/megan-peters-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230329T164104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T164104Z
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SUMMARY:LEARNMEM2023
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory for the 2023 International Conference on Learning and Memory (LEARNMEM™2023) on April 26-30\, 2023 in Huntington Beach\, CA. The Conference will be held in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM). \nLEARNMEM™2023 will feature keynote talks by distinguished speakers\, scientific symposia\, lightning talks\, open papers\, poster sessions as well as professional development and networking opportunities. \nThe conference will have a substantial impact on the field by accelerating the pace of team science and providing a unique networking opportunity for the next generation of leaders in neuroscience.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/learnmem2023/
LOCATION:Waterfront Beach Resort\, 21100 Pacific Coast Highway\, Huntington Beach\, CA\, 92648\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T120000
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CREATED:20220922T152442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230329T210859Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Ewell\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Laura Ewell\, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine. \nSparse to dense networks: pattern separation and completion in health and epilepsy. \nDescription: The attractor theory of memory posits that CA3\, the recurrent network at the core of the hippocampus\, is capable of learning\, storing\, and recalling ensembles of neurons that represent experience. In healthy conditions there are constraints on the CA3 network that ensure that individual neural patterns comprise a small group of neurons that do not overlap with other patterns. One critical constraint called pattern separation works at the network level – and is thought to be performed by the dentate gyrus. In this talk\, I will be examining the network processes of pattern separation and pattern completion through the lens of temporal lobe epilepsy – a disease in which network codes shift from sparse to dense schemes. We will discuss single unit data from freely moving rodents (epilepsy models and healthy animals) and new tasks being developed by my laboratory to study these critical memory processes. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/laura-ewell-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T120000
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CREATED:20220922T152246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T221331Z
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SUMMARY:Leslie Thompson\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series \nJoin the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Leslie Thompson\, Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at UC Irvine. \nHuntington’s disease research and therapeutics; the long winding road \nHuntington’s disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that typically strikes in the prime of life with no disease modifying treatment. It is caused by a repeat expansion within the coding region of the protein Huntingtin which is expressed throughout the body and is required for a vast array of cellular processes. The disease mutation causes both a gain of function and loss of normal function which adds significant complexity to understanding disease mechanisms and advancing therapeutics. In this talk I will describe three vignettes relating to disease mechanisms and therapeutic approaches undertaken in the laboratory. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/leslie-thompson-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230327T223159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T223159Z
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SUMMARY:2023 CNLM Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for the 2023 CNLM Awards Ceremony. \nThe 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 academic community and the public at our annual CNLM Awards Ceremony. \nApplications for the 2023 CNLM Awards are due May 3rd.\n\n \nFor more information\, please visit: https://cnlm.uci.edu/awards/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/2023-cnlm-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Staff,Students
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230630T170936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T171020Z
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SUMMARY:Read Montague\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Reinforcement Learning\, Monoamines and the effort to connect neurochemical dynamics to Human Perception\n\nJoin the Conte Center @ UCI for their seminar series featuring Dr. Read Montague\, Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor and director of the Center for Human Neuroscience Research at the Franlin Biomedical Research Institute.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/read-montague-ph-d/
LOCATION:Plumwood House\, 1003 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, CA 92617\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230909T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230909T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230621T181326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230621T181326Z
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SUMMARY:Down Syndrome Showcase
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of the creative and artistic talents of children and adults with Down Syndrome and an opportunity to learn about the factors that impact the health and well-being of people with Down Syndrome \nTalent Show and Art Exhibits: Anyone with Down syndrome who would like to perform on stage or display their art/crafts should contactcoordinator@dsaoc.org. Sign-ups are on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nPoster Presentations: Any UCI student or scholar interested in presenting their scientific findings related to Down syndrome should contact ndiprosp@uci.edu. \nAdmission and parking: Free. Every guest\, performer\, and exhibitor must have a ticket. Order through the theater box office: www.thebarclay.org. \nFor more information: Visit cfar-ds.uci.edu or e-mail: cfar-ds@uci.edu  \nLight refreshments will be served. 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/down-syndrome-showcase/
LOCATION:Irvine Barclay Theater\, 4242 Campus Drive\, Irvine\, CA\, 92612\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231009T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231009T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230804T180405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230804T181633Z
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SUMMARY:AI & Biomedicine Symposium: AI and Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:This year’s annual Southern California AI and Biomedicine Symposium will focus on AI and Neuroscience.  The event is co-sponsored by the UCI Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics and the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. The free event includes a full day of talks\, lunch\, and reception. RSVP soon as space is limited. \nDownload Event Flyer
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/ai-biomedicine-symposium-ai-and-neuroscience/
LOCATION:Calit2 Auditorium\, 4100 Calit2 Building\, Irvine\, Irvine
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231017T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230929T190105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231009T214316Z
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SUMMARY:Mayank Mehta\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nHippocampus 2.0: Three simple rules \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Mayank Mehta\, professor of physics\, astronomy\, neurology\, and neurobiology at UCLA. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \nThe hippocampus is implicated in many learning and memory disorders including Alzheimer’s. Dozens of drugs have cured these in mice but failed in humans. Hippocampal neurons in rodents show robust spatial selectivity. Hence\, the standard test of hippocampal function in mice is the Morris Water Maze\, an allocentric spatial memory task. However\, in freely behaving primates\, hippocampal neurons show very little spatial selectivity. Further\, hippocampal damage in humans causes profound non-spatial\, egocentric\, episodic memory deficits too\, whose neurophysiological analog in rodents is unclear. We propose a novel theory of hippocampal function\, Hippocampus 2.0\, which can reconcile these long-standing differences and provide several experimental tests of this theory. The results provide a unified framework for probing hippocampal function\, which could improve translation of therapies from mice to humans.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/mayank-mehta-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20230928T212745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T030909Z
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SUMMARY:Roger Nicoll\, M.D.
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) and the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Roger Nicoll\, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nThe Biochemistry of Memory: A (not so) New and Specific Hypothesis \nEvent is jointly sponsored through the CNLM Colloquium Series and the Anatomy and Neurobiology Seminar Series. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \n\nCaMKII and long-term potentiation (LTP) were discovered within a decade of each other and have been inextricably intertwined ever since. In 1984 Francis Crick proposed that a memory molecule should possess two properties. First\, it should be a multimeric protein with identical subunits that can phosphorylate one another. Second\, to address how memories outlast molecular turnover he proposed that naïve unphosphorylated subunits could exchange into the phosphorylated multimer and become phosphorylated. Within two years biochemical studies established that CaMKII satisfied the first prediction. Recent biochemical studies have shown that unphosphorylated CaMKII subunits can exchange into phosphorylated CaMKII multimers\, thus satisfying Crick’s second prediction. My talk will focus on linking the biochemical properties of CaMKII to LTP. I will show that the autophosphorylation of CaMKII maintains LTP (memory) by establishing a stable CaMKII/NMDA receptor complex\, resulting in the synaptic capture of AMPA receptors. LTP survives the protein turnover of CaMKII\, which is complete within 2 weeks\, by its phosphorylation of newly synthesized naïve CaMKII molecules.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/roger-nicoll-m-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231027T200250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T201325Z
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SUMMARY:Flavio Donato\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Conte Center @ UCI Seminar Series \nMemory dynamics through the divergent recruitment of developmentally-defined hippocampal traces \nJoin the Conte Center @ UCI for a seminar by Dr. Flavio Donato\, assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Basel.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/flavio-donato-ph-d/
LOCATION:Plumwood House\, 1003 Health Sciences Rd\, Irvine\, CA 92617\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T211005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231009T214419Z
UID:10000429-1701169200-1701172800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Anna K. Gillespie\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nSteps toward exploring the therapeutic potential of hippocampal replay \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Anna Gillespie\, assistant professor of biological structure\, lab medicine\, and pathology at University of Washington. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \nExecuting memory-guided behavior requires storage of information about experience and later recall of that information to inform choices. Hippocampal sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events are associated with the time-compressed “replay” of representations of past experience\, and multiple correlative and causal studies have demonstrated that SWRs critically contribute to these cognitive functions. Consistent with its role in memory processes\, changes in SWRs have been reported concurrent with memory impairment in several rodent models of Alzheimer’s disease. Rescuing replay in Alzheimer’s could thus improve memory symptoms; however\, our current options for promoting physiologically relevant replay are quite limited. To address this gap\, we developed a neurofeedback paradigm for rats in which the real-time detection of SWRs triggers the delivery of positive reinforcement (food reward). In young adult animals\, this training protocol increased the prevalence of task-relevant replay during the targeted neurofeedback period by changing the temporal dynamics of SWR occurrence\, and was also associated with neural and behavioral forms of compensation after the targeted period. This work demonstrates that subjects can learn to use neurofeedback to modulate physiologically relevant patterns of hippocampal network activity and lays the foundation for future work in subjects with compromised replay\, such as rodent models of Alzheimer’s disease.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/anna-k-gillespie-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240206T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T213853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231205T181600Z
UID:10000431-1707217200-1707220800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Elizabeth A. Buffalo\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Elizabeth A. Buffalo\, professor and chair of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \nNeural Dynamics of Memory Formation in the Primate Hippocampus  \n \nDescription:  \nOur understanding of the hippocampus has been framed by two landmark discoveries: the discovery by Scoville and Millner that hippocampal damage causes profound and persistent amnesia and the discovery by O’Keefe and Dostrovsky of hippocampal place cells in rodents. However\, it has been unclear to what extent spatial representations are present in the primate brain and how to reconcile these representations with the known mnemonic function of this region. I will discuss a series of experiments that have examined neural activity in the hippocampus in monkeys performing behavioral tasks including foraging and spatial memory tasks in a virtual environment. These data demonstrate that behavioral task structure has a significant influence on hippocampal activity\, with neurons responding to all salient events within the task. Taken together\, these data are consistent with the idea that activity in the hippocampus tracks ongoing experience in support of memory formation.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/elizabeth-buffalo-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240202T182333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T182333Z
UID:10000477-1707994800-1707998400@brain.uci.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240305T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240305T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T215006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T212335Z
UID:10000432-1709636400-1709640000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:J. David Jentsch\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. J. David Jentsch\, Distinguished Professor and Chair of psychology at Binghamton University. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \nDiversity to the rescue: Identifying novel molecular regulators of addiction liability
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/j-david-jentsch-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240312T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T215405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T163208Z
UID:10000433-1710241200-1710244800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Christian Bravo Rivera\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Christian Bravo Rivera\, assistant professor of psychiatry\, anatomy\, and neurobiology. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \nNeural circuits mediating reward approach and punishment avoidance conflict  \nReward is often present in risky environments\, requiring individuals to weigh the benefits of rewards against the associated risks. There are individuals that are unable to choose an appropriate response during risky reward opportunities and thus exhibit extreme avoidance or risky behaviors that can severely impair quality of life or endanger people. It is therefore necessary to characterize how neurons mediate reward approach and threat avoidance conflict. Here\, we adapted the platform-mediated avoidance conflict task (Bravo-Rivera et al 2014; Bravo-Rivera et al 2021)\, such that water-deprived mice could nose-poke for a light-signaled water reward and avoid a tone-signaled foot-shock by stepping onto a safety platform away from the reward port. Optogenetic activation of GABAergic neurons in the ventral pallidum invigorated reward approach at the expense of receiving shocks. Photometry recordings of glutamatergic neurons in the ventral pallidum and in the lateral habenula during conflict revealed that these structures promote avoidance and become inhibited during conflicted reward approach. These results suggest that a pallidal-habenula circuit mediates motivational conflict. We also compared behavioral conflict in male and female mice. Interestingly\, females stepped on the platform earlier than males after tone onset and took longer to leave the platform after tone offset. Males received more shocks than females and received more water reward than females by the end conflict training. Moreover\, females exhibited more tone-induced freezing and exhibited more frequent darting than males. These results suggest that females exhibit more avoidance behavior and less reward approach than males in the face of approach/avoidance conflict.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/christian-bravo-rivera-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240208T235302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T161652Z
UID:10000494-1710414000-1710417600@brain.uci.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240315T131500
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240131T220057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T220057Z
UID:10000472-1710504000-1710508500@brain.uci.edu
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:20240409T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T110000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240125T235047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T223638Z
UID:10000469-1712656800-1712660400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Xiaoyin Chen\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Understanding cortical organization using in situ sequencing \nThe UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host Xiaoyin Chen\, PhD\, assistant investigator of the Barcoded Connectomics Program at the  Allen Institute.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/xiaoyin-chen-phd/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom\, 419 Physical Sciences Quad\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240409T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T215849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T192635Z
UID:10000434-1712660400-1712664000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Nanthia Suthana\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Nanthia Suthana\, associate professor-in-residence at the University of California\, Los Angeles. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \nUnraveling Memories on the Go: Insights from Mobile Intracranial EEG Recordings in Humans \n \nDescription: \nRecent technology enables the study of deep brain activity during memory phenomena in ambulatory humans navigating through real or virtual environments. Through these methods\, we have shown dynamic modulation of hippocampal\, entorhinal\, and amygdala activity by factors like movement speed\, eye movements\, emotional valence and memory success. This presentation will provide an overview of these findings and explore potential clinical applications\, particularly in treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/nanthia-suthana-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240206T192557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T222339Z
UID:10000492-1712833200-1712838600@brain.uci.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240327T215151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T221827Z
UID:10000513-1713265200-1713268800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Semir Zeki\, FMedSci\, FRS
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for an online event featuring Dr. Semir Zeki\, professor of neuroaesthetics at University College London. This event will be held virtually via Zoom. \nThe science of beauty \n \nThe experience of beauty is something that we all seek and are prepared to expend considerable energy and much money in trying to acquire. But what does it entail neurobiologically? If it is a subjective experience\, can it ever be measured? Are there\, or can there be\, any set of characteristics that render objects beautiful\, irrespective of culture and upbringing?I will address these questions from a neurobiological perspective. I will show that there cannot be a single characteristic or a single set of characteristics that can render any and every object beautiful because of the way in which our brains are organized to perceive the world. I will also show that there are\, in the perception of different attributes such as visual motion\, faces and bodies\, criteria which are not culture or education bound which can be said to enhance their beauty and to be critical to the experience of beauty when viewing them. Finally\, I will show that all works that are experienced as beautiful\, regardless of source (i.e. whether visual or musical or highly cognitive – as with mathematical beauty)\, have\, as a correlate\, activity in a specific part of the reward system of the emotional brain\, although the neural route used to reach that part of the brain varies\, depending on what is perceived. The intensity of activity there bears a quantitative relationship to the declared intensity of the experience of beauty\, thus enabling us to detect and quantify the neural correlates of a subjective experience.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/semir-zeki-fmedsci-frs/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T220619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T230915Z
UID:10000436-1713870000-1713873600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Laura Colgin\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Laura Colgin\, professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \nHippocampal place cell responses to spatial and non-spatial information \n \nDescription: \nThe hippocampus is a key brain network for episodic memory. Place cells are neurons in the hippocampus that fire in specific spatial locations known as place fields. This spatially selective firing is thought to code the “where” component of episodic memory. Yet\, episodic memories contain nonspatial information also. This talk will present results showing how different populations of hippocampal place cells respond to nonspatial aspects of an experience\, such as social stimuli or motivational context. The results may help explain how the hippocampus integrates different aspects of an experience into a coherent episodic memory.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/laura-colgin-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T110000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20240201T201916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T225747Z
UID:10000475-1714471200-1714474800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Tian Lu\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Spatially resolved single-cell epigenomics and functional genomics \nThe Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM) will host Dr. Tian Lu\, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/tian-lu/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom\, 419 Physical Sciences Quad\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240430T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T151053
CREATED:20231009T221147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T155921Z
UID:10000437-1714474800-1714478400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Chioma Okeoma\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a virtual event featuring Dr. Chioma Okeoma\, associate professor of pathology\, microbiology\, and immunology at the New York Medical College. This event will be held virtually via Zoom. \nExtracellular condensates – do we have to worry about them?
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/chioma-okeoma-ph-d/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory":MAILTO:memory@uci.edu
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