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Cognitive Care Solutions Presents: Dana Greenia
Dana Greenia is a registered nurse, clinical researcher and co-investigator in the 90+ study, a NIH-NIA funded population-based investigation of people over the age of 90. Initiated in 2003, the 90+ study is based in Laguna Woods, California and has enrolled more than 1,960 participants making it likely the largest study of its kind in…
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12th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium
Please join REMIND and UCI MIND for its 12th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium on Thursday, March 18th on Zoom with keynote speaker, Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, D.H. Chen Professor II of Neurology & Neurological Sciences at Stanford University (see flyer below). Register at www.mind.uci.edu/remindsymposium. Trainee abstracts are due Friday, February 26th. There will be cash prizes! For questions, please email remind@uci.edu.
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4C the Future: Compassion
Join UCI Brain virtually for our inaugural UCI Brain Dialogue Series, 4C the Future. UCI faculty from across the UCI campus will discuss Compassion. Featured speakers for this event are: Nancy Guerra, Dean of the School of Social Ecology and Professor of Psychological Science Sherine Hamdy, Associate Professor of Anthropology Richard Matthew, Professor & Director of…
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EpiCenter Annual Symposium
Dr. Elizabeth Thiele, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, will be the keynote speaker during the EpiCenter Annual Symposium.
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Visualize: Art as a Mechanism to Communicate Science
Art and science have always formed a natural partnership. Artists have an intangible ability to help people understand complex ideas. Their works have visually described new species, demonstrated complex natural and technological processes and concepts, and have enabled us to see the microscopic and the cosmic. In this talk, Rae will discuss the importance of…
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Wei Xu, Ph.D.
The UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will be hosting Dr. Wei Xu, from the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in a virtual seminar where he will present his latest research.
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Neuromatch Academy: Democratizing computational neuroscience education through interactive, intensive instruction
Abstract: Neuromatch Academy (NMA) was founded in spring 2020 in response to two catalysts: (1) the recognition that traditional intensive summer programs in computational neuroscience are expensive and exclusive, leaving out a large proportion of qualified and deserving trainee participants; and (2) the COVID-19 pandemic canceled these in-person summer schools anyway. We founded NMA with…
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Development and Cell Biology Spring Seminar Series with Dr. Javier Apfeld
C. elegans Processes Sensory Information to Choose Between Freeloading and Self-defense Strategies Join the UCI Department of Developmental and Cell Biology in a virtual seminar with Dr. Javier Apfield, Assistant Professor of the College of Science of Northeastern University. Abstract: Hydrogen peroxide is the preeminent chemical weapon that organisms use for combat. Individual cells rely…
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Elizabeth Head, MA, PhD
Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome: Cerebrovascular and Neuroinflammation Contributions Please join the UCI Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in a virtual seminar with Dr. Elizabeth Head, from the UCI School of Medicine. Free to attend. Registration required. Click here for more information.
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Sleep to feel, to think, and to remember
We spend nearly one-third of our lives asleep. Despite its universal nature and apparent necessity, why we sleep remains largely a mystery. Sleep to feel, to think, and to remember is a virtual panel discussion featuring three UCI experts studying how sleep affects our emotions and the way we think, and how stress impacts a…
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ICAN Seminar -Dr. Arif Hamid
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…
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4th Annual Skin Symposium
Please join UCI SKIN for their 4th Annual Skin Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Skin Biology and Disease, featuring talks on neuro-skin and neuroscience-immunology connections. To register, please visit: https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_53ZCeMefSDCdwTwg7LaqKg
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