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SUMMARY:Virtual CNLM Summer Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual symposium featuring the 2021 Interns of the Irvine Summer Institute in Neuroscience. Participants will share poster presentations of their summer research projects. \nAgenda\n10:00am – Welcome\n10:15am – Keynote Lecture by Michael Yassa\, Ph.D.\n11:30am – Break\n12:00 – 1:40pm – Poster Session \nFor more information\, please visit: https://cnlm.uci.edu/reu/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/virtual-cnlm-summer-research-symposium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:All,Community,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:20210910T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210910T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145824
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SUMMARY:32nd Annual SoCal Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join Alzheimer’s Orange County and UCI MIND for the 32nd Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference. This free\, half-day\, virtual conference will cover a wide range of topics concerning Alzheimer’s disease\, from updates on research\, to treatments\, diagnostics\, risk factors\, and genetic resilience. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on brain health will also be discussed. \n\nHalf-day educational conference free and open to the public\nEvent will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube\nSponsorship opportunities are available\n\nTo register\, please visit: https://conference.mind.uci.edu/register/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/32nd-annual-socal-alzheimers-disease-research-conference/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210921T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145824
CREATED:20210831T220649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T220649Z
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SUMMARY:CNCM Seminar: Hong Wei Dong\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a seminar featuring Dr. Hong Wei Dong of UCLA.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cncm-seminar-hong-wei-dong-phd/
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210923T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145824
CREATED:20210928T185802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210928T185933Z
UID:10000268-1632398400-1632402000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:LAMP Seminar - Dr. Andy Shih
DESCRIPTION:Optical Dissection of Brain Capillary Function \nJoin the UCI Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic for a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Andy Shih\, Assistant Professor at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute & University of Washington. \nAbstract \nMy laboratory uses in vivo multiphoton imaging and rodent models to shed light (quite literally) on regulation of cerebral blood flow. In particular\, we have focused recent attention on the vast capillary networks that distribute blood throughout the brain. We use light to both visualize capillary structure and flow\, as well as noninvasively manipulate neurovascular cells that control capillary flow. We specialize in the application and development of in vivo multi-photon imaging approaches to study brain microvascular structure and function in rodents. Our recent findings include the construction of capillary networks during early postnatal development\, regulation of blood flow in adulthood by capillary pericytes\, and capillary changes in gray and white matter that may contribute to metabolic insufficiencies during aging and dementia. I firmly believe that our efforts will provide a unique and physiologically relevant view of microvascular function\, dysfunction\, and repair\, and will yield strategies for protecting vascular function in diseases that degrade the brain’s microvasculature. 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/lamp-seminar-dr-andy-shih/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210928T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210928T120000
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CREATED:20210810T002522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210820T214910Z
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SUMMARY:CNLM Colloquium with Nii Addy\, Ph.D
DESCRIPTION:The CNLM will be hosting Dr. Nii Addy\,Associate Professor  of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine\, in a colloquium where he will present his latest research. \nThis year\, the series will be held in a virtual format with some speakers presenting in-person as well. We will keep registered participants updated on the possibility of an in-person event as the situation with COVID-19 evolves. \n\n 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cnlm-colloquium-with-nii-addy-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES: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:20211005T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T120000
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CREATED:20210929T165153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T170905Z
UID:10000272-1633431600-1633435200@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Dr. Eid Lien -Neurobiology and Behavior Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Department of Neurobiology and Behavior for a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Eid Lien.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/dr-eid-lien-neurobiology-and-behavior-seminar/
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T110000
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CREATED:20211005T152910Z
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UID:10000273-1633604400-1633608000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:UCI MIND Seminar Series: Jessica Rexach\, MD\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Functional Genomics Approach to Neuronal-Glial Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Dementias \nJoin UCI MIND for an in-person seminar featuring Jessica Rexach\, M.D.\, Ph.D. \nJessica Rexach\, MD\, PhD \nDr. Rexach is an Assistant Professor and board certified neurologist at University of California Los Angeles. She currently holds the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed chair. Dr. Rexach studies how molecules of the immune system contribute to neurodegenerative disease. Different neurodegenerative dementias have different causal genes\, suggesting they result from distinct causal mechanisms. This includes glial and immune genes\, whose roles in the CNS are unclear. In this talk\, Dr. Rexach will highlight her recent ongoing works with the tools of functional genomics and how her lab leverages dementia genetics and genome-wide molecular disease phenotypes to generate unbiased\, data-driven models of neural-glial mechanisms of disease.  Dr. Rexach and her team use experimental systems\, including iPSC-derived spheroids and glia\, to test data-driven hypotheses in order to advance disease mechanisms and identify candidate drug targets. \nFor questions\, contact vswarup@uci.edu and bmander@hs.uci.edu
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/uci-mind-seminar-series-jessica-rexach-md-phd/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20210929T162728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T171229Z
UID:10000270-1634040000-1634043600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:NextGen Epilepsy Seminar: Michelle Kloc\, PhD and Megh Marathe\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in their NextGen Epilepsy Seminar featuring postdocs\, Michelle Kloc\, PhD\, of the University of Vermont\, and Megh Marathe\, PhD\, of UC Irvine\, who will present their latest research. \nFor more information and to RSVP please visit: https://uci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdu6vqDoqEtR–n9oUh-DdLM9E0TpXX_0 \n 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/nextgen-epilepsy-seminar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20210929T161854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T161854Z
UID:10000269-1635246000-1635249600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:CNCM Seminar: Dr. Cris Niell
DESCRIPTION:Neural circuits for natural vision \nPlease join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a seminar featuring Dr. Cris Niell\, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology of the University of Oregon.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cncm-seminar-dr-cris-niell/
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211102T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211029T202712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T202712Z
UID:10000278-1635850800-1635854400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Eve Marder\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Perturbations Reveal that Degenerate Circuits Hide Cryptic Individual Variability \nThe Department of Neurobiology and Behavior will be hosting Eve Marder\, professor of biology at Brandeis University\, for a James L. McGaugh Distinguished Lecture. \nAbstract: \nMore than 40 years of work on the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system on the cardiac sac\, gastric mill\, and pyloric rhythms have described numerous instances of circuit reconfiguration by neuromodulation and sensory inputs. These reconfigurations can involve alterations in the frequency and phases relationships of rhythms\, and switching of neurons from participating in one circuit to another. Computational works shows clearly that there are multiple\, degenerate sets of parameters that can result in similar output patterns. Motivated by this\, we have studied the effects of several different perturbations on STG networks\, revealing animal-to animal differences in their responses that are not evident without extreme perturbation
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/eve-marder-ph-d/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211101T161446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T161754Z
UID:10000279-1636023600-1636027200@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:UCI MIND Seminar Series: Elizabeth Mormino\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Subtyping Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease: Typical\, Atypical\, and Resilient \nDr. Mormino is an assistant professor of Neurology at Stanford University\, and is currently serving on the Imaging Core Steering committee for the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center. She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at UC Berkeley in the laboratory of Dr. William Jagust\, where she performed some of the initial studies applying Amyloid PET with the tracer PIB to clinically normal older individuals. During her postdoctoral fellowship with Drs. Reisa Sperling and Keith Johnson at Massachusetts General Hospital she used multimodal imaging techniques to understand longitudinal cognitive changes among individuals classified as preclinical AD. Although amyloid abnormalities are common among clinically normal older adults\, and associated with elevated risk of future progression to clinical impairment\, we remain unable to predict future risk at the individual participant level. Although group level effects related to amyloid status are present\, trajectories of cognitive decline vary across individuals. In this talk\, Dr. Mormino will highlight her tau PET work\, which has emphasized more heterogeneity in the spatial patterns of tau PET uptake than expected. This pattern suggests that multiple subtypes exist within preclinical AD\, and that these subtypes are likely associated with distinct risk profiles (typical\, atypical\, and resilient). Subtyping preclinical AD is critical for the design of prevention trials\, as well as to establish a more complete understanding of mechanisms related to early AD processes. \nFor questions\, contact vswarup@uci.edu and bmander@hs.uci.edu
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/uci-mind-seminar-series-elizabeth-mormino-ph-d/
LOCATION:Natural Sciences I\, 1114 Natural Sciences\, Irvine\, CA\, 92647\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211015T221204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T200808Z
UID:10000275-1637672400-1637676000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain\, Guest Speaker: Susan Tapert
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Topic: “Alcohol & the Adolescent Brain” Host: Victoria Risbrough Tuesday\, November 23\, 2021 1:00 – 2:15PM (PDT) \n \nSusan Tapert\, Ph.D.\nProfessor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs Department of Psychiatry UC San Diego \n  \nView the flyer below for event details. \nTapert-Flyer_Final
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/alcohol-and-the-adolescent-brain-guest-speaker-susan-tapert/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211130T195754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T195754Z
UID:10000285-1638874800-1638878400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:CNCM Seminar: Dr. Guang Yang
DESCRIPTION:In vivo studies of pain-related changes of neuronal activity in the peripheral and central nervous system \nPlease join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a virtual seminar featuring\, Dr. Guang Yang of Columbia University.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cncm-seminar-dr-guang-yang/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211207T184944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T190340Z
UID:10000289-1641906000-1641909600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Conte Center Seminar Series - Thomas Kash PhD
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, January 11th\, 2022 for a Conte Center@UCI Seminar: “Probing the Role of Serotonin in Alcohol Use Disorders”\, Guest Speaker: Thomas L. Kash PhD from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/conte-center-seminar-series-thomas-kash-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Staff,Students
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220113T110000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211130T202411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T202411Z
UID:10000287-1642068000-1642071600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Pascal Kaeser\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Mechanisms for Fast Dopamine Signaling \nPlease join the UCI School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology for a virtual seminar featuring\, Pascal Kaeser\, MD\, Associate Professor of Neurobiology of Harvard Medical School.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/pascal-kaeser-md/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220125T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220125T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20210810T002846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T213414Z
UID:10000257-1643108400-1643112000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:CNLM Colloquium with Melissa Sharpe\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The CNLM will be hosting\, Dr. Melissa Sharpe\, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of California\, Los Angeles in a colloquium where she will be presenting her latest research. \nThis year\, the series will be held in a virtual format with some speakers presenting in-person as well. We will keep registered participants updated on the possibility of an in-person event as the situation with COVID-19 evolves. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe finding that dopamine neurons support intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) has been taken to suggest that phasic firing of dopamine neurons is reinforcing. This is one of the last findings preventing a move away from the value hypothesis of dopamine. Yet there are almost no studies investigating the cognitive basis of ICSS. We tested how dopamine stimulation is represented in the brain during ICSS. We found that physiological frequencies did not support robust ICSS or promote behavior that would indicate the stimulation was represented as a meaningful reward in a specific or general sense. However\, supraphysiological frequencies supported robust ICSS and this was associated with a representation of the stimulation as a specific sensory event that was capable of acting as a goal to motivate behavior. This demonstrates that dopamine neurons only support ICSS at supraphysiological frequencies\, and in a manner that does not reflect our subjective experience with endogenous firing of dopamine neurons during learning. These data provide important considerations for the interpretation of ICSS when used to interrogate the physiological function of dopamine and other neuronal populations.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cnlm-colloquium-with-melissa-sharpe-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES: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:20220125T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220125T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211130T200220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T200220Z
UID:10000286-1643108400-1643112000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:CNCM Seminar: Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a seminar featuring Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg of UCLA. \nFor more information\, please visit: https://cncm.som.uci.edu/seminars/
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cncm-seminar-dr-joshua-trachtenberg/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220201T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220201T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20210810T003024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T173525Z
UID:10000258-1643713200-1643716800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:CNLM Colloquium with Barry Setlow\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Sex\, drugs\, and getting old; influences on decision making and executive functions \nThe CNLM will host Dr. Barry Setlow\, professor of psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine\, in a colloquium where he will present his latest research.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cnlm-colloquium-with-barry-setlow-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center\, 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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T123000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220125T220206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T171840Z
UID:10000292-1644310800-1644323400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:19th Annual EpiCenter Symposium
DESCRIPTION:19th Annual EpiCenter Symposium Brain Development & Epilepsy \nThe 19th Annual EpCenter Symposium includes keynote speaker Bina Santoro\, PhD\, assistant research scientist at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/19th-annual-epicenter-symposium/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220128T195043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T214210Z
UID:10000295-1644318000-1644321600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Carlos Portera Cailliau\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Cortical interneuron hypofunction in Fragile X Syndrome \nThe Department of Neurobiology and Behavior will host Carlos Portera Cailliau\, from the Department of Neurology & Neurobiology of the University of California\, Los Angeles\, for a James L. McGaugh Distinguished Lecture. \n  \n\nAbstract \n\nCortical circuit dysfunction is a primary pathophysiology in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Considering how symptoms in NDDs/autism become apparent in toddlers\, circuit changes must emerge very early in cortical development.  Over the last decade\, developmental differences in cortical synaptic dynamics\, neuronal adaptation\, and network synchrony have been reported in the Fmr1 knockout (KO) mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS)\, a prototypical NDD.  In addition\, the density\, maturity and activity of parvalbumin (PV) cortical interneurons are all reduced in Fmr1 KO mice and in other autism mouse models.  We find that the density of PV neurons in S1 is reduced in both juvenile and adult Fmr1 KO mice\, as well as in post-mortem tissue from human FXS cases.  Furthermore\, the density and the firing of Nkx2.1-expressing interneuron precursors are also reduced in early Fmr1 KO mice. Increasing MGE-derived interneuron activity using excitatory DREADDs significantly increases the density of PV cells at P15. Moreover\, increasing PV cell firing in Fmr1 KO mice with a novel allosteric modulator of Kv3.1 channels improves deficits in the tuning and the adaptation of excitatory neurons in S1 to repetitive whisker stimulation.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/carlos-portera-cailliau-md/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T110000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220125T221957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T214002Z
UID:10000293-1644487200-1644490800@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Bruce Herring\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Cell-specific expression of SAP97 links augmented glutamatergic synapse function to Schizophrenia \nJoin the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology for a virtual seminar featuring Bruce Herring\, PhD\, assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/bruce-herring-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220106T204621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T172653Z
UID:10000290-1644926400-1644944400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:13th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join REMIND and UCI MIND for the 13th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium featuring keynote speaker\, Cynthia Lemere\, PhD\, associate professor at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/13th-annual-emerging-scientists-symposium/
LOCATION:UCI Student Event Center\, 311 W Peltason Dr # A\, Irvine\, CA 92697\, Doheny Beach Meeting Room\, 311 W Peltason Dr # A\, Irvine\, CA 92697\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20211207T184929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T173445Z
UID:10000288-1644930000-1644933600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:William A. Carlezon Jr. Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Enduring effects of early developmental immune activation \nThe Conte Center@UCI Seminar Series will feature guest speaker William A. Carlezon Jr. Ph.D.\, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/conte-center-seminar-series-william-a-carlezon-jr-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220209T223630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T223906Z
UID:10000298-1645545600-1645549200@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:UCI MSTP Distinguished Lecture Series Talk | Speaker: Garret Stuber \, Ph.D. on Tuesday\, February 22nd 2022
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 22\, 2022 \nNeurocircuits for Motivation and Reward featuring Guest Speaker\, Garret Stuber\, PhD\nProfessor\, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine\, University of Washington \n4 – 5 p.m. PT \nFree to attend. RSVP encouraged.\nVirtual/Hybrid Event\nTelecast via Zoom\, and in-person in Tamkin F110 \n\nOrganized by: MSTP students Dhruba Banerjee\, and Heechul Jun \nEvent Contacts: Heechul Jun | heechulj@hs.uci.edu
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/uci-mstp-distinguished-lecture-series-talk-speaker-garret-stuber-ph-d-on-tuesday-february-22nd-2022/
LOCATION:Virtual/Hybrid Event (Telecast via Zoom\, and in-person in Tamkin F110)\, Tamkin F110 Academy Wy\, Irvine\, CA\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T110000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220222T165026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T165026Z
UID:10000301-1646128800-1646132400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:CNCM Seminar: Dr. Edward Zagha
DESCRIPTION:Neural mechanisms of target stimulus selection and distractor stimulus suppression \nJoin the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a Hybrid (Virtual and In-Person) Seminar featuring Edward Zagha\, MD\, PhD from UC Riverside. \nThose who wish to attend in person will receive details upon registration. \nAbstract: \n Goal-directed behavior requires the ability to respond to task-relevant target stimuli (selection) while inhibiting responses to extraneous distractor stimuli (suppression). To better understand the neural mechanisms underlying these processes\, we trained mice in an operant whisker detection task in which they learned to respond to brief stimuli in one whisker field (target) and ignore identical stimuli in the opposite whisker field (distractor). We subsequently performed a range of neuronal recording and perturbation experiments in expert mice while they were performing this selective detection task. In this talk\, I will present data from three studies related to the differential neural processing of target and distractor signals. First\, I will demonstrate the robust attenuation of distractor-evoked responses downstream of primary somatosensory cortex (Aruljothi et al.\, 2020). Second\, I will show that frontal cortex and dorsolateral striatum have highly similar task-related neuronal representations\, and yet make drastically different functional contributions to target selection and distractor suppression. Third\, I will provide evidence for a novel mechanism by which top-down signals from frontal cortex to sensory cortex contribute to target-distractor selectivity. Overall\, these studies reveal cortical and subcortical mechanisms by which sensory signals are appropriately routed according to goal direction (Zagha 2020).
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/cncm-seminar-dr-edward-zagha/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220305T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220305T160000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220126T234650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T234650Z
UID:10000294-1646470800-1646496000@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:2022 Irvine Brain Bee
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day of neuroscience fun at UC Irvine! Laboratory tours\, hands-on brain activities\, keynote lecture and an opportunity to meet neuroscientists. The competition is a small portion of the day and we invite all high schoolers to participate regardless of how much you know about the brain!
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/2022-irvine-brain-bee/
LOCATION:Qureshey Research Laboratory\, 506 C Student Center\, Irvine\, CA 92697\, Qureshey Research Laboratory\, 506 C Student Center\, Irvine\, CA 92697-3800\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697-3800\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Students
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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:20220310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220214T180159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T165437Z
UID:10000299-1646913600-1646917200@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar with Jill K Leutgeb\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Hippocampal Network Computations for Memories and Decisions \nJoin the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology for a virtual seminar featuring Jill K Leutgeb\, PhD\, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professor of Neuroethology and Professor of Neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/anatomy-neurobiology-seminar-with-jill-k-leutgeb-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:All,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220222T165852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T194804Z
UID:10000302-1647964800-1647968400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Jun Nagai\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:EpiCenter 2021-2022 Seminar Series \nJoin the UCI Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in their EpiCenter Seminar Series featuring Jun Nagai\, PhD\, Team Leader of the Glia-Neuron Circuit Dynamics Lab at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/jun-nagai-phd/
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220208T183410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T200859Z
UID:10000297-1648026000-1648047600@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:Conte Center@UCI 9th Annual Symposium\, featuring Keynote Speaker\, Dr. Diego Pizzagalli
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCI Conte Center at its 9th Annual Symposium titled\, Origins of Mental Health and Disease: Research and Reality\, happening on March 23\, 2022. The event features keynote speaker\, Diego Pizzagalli\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School\, and the Center Director for a Silvio O. Conte Center for Basic Translational Mental Health Research focused on the neurobiology of and novel treatment targets for depression and anxiety disorders. \nView the event flyer here. \n 
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/conte-center-9th-annual-symposium/
LOCATION:Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering\, 100 Academy Wy\, Irvine\, CA\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:All,Community,Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T110000
DTSTAMP:20260422T145825
CREATED:20220322T160036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T162146Z
UID:10000310-1649152800-1649156400@brain.uci.edu
SUMMARY:UCI CNCM Seminar: Jianhua Cang\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Visual Processing in the Mouse Superior Colliculus \nJoin the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping in a hybrid seminar featuring Dr. Jianhua Cang of the University of Virginia. \nAbstract: \n\n\nThe superior colliculus (SC)\, or optic tectum\, is an evolutionarily conserved structure that receives direct retinal input in all vertebrates. It was the most sophisticated visual center until the neocortex evolved in mammals. In mice\, a mammalian species that has become a useful model in vision research\, 85–90% of retinal ganglion cells project to the SC\, making it the most prominent visual structure in this species. In the past several years\, we have performed a series of functional studies of the mouse SC\, especially the aspect of motion processing. In these studies\, we have (1) revealed diverse visual response properties in the mouse SC (Wang\, Sarnaik et al.\, J. Neuroscience\, 2010; Zhao\, Liu and Cang\, Neuron\, 2014; Savier et al.\, 2019; Chen et al.\, 2021); (2) discovered a highly specialized lamina in the most superficial SC for movement direction (Inayat\, Barchini et al.\, J. Neuroscience\, 2015); (3) demonstrated a retinal origin ofSC direction selectivity (Shi\, Barchini et al.\, Nature Neuroscience\, 2017); and (4) studied how SC neurons encode motion contrast (Barchini et al.\, 2018). In this presentation\, I will briefly review these published findings and describe our recent efforts in linking visual response properties to genetically identified cell types in the SC. \nFor those registering for in-person there is a 22 max capacity.\nIn-Person Location:\nInterdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB)\nS. Circle View Dr\, Irvine\nConference Room 5020
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/uci-cncm-seminar-jianhua-cang-phd/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) 1200\, Irvine\, CA\, 92697\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific,Staff,Students
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