Li Gan, PhD
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) 1200 Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Li Gan, Director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute at Cornell University. Innate immunity and neurodegeneration: challenges and opportunities As the resident immune cells in the brain, microglia serve as liaisons between the immune system and CNS and are strategically…
Katalin Gothard, MD, Ph.D.
CNLM Herklotz Conference Center Irvine, CA, United StatesThe James L. McGaugh Distinguished Seminar will host guest speaker Dr. Katalin Gothard, Professor of Physiology, Neurology, and Neuroscience, from The University of Arizona “A context-dependent switch from sensing to feeling in the primate amygdala” Tactile signals elicited in the periphery by social and affective touch acquire emotional significance in the brain. As the amygdala…
James Antony, PhD
CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via ZoomThe UC Irvine Department of Neurobiology and Behavior will host guest speaker Dr. James Antony, Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University. Making memories last: Factors that promote memory persistence How do memories persist? In this talk, I will investigate various factors that promote long-term memory. First, I will show how moment-to-moment predictions made during…
Dion Khodagholy, PhD
Plumwood House Room 166 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology will host Dion Khodagholy, PhD at their department seminar series Translational Neuroelectronics Our understanding of the brain’s pathophysiology relies on discoveries in neuroscience and neurology fueled by sophisticated bioelectronics enabling visualization and manipulation of neural circuits at multiple spatial and temporal resolutions. In parallel, to facilitate clinical translation of…
Lunch and Learn: UCI Behavioral Testing Core Facility
CNLM Herklotz Conference Center Irvine, CA, United StatesShahrdad Lotfipour, PhD, and Michael A. Yassa, PhD will host a Lunch and Learn session about the new UC Irvine Behavioral Testing Core Facility. This session will introduce researchers to…
Bin He, PhD
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) 1200 Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Bin He, Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Brain-Computer Interface: Decoding and Modulating the Brain Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a neurotechnology that enables direct brain-based communication between an individual and the rest of the world. BCI is a system that decodes…
Gary Brennan, PhD
UCI Epilepsy Research Center will host guest speaker Dr. Gary Brennan, Assistant Professor at The Conway Institute, University College Dublin, for their EpiCenter Seminar Series.
Deborah Fidler, PhD
Zoom Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Center for Aging Research in Down Syndrome will host Deborah Fidler, PhD, Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University (CSU) and Director of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Division of the CSU Prevention Research Center, for their virtual event. Dr. Fidler has served as Editor of the…
Special Symposium and Reception “Your Brain on Art”
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) 1200 Irvine, CA, United StatesJoin us for our special symposium and reception that will bring the scientific and creative community together to celebrate the intersection between brain science and art. This unique event aims…
Anna Leshinskaya, Ph.D.
Hybrid Event (This event will be held virtually via Zoom and In-Person in the Herkltoz Conference Room) 300 Qureshey Research Lab Irvine, Irvine, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Anna Leshinskaya, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. Processes of learning and integration to build relational memory in the…
Marguerite Matthews, Ph.D.
Virtual via Zoom CAThe Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory (CNLM) will host guest speaker Dr. Marguerite Matthews, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), for their CONNECT…
Rui Chen, PhD
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) 1200 Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Rui Chen, Professor of Ophthalmology at University of California, Irvine. Establishing a Comprehensive Cell Atlas of the Human Retina Single-cell sequencing has dramatically enhanced the scale and resolution of molecular profiling for tissues and organs. We have recently generated an integrated dual-modal reference atlas…