2024 Second Annual Symposium for the Center for Neurotherapeutics

Samueli Integrative Health Institute Sue Gross Auditorium 856 Health Sciences Quad, Irvine, United States

The purpose of the Symposium will be to familiarize attendees with the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics and introduce attendees to the exciting translational neuroscience research happening right on our campus and in labs across the country. We hope that attendees will: Learn about the vision that drives us at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics and our ongoing effort to…

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Masakazu Agetsuma, Ph.D.

Plumwood House Room 166 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United States

The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Masakazu Agetsuma, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan  “Activity-dependent organization of prefrontal hub-networks for associative learning and signal transformation” Associative learning is crucial for adapting to environmental changes. Interactions among neuronal populations involving the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC)…

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Vahid Yaghmai, MD, MS, FSAR

Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, United States

The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Vahid Yaghmai, Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine "Medical Imaging Research: From…

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Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.

Irvine Barclay Theater 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, CA, United States

The McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory will host guest speaker Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. Three Lessons About the Brain   Ever wonder how your brain really works? Join us for the 3rd Annual McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, an author…

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Jack Gallant, Ph.D.

Sue Gross Auditorium 854 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, United States

UCI Center for Translational Vision Research will host guest speaker Dr. Jack Gallant, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Co-director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC), from the…

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Daniele Canzio, PhD

Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, United States

The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Daniele Canzio, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco. How do…

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Marcus Holmes, Ph.D.

CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom

UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI Brain, and UCI Conte Center will host guest speaker Dr. Marcus Holmes, Professor of Government, Chair of the Department of…

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Albert La Spada, M.D., Ph.D.

Crystal Cove Auditorium at the UCI Student Center 4113 Pereira Dr, Irvine, CA, United States

The Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences will host guest speaker Albert La Spada, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Pathology, from the University of California, Irvine, for the Dean's Distinguished…

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Yannick Fotio, PharmD, Ph.D.

Plumwood House Room 166 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United States

The Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology will host Yannick Fotio, PharmD, Ph.D. a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Piomelli's lab from the University of California, Irvine. Metabolic reprogramming drives pain chronification…

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Perspectives on Political Violence

Virtual Event

The Symposium of the UCI Center for Neuropolitics will address political violence in all its complexities. The Symposium will use the tools of neuroscience, political science, history and psychology to…

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Yang Yang, PhD

Plumwood House 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United States

UCI Epilepsy Research Center will host guest speaker Dr. Yang Yang, Jack and Barbara McCoy Associate Professor from Purdue University, for their EpiCenter Seminar. "SCN2A related autism and epilepsy: from mouse and hiPSC models to genetic medicine"

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Manuella Oliveira Yassa, Ph.D. & Caroline Montojo, Ph.D.

Virtual via Zoom CA

The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory (CNLM) will host guest speakers Dr. Manuella Oliveira Yassa, Director of Outreach and Education at the CNLM, and Dr. Caroline Montojo,…

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