Wei-Chung Lee, PhD
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, United StatesThe Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Wei-Chung Lee, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard University. "Circuit Motifs of Sensorimotor Integration" Neuronal circuits transform sensory information into behavior. I will present our recent work to understand the neuronal circuit basis of decision making and motor control. First, we studied synaptic connectivity…
2024 Second Annual Symposium for the Center for Neurotherapeutics
Samueli Integrative Health Institute Sue Gross Auditorium 856 Health Sciences Quad, Irvine, United StatesThe 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…
Masakazu Agetsuma, Ph.D.
Plumwood House Room 166 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe 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)…
Vahid Yaghmai, MD, MS, FSAR
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, United StatesThe 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 Bench to Bedside" Current areas of basic and clinical research in Radiological Sciences department will be highlighted. An overview of resources in the preclinical and…
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
Irvine Barclay Theater 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe 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…
Jack Gallant, Ph.D.
Sue Gross Auditorium 854 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, United StatesUCI 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 University of California, Berkeley A biologically plausible hierarchical convolutional energy model explains V4 responses during natural vision
Daniele Canzio, PhD
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, United StatesThe 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 neurons recognize self from non-self? My lab investigates how neurons distinguish self from non-self, a process also known as neural self-avoidance. This process is critical…
Marcus Holmes, Ph.D.
CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via ZoomUCI 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 Government, Director of the Political Psychology and International Relations Lab, and Co-Director of the Social Science Research Methods Center from The College of William and…
Albert La Spada, M.D., Ph.D.
Crystal Cove Auditorium at the UCI Student Center 4113 Pereira Dr, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe 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 Lecture. Defining the Mechanistic Basis of Neurodegenerative Proteinopathy: A 35 Year Genetic Odyssey
Yannick Fotio, PharmD, Ph.D.
Plumwood House Room 166 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe 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 after tissue damage
Perspectives on Political Violence
Virtual EventThe 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 comprehensively analyze the disturbing development and potential emergence in American life. The Symposium includes the 2024 Jerrold Post Lecture on Neuropolitics, to be given by…
Yang Yang, PhD
Plumwood House 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, United StatesUCI 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"