Seminar Abstract:  National calls to improve undergraduate STEM education have emphasized the importance of undergraduate research experiences. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, involve groups of students in addressing research problems or questions in the context of a class, and have been proposed as scalable ways of involving undergraduates in research. This seminar will offer…

Hippocampal Inhibition, Interference and Indexing We have previously demonstrated an important role for adult-born dentate granule cells in resolution of memory interference in adulthood and aging.  These studies have motivated assessment of the neural circuit mechanisms by which dentate granule cells modulate memory interference to dictate discrimination and generalization.  I will discuss ongoing efforts interrogating…

 Epilepsy Research for the New Millennium - A Zebrafish Story   JOIN US as we host an epilepsy research seminar open to the entire UC Irvine community. Dr. Baraban is a basic neuroscientist with research interests in drug discovery, precision medicine & neurodevelopmental disorders. 

Gene expression and connectivity reveal the multiscale organization of mouse hippocampal networks Many studies have described structural and functional heterogeneity across the hippocampus, but different fields of neuroscience (behavioral, anatomical, and gene expression studies) have produced disparate views of hippocampal organization. To help bridge the gaps between these data, we analyzed and mapped mouse gene…