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SUMMARY:2023 Inaugural Symposium for the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Al La Spada\, Director\, and Dr. Rob Spitale\, Associate Director\, of the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics are delighted to announce our upcoming Inaugural Symposium: “Exploring the Future of Neurotherapeutics” \nThe goals of the Inaugural Symposium are as follows: \n\nIntroduce the center to campus. Learn about the vision that drives us\, the milestones we’ve achieved\, and our ongoing goals to further develop the center on campus.\nAn update on state-of-the-art translational neuroscience research. Internationally renowned faculty will delineate ongoing efforts to understand the complexities of the human brain and develop innovative models and solutions for neurological diseases.Lecture topics will include therapeutic drug discovery and high-throughput methods to identify novel drug targets. Experts from diverse disciplines will explain how they are tackling the challenge of delivering small molecules and biological agents across the blood-brain barrier.\nSpurring interdisciplinary collaboration across campus. One of the core values at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics is collaboration\, especially between faculty in the physical sciences and the biological sciences.This unique occasion will be a forum to highlight opportunities for cross-disciplinary interactions and explore potential collaborations. By combining our expertise and diverse perspectives\, we can unlock new avenues of discovery and accelerate progress toward developing novel solutions for therapy development.\n\nOur exceptional line-up of guest speakers and UCI faculty speakers include: \n\nChristopher Austin (former Director of NCATS)\nMichael Lin (Stanford University)\nJulia Schaletzky (UC Berkeley)\nRandy Ashton (University of Wisconsin)\nAnne Bang (Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Research Institute)\nViviana Gradinaru (California Institute of Technology)\nAlexandre Chan (UC Irvine)\nBrian Paegel (UC Irvine)\nSzu Wang (UC Irvine)\nErrol Arkilic (UC Irvine)\n\nWhether you are a student\, postdoctoral trainee\, faculty member\, or staff member\, we encourage you to join us\, so please mark your calendars!
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/2023-inaugural-symposium-for-the-uci-center-for-neurotheraputics/
LOCATION:Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering\, 100 Academy Wy\, Irvine\, CA\, 92617\, United States
CATEGORIES:All
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SUMMARY:AI & Biomedicine Symposium: AI and Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:This year’s annual Southern California AI and Biomedicine Symposium will focus on AI and Neuroscience.  The event is co-sponsored by the UCI Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics and the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. The free event includes a full day of talks\, lunch\, and reception. RSVP soon as space is limited. \nDownload Event Flyer
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/ai-biomedicine-symposium-ai-and-neuroscience/
LOCATION:Calit2 Auditorium\, 4100 Calit2 Building\, Irvine\, Irvine
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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SUMMARY:Mayank Mehta\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:CNLM Colloquium Series \nHippocampus 2.0: Three simple rules \nJoin the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Mayank Mehta\, professor of physics\, astronomy\, neurology\, and neurobiology at UCLA. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \nThe hippocampus is implicated in many learning and memory disorders including Alzheimer’s. Dozens of drugs have cured these in mice but failed in humans. Hippocampal neurons in rodents show robust spatial selectivity. Hence\, the standard test of hippocampal function in mice is the Morris Water Maze\, an allocentric spatial memory task. However\, in freely behaving primates\, hippocampal neurons show very little spatial selectivity. Further\, hippocampal damage in humans causes profound non-spatial\, egocentric\, episodic memory deficits too\, whose neurophysiological analog in rodents is unclear. We propose a novel theory of hippocampal function\, Hippocampus 2.0\, which can reconcile these long-standing differences and provide several experimental tests of this theory. The results provide a unified framework for probing hippocampal function\, which could improve translation of therapies from mice to humans.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/mayank-mehta-ph-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students,Students, Faculty, Staff Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T080000
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SUMMARY:Conspiracy Thinking in American Politics
DESCRIPTION:This Symposium will include the Annual Jerrold Post Lecture on Neuropolitics\, given by Keynote Speaker George Marcus. Psychiatrist Jerrold Post\, MD (1934-2020)\, who was Professor of Political Science at George Washington University\, was a founder of the field of political psychology and author of many influential books on the psychology of political leadership.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/conspiracy-thinking-in-american-politics/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:All
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SUMMARY:Samuel Barnes Science Discussion UCI Conte Center
DESCRIPTION:Join Samuel Barnes\, PhD for his discussion on “Mechanisms underlying flexible reward learning deficits in rodents” virtually with the UCI Conte Center. \nZoom Link \nPasscode: 764583
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/samuel-barnes-science-discussion-uci-conte-center/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:All,Scientific
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SUMMARY:Roger Nicoll\, M.D.
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) and the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Roger Nicoll\, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nThe Biochemistry of Memory: A (not so) New and Specific Hypothesis \nEvent is jointly sponsored through the CNLM Colloquium Series and the Anatomy and Neurobiology Seminar Series. \nThis event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. \n \nDescription: \n\nCaMKII and long-term potentiation (LTP) were discovered within a decade of each other and have been inextricably intertwined ever since. In 1984 Francis Crick proposed that a memory molecule should possess two properties. First\, it should be a multimeric protein with identical subunits that can phosphorylate one another. Second\, to address how memories outlast molecular turnover he proposed that naïve unphosphorylated subunits could exchange into the phosphorylated multimer and become phosphorylated. Within two years biochemical studies established that CaMKII satisfied the first prediction. Recent biochemical studies have shown that unphosphorylated CaMKII subunits can exchange into phosphorylated CaMKII multimers\, thus satisfying Crick’s second prediction. My talk will focus on linking the biochemical properties of CaMKII to LTP. I will show that the autophosphorylation of CaMKII maintains LTP (memory) by establishing a stable CaMKII/NMDA receptor complex\, resulting in the synaptic capture of AMPA receptors. LTP survives the protein turnover of CaMKII\, which is complete within 2 weeks\, by its phosphorylation of newly synthesized naïve CaMKII molecules.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/roger-nicoll-m-d/
LOCATION:CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Scientific,Staff,Students
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T130000
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SUMMARY:Effects of Narrative Structure and Agency on Memory
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Cognitive Sciences’\nColloquia Series presents: \nJanice Chen\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor\, Department of\nPsychological & Brain Sciences\nJohns Hopkins University \n  \nEffects of narrative structure and agency on memory \nThe world confronts our senses with a continuous stream of rapidly changing information. Yet\, we experience life as a series of episodes or events\, and in memory these pieces seem to become even further organized. How do we recall an give structure to this complex information? Recent studies have begun to examine these questions using naturalistic stimuli and behavior: subjects view audiovisual movies or read interactive stories\, then freely recount their memories of the events. Within the default network\, we find distinct brain activity patterns corresponding to individual events\, which reappear during verbal recollection; memories and neural patterns are influenced by the network structure of links between events in the narrative\, and these effects are modulated by agency. These observations construct a picture of how the brain supports our ability to comprehend and recall real-world events as they unfold continuously across time.
URL:https://brain.uci.edu/event/effects-of-narrative-structure-and-agency-on-memory/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom\, CA
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