Amygdala-cortical circuitry in reward learning and pursuit To make adaptive decisions we must cast ourselves into the future and consider the outcomes of our potential choices. This prospective consideration is informed by our memories. I will discuss our lab’s recent work investigating the neural circuits responsible for encoding, updating, and retrieving reward memories for use…

C. elegans Processes Sensory Information to Choose Between Freeloading and Self-defense Strategies Join the UCI Department of Developmental and Cell Biology in a virtual seminar with Dr. Javier Apfield, Assistant Professor of the College of Science of Northeastern University. Abstract: Hydrogen peroxide is the preeminent chemical weapon that organisms use for combat. Individual cells rely…

Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome: Cerebrovascular and Neuroinflammation Contributions Please join the UCI Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in a virtual seminar with Dr. Elizabeth Head, from the UCI School of Medicine.   Free to attend. Registration required. Click here for more information.