2021 CNLM Spring Meeting

Memory: It's About Time

May 27 & 28, 2021
Virtual Conference
9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time)

Program Chairs:
Aaron Bornstein and Lulu Y. Chen

Organizing Committee:
Sunil Gandhi, Heechel Jun, Sarah Kark, Diana Lofflin, Manuella Yassa, and Michael Yassa

Cost:
Free!

Registration will first be open to CNLM Fellows and their laboratories, as well as alumni and guests. Early registration is encouraged.

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About

Memories are the record of our experiences, but they also shape them. We now know that memory recall is a fundamentally constructive process, reassembling multiple views of past experience to interpret the present and imagine the future. The three symposia for this year's Learning and Memory meeting will examine recent and ongoing research building this new, dynamic, multi-scale understanding of memory. The first," Connections and Components," will investigate the ways in which neural circuits are "hard-wired" to encode certain features of experience and what this means for how and what we remember. The second, "Construction and Formation," will examine the fundamental building blocks of memories as they are encoded and reshaped by later experience. The third, "Sequences and Structures," will discuss how memories link together to reflect the regularities of the world around us. Discussion sections will synthesize the findings we've learned about and sketch out new directions for memory research in the years ahead, including implications for neurological disease.

Speakers

Speakers:
Denise Cai, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine

Sarah Dubrow, University of Oregon

Norbert Fortin, University of California, Irvine

Ben Gunn, University of California, Irvine

Kari Hoffman, Vanderbilt University

Christopher Honey, Johns Hopkins University

Kei Igarashi, University of California, Irvine

Sheena Josselyn, Hospital for Sick Children

Jim Knierim, Johns Hopkins University

Sam McKenzie, University of New Mexico

Arielle Tambini, University of California, Irvine

Data Blitz Session

Open Paper Session

Open Paper Session

In addition to presentations from trainees, we will have one “open paper” session that will provide faculty who are not speaking in the planned sessions to deliver a slightly shorter 8-minute brief talk with 2 minutes for questions. No more than 10 slides are permitted in open paper sessions. Every effort will be made to accommodate all faculty interested in presenting open papers, however, in case there is insufficient space, we may ask some faculty to hold off until the following year.

Submission deadline has passed.

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Memory: It's About Time Spring Conference 2021 Recordings

Agenda

May 27

9:00 am*

Welcome and Introduction

Conference Co-Chairs: Lulu Y. Chen & Aaron Bornstein

Session 1: Connections and Components
Moderator: Lulu Y. Chen

Denise Cai (Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine) (Watch Video)
The brain in motion- how ensemble fluidity supports memory-updating

Ben Gunn (UC Irvine) (Watch Video)
A network analysis of the hippocampus

Kei Igarashi (UC Irvine)
Circuit dynamics of the entorhinal cortex in associative learning

Sheena Josselyn (Hospital for Sick Children) (Watch Video)
Neuronal allocation to an engram supporting a fear memory

11:30 am

Break

12:00 pm

Open Papers

Francesco Battaglia (Radboud University, Nijmegen) - Medium gamma controls phase precession in hippocampal subfield CA1

Kasia Bieszczad (Rutgers University) - The sensory details of long-term memory are encoded in sensory neural representations

Liz Chrastil (UC Irvine) - Theta oscillations support active exploration in human spatial navigation

Gyorgy Lur (UC Irvine) - Sex-dependent long-term effects of adolescent stress on working memory circuits in the parietal cortex

Andrew Maurer (University of Florida) - What can spectral analysis tell us about neurobiological communication?

Daniela Palombo (University of British Columbia) - Emotion enhances temporal order memory

Christine Smith (UC San Diego) - Memory for news events and its relationship to performance on standard neuropsychological tests of cognition

Katherine Thompson-Peer (UC Irvine) - Developmental switches in dendrite regeneration

1:30 pm

Memory Mingle
An opportunity to connect with fellow conference attendees.

Game rooms:

Simultaneous-turn Risk (sign up for a free account)
Trivia
Pictionary

Visiting rooms: A place for conversation and discussion.

Coffee Bar
Back to the Future Room

2:30 pm

Day 1 Concludes

May 28

9:00 am*

Session 2: Construction and Formation
Moderator: Liz Chrastil

Kari Hoffman (Vanderbilt University) (Watch Video)
The difference a year makes: a retrosplenial retrospective in macaques

Jim Knierim (Johns Hopkins University) (Watch Video)
Parallel processing streams through the hippocampal transverse axis

Sam McKenzie (University of New Mexico) (Watch Video)
Preexisting hippocampal network dynamics constrain optogenetically induced place fields

Arielle Tambini (UC Irvine) (Watch Video)
Tracking the emergence of hippocampal and cortical memory representations across months of learning

11:30

Break

12:00 pm

Session 3: Sequences and Structures
Moderator: Aaron Bornstein

Sarah Dubrow (University of Oregon) (Watch Video)
Medial temporal lobe contributions to temporal memory precision across months

Gabriel Elias in place of Norbert Fortin (UC Irvine) (Watch Video)
Hippocampal ensembles represent sequential relationships among an extended sequence of nonspatial events

Christopher Honey (Johns Hopkins University) (Watch Video)
Timescales of natural and artificial intelligence

1:30 pm

Break

1:45 pm

Data Blitz

Breakout Room 1 - Memory Mix-up: Exploring Age and Addiction

Caroline Chwiesko (UC Irvine) - Understanding the age-related decline in mnemonic lure discrimination performance using a hierarchical Bayesian diffusion model

Elena Dominguez (UC Irvine) - The role of the cortical thickness in top cognitive performance in the aging population

Vinicius Duarte (UC Irvine) - Age-specific differences in temporal calcium dynamics following in vivo neuronal dendrite and axon injuries

Angeline Dukes (UC Irvine) - Adolescent nicotine and THC exposure alters cue-induced relapse in adult mice

Mitchell Farrell (UC Irvine) - Ventral pallidum GABAergic neurons bidirectionally modulate opioid seeking in a rat relapse model

Sophia Levis (UC Irvine) - Sex-dependent consequences of early life adversity on reward circuit development promote opioid addiction

Jenna Merenstein (UC Riverside) - Neural substrates of task, but not learning, stage vary in aging

Catherine Tallman (UC San Diego) - Human brain activity and functional connectivity as memories age from one hour to one month

Breakout Room 2 - Memory Moments: Investigating Time and Memory

Nicholas Diamond (University of Pennsylvania) - Medial temporal lobe theta oscillations during ongoing experience shape memory organization

Can Fenerci (McGill University) - Changes in the experience of time: The impact of spatial information on the perception and memory of duration

Adrian Gilmore (National Institute of Mental Health) -Evidence supporting a time-limited hippocampal role in autobiographical memory retrieval

Bryan Hong (University of Toronto) - Temporal context in a nested event hierarchy: Investigating the detailed episodic recall for the movie Forrest Gump

Hongmi Lee (Johns Hopkins University) - Cortical signal at major boundaries between internally- generated mental contexts during narrative recall

Nicole Montijn (Utrecht University) - Using task congruent future thinking to positively bias perception and enhance cognitive control over a real-life aversive event

Eloy Parra-Barrero (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) - Representing the “past” and the ”future” during theta cycles? Sort of

Daniel Schonhaut (University of Pennsylvania) - Time cells in the human brain

Breakout Room 3 - Memory Matters: Studies Examining Human Memory

Miranda Chappel-Farley (UC Irvine) - Obstructive sleep apnea severity is associated with DMN resting-state functional connectivity and sleep-dependent memory consolidation in older adults

Pin-Chun Chen (UC Irvine) - The sleeping brain switches between working memory and long-term memory processing

You (Lilian) Cheng (UC Irvine) - Head direction signals during navigation

Alexandra Cohen (New York University) - Reward-motivated memory processes and their underlying neural mechanisms change with age

Steven Granger (UC Irvine) - Latent anxiety in clinical depression is associated with worse recognition of emotional stimuli

Sarah Kark (UC Irvine) - The paraventricular thalamic nucleus: Insights from high field fMRI and applications to neural mechanisms of child loss grief

Sharon Noh (UC Irvine) - Pattern separation mediates the types of memories sampled during decisions for reward

Breakout Room 4 - Memory Models: How Animal Models Help Us Decode Memory

Gregory de Carvalho (UC Irvine) - GABA co-release by dopamine projections in the striatum is regulated by neurexins

Moises dos Santos Correa (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil) - Corticosterone differentially modulates time-dependent fear generalization following mild or stronger fear conditioning

Rachael Hokenson (UC Irvine) - Blocking estrogen production protects female and male mice from acute stress-induced memory deficits

Ashley Keiser (UC Irvine) - Exercise opens a ‘molecular memory window’ to facilitate changes in gene expression, synaptic plasticity and memory

Aliza Le (UC Irvine) - Late maturation of synaptic plasticity is sexually dimorphic

Daniel Radzicki (NIEHS/NIH) -
Hippocampal area CA2 Activity is required for resilience following an acute social stress

Daniel Rindner (UC Irvine) - Cell type-specific synaptic interactions of top-down and bottom-up pathways in the posterior parietal cortex

2:45 pm

Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks

3:00 pm

End of Conference

*All times in Pacific Time

2021 CNLM Spring Meeting

Memory: It's About Time

Watch the recordings

Agenda

May 27

Welcome and Introduction

Break

Memory Mingle An opportunity to connect with fellow conference attendees.

Day 1 Concludes

May 28

Break

Break

Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks

End of Conference

Memory Mingle
An opportunity to connect with fellow conference attendees.