CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Elizabeth Head, Professor of Pathology at UC Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.    

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Javier Diaz Alonso, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Aaron Bornstein, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. Description: Reconciling adaptive and maladaptive responses to uncertainty: Data and theory.

Circuit mechanisms of associative memory in health and Alzheimer’s disease CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Kei Igarashi, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine. Description: Mounting evidence shows that dopamine in the striatum is critically involved in reward-based reinforcement learning. However, it remains unclear how…

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Which model system is “best”?  An argument from toxicology. Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Georg Striedter, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at UC Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. Description: As researchers seek to find treatments…

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Kevin T. Beier, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at UC Irvine. Molecular mechanisms of memory stability and the molecular and circuit determinants of cocaine addiction Description: I will speak on two separate projects in our lab. First, we have uncovered…

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Megan Peters, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. Neurocomputational approaches to the study of perceptual awareness Description: When our brains process sensory information, they transform it into a coherent, conscious experience that we use to drive adaptive decisions and learning. In…

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Laura Ewell, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at UC Irvine. Sparse to dense networks: pattern separation and completion in health and epilepsy The attractor theory of memory posits that CA3, the recurrent network at the core of the hippocampus, is…

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Leslie Thompson, Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at UC Irvine. Huntington’s disease research and therapeutics; the long winding road Huntington’s disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that typically strikes in the prime of life with no disease modifying treatment. It…