Kei Igarashi, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

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…

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Georg Striedter, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

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…

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New Frontiers in Depression Research & Treatments by Dr. Diego Pizzagalli – March 20 @ 4 PM

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

JOINT SEMINAR   Diego Pizzagalli, PhD Director, McLean Imaging Center Director, Center for Depression, Anxiety & Stress Research Director, Laboratory for Translational & Affective Neuroscience Director of Research, Division of Depression & Anxiety Disorders Professor of Psychiatry McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School New Frontiers in Depression Research and Treatments Host: Tallie Z. Baram Monday,…

Pierre Baldi, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

CNLM Colloquium UCI Spotlight Series Join the CNLM in a hybrid colloquium featuring Dr. Pierre Baldi, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at UC Irvine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom. The quest for how the…

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Kevin T. Beier, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

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…

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Megan Peters, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

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…

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LEARNMEM2023

Waterfront Beach Resort 21100 Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, CA, United States

Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory for the 2023 International Conference on Learning and Memory (LEARNMEM™2023) on April 26-30, 2023 in Huntington Beach, CA. The Conference will be held in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM). LEARNMEM™2023 will feature keynote talks…

Laura Ewell, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

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…

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Leslie Thompson, Ph.D.

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

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…

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2023 CNLM Award Ceremony

Herklotz Conference Center 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine, CA, United States

Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for the 2023 CNLM Awards Ceremony. The CNLM offers awards to exceptional postdoctoral researchers, graduate trainees, undergraduates students, and faculty.  Awardees will be presented with a plaque and $1,000 stipend and will be invited to present their work in brief Elevator Pitch format to the UCI…

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