CNLM Colloquium Series
The CNLM Colloquium Series, supported by the Thomas Henry Curtis Fund, brings learning and memory scientists from around the world to UC Irvine. This lecture series is a great opportunity for faculty, students, trainees and research staff to learn about the latest in learning and memory research and gain feedback on their own work. Meeting with the speaker provides powerful network building opportunities for students and trainees and fosters future collaborations.

Colloquium Series 2021 - 2022

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Juliet Davidow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Northeastern University
Adolescent Learning and Goal-Directed Behavior

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Duane Watson, Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology and Human Development
Vanderbilt University
Understanding the link between language experience and language processing

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Lara Rangel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego
The flexible coordination of hippocampal spiking activity in rhythms

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Tirin Moore, Ph.D.
Professor
Neurobiology
Stanford University
Shared Neural Circuitry of Visuomotor Integration and Visual Cognition

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Chantal Stern, D.Phil.
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Boston University
Hippocampal-prefrontal interactions for context-dependent learning and memory

Tuesday, Feb 1st, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Barry Setlow, Ph.D.
Professor
Psychiatry
University of Florida College of Medicine
Sex, drugs, and getting old; influences on decision making and executive functions

Tuesday, Jan 25th, 2022 - 11:00 AM
Melissa Sharpe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
The cognitive basis of intracranial self-stimulation of midbrain dopamine neurons

Colloquium Series 2020-2021

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Kimberlei A. Richardson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Howard University College of Medicine
Opportunities and Obstacles: Investigating the Orexin System Beyond Food Preference
Co-sponsored by the UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) and the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN)

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Corey Harwell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Development and diversity of neural cell types in the septum

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Kate M. Wassum, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Brain Research Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Amygdala-cortical circuitry in reward learning and pursuit

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Alicia Izquierdo, Ph.D.
Professor
Behavioral Neuroscience Area
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Beth Stevens, Ph.D.
Boston Children's Hospital, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Harvard University
(Re) Defining Microglia Cell States and Function in Alzheimer’s Disease

Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Staci D. Bilbo, Ph.D.
Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
Prenatal environmental stressors impair postnatal microglia function and behavior in male mice

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 - 11:00 AM
Charan Ranganath, Ph.D.
Psychology
UC Davis
Memory at the scale of episodes: How the neocortex and hippocampus support memory for complex events

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 - 11:00 AM
Judith F. Kroll, Ph.D.
Language Science
University of California, Irvine
The consequences of bilingualism for the mind and the brain

Tuesday, Sept. 29th, 2020 - 11:00 AM
Julian F. Thayer, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Science
UC Irvine
Why Should Cognitive Neuroscientists Care About the Vagus Nerve? A Neurovisceral Integration Perspective
Colloquium Series 2019-2020
Please note, many of the 2019/20 Colloquiums were postponed due to the the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday January 28, 2020 - 11:00 AM
Autumn S. Ivy, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics, Physiology and Biophysics
University of California, Irvine

Tuesday November 12, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Robert Hunt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine
Interneurons and the control of memory precision
Colloquium Series 2018-2019

Tuesday May 21, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Michael Bienkowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Research Neurology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Gene expression and connectivity reveal the multiscale organization of mouse hippocampal networks

Friday May 17, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Nikolai Axmacher, Ph.D.
Faculty of Psychology
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
Engram patterns: network codes for memory and navigation

Tuesday May 14, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Amar Sahay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Tuesday April 23, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Brad Aimone, Ph.D.
Scientist
Cognitive & Emerging Computing
Sandia National Laboratories
Computing as a Constraint to Understand the Hippocampus

Tuesday February 19, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Morgan Barense, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair
University of Toronto
Understanding Memory Disorders: At the level of Cognitive Process or Representational Content?

Tuesday February 12, 2019 - 11:00 AM
Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Stanford University
Identifying the Algorithms for Calculating Spatial Maps

Co-hosted with the Conte Center @ UCI
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Tuesday January 22, 2019 - 4:00PM *Note alternate time*
Event Location: Telemedicine Theater, Medical Education Building
Rebecca Shansky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Northeastern University
Sex differences in fear processing

Tuesday December 4, 2018 - 11:00 AM
Sara N. Burke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
University of Florida
Neural Network and Metabolic Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
Colloquium Series 2017-2018

Tuesday May 29, 2018 - 11:00 AM
Linda Levine, Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Bias in Predicted and Remembered Emotion

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 11AM
Sumner Norman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech
Brain-Computer Interfacing: From Replacing Function to Enhancing Human Potential

Paul Rapp, Ph.D.
Director, Traumatic Injury Research Program, Department of Defense
Uniformed Services University
Are CNS synchronization abnormalities corrected in response to successful neuropsychiatric treatment? A direct test.

Tuesday February 20, 2018 - 11AM
Elisabeth Murray, Ph.D.
Chief, Section on Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Laboratory of Neuropsychology
National Institute of Mental Health
Specializations for decision making in primate prefrontal cortex

Tuesday February 13, 2018 - 11AM
Mara Mather, Ph.D.
Professor of Gerontology and Psychology
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California
How the locus coeruleus increases cognitive focus during high arousal moments

Tuesday January 30, 2018 - 11AM
Majid Mohajerani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Canadian Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
University of Lethbridge
Mapping the spatiotemporal dynamics of hippocampal-cortical dialogue in health and Alzheimer’s disease

co-hosted with the MSTP and the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Monday January 8, 2018 - 4PM (note alternate day/time)
Loren Frank, Ph.D.
Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience
University of California, San Francisco
Neural substrates of memories and decisions

Friday December 8, 2017 - 11AM (note alternate day/time)
Fabio Ferrarelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
Sleep spindle deficits in schizophrenia: when do they start?

Wednesday November 1, 2017 - 10AM (note alternate day/time)
Mark Gluck, Ph.D.
Co-Director, African American Brain Health Initiative
Professor of Neuroscience
Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University
Fitness and lifestyle affect neural and cognitive risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease in older African Americans

Tuesday October 24, 2017 - 11AM
Elly Nedivi, Ph.D.
Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Biology
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visualizing Synapse Structural Dynamics in vivo

Tuesday October 17, 2017 - 11AM
David Reinkensmeyer Ph.D.
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Robotic assistance during movement training after stroke: A Hebbian Model?
Colloquium Series 2016-2017

Tuesday May 2, 2017 - 11AM
Elizabeth Buffalo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Bridging the gap between the spatial and mnemonic views of the hippocampus.

Tuesday April 25, 2017 - 11AM
Howard Eichenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Center for Memory and Brain
Boston University
The hippocampus: Mapping memories in space and time

Tuesday February 21, 2017 - 11AM
Robert Spitale, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Emerging Chemical Tools for Studying RNA: Applications to Neuroscience?

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 11AM
Jason Shepherd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Utah, School of Medicine
Retroviral Origins of Synaptic Plasticity

Co-hosted with Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 11AM
Bryce Mander, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Neural correlates of age-related disruption of sleep oscillation expression and sleep-dependent memory
Colloquium Series 2015-2016

Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 4 p.m.
Kei Igarashi, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine
Dissecting sensory-hippocampal circuit interactions during associative learning

Monday, March 28, 2016, 4 p.m.
Josef Parvizi, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
Numbers in the human brain: Eavesdropping on the activity of discrete populations of neurons in the human brain during arithmetic processing

Tuesday, February 9, 2016, 4 p.m.
Jay McClelland, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology and Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation, Stanford University
Integrating Rapid Neocortical Consolidation into Complimentary Learning Systems Theory

Thursday, December 10, 1 p.m.
Robert T. Knight, M.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Frontal Cortex Physiology and Human Behavior

Thursday, November 19, 4p.m.
Sheri J.Y. Mizumori, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Hippocampal neural activity reflects the economy of choices

Thursday, May 14, 4 p.m.
Warren H. Meck, Ph.D.
Duke University
Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing
Colloquium Series 2014-2015

Thursday, January 16, 11am
Charles Limoli, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
Radiation- and chemotherapy-induced cognitive dysfunction: Causes, consequences and treatments

Thursday, March 13, 11am
Aryeh Routtenberg, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Is mamallian NMDA-dependent long-lasting memory conserved in C. elegans?

Thursday, March 20, 11am
Loren Frank, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Neural substrates of memory retrieval and decision-making