2004 Program
UCLA
June 2, 2004
9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks- Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA
Chair: Tyrone Cannon, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA
9:35 Plasticity and Modulation of GABA Receptors- Istvan Mody, Ph.D., Tony Coelho Professor of Neurology, and Professor of Physiology, UCLA
10:05 LTD as a Mechanism for Whisker Map Plasticity in Somatosensory Cortex- Daniel Feldman, Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego
10:35 Imaging Synaptic Growth During Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Adult Neocortex In Vivo-Joshua Trachtenberg, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, UCLA
11:05 Coffee Break
Chair: Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA
11:30 Cortico-Hippocampal Interactions and Memory Formation, Thanos Siapas, Ph.D., Division of Biology, and Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
12:00 A Biomimetic Electronic Prosthetic to Replace Damaged Hippocampal Tissue and Restore Lost Memory Function- Theodore Berger, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
12:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA
2:00 Local Translation of mRNA at Synaptic Sites on Dendrites: Mechanisms and Functional Significance- Oswald Steward, Ph.D., Director, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, University of California, Irvine
2:30 Forebrain Circuits Linking Memory and Motivation- Larry Swanson, Ph.D., Director, NIBS Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3:00 When Does the Hippocampus Contribute to Pavlovian Fear Conditioning?- Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA
3:30 Coffee Break
Chair: David Glanzman, Ph.D., Departments of Physiological Science, and Neurobiology, UCLA
4:00 Investigating Cortical Plasticity with a Brain-Machine Interface-Richard Andersen, Ph.D., James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
4:30 The Hippocampus and Memory- Stephan Anagnostaras, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
5:00 Affect, Arousal, and Reward in Limbic-Striatal Circuits- Bernard Balleine, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA
5:30 Reception and Poster Session
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