The Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium is a yearly meeting primarily for Southern California laboratories interested in plasticity and learning. Everyone is invited, and registration is free
The next Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium will take place at the Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
SPEAKERS 2008
Anirvan Ghosh (UCSD)
David Anderson (CAL TECH)
David Jentsch (UCLA)
Emily Liman (USC)
Frank Laferla (UCI)
Gary Lynch (UCI)
James Bisley (UCLA)
Larry Cahil (UCI)
Li Zhang (USC)
Lisa Boulanger (UCSD)
Robert Malinow (UCSD)
Roberta Brinton (USC)
2008 Symposium Schedule
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA
Chair: Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, UCLA
9:05 Reversing Age-Dependent Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mice: Frank LaFerla, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI
9:35 Synaptic Receptor Trafficking in Health and Disease: Robert Malinow, Ph.D., Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
10:05 Neurosteroids and Neurogenesis: Learning and Memory Therapeutics for Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Roberta Brinton, Ph.D., Department Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmacy, USC
10:35 Coffee Break
Chair: Paul Patterson, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
11:00 Catecholamine Mechanisms in Cognitive Control: David Jentsch, Ph.D., Departments of Psychology, and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
11:30 Sex and Hemisphere Influences on the Neurobiology of Emotional Memory: Larry Cahill, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI
12:00 Genetic Silencing of Amygdala Microcircuits Underlying Fear Conditioning in Mice: David Anderson, Ph.D., Roger Sperry Professor of Biology and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
12:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Alcino Silva, Ph.D., Departments of Neurobiology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Psychology, UCLA
2:00 AMPA Receptor Reverse Signaling and Syn: Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D., Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
2:30 Immune Molecules in Synaptic Plasticity and Learning and Memory: Lisa Boulanger, Ph.D., Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
3:00 The Cytoskeletal Bases of Memory Consolidation: Gary Lynch, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UCI
3:30 Coffee Break
Chair: David Glanzman, Ph.D., Departments of Physiological Science, and Neurobiology, UCLA
4:00 Ca2+-Activated TRP Channels as Targets of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling in Neurons: Emily Liman, Department of Biological Sciences, USC
4:30 Synaptic Circuitry Underlying Functional Development of Auditory Cortex: Li Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, USC
5:00 A Role for Cortical Area MT in Memory for Motion: James Bisley, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, UCLA
5:30 Reception--Gonda Building First Floor Conference Room, 1357
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If you have suggestions for the organization of future events, please contact Alcino Silva
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