The 2018 Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium:
May 21, 2018, in the NRB building auditorium at UCLA!
A yearly meeting primarily for Southern California laboratories interested in plasticity and learning. Everyone is invited, and attendance is free. It is designed to promote collaborations and interactions between the many outstanding laboratories working in this field in Southern California. It is also a valuable resource for students and post-doctoral fellows interested since it provides an opportunity for them to be exposed to the breath and richness of our learning and memory community
The 2018 Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium took place on Monday, May 21 2018 in the NRB building auditorium at UCLA
Symposium Schedule
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Alcino J. Silva, Ph.D., UCLA
Session 1 Chair: Stephanie White, UCLA
9:05 Rhythmic signatures of associative memory processing in the hippocampus; Lara Rangel, UC San Diego;
9:35 Using spatial navigation to understand human learning and memory; Liz Chrastil, U C Santa Barbara.
10:05 Neural circuit organization and function of noncanonical subiculum – CA1 back-projections Xiangmin Xu, UC Irvine
10:35 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: David L. Glanzman, UCLA
11:00 Adaptations at synapses during neuronal injury; Dion Dickman; U Southern California
11:30 Sculpting the nervous system: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neural circuit refinement Karen Zito; UC Davis
12:00 Calpain-1 and calpain-2: what do they do in the brain? Michel Baudry, Western University of Health Sciences
12:30 Lunch Break
Session 3 Chair: Susan Bookheimer, UCLA
2:00 Molecular and Circuit Dissection of Social Behavior Circuitry; Weizhe Hong, UCLA
2:30 Circuit defects underlying impaired perceptual learning in Fragile X syndrome; Carlos Portera-Cailliau, UCLA
3:00 Amygdala-cortical circuits in reward memory encoding and retrieval; Kate Wassum, UCLA
3:30 Coffee Break
Session 4 Chair: Michael Fanselow, UCLA
4:00 Dissection of fear circuits in mice; Avi Adhikari, UCLA
4:30 Model and evidence for consolidated memory-specific "forgetting" in the novelty encoding circuit of the hippocampus; Gina Poe, UCLA
5:00 Disruption of Learning and Memory by Alzheimer’s; Lennart Mucke; UC San Francisco
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Brain Research Institute, the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the Departments of Integrative Biology & Physiology, Neurobiology, Neurology, Physiology, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology.
Previous meetings:2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002