[2016 Fall Life Sciences & IBB Regular Seminar]


▶Subject: Molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms that link memories across time

▶Speaker: Prof. Alcino J. Silva
(Departments of Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry,Integrative Center for Learning and Memory and Brain Research Institute, UCLA)


▶Date: 4:30PM/Oct. 11(Tue.)/2016

▶Place: Auditorium(1F), Postech Biotech Center

*Abctract
In the last 20 years, there have been significant advances in the molecular, cellular, and systems mechanisms underlying the storage of single memories. Real-world memory, however, involves the integration of multiple memories across time, with one memory affecting how others are processed and stored. Using a number of techniques including in vivo calcium imaging (with head-mounted fluorescent microscopes in freely behaving mice), the TetTag transgenic system, optogenetics, electrophysiology, 2-photon microscopy and novel behavioral designs, we showed that memory allocation mechanisms can trigger increases in excitability that then affect both the allocation and strength of subsequent memories, thus providing a mechanism that links memories across time.


▶Inquiry: Prof. Joung-Hun Kim (279-2347)


* This seminar will be given in English.
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