
Academic Year 2018-2019
The 2018 Integrative Center for Learning and Memory Distinguished Lecture
October 9th, 2018, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
“Space, Time and Hippocampal Computation”
Speaker: György Buzsáki, M.D. Ph.D., Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology and Neurology, New York University, New York, New York
Host: Alcino Silva and ICLM; silvaa@mednet.ucla.edu
The Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture
October 23rd, 2018, 4:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
“Exploration of Molecular Mechanisms underlying Neural Circuit Assembly”
Speaker: Liming Tan, Ph.D., Laboratory of Dr. Larry Zipursky, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles; HHMI
Host: Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu
The Annual Molecular Biology Institute and Brain Research Institute Joint Lecture
November 8th, 2018, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
“A Solid State Conceptualization of Information Transfer from Gene to Message to Protein”
Speaker: Steven McKnight, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Host: David Eisenberg and Ben Novitch; david@mbi.ucla.edu; bnovitch@mednet.ucla.edu
The Brain Research Institute 30th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecture
November 27th, 2018, 12:00pm, AAckerman Union Grand Ballroom
“Insights from Non-Human Animals into the Neurobiology of Human Language”
Speaker: Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University; HHMI, New York, New York
Host: Stephanie White and Gina Poe; sawhite@ucla.edu; ginapoe@ucla.edu
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory Distinguished Lecture
April 30th, 2019, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
“Making, Breaking and Linking Memories”
Speaker: Sheena A. Josselyn, Ph.D., Departments of Psychology, Physiology and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Host: Alcino Silva and ICLM; silvaa@mednet.ucla.edu
New Brain Research Institute Member Short Talks
May 7th, 2019, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Speaker: Orkun Akin, Ph.D. Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Speaker: Luis de la Torre-Ubieta, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Speaker: Lindsay De Biase, Ph.D. Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Speaker: Laura DeNardo, Ph.D. Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Speaker: Andrew Wikenheiser, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory Distinguished Lecture
May 14th, 2019, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
"Regulation of Neurotransmitter Receptors and Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain in Health and Disease"
Speaker: Richard Huganir, Ph.D., Departments of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Host: Alcino Silva; silvaa@mednet.ucla.edu
The 27th Annual Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture
May 21st, 2019, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
"Spatial and Temporal Single Cell Network Alterations Induced by Traumatic Brain Injury"
Speaker: Douglas Arneson, Ph.D., Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu
The Brain Research Institute 30th Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
June 18, 2019, 12:00pm, Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
“Neural Systems, Dopamine Receptors and Stimulant Use: Brain Imaging to Guide Treatment”
Speaker: Edythe London, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Host: Felix Schweizer; felixs@ucla.edu