2017 Southern California Learning & Memory (SCLM) Symposium
The 2017 SCLM Symposium is a yearly meeting primarily for Southern California laboratories interested in the neural basis of memory.
Date: May 16, 2017 (Tuesday) at 8:30am-6:00 pm
Location: UCR Campus, Highlander Union Building (HUB) Room #302-South
Organizers: Ed Korzus & Sara Mednick
Email: edkorzus@ucr.edu
Symposium Schedule
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ed Korzus, Ph.D., (UC Riverside)
Session I.
Chair: Ed Korzus, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
9:05 am
"Neural Mechanisms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as seen through stress enhanced fear learning"
Michael Fanselow, Ph.D. (UC Los Angeles)
9:35 am
"Fear learning in children with pediatric anxiety: autonomic and hemodynamic markers."
Kalina Michalska, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
10:05 am
“Synaptic Correlates of Discriminative Fear Memory”
Jun-Hyeong Cho, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
10:35 am
Coffee Break
Session II.
Chair: Mark Mayford, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)
11:00 am
Brain Waves
Terry Sejnowski, Ph.D. (The Salk Institute, San Diego)
11:30 am
“The activity of neuronal ensembles in behaving animals”
Takaki Komiyama, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)
12:00 pm
“Leveraging olfaction to study innate behavior”
Lisa Stowers, Ph.D. (The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego)
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
Session III.
Chair: Aaron Seitz, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
2:00 pm
"Effects of Early Life Stress on Habit Learning"
Barbara Knowlton, Ph.D. (UC Los Angeles)
2:30 pm
“Hippocampal tract integrity mediates mnemonic discrimination”
Ilana Bennett, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
3:00 am
"Hippocampal neural mechanisms underlying the memory for sequences of events"
Norbert Fortin, Ph.D. (UC Irvine)
3:30 pm
Coffee Break
Session IV.
Chair: Sara Mednick, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
4:00 pm
“Heart/Brain Interactions during Sleep Predict Memory Performance”
Sara Mednick, Ph.D. (UC Riverside)
4:30 pm
“Using fruit flies to understand how and why we sleep”
Jeff M. Donlea, Ph.D. (UC Los Angeles)
5:00 pm
“Mechanisms of memory consolidation during sleep”
Gina R. Poe, Ph.D. (UC Los Angeles)
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Reception (HUB Patio)
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The organizers would like to thank all participants and sponsors for making the 2017 SCLM Symposium a success and particularly would like to thank:
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2017 SCLMS speakers and session chairs
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Integrative Center Learning and Memory (ICLM) at UCLA, the organizer of SCLM Symposia since the year 2002
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members of the 2017 SCLMS Organizing Committee (Johannes Mayer, Tyler Bailey, John Speigel III, Alex Corches, Alex Hiroto, Justin Pastore, Ryan Wales and Anqi Yang)
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ActiMetrics, Brain Vision LLC and Bioengineering Institute of California for financial support
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Department of Psychology, CHASS, CNAS and SOM at UCR for financial support
Link to SCLM Symposia: http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/events/sclm/SCLM.html