ICLM Journal Club
This Week - 24 March 2017 (9:30 a.m., Gonda 2nd Floor Conference Room)
Speaker: Adam Roberts
Title: Use of Larval Zebrafish to Unravel the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Memory
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715012498
The Glanzman laboratory investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning-related synaptic interactions in the larval zebrafish brain. Zebrafish larvae possess relatively simple neural circuits that are readily defined due to their key biological attributes and to the current availability of powerful genetic tools for analyzing those attributes. Importantly, the simple neural circuits in larval zebrafish mediate basic forms of learning and memory, including habituation, sensitization and classical conditioning. In this talk, I will describe some of the key molecular processes that underlie memory in zebrafish larvae, and describe progress toward the visualization of engrams in the zebrafish brain.
About Us
Introduction
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) is a multidisciplinary center of UCLA labs devoted to understanding the neural basis of learning and memory and its disorders. This will require a unified approach across different levels of analysis, including;
1. Elucidating the molecular cellular and systems mechanisms that allow neurons and synapses to undergo the long-term changes that ultimately correspond to 'neural memories'.
2. Understanding how functional dynamics and computations emerge from complex circuits of neurons, and how plasticity governs these processes.
3. Describing the neural systems in which different forms of learning and memory take place, and how these systems interact to ultimately generate behavior and cognition.
History of ICLM
The Integrative Center for Learning and Memory formally LMP started in its current form in 1998, and has served as a platform for many interactions and collaborations within UCLA. A key event organized by the group is the weekly ICLM Journal Club. For more than 10 years, graduate students, postdocs, principal investigators, and invited speakers have presented on topics ranging from the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, through computational models of learning, to behavior and cognition. Dean Buonomano oversees the ICLM journal club with help of student/post doctoral organizers. For other events organized by ICLM go to http://www.iclm.ucla.edu/Events.html.
Current Organizers:
Walt Babiec (O'Dell Lab) & Helen Motanis (Buonomano Lab)
Current Faculty Advisor:
Past Organizers:
i) Anna Matynia(Aug 2004 - Jun 2008) (Silva Lab)
ii) Robert Brown (Aug 2008 - Jun 2009) (Balleine Lab)
iii) Balaji Jayaprakash (Aug 2008 - Nov 2011) (Silva Lab)
iv) Justin Shobe & Thomas Rogerson (Dec 2011 - June 2013) (Silva Lab)
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