School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Eva Fischer, PhD University of Illinois; Assistant Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior "Mechanisms of Behavior Evolution: Lessons from Poison Frogs"

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

"North, South, West, Midwest: My sequence in life and research across the U.S." Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

This seminar will present data that increasing activity of ACh inputs to the hippocampus selectively induces stress-dependent behaviors, including increased susceptibility to social stress. Our working hypothesis-ACh signaling in hippocampus may be relevant to negative encoding bias, that is, increased focus on negative events, experienced by individuals with depression.

Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology