School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

KV Prasanth Lab

In this seminar I will discuss our recent work aimed at understaning how behaviorally meaningful stimuli are encoded within ensembles of hippocampal neurons, and how these representations are modified by learning. Specifically, I will present work on how the mouse dentate gyrus discriminates olfactory information through learning, and how the the ventral hippocampus is org

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Gregory Pawel, Graduate Student, Chemistry

Vice President for Discovery Sciences

It is now recognized that peripheral signals generated during nutrient digestion play a pivotal role in reinforcing past and shaping future behaviors. In this lecture I will present data supporting the primary role of subliminal nutritional signals in driving food reinforcement and discuss implications for current models of reinforcement learning. 

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery Medicine

Andrew Hanson, PhD University of Florida; Professor of Horticultural Sciences "Extending enzyme lifespan to increase net carbon fixation"

Animals live in a multisensory world and use different sensory channels to communicate during crucial behavioral contexts. I will discuss how an African cichlid fish uses visual, acoustic, chemosensory, and mechanosensory communication during social interactions, and how these senses may be modulated by an individual's reproductive and hormonal state.

Join us for our latest series which highlights the intersection of food, science, and culture, with meals tailored by campus chefs paired to each lecture. Margarita Teran MD, PhD, Assistant Dean And Program Leader of Integrated Health Disparities at University of Illinois Extension, ACES, will present “Tortillas y tacos: food for your gut and your brain.”

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

The seminar will introduce a common mechanism underlying these diseases: the redistribution of microtubule associated protein tau (MAPT) from the axon into the somatodendritic compartments of neurons and further into dendritic spines, causing loss of AMPA receptors in spines.  

"Introduction to Abberior Minflux and Sample Prep" Kingsley Boateng, Senior Research Specialist Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Featured Instrument: Minflux