Neuroscience Program
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.