2015 MURI Winter Workshop on Memory Consolidation

Venue: Roth Auditorium, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
Date: December 3, 2015
Time: 9:00am-6:00pm

*There is no registration fee for this conference, but pre-registration is required: https://muri-winterschool15.eventbrite.com

Introduction

9:00-9:15 am - Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute and UCSD)

Keynote

9:15-10:15 am - Larry Squire (UCSD)
The medial temporal lobe and the fate of old memories

10:15-10:45 am Break

Session 1

10:45-11:30 am - Mark R. Mayford (The Scripps Research Institute)
Mapping and manipulating memory circuits

11:30am-12:15 pm - Bruce McNaughton (University of Lethbridge and UCI)
TBA

12:15-1:30 pm Lunch

Session 2

1:30-2:15 pm - Daniel Rizzuto (University of Pennsylvania)
DARPA RAM: Improving human memory performance via electrical stimulation of the medial temporal lobe

2:15-3:00 pm - Igor Timofeev (Laval University)
Increase in slow wave activity leads to increase in memory consolidation in mice

3:00-3:45 pm - Judith Hirsch (USC)
Thalamic contribution to vision

3:45-4:15 pm - Break

Session 3

4:15-5:00 pm - Sara Mednick (UCR)
The coordination of brain oscillations in sleep-dependent memory consolidation

5:00-5:45 pm - Eric Halgren (UCSD)
Replay of widespread cortical activity patterns during sleep in humans

To register: https://muri-winterschool15.eventbrite.com

Agenda (pdf)