Events

2024 CNCM Conference: Brain Cell Types, Circuits and Disorders

Please join us in our exciting in-person conference on “Brain Cell Types, Circuits and Disorders,” co-sponsored by the UCI Center for Neural Circuit Mapping (CNCM) and Cajal Club. The main conference will take place at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering near the UCI campus. Additional events, including spatial transcriptomics, viral vector, and neuroscience statistics workshops/boot camps, will take place on the UCI campus.

Southern California Regional Dissemination, Implementation and Improvement Science Symposium

The goal of the 2024 Symposium will be to continue to strengthen and expand research/operations (practice/policy) partnerships and partnership activity to improve health in Southern California by improving regional healthcare and public health systems and delivery. The symposium will bring together regional health system leaders who have demonstrated their commitment to research-operations partnerships, researchers, clinicians, and community/patient stakeholders.

UCI Conte Center 11th Annual Symposium

Topic: The Power and Potential of Big Data and Consortia for studying mental health and disease.
Keynote Speakers: Christine M. Heim, PhD, Caroline Nievergelt, PhD, Christina Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Location: Beckman Center Of The National Academies Of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 100 Academy, Irvine, CA 92617

2024 UC Irvine Neurodegeneration Community Workshop

We are hosting a hybrid 2-day event (Friday and Saturday) aimed at facilitating an exchange of knowledge and experiences between patients, clinicians and researchers within the Southern California neurodegeneration community. The event is free, open to the public, and will include lectures and panel discussions led by patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers. Topics will range from scientific advances in therapy development to ‘quality of life’ discussions to an open dialog following a screening of Pickle Man.

UCI CNCM Seminar Series: Anubhuti Goel, PhD

Topic: Neural Mechanisms of Distractor Attenuation
Speaker: Anubhuti Goel, PhD; University of California, Riverside; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Hybrid: ISEB 1200 & Zoom

Physician Scientist Collective: Distinguished Speaker Series

Topic: Translational Ophthalmic Research: Pathways & Opportunities for Physician Scientists
Speaker: Mark Pennesi, MD, MPH; Professor, Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University
Location: Sprague Hall, Conference Room 105

Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology: Krishna Jayant, PhD

In this talk, I will describe our recent efforts in using 2D nanotextured transparent ECoG style electrodes to map circuits orchestrating wave dynamics. Specifically, by simultaneously mapping local-field-potentials and cellular ensemble dynamics (via 2P calcium imaging), we will describe the circuit features tied to traveling waves under active and passive whisker touch.

ICTS Trainee & Scholar Brown Bag Lunch Series

Our March Brown Bag Lunch session will be led by Arthur Lander, MD, PhD, Donald Bren Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology and Director of the Center for Complex Biological Systems. Dr. Lander will lead a discussion on how theory, hypotheses, and big data need to work together to fulfill the promise of the big data revolution. Dr. Lander will discuss some of the “elephants in the room” of big data science and show how the evolved nature of complex biological systems makes them particularly resistant to “unsupervised” analyses.

CNLM Colloquium Series: Christian Bravo Rivera, Ph.D.

Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Christian Bravo Rivera, assistant professor of psychiatry, anatomy, and neurobiology at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.

UCI CNCM Seminar Series: Keri Martinowich, PhD

Topic: Cell Type and Spatially-resolved Multiomic Approaches for Understanding Human Brain Disorders
Speaker: Keri Martinowich, PhD; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine; Lead Investigator, Lieber Institute for Brain Development; Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Hybrid: ISEB 1200 & Zoom

3rd Annual CHOC & UCI Rare Disease Symposium & Family Conference

Several hundred rare advocates, researchers, clinicians, students, and families will gather for CHOC and UCI’s Third Annual Rare Disease Symposium and Family Conference to share their research, knowledge, and experiences. This conference will feature the latest developments in diagnosis and treatment of Rare Diseases in Ophthalmology, Sexual Differentiation, Endocrinology, Cardiology, and Hematology, and include presentations by rare families.

UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Lecture

The challenges associated with building biotech companies and developing drugs for rare diseases will be discussed. Novel platforms for gene activation to produce therapeutic proteins and systems to select high affinity binding peptides from very large pools will be described.
Speaker: Doug Treco, PhD; Chief Executive Officer; Inozyme Pharma

UCI School of Biological Science Dean’s Distinguished Lecture

This lecture will discuss how structural biology provides the required information for designing specific therapeutic agents and will present a few specific examples of potential drugs designed here at UCI targeting neurodegenerative diseases and melanoma. In addition, included will be an example of a UCI industrial collaboration that led to important insights into how certain HIV antiviral drugs work.

UCI Conte Center Seminar Series: Seth D. Pollak, PhD

Topic: Re-thinking Adversity: Early Life Stress from the Child’s Perspective
Speaker: Seth D. Pollak, PhD; Vaughan-Bascom Distinguished Professor; Psychology, Pediatrics, Anthropology; LaFollette School of Public Affairs; University of Wisconsin – Madison
Host: Laura Glynn, PhD
In-Person Location: Plumwood House (Across From Medical Education) But also via Zoom.

UCI CNCM Seminar: Dr. Michelle James-London

Neuroscience is one of the fastest growing fields and highlights the excitement about research, but it also demonstrates the impact that our large scientific community can make in prioritizing equity and inclusion throughout science. I will discuss strategies at multiple systemic levels where opportunities and interventions could be implemented to enhance neuroscience workforce diversity.

CNCM Seminar: Dr. Sandeep Robert Datta

Topic: Using Machine Learning to Discover How the Brain Builds Behavior
Speaker: Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, PhD; Harvard Medical School; Professor of Neurobiology
Hybrid: ISEB 1200 & Zoom