2025 Southern California Learning & Memory Symposium
March 3, 2025
8:00am – 6:00pm
Session I:
Alicia Izquierdo, PhD (Chair)
Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSoM at UCLA)
Movements And Engagement in Decision-Making
Anne Churchland, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Computations Across Multiple Brain Regions Underlying
Dexterous Moments
Ahmet Arac, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Constructing Maps of Visual Space In Marmoset Hippocampus
Cory Miller, PhD
Professor, Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Session II:
Laura DeNardo, PhD (Chair)
Assistant Professor, Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Sleep Dynamics That Refresh Memory
Gina Poe, PhD
Professor, Integrative Biology and Psychology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral
Sciences, and Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Uncovering Brain Network Dynamics Involved in Behavioral Flexibility
Using Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI)
Paul Mathews, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
A Cortical Information Bottleneck During Decision-Making
Jonathan Kao, PhD
Associate Professor, Signals and Systems,
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering & Computer Science
Session III:
Dean Buonomano, PhD (Chair)
Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Implications of Retrospective Causal Learning
Vijay Namboordiri, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Institute for Neurosciences,
University of California, San Francisco
Corticostriatal Control Over Pavlovian Incentive Motivation
Sean Ostlund, PhD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology,
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Dynamics of Energy-Efficient Coding in Primary Visual Cortex
Dario Ringach, PhD
Professor, Psychology and Neurobiology,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Session IV:
Barbara Knowlton, PhD (Chair)
Professor and Vice Chair, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Undergraduate Studies, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Quantitative Research Programs for the Study of Phenomenology
Megan Peters, PhD
Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine School of Social Sciences
Structural Neuroanatomy of Semantic Retrograde Memory in Older Adults
Christine Peters, PhD
Scientist, Functional Genomics & In Vitro Models,
University of California, San Diego
Mnemonic Discrimination in the Aging Brain
Ilana Bennett, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Session V:
Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD, PhD (Chair)
Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis
Kay Tye, PhD
Professor, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute
Dopaminergic Regulation of Aversive Learning and Memory
Brian Wiltgen, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology, University of California, Davis – and –
Insulo-Frontal Circuit in Cognitive Flexibility
Yi Zuo, PhD
Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Contact – Dean Buonomano – dbuono@ucla.edu