BRI/ Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) Symposium
June 1, 2026
12:00am
Speakers
Pavlovian Sensitization
Michael Fanselow, PhD
Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Predictive Pursuit Emerges in Real and Artificial Neural Networks
Andy Alexander, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Disentangling Exploitation in Naturalistic Foraging Context
Andrew Wikenheiser, PhD
Assistant Professor, UCLA College of Letters & Sciences
Post Encoding Music Shapes Memory Precision
Stephanie Leal, PhD
Assistant Professor, UCLA College of Letters & Sciences
How Do Microglia Shape Cognitive Changes During Aging?
Lindy De Biase, PhD
Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Estrogens Shape Thermoregulation Across Physiological States
Stephanie Correa, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA College of Letters & Sciences
Encoding of Environmental Structure and Organization Across Subiculum and Retrosplenial Cortex
Doug Nitz, PhD
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Population-Level Look at Delay Period Activity During Oculomotor Working Memory
Alex Huk, PhD
Professor-in-Residence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dopamine Release from the Locus Coeruleus Enables Temporal Binding in the Hippocampus
Brian Wiltgen, PhD
Professor, University of California, Davis
Investigating the Interface of Epigenetics and Metabolism
Underlying Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Formation
Marcelo Wood, PhD
Professor, University of California, Irvine
Vocal Learning and the Social Brain: Insights from Songbirds to Humans
Stephanie White, PhD
Professor, UCLA College of Letters & Sciences
Gating of Learning-Related Plasticity in Health and Disease
Takaki Komiyama, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
Spontaneous Emergence of Context-Dependent Statistical Learning in Humans and Neural Networks
Jesse Rissman, PhD
Professor, UCLA College of Letters & Sciences
What Episodic Memory Reveals About the Default Mode Network
Maureen Ritchey, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA College of Letters & Sciences – & –
Enriched Experience: Rewiring the Cortex for Efficient Learning
Bruce McNaughton, PhD
Professor, University of California, Irvine
Register Required at –
https://uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_byDsZykKMNx7CSO
Contacts – Dr. Carlos Portera-Cailliau – cpcailliau@mednet.ucla.edu
and Dr. Sotiris Masmandis – smasmandis@ucla.edu
Website – https://bri.ucla.edu/joint-seminars-in-neuroscience/
132 NRB