BRI/ Integrative Center for Learning and Memory (ICLM) Symposium

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