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The graduate students of the Department of Neuroscience are pleased to present the 14th annual Brenda Milner Lecture Series featuring Dr. Sheena Josselyn. Join the students for Dr. Josselyn's FREE PUBLIC LECTURE, "Making, Breaking, and Linking Memories" on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. The talk will be held at 7:00pm in the Southern Room at the Coast Lethbridge Hotel (526 Mayor Magrath Drive South).
Dr. Sheena Josselyn is a Senior Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children and distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto. She is a Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Cellular Cognition and an EJLB Scholar. Her program of research is dedicated to understanding the neural basis of cognitive function and dysfunction.
Understanding how memories are physically stored in the brain is a fundamental challenge relevant to aging, mental illness, and neurological disorders. Current research suggests that individual memory traces (or ‘engrams’) are encoded on small subsets of neurons in the brain. During memory formation theses neurons ‘compete’ to be included in the memory engram. This talk will discuss the mechanisms involved in this competition, and how scientific manipulations of the memory engram can change behaviour expression at the level of the organism.
For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/BMLS2016 or call Vicky at (403) 394-3915.
Contact:
Victorita Ivan | victorita.ivan@uleth.ca | (403) 394-3915 | bit.ly/BMLS2016