Weekly Meetings
UC Davis is home to a number of internal meetings focused on memory and plasticity. These meetings span several departments and disciplines, and are open to all to attend. These talks showcase UC Davis faculty, staff, and trainees as they present their current research, or discuss hot topics in the field. A weekly schedule of topics is provided when available.
Memory Meeting
Center For Neuroscience, Room 113 (1544 Newton Court, Davis)
Wednesdays from 1:30 - 3:00pm
Every week the memory group meets to discuss current and exciting topics on the frontier of memory and plasticity research. It is a unique opportunity for open discourse between professors, postdocs, and graduate students in a stimulating environment, perfect for inspiring and cultivating new ideas. To join our mailing list, please contact Trevor Baer ([email protected])
The Fall 2019 quarter will be a focused discussion on "Forgetting and Memory Transformation". Please see below for a description of the quarter's topic from Dr. Andrew Yonelinas who will lead the course in Fall 2019.
Why do we forget? If memory researchers can’t answer this simple question, we are probably being overpaid. Unfortunately, the field still does not have a good answer to this question. What’s worse is that one major camp is confident that the obvious answer is ‘interference’ (i.e., competing memories interfere with other memories), whereas another camp is confident that the obvious answer is some form of ‘trace decay’ (i.e., memories are degraded over time). There are also a number of transformational approaches, that have proposed active and/or passive hypothetical processes that transform memory over time. Your task, if you choose to accept this mission, is to resolve this dilemma.
The class will involve reading 1 paper per week, and debating the strengths and weaknesses of that paper in the seminar. One person will lead the discussion by walking the group through the main points and figures of the paper. The goal of each class will be to post a brief critique of the paper, as it relates to the questions of forgetting and transformation, that everyone more or less agrees with.
Wednesdays from 1:30 - 3:00pm
Every week the memory group meets to discuss current and exciting topics on the frontier of memory and plasticity research. It is a unique opportunity for open discourse between professors, postdocs, and graduate students in a stimulating environment, perfect for inspiring and cultivating new ideas. To join our mailing list, please contact Trevor Baer ([email protected])
The Fall 2019 quarter will be a focused discussion on "Forgetting and Memory Transformation". Please see below for a description of the quarter's topic from Dr. Andrew Yonelinas who will lead the course in Fall 2019.
Why do we forget? If memory researchers can’t answer this simple question, we are probably being overpaid. Unfortunately, the field still does not have a good answer to this question. What’s worse is that one major camp is confident that the obvious answer is ‘interference’ (i.e., competing memories interfere with other memories), whereas another camp is confident that the obvious answer is some form of ‘trace decay’ (i.e., memories are degraded over time). There are also a number of transformational approaches, that have proposed active and/or passive hypothetical processes that transform memory over time. Your task, if you choose to accept this mission, is to resolve this dilemma.
The class will involve reading 1 paper per week, and debating the strengths and weaknesses of that paper in the seminar. One person will lead the discussion by walking the group through the main points and figures of the paper. The goal of each class will be to post a brief critique of the paper, as it relates to the questions of forgetting and transformation, that everyone more or less agrees with.
- Sep 25: Organizational meeting
- Oct 02: No class this week - Memory Disorders Conference
- Oct 09: Brendan Cohn-Sheehy will present Roediger, H. L., Weinstein, Y., & Agarwal, P. K. (2010). Forgetting: Preliminary considerations. In S. Della Sala (Ed.), Forgetting (pp. 1-22). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
- Oct 16: Neuroscience practice talks [in MedNeuro 320]
- Oct 23: No class this week - Neuroscience Conference
- Oct 30: Wiltgen Lab will present Davis, R.L., Zhong, Y., 2017. The biology of forgetting—a perspective. Neuron 95, 490-
503. - Nov 06: O'Reilly Lab will present Wimber, M., Alink, A., Charest, I., Kriegeskorte, N., and Anderson, M.C. (2015). Retrieval induces adaptive forgetting of competing memories via cortical pattern suppression. Nat. Neurosci. 18, 582–589.
- Nov 13: Alex Barnett will give a data talk
- Nov 20: Matt Sazma will present Richards, B.A., Frankland, P.W., 2017. The Persistence and Transience of Memory.
Neuron 94, 1071- 1084. [in MedNeuro 320] - Nov 27: No class this week - Thanksgiving Holiday
- Dec 04: Andy Yonelinas will briefly speak on "Forgetting of recollection and familiarity", and Michelle Ramey will present Sadeh, T., Ozubko, J.D., Winocur, G., Moscovitch, M., 2014. How we forget may depend on how we remember. Trends in cognitive sciences 18, 26-36.
Cell and Molecular Meeting
School of Medicine Neurosciences, Room 320 (1515 Newton Court, Davis)
Every other Friday at 9:30am
The Molecular and Cellular Group meets throughout the year to discuss the latest and greatest in the field of molecular/cellular neuroscience. Papers cover a broad range of topics, which include behavioral genomics, synapse and circuit development, synaptic transmission/plasticity, microcircuit dynamics, learning and memory, and reflect the interests of the multiple labs that participate. Meetings are held every other Friday morning at the School of Medicine Neurosciences building (across from the Center for Neuroscience) in a casual atmosphere over breakfast, and promote exciting, fun discussions and critical thinking. To join our mailing list, please contact Diasynou Fioravante ([email protected]) or Alex Nord ([email protected]).
Every other Friday at 9:30am
The Molecular and Cellular Group meets throughout the year to discuss the latest and greatest in the field of molecular/cellular neuroscience. Papers cover a broad range of topics, which include behavioral genomics, synapse and circuit development, synaptic transmission/plasticity, microcircuit dynamics, learning and memory, and reflect the interests of the multiple labs that participate. Meetings are held every other Friday morning at the School of Medicine Neurosciences building (across from the Center for Neuroscience) in a casual atmosphere over breakfast, and promote exciting, fun discussions and critical thinking. To join our mailing list, please contact Diasynou Fioravante ([email protected]) or Alex Nord ([email protected]).
