Dr. Edwards has offered to meet with researchers throughout the day on Feb 17 to discuss open science. If you are interested, please reach out to Paul Pavlidis (paul@msl.ubc.cs). Trainees are welcome to meet with Dr. Edwards after his talk from 2:30-3:30pm. Please note this event is scheduled to be in person. If you cannot […]
The cerebellum has evolved to support basic sensory-motor functions. In the human brain, the cerebellar circuitry has dramatically expanded and contributes to virtually every cognitive function, including working memory, language, and social cognition. Given its uniform cytoarchitecture, it has long been hypothesized that the cerebellar circuit performs a common computation across all these functional domains. […]
Please note this event is postponed until 12:00pm due to flight delays. The brain encodes and processes information through the dynamic membrane voltage of neurons. However, in vivo electrophysiology, i.e., the study of the membrane voltage of individual cells in live animals, has been a major challenge for neuroscience. In this seminar, I will present […]
This month, the Mental Health and Addictions IRP will be having a round table where each group member introduces themselves, an overview of their research, and their hopes and dreams for future collaborative research. Zoom link if unable to attend in person: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/5747966049?pwd=N1ppY2tUS3o4bk9vTkFSTzBna3k0Zz09 Meeting ID: 574 796 6049 Passcode: 052059
Forum at which faculty from the BC Neuroscience community present topics along with an invited professor/Keynote speaker.
Gene therapy, the delivery of genetic material to the cells of a patient for therapeutic benefit, has been increasingly successful over the past decade. The most successful gene delivery vectors are based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV), a naturally derived protein-based and self-assembled ‘nanoparticle’. Although these natural ‘nanoparticles’ are safe and non-pathogenic, they present several barriers […]
Approach-avoidance (AA) conflict resolution is a form of decision making that is fundamentally important for survival and requires the effective evaluation of affective stimuli or events with mixed outcomes (positive and negative). Despite the prevailing view of hippocampal involvement in learning and memory processes, the hippocampus is also thought to be involved in the resolution […]
To interpret the sensory world and select appropriate actions, animals must distinguish persistent background stimuli from novel sensory cues. Sensory adaptation is a neural mechanism that enables such filtering of environmental stimuli, and a fundamental feature of sensory systems. Previous studies have shown that the brain flexibly adapt sensory responses to repetitive stimuli through synaptic […]
To make adaptive decisions we must cast ourselves into the future and consider the outcomes of our potential choices. This prospective consideration is informed by our memories. I will discuss our lab’s recent work investigating the neural circuits responsible for encoding, updating, and retrieving reward memories for use in the considerations underlying decision making. We […]
Are you interested in science communication as a career but aren’t sure how to make it happen? Join the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and the Women’s Health Research Cluster on March 18th, from 12-1pm to learn more! This event will feature a panel of three science communicators, all with diverse backgrounds, who will […]
Spontaneous activity accounts for most of what the brain does and is likely to be key for information processing in the brain, but its function is still quite mysterious. Two key spontaneous activity processes are the Default Mode Network (DMN), a set of areas that are most markedly connected and active during behavioural idleness, and […]
Speaking is a unique and defining human behavior. Over the past decade, we have focused on deciphering the basic neural code that underlies our ability to speak fluently. During speech production, vocal tract movement gestures for all speech sounds are encoded by highly specialized neural activity, organized as a map, in the human speech motor […]
The Neuroscience Research Colloquium (NRC), is a series of lectures featuring local and international neuroscientists.
