Dr. Adrien Peyrache: Orienting memory during wake and sleep

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

The head-direction (HD) circuit, an upstream provider of orientation signals for navigation, maintains coherent internal orientation memory that stays stable within each environment for weeks. During non-REM sleep, when hippocampal trajectories are replayed for memory formation, HD cells remain coordinated and directly influence this hippocampal replay. This suggests the HD system conveys a "virtual" orientation […]


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Dr. Emily Bayer: Brain-body signaling in Danionella cerebrum

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

The brain is constantly receiving sensory information from inside of the body, but it is underappreciated how this internal sensory information can affect animal behavior. To address this, we are developing the small transparent fish Danionella cerebrum as a model for brain-body signaling. I will describe our work characterizing the anatomy, molecular subtypes, and sexual […]


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