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Find out about the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics on Oct 4 from 8 AM - 6 PM during their FREE symposium! Learn about cutting-edge neuroscience research & drug development; Collaborate with leading experts from Biogen, Vanderbilt, UCSF, and more. loom.ly/RUMrlcA

Join Manuella Oliveira Yassa as she shares her perspectives on leveraging program evaluation to understand the impact of neuroscience outreach across multiple segments of the neuroscience ecosystem at the Brain Awareness Campaign Event at #SFN23. 🧠 bit.ly/BACEPosters2023

CNLM Director @mike_yassa receives $13M NIH grant to lead an interdisciplinary team to better understand the challenges of economic disparity, social inequality and racism-related stressors impact the aging brain. #AlzheimersDisease #ucinews @UCIrvine @YassaLab

Our Summer Institute in Neuroscience alumni continue to make us proud! Congratulations to Vivian Nye who will begin her journey in medical school at OHSU this fall! 🥳 #NSFREU @NSF

The CNLM Award Ceremony is this week! This year, we will present $22,000 in awards to exceptional CNLM scholars. Additionally, we will present 4 faculty awards! 🎉 Learn more and join us ➡️ cnlm.uci.edu/awards/

The 2023 winner, who will advance to represent the US in the International Brain Bee Championship is Srijan Velamuri, 12th grader from Philadelphia who will be attending @JohnsHopkins this fall! Congratulations, Srijan! 🏆

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#LEARNMEM2023 is bridging science & society in a BIG way! All conference attendees & community members are invited to join us for a @FrontYoungMindsLIVE REVIEW & BRAIN FESTIVAL! This event is possible thanks to a generous @dana_fdn grant. 🔗learnmem2023.org/livereview

Come #postdoc with me, @urrational and Julian Thayer on memory, reinforcement learning, anhedonia, early life adversity, and more. High res fMRI, dynamic connectivity, HRV and more! DM one of us for details. Pls RT!

Event Hosted by Laura Ewell, Ph.D. (lewell@hs.uci.edu) ✨

Join the UCI Anatomy & Neurobiology Department in a seminar featuring Dr. Laura DeNardo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine! This is an IN-PERSON event at Plumwood/Showa Denko Lecture Hall on Thursday, Jan 19 at 10:30 am!

CNLM Faculty Fellow Dr. Amal Alachkar and her lab making headlines! Congratulations on this important work!

We are thrilled that Dr. Emery Brown will join us at #LEARNMEM2023 from @MIT as one of our Keynote Speakers ✨🎤✨! Learn about all of our speakers at learnmem2023.org/speakers and don't forget to register at learnmem2023.org/register! We can't wait to see you in April!

Attention #LEARNMEM2023 peeps! We are not using a 3rd party for hotel reservations. Reservations should be made directly w @HiltonHB. Pls be aware of emails from individuals or companies claiming to be involved in conference planning. If you’re unsure, pls msg or email our team!

So many awesome costumes at the 2022 CNLM Halloween Brainfest! We will share all of them today but first…a scientific communication competition. Narrate this video to the non-scientific audience in 1 tweet for a chance to win a got brain? mug. GO!

This year’s colloquium series features our own incredible @UCIrvine @ucicnlm Fellows! Learn more and register: cnlm.uci.edu/colloquium

This just in! @KafuiDzirasa will deliver James L. McGaugh Distinguished Lecture at #LEARNMEM2023, co-hosted by @gyorgy_lur and Dept of Neurobio & Behavior @UCIrvine. If you're still on the fence about attending, it will be... legendary. learnmem2023.org. Reg opens Nov 1!

Meet Kate Lawson, UCI CNLM Howard Schneiderman Training Program Fellow and PhD student in the lab of Dr. Steve Mahler (@svmahler). Learn how Kate eavesdrops on rats to understand how they’re feeling. youtu.be/LZfvSDIcA8g @UCIrvineGD @UCIrvine

Great news from #LEARNMEM2023! The deadline for submissions has been extended one week to Oct 7. You can thank us later 😜. Get those symposium, open paper, lightning talk and poster submissions in! @LEARNMEM @ucicnlm

Welcome back, Anteaters! Show us your 1st day of school selfies for a chance to win a CNLM got brain? shirt! @UCIrvine

The UCI Brain community is hiring! View open positions by visiting our jobs page 👇