Linking Memories Across Time
Please contact Tai-Ying Lee (tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk) if you would like to arrange an individual meeting with the speaker.
The compilation of memories, collected and aggregated across a lifetime defines our human experience. My lab is interested in dissecting how memories are stored, updated, integrated and retrieved across a lifetime. Recent studies suggest that a shared neural ensemble may link distinct memories encoded close in time. Using in vivo calcium imaging (with open-source Miniscopes in freely behaving mice), TetTag transgenic system, chemogenetics, electrophysiology and novel behavioral designs, we tested how hippocampal networks temporally link memories. Multiple convergent findings suggest that contextual memories encoded close in time are linked by directing storage into overlapping hippocampal ensembles, such that the recall of one memory can trigger the recall of another temporally-related memory. Alteration of this process (e.g. during aging, PTSD, etc) affect the temporal structure of memories, thus impairing efficient recall of related information.
Date: 7 June 2019, 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Speaker: Prof Denise Cai (Mount Sinai - New York)
Organiser: Cortex Club (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: tai-ying.lee@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Host: Tai-Ying Lee
Part of: Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Tai-Ying Lee, Marta Blanco pozo