Memory Messabout Meeting 2019
A trainee-specific, data-blitz style event for memory researchers in the Boston area
March 05, 2019  ·  Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, Boston University

A trainee-specific, data-blitz style event for memory researchers in the Boston area. Our goal is to bring together young minds who study memory at various levels (human, non-human, computational, etc.) to exchange knowledge and inspire each other. In particular, we want to foster cross talk between the diverse memory labs in the area. We also want to give trainees the opportunity to practice presenting their work in a professional format and also just to get to know each other better. 

Agenda
Tuesday, March 5
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Drop your coat, get your badge, lanyard, program, and awesome MMM2019 sticker! Pick up your free raffle ticket to win a MMM2019 mug. Starbucks coffee will be served.
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Introduction Greeting: event organizers Stephanie Grella & Rose Cooper Schedule Breakdown
10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
Data-blitz: 3 speakers Click on the session for speaker info!
11:00 AM - 11:15 PM
11:00 AM - 11:15 PM
Practice your networking skills Get your caffeine on and satiate your hunger for snacks so you can satiate your hunger for knowledge in the next session. Starbucks coffee and Brueggers bagels will be served.
11:15 AM - 12:25 PM
11:15 AM - 12:25 PM
Data-blitz: 4 speakers Click on the session for speaker info!
12:25 PM - 1:10 PM
12:25 PM - 1:10 PM
Free Food! Buffet style. Dirty Water Dough pizza and salad will be served.
1:10 PM - 2:20 PM
1:10 PM - 2:20 PM
Data-blitz: 4 speakers Click on the session for speaker info!
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
A few words from Stephanie & Rose before you leave to say thanks! And of course, the raffle!
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Speakers

Sarah Kark

Primarily interested in the differences between negative and positive memory formation, consolidation, and retrieval. More specifically, how sensory processing regions support negative memory retrieval and the subjective sense of memory re-experiencing.

Wanbing Zhang

I am currently completing my PhD at Brandeis University. I am studying preventive and compensatory strategies for age-related memory loss, including overlap between self and emotion.

Rosalie Samide

I am a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Maureen Ritchey's Memory Modulation Lab at Boston College. My research interests focus on how human episodic memory is modulated by context and emotion.

Hannah Twarkowski, Ph.D.

Completed my PhD in Germany; currently a post-doc in Amar Sahay’s lab at the Center for Regenerative Medicine, at Harvard / MGH. I am interested in circuit plasticity mechanisms in recent and remote memory in adult and aged rodents.

Sean Trettel, Ph.D.

I completed my PhD in the Colgin Lab at UT Austin, currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Burwell Lab at Brown University. I'm interested in how the entorhinal, perirhinal and postrhinal cortex contribute to learning and memory.

Monika Shpokayte

Currently doing my masters at Harvard. Working as a technician at Boston University in the Ramirez Lab. I am interested in how neurons in the hippocampus code for valence at an anatomic and genetic level and how this is manifested behaviorally.

Kylie Huckleberry, Ph.D.

I completed my PhD in the Drew Lab at UT Austin and am currently a postdoc in the Shansky Lab at Northeastern University. I am interested in sex differences in how the ventral hippocampus-amygdala circuit is modified by endocannabinoid signaling.

Catherine Mikkelsen

I am currently doing my PhD at Boston University. I am interested in how neurons encode events and associate stimuli as a population.

Nathaniel Kinsky

Currently completing my PhD in the Eichenbaum lab at Boston University. Interested in probing the connection between long-term stability in the hippocampal neural code and episodic memory.

Zahra Esfahani, Ph.D.

Completed my PhD at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Iran and I am currently a post-doc in Marc Howard's lab at Boston University studying theoretical neuroscience.

Bill Chapman

My research focuses on how animals use structured relations from the environment to learn representations of meaningful compositional codes for features of objects.

Rose A. Cooper, Ph.D.

My research explores the cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory using behavioral, eye-tracking, & functional neuroimaging methods. I am interested in how past events are reconstructed during memory and how hippocampal-cortical connections support this.

Stephanie L. Grella, Ph.D.

I completed my PhD in Canada where I studied the neuromodulatory role of the locus coeruleus in shaping hippocampal representations. Currently I am a post-doc at BU studying memory modulation via reconsolidation using optogenetics in mice.

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LOCATION
Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, Boston University, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Map
Location: Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, Boston University, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215

Registration is free but required. 

Food and beverages will be served. 

There is a paid parking lot across the street

We’re close to Kenmore station and Boston University West on the green line. 

See you all there!