MCFT Announcement: Nobel Prize lecture Friday Nov 16th 7pm

[Hailey Hinson]

What: Lecture from a Nobel Prize winner on Long Term Memory
When: This friday at 7pm
Where: McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall, Rice University (It is the crazy looking building)
How much: free!!!
Why: Because memory is cool and this guy won the nobel prize. And I am going.
More info below.

Hope to see you there!
Hailey

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From: Benjamin Brochstein < benj...@brochstein.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007 7:35 AM
Subject: Brains!
To: Hailey <lovefai...@yahoo.com>

Friday, 16 November 2007, 7:00 p.m ., McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., University Professor, Physiology and Cell Biophysics, Psychiatry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University - 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine

" The Long and Short of Long Term Memory Storage "

This talk considers the molecular mechanisms that contribute to learning-related, long-term synaptic plasticity.   First, I will briefly outline some of the recent studies in Aplysia that have led to the conclusion that the requirement for protein synthesis which characterizes long-term memory is reflected, on the cellular level, in the activation of a cascade of genes and that this cascade leads to the growth of new synaptic connections.   I will then go on to consider in more detail studies which have examined the cell biological consequences of having a long-term memory process that require gene transcription and synaptic growth.


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