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CANCELLED: AIAS Fellows' Seminar: Tomonori Takeuchi

Memory modulation by light

Info about event

Time

Monday 27 May 2019,  at 14:15 - 16:00

Location

The AIAS Auditorium, Building 1632, Room 201

CANCELLED: AIAS apologises for any inconvenience (27 may 2019).

Abstract

Most of our everyday memories are forgotten. However, retention of these trivial memories is enhanced when something novel happens shortly before or after the time of memory encoding. Using a cutting-edge method of cell-type specific activation of brain cells by light, we found that inputs from the brain area called ‘the locus coeruleus’ to ‘the hippocampus’, another brain area, drive the novelty-induced memory enhancement via a release of one brain chemical called ‘dopamine’.

Short bio

Tomonori Takeuchi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Department of Biomedicine, an AIAS-COFUND fellow from 2018-2019 and a Team Leader at DANDRITE, Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2017, he received the Novo Nordisk Foundation Young Investigator Award 2017, funding a project running from 2017-2024.             

Tomonori Takeuchi's project at AIAS

What is a Fellows' Seminar?

The AIAS Fellows' Seminar is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellow or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, one fellow will present and discuss his/her current research and research project, closing off with a question and discussion session.

All seminars are held in English and open to the public. Registration to the seminar is not necessary.  Read more about the AIAS Fellows' Seminar here.