This seminar will be held in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia's Manhattanville campus (9th floor lecture hall). Columbia University's Intercampus Shuttle Service is the best way to travel between campuses.

Dr. Wilson will be describing recent work using multielectrode recording to examine hippocampal memory patterns across ensembles of individual neurons as they are formed during spatial behavior, and reactivated during quiet wakefulness, and sleep. He will also explore the relationship between hippocampal memory reactivation and reward signaling in the VTA as it may relate to offline learning and memory consolidation.

Matthew A. Wilson received his PhD in Computational and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Arizona. In 1994, he joined the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT.

Those who wish to meet the speaker during their visit should contact Sebi Rolotti (Losonczy lab). For general inquiries please contact [email protected].

The Columbia Neuroscience Seminar series is a collaborative effort of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.