Center for Learning and Memory
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Center for Learning and Memory
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The Center for Learning and Memory is a basic neuroscience research center that marshals the collective expertise of 16 premier neuroscientists from diverse disciplines to unravel the mechanisms that govern learning and memory and cognitive disorders. Research at the Center spans the fields of neurobiology, molecular biology, genetics, physiology, behavior, physics and computer science. The Center promotes the exchange of ideas and expertise across different disciplines and levels of analysis (from molecules to organismal behavior) while maintaining a specific focus on understanding brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory.
The Center offers un-paralleled scientific training programs and our faculty are currently training over 40 graduate students and more than 40 postdoctoral fellows to be the next generating of leaders in the field. In addition, our faculty offer undergraduate students the opportunity to gain research experience through undergraduate research internships and teaching core courses for the new undergraduate Bachelor of Science major in Neuroscience.
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Laura L Colgin
Professor, Director, Center for Learning and MemoryInvestigate how brain rhythms affect memory operations, using multisite tetrode recordings from behaving animals.
Michael Drew
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, ProfessorHippocampal memory, fear learning and extinction of fear memory, adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Kristen M Harris
ProfessorKarl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (Fellow)To elucidate structural components involved in the cell biology of learning and memory.
Mackenzie A Howard
Courtesy Faculty, Assistant Professor of NeurologyDiscovering cellular and circuit mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders
Daniel Johnston
Professor EmeritusKarl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (Emeritus)Cellular neurophysiology–information processing and storage in single neurons and small neural networks; memory, epilepsy.
Amy Lee
ProfessorKarl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II (Fellow)Ion channels, Ca2+ signaling, synapses, retinal circuits, nerve regeneration
Jarrod A Lewis-Peacock
Associate Professor, Director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience ProgramCognitive control, memory, functional neuroimaging, real-time neurofeedback
Michael Mauk
ProfessorTo understand what brain systems compute, how learning contributes, how circuits, cells and synapses mediate this learning and computation.
Hiroshi Nishiyama
Associate ProfessorThe formation, maintenance, and rewiring of neuronal circuits in the brain
Jonathan Pierce
Associate ProfessorThe genetic mechanisms that govern behaviors and contribute to neurological disorders.
Alison R Preston
Vice Provost for Faculty Development, ProfessorDr. A. Wilson Nolle and Sir Raghunath P. Mahendroo Professorship in Neuroscience (Holder)
Nicholas J Priebe
ProfessorMechanisms underlying response properties of neurons in primary sensory cortex using both electrophysiology and imaging in vivo.Brandy N Routh
Doctoral Student - Fonken lab, Graduate Student FellowINS Graduate Student - Fonken Lab
Boris Zemelman
Associate ProfessorThe role of hippocampal microcircuits in memory formation and recall.
