First up today - Paul Frankland from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) on critical periods and sensitive periods in infant hippocampal development and memory specificity. #MCCS24

Also on early development Jessica Gaunt from the Alberini Lab at New York University, using spatial transcriptomics to profile hippocampal maturation.

Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman form Catherine Dulac at Harvard University discussing analysis of diverse neuronal subtypes underlying various aspects of parenting behavior. #MCCS24

Immune engrams and brain/body interactions with Asya Rolls at Technion Israel #MCCS24

Myeongjong Yoo, PhD student in the lab, presented his new data on astrocyte and place cell at MCCS meeting! His first time giving a talk in English. So proud of him! #SfN #MCCS Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society

Wendy Liu from Klann Lab at New York University presenting her work on astrocytic regulation of protein synthesis in neuronal plasticity. #MCCS24

Presentation by Myeongjong Yoo in Yong-Seok Lee lab at Seoul National University, investigating astrocytic modulation of place field activity.

How does the brain prioritize which memories to express? New work from Scott Waddell at University of Oxford on adrenergic modulation of attention. #MCCS24

Ayako Watabe from Jikei University, on the circuitry of state-dependent modulation of affective behavior. #MCCS24

New insights into the epigenetic mechanisms of long-term memory formation via histone lysine crotonylation from Ted Abel at University of Iowa #MCCS24

The story behind new breakthroughs on the role of DNA breakage and Tlr9 immune signaling in memory formation by Jelena Radulovic at Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official & Aarhus University #MCCS24

How memories integrate, or separate, over time through PFC modulation of hippocampal engram formation. A top-down systems level mechanism of memory linking, by Andre F. de Sousa in the Alcino J Silva lab at UCLA

Game-changing voltage sensing tools, developed by Yukon Hao in Prof. Michael Lin lab at Stanford University #MCCS24

Spontaneous activity as a modulator of engram allocation, and hippocampal astrocytic sequences by Steve Ramirez at Boston University #MCCS24

Chaery Lee from the Kaang Lab at Seoul National University on engram connection-specific dendritic plasticity and memory extinction. #MCCS24

Integrative investigation of salience processing in fear learning by Yusuke Kasuga in Joshua P Johansen lab at RIKEN Center for Brain Science RIKEN #MCCS24

Final talk of the symposium - Yi Zhong Lab on dynamic mechanisms of natural forgetting. #MCCS24 #SfN24

Another wonderful MCCS meeting in the books! Thanks to ⁦Tomás Ryan⁩, Farah Lubin, Council and our speakers for making it a great meeting! ⁦Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society⁩

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