The Harris lab published a research article in Hippocampus entitled “Developmental onset of enduring long‐term potentiation in mouse hippocampus”. Ostrovskaya OI, Cao G, Eroglu C, Harris KM (2020) Developmental onset of enduring long‐term potentiation in mouse hippocampus. Hippocampus, 30(9): 1-15.

Federico Brandalise and Brian Kalmbach, postdocs from the Brager lab, are co-first authors on a recent publication investigating how the loss of FMRP in Fragile X syndrome affects dendritic function in pyramidal neurons of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. Brandalise et al. Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein bidirectionally controls dendritic Ih in a cell type-specific […]

Seth Koslov, a graduate student in the Lewis-Peacock lab is the first author on a publication in eNeuro entitled “Cognitive Flexibility Improves Memory for Delayed Intentions”. Koslov SR, Mukerji A, Hedgpeth KR and Lewis-Peacock JA. Cognitive Flexibility Improves Memory for Delayed Intentions. ENEURO.0250-19.2019

Ernie Hwaun, a graduate student in the Colgin lab is first author on a recent publication published in the journal Hippocampus entitled “CA3 place cells that represent a novel waking experience are preferentially reactivated during sharp wave‐ripples in subsequent sleep”. E Hwaun and LL Colgin. 2019. CA3 place cells that represent a novel waking experience […]

Dr. Tracy Wang, a postdoctoral fellow, is first author on a recent publication in the Jornal of Neuroscience from the Lewis-Peacock lab entitled “More is less: increased processing of unwanted memories facilitates forgetting”. This work reveals a mechanism the brain uses to facilitate intentional forgetting of visual memories. https://cns.utexas.edu/news/forgetting-uses-more-brain-power-than-remembering TH Wang, K Placek and JA […]

Dr. Micheal Drew was elected to Associate member status of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), founded in 1961, is a professional, international organization of leading brain scientists. Membership is by nomination only and scientists elected to the ACNP are selected primarily on the basis of their original research contributions. The […]

Greg Ordemann, a graduate student in the Brager Lab, recently published a paper in the Journal of Neurophysiology entitled “D-type potassium channels normalize action potential firing between dorsal and ventral CA1 neurons of the mouse hippocampus.”  This research reveals that action potential threshold in ventral neurons is influenced by a greater functional expression of D-type potassium […]

Jason Samonds and colleagues in the Priebe lab published a research paper in Nature Neuroscience entitled “Natural image and receptive field statistics predict saccade sizes.”  This research investigates the role of eye movement in visual information processing and motor system adaptation. For more information about this research see:  https://cns.utexas.edu/news/why-do-our-eyes-move-as-they-do-ut-scientists-have-new-answers-to-that Samonds JM, Geisler WS and Priebe […]

Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock received a 5 year R01 grant from the National Eye Institute for his proposal entitled “Biasing the forgetting of visual memories”.  The goal of this proposal is to understand the factors that influence activation-dependent forgetting, and to evaluate whether people can exploit this mechanism to improve their memory.

The Harris lab published a paper in PNAS entitled “Long-term potentiation expands information content of hippocampal dentate gyrus synapses.”  This research combined signal detection theory and precise 3D reconstructions from serial section electron microscopy (3DEM) to investigate synaptic plasticity and information storage capacity at medial perforant path synapses in adult hippocampal dentate gyrus in vivo. […]