[QSB-grads] David Lent Seminar - Tuesday @ 9am SE1 300: Navigation in Naturalistic Environments: Perception, Learning & Memory

[Frederick Wolf]

David Lent, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at CSU Fresno, will be giving a talk this Tuesday:

Navigation in Naturalistic Environments: Perception, Learning & Memory
David Lent, Ph.D.  CSU Fresno
Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 9:00am  SE1 300

David did his postdoc with the renowned behavioral researcher Tom Collett (for example see http://bit.ly/2liAh9L) and his graduate research on cockroach learning with anatomist Nick Strausfeld (full Pubmed: http://bit.ly/2mxHjra).
SE1 300 is a small room, so please be on time.


Lent lab interests
Sensory Perception & Navigation: Using integrative approaches (behavior, neurobiology and computation) to understand how perception of the environment is computed and stored in the nervous system and acted upon by an organism to facilitate robust foraging and navigation.
 
Neurobiology of Disease: Identify dysfunction in spatial cognition and visuo-motor planning associated with expression of Alzheimer’s disease related genes in transgenic Drosophila melanogaster. Characterize the morphological and functional changes in brain regions affected by Alzheimer’s disease in Drosophila melanogaster and determine how this relates to specific executive function, spatial learning and memory deficits.


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Fred W Wolf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd. Merced, CA 95343
415.370.1132
fwolf at ucmerced.edu
http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/fwolf/
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