17th iCeMS Café: The Magical Workings of Our "Memory"

17th iCeMS Cafe

17th iCeMS Café: The Magical Workings of Our "Memory"

When we memorize various things like something fun or scary, how do cells work dynamically in the brain? Let's mark the cells and illuminate them to take a closer look into the workings of our "memory".

Guest Speaker Dr Dan Ohtan Wang (iCeMS Kyoto fellow, Asst Prof) and her colleagues
Title The Magical Workings of Our "Memory"
Date / Time Sunday, August 23, 2015 / 14:00–15:30
Flyer PDF 2.7MB
Venue 2nd floor Lounge, Main Building, Kyoto University iCeMS
Right at the "Kyodai Seimon-Mae" city bus stop /
on the northwest corner of the Higashi-Ichijo intersection
Capacity Around 16 people
(Applicants will be chosen at random and notified of the results only if the number of applicants exceeds capacity)
Fee 500 yen for a soft drink and confectionary
Registration Web form: https://www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/fm/c17e.html
Email: science-cafe@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fax: 075-753-9785

For registration and inquiries, please contact the iCeMS Science Communication Group via e-mail or fax including the following information:
  • Name
  • Contact information (Email address or fax/telephone number)
  • How you heard of this event
  • What interested you about this iCeMS Café?

Personal information will be used ONLY for the purposes of this one event.
Deadline August 14, 2015 at 17:00
(Notices will be sent to all applicants within 2–3-days' time.)
Child care Day care service for children will be provided for free of charge.
  • This service is for children who are between 3 months and 9 years of age.
  • The service will be provided from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm
  • This service will be provided at the iCeMS' building. (The location will be informed only to the participants that applied for child care.
  • If you wish to use the child care service, please let us know the child's name, sex, age, things to pay special attention to (ex. alergy information) and emergency contacts (e-mail address and phone number) when you apply. The application deadline for the child care service is 17:00 on August 14, 2015.
  • Please contact iCeMS Science Communication Group for inquries.
Contact iCeMS Science Communication Group (SCG)
Email: science-cafe@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fax: 075-753-9785
Host Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University

About the Ohtan Lab

A human being starts to explore and experience the world as early as when he/she lives in a mother's womb. Through "learning," we accumulates senses and words to become unique individuals different from one another. The Ohtan lab at the Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) strives to understand the mechanism of "learning" by studying how gene expression in the neural circuit is regulated, a molecular process that plays a large role in memory formation and storage. For more details, please refer to the following link. Fomore details see Ohtan Lab's Page.