Our team has put together five amazing posters this year and we are very excited to share them in San Diego. We hope that you add the posters to your itinerary, come by to say “hi”, and learn what the team has been up to in the lab.

Did you know the thalamus drives prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony during non-spatial memory?

Nov. 16, 2022, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
656.03 – Reuniens synchronizes with medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus at beta frequencies during nonspatial memory for sequences of events in rats 
*M. JAYACHANDRAN¹, A. GARCIA BARRABEITG¹, R. P. VERTES², T. A. ALLEN¹; 
¹Florida Intl. Univ., Florida Intl. Univ., Miami, FL; ²FAU/Ctr Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL

Or that optogenetic stimulation of thalamic reuniens drives the same prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony?

Nov. 16, 2022, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
656.02 – Optogenetic stimulation of nucleus reuniens of the thalamus elicits beta coherence in the medial prefrontal-hippocampus network 
*T. D. VIENA¹, B. SETLOW², F. D. LUBIN³, R. P. VERTES⁴, T. A. ALLEN¹; 
¹Florida Intl. Univ., Florida Intl. Univ., Miami, FL; ²Univ. of Florida, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; ³Univ. Alabama Birmingham, Univ. Alabama Birmingham, Fultondale, AL; ⁴FAU/Ctr Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL

Nov. 16, 2022, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
656.05 – The thalamic nucleus reuniens changes prefrontal-hippocampal rhythmic modes dependent on behavioral states in the rat 
*V. ROLDAN¹, T. D. VIENA², T. A. ALLEN¹; 
¹Psychology, ²Dept. of Psychology, Florida Intl. Univ., Miami, FL

Interestingly, we also found that prefrontal neurons, like CA1, represent sequential contexts, but further predict accurate choices consistent with their role in memory-based decision making.

Nov. 16, 2022, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
656.01 – Neuronal Representations in Medial Prefrontal Cortex during Nonspatial Memory for Sequences of Events 
*S. LEYVA¹, *A. VASALLO VELIZ², M. JAYACHANDRAN², R. P. VERTES⁴, T. A. ALLEN³; 
¹Florida Intl. Univ., Florida Intl. Univ., Weston, FL; ²Psychology, ³Florida Intl. Univ., Florida Intl. Univ., Miami, FL; ⁴FAU/Ctr Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL

Lastly, come check out how our team is advancing the pig as a large animal translational model for neuroscience! (Yes, pigs are very smart.)

Nov. 16, 2022, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
654.20 – Laboratory-based spatial memory testing in the aged minipig and domestic pig 
*L. M. ALLEN¹, M. MOUSSA², *A. DELGADO⁴, M. AGUIAR⁴, K. LEE⁵, T. J. JAROME⁶, T. A. ALLEN³; 
¹Psychology Dept, ³Psychology, ²Florida Intl. Univ., Miami, FL; ⁴FIU, Miami, FL; ⁵Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; ⁶Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA