Dr. Javier Diaz Alonso University of California, Irvine, USA

Dr. Javier Diaz Alonso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, and a fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California at Irvine (USA). Synaptic plasticity phenomena such as long-term potentiation (LTP) are widely recognized... read moreas the cellular substrate of many forms of learning and memory, and are frequently disrupted in psychiatric and neurological conditions. Dr. Diaz Alonso applies a multi-level approach, combining molecular biology, imaging, electrophysiology and behavior to dissect molecular mechanisms underlying the contributions of AMPA receptors, their auxiliary subunits, and synaptic adhesion molecules to synaptic plasticity.