November 4, 2025 | 19:30 – 21:00 | Berlin Science Week @ Urania Berlin e.V.

How do we process and keep experiences over time? About the neural processes of our memory.

How are experiences represented in neuronal activity? And how does it work that these developing brainstates – so-called memory consolidation – are maintained over time so that we can remember them? In short: how does memory work? This is what Matthew Larkum and Postdoctoral Researcher Timothy Zolnik are investigating as part of a subproject of Collaborative Research Center 1315. Together these researchers provide an overview of the current state of knowledge on learning and memory and report on their multi-layered view of the systems involved.

Moderated by Jochen Müller.

Referenten /Referentinnen:

Prof. Matthew Larkum, Head of Neuronal Plasticity at the Institute of Biology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center 1315 Mechanisms and Disturbances in Memory Consolidation: from Synapses to Systems

Dr. Timothy Zolnik, senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Larkum Lab (Neuronal Plasticity), at the Institute of Biology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Berlin Brains is a joint event series organized by: Urania Berlin, Stiftung Planetarium Berlin, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Exzellenzcluster NeuroCure und Science of Intelligence, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Max-Delbrück-Center für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft & Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1315.