BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UC Irvine Department of Neurobiology and Behavior - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UC Irvine Department of Neurobiology and Behavior X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://neurobiology.uci.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UC Irvine Department of Neurobiology and Behavior REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20280312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20281105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T133000 DTSTAMP:20260421T105300 CREATED:20250918T204419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T202818Z UID:7808-1778068800-1778074200@neurobiology.uci.edu SUMMARY:NeuroBlitz DESCRIPTION:NeuroBlitz has been a tradition in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) since 2006. Unlike other programs on campus\, NeuroBlitz remains organized and coordinated by the graduate students\, allowing for the control of their own professional development. Ultimately\, NeuroBlitz serves as an opportunity to develop one’s communication skills with the support of all members within the NBB department. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details URL:https://neurobiology.uci.edu/event/neuroblitz-21/ LOCATION:Herklotz Conference Room\, 300 Qureshey Research Lab\, Irvine\, California\, 92697\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260527T133000 DTSTAMP:20260421T105300 CREATED:20250918T205328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T202143Z UID:7810-1779883200-1779888600@neurobiology.uci.edu SUMMARY:NeuroBlitz DESCRIPTION:NeuroBlitz has been a tradition in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB) since 2006. Unlike other programs on campus\, NeuroBlitz remains organized and coordinated by the graduate students\, allowing for the control of their own professional development. Ultimately\, NeuroBlitz serves as an opportunity to develop one’s communication skills with the support of all members within the NBB department. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details URL:https://neurobiology.uci.edu/event/7810/ LOCATION:Herklotz Conference Room\, 300 Qureshey Research Lab\, Irvine\, California\, 92697\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T150000 DTSTAMP:20260421T105300 CREATED:20260409T185353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T233545Z UID:8747-1780660800-1780671600@neurobiology.uci.edu SUMMARY:NBB Spring Social 2026 DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, June 5th\, 2026Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pmLocation: University Hills Community Center (1083 California Ave\, Irvine\, CA 92617) \n\n\n\nParking is limited\, please carpool. \n\n\n\nGet ready to kick back and enjoy some well-deserved fun with your NBB colleagues and family! Join us for an afternoon of great food\, good company\, and friendly competition featuring: \n\n\n\nCrepes Food Truck: Fresh\, made-to-order crepes served right on-site.Appetizers & Drinks: Delicious bites and refreshments to keep the energy going.Games: Giant Connect Four\, Giant Jenga\, and Bocce Ball.Cornhole Tournament: Participate and compete for bragging rights! \n\n\n\nWhether you’re a cornhole champion or just there for the crepes\, this is one event you won’t want to miss. Come unwind\, connect\, and celebrate with your NBB colleagues! Your family is welcome too! \n\n\n\n\nRegister to attend the NBB Spring Social 2026\n\n\n\n\n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Affiliation(Required)\n \n \n Faculty\n \n \n \n Staff\n \n \n \n Graduate Student\n \n \n \n Undergraduate Student\n \n \n \n Postdoctoral Fellow\n \n \n \n Other\n If other\, please specify.(Required)Do you plan to invite your family and/or kids?(Required)\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No\n Please indicate number of additional guests.(Required)Do you have a food allergy or restriction?(Required)\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No\n Please list food allergy or restriction below.(Required)Nut allergy\, peanut\, etc. or vegan\, vegetarian\, etc.Would you like to participate for the Cornhole Tournament? Teams of two will be randomly selected.\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have questions about this event\, please email tinatt5@uci.edu. URL:https://neurobiology.uci.edu/event/nbb-spring-social-2026/ LOCATION:University Hills Community Center\, 1083 California Ave\, Irvine\, California\, 92617\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270413T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270413T120000 DTSTAMP:20260421T105300 CREATED:20250930T212850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T160525Z UID:7826-1807614000-1807617600@neurobiology.uci.edu SUMMARY:Yavin Shaham\, PhD – McGaugh Distinguished Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:McGaugh Distinguished Seminar Series\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 13th\, 2027 at 11:00am\n\n\n\nThe seminar will be In-Person.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYavin Shaham\, PhD\n\n\n\nBranch Chief & Senior Investigator\, Intramural Research Program\, NIDA-NIH\, Baltimore\, MD\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRats can make good choices: \n\n\n\nEffect of alternative food and social rewards on drug use and relapse in rat models of addiction \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nIn previous studies\, we and others used a rat model of drug relapse and craving to demonstrate time-dependent increases in drug seeking following experimenter-imposed (forced) abstinence in the homecage—a phenomenon we termed incubation of drug craving (Grimm et al.\, Nature\, 2001). More recently\, we developed a rat model to study drug craving and relapse following extended periods of voluntary abstinence in the drug-associated environment. Voluntary abstinence is achieved through a mutually exclusive discrete-choice procedure\, in which male and female rats with a history of intravenous opioid or psychostimulant self-administration choose daily between palatable food or social interaction with a peer versus the addictive drug. We propose that these voluntary abstinence models reflect key elements of operant-based human treatments\, such as contingency management (where alternative rewards are monetary vouchers) and the community reinforcement approach (where positive social interactions serve as reinforcement). In this lecture\, I will introduce the voluntary abstinence models and present behavioral and neural circuit analyses of drug craving and relapse after the removal of the food or social rewards. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nYavin Shaham earned his B.S. and M.A. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his Ph.D. from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda\, MD. He completed postdoctoral training at Concordia University in Montreal under the mentorship of Dr. Jane Stewart. Before joining the NIDA Intramural Research Program (IRP)\, he was an investigator at the Addiction Research Center in Toronto. He is currently a tenured Branch Chief and Senior Investigator at NIDA. Shaham’s major awards include the Society for Neuroscience’s Jacob Waletzky Award for innovative research in drug and alcohol addiction (2006)\, the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grant Award (2016)\, the NIDA-IRP Investigator Mentoring Award (2016)\, the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society (EBPS) Distinguished Achievement Award (2017)\, the NIH Director’s Award of Merit (2020)\, and the NIH Ruth Kirschstein Mentoring Award (2022). In 2023\, he was invited to present his research at a Nobel symposium on the “Social Brain.” Shaham has published over 250 empirical papers\, reviews\, and commentaries\, with more than 44\,500 citations and an h-index of 115 (Google Scholar). In 2018\, Shaham was named by The Web of Science as a “Highly Cited Researcher” (top 1%). From 2008 to 2018\, he served as a Reviewing and Senior Editor for The Journal of Neuroscience. Currently\, he is a Reviewing Editor for Neuropsychopharmacology and an Advisory Board Member for eNeuro. He also serves on the editorial boards of Biological Psychiatry\, Psychopharmacology\, Behavioural Pharmacology\, and Addiction Biology. Additionally\, Shaham was the President of EBPS from 2021 to 2023. His research focuses on the mechanisms of relapse to opioid and psychostimulant seeking\, using rat models developed in his lab. URL:https://neurobiology.uci.edu/event/yavin-shaham-mcgaugh-distinguished-seminar-series/ LOCATION:Herklotz Conference Room\, 300 Qureshey Research Lab\, Irvine\, California\, 92697-3800\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR