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2023: This episode of the Max Planck Florida Institute’s Neurotransmissions podcast brings you scientific highlights from the recent Sunposium23 conference. The hosts discuss how the brain encodes memories in both a stable and flexible manner with Dr. Denise Cai, the complexity of brain-wide serotonin function with Dr. Ugur Dag, and how organoids and assembloids can help us understand human neurodevelopment with Dr. Sergiu Pasca.

2022: To survive and thrive in our ever-changing world, we must be able to predict the outcome of an event based on knowledge of what has happened in the past. For example, after a threatening experience, it is helpful to identify what caused the unpleasant event and assign the emotion of 'fear' to the precipitating event to help avoid similar outcomes in the future. In this talk, Dr. Denise Cai discusses how mice link fearful experiences with prior memories and its implications for anxiety-related conditions.

2020: In this episode of our weekly Brain Waves series, One Mind President, Brandon Staglin hosts One Mind Rising Star Awardee, Denise J. Cai, PhD, Assistant Professor in Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Kyle Elliott MPA CHES, a life coach who has lived experience with post-traumatic stress. Dr. Cai has conducted extensive research into how memories are formed and how that process is impacted by traumatic events. Tune in to learn how Kyle and Dr. Cai’s experiences with trauma are helping them to navigate the COVID-19 crisis and establish a new normal.

2020: “The Allen Institute has been a leader in spearheading the open science movement,” explains Next Generation Leader Denise Cai. This movement is enabling quicker breakthroughs, technological advancements, and scientific discoveries.

2018: In this seminar, Dr. Denise Cai will share her personal accounts in pursuing an academic path. She will discuss how she works through impostor syndrome, gender bias, post-partum depression and mommy-guilt in order to find balance in life, love and science.

2017: Next Generation Leader Denise Cai presents on “Linking memories across time” at the 2017 Allen Institute Showcase Symposium hosted by the Allen Institute for Brain Science.