Stephanie Vose Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Multiverse: Your Brain on Sleep (Free Event, Limited Space) by SubSpace: Adult Programs After Dark, Museum of Science Multiverse is an interdisciplinary concert and event series combining music and science in live performance. About this Event Capacity Notes: Space in the Zoom Webinar is limited. Attendees are advised to register only for as many tickets as devices they will be using. (e.g. a household of 3 people using 1 computer for the event need only reserve 1 ticket.) This program is recommended for ages 18+. Multiverse is an interdisciplinary concert and event series combining music and science in live performance. After a sold-out smash performance of Hidden Worlds at the Charles Hayden Planetarium last fall, and a groundbreaking digital concert of Unfolding Life this summer, the Museum of Science teams up with Multiverse once again for a new virtual event this August! Have you ever wondered why we sleep? The role of sleep may be more complex than we think. Join neuroscientist Dr. Gina Poe of UCLA to discover how sleep is critical for remembering and forgetting memories, cementing and healing trauma, and influencing and responding to hormones. Explore the science with us through evocative discussion, immersive music and live dance. Experience Multiverse in your homes for one night only. Scientist: Gina Poe Performers: Matt Sharrock, Marimba; Megan Anderson & Haley Day, Dance; The Table Manners, DJs Music by: Errollyn Wallen, David Ibbett, I Monster This program is free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Please consider making a gift to support #MOSatHome at donate.mos.org/mosathome and become a vital partner in helping us provide access to free STEM experiences online. FEATURING- Dr. @Gina Poe, Neuroscientist + Professor Dr. Poe’s laboratory studies the mechanisms underlying the role of REM sleep in memory consolidation. Her three talented PhD students and the six stellar undergraduate research assistants supporting them are probing how sleep serves to give us insights into difficult problems, process traumatic memories, and clean our temporary memory storage places to allow new memories to form and consolidate. It’s an exciting time in the Poe Sleep and Memory lab as Michelle Fraser discovers how our brain knows what is familiar and therefore erasable, Yesenia Cabrera discovers whether and how females are variably resilient to the long-term effects of traumatic stress, and Rockelle Guthrie discovers how vertebrate mammals and invertebrate cephalopods both replay experiences to gain insights. Neuroscientist and Professor Dr. Gina Poe began her academic career as an undergraduate student at Stanford University where she earned her BA in Human Biology. She was a research technician for two years at the VA Sepulveda with Barry Sterman. Not long after, Gina applied for a PhD program in Neuroscience at UCLA. After discovering fascinating details about sleep apnea in Ron Harper’s laboratory at UCLA, she worked with Carol Barnes at the University of Arizona on age-related memory problems. She also joined Bruce McNaughton and Jim Knierim in sending four rats to space to test the brain’s adaptability to weightlessness. However, Gina did not abandon her secret passion: testing whether REM sleep served remembering or forgetting (spoiler alert: both)! Her finding that new memories were strengthened while old, consolidated ones were erased from the hippocampus served as the foundational study that launched her independent career. After fifty-five faculty position rejections, Gina was invited by Jim Krueger to apply for a tenure track faculty position at the University of Washington, where she set up a lab, directed a new neuroscience undergraduate degree program, and taught her first full course. Two kids, three PhD students, five postdoctoral scholars, four lab moves, three NIH R01 grants, and 15 years later, Dr. Poe, lab, family and grants were recruited to UCLA to direct three university programs preparing undergraduates who are underrepresented in the STEM fields. David Ibbett, Composer + Pianist Matt Sharrock, Marimba Hailed as one of “Boston’s best percussionists” by I Care if You Listen, Matt Sharrock is a versatile marimbist, percussionist, and conductor who tirelessly champions the music of living composers. As half of the bass clarinet/marimba duo Transient Canvas, they have premiered over 80 pieces while touring extensively in the United States and abroad. From 2013-2020 they served as Music Director and conductor for Equilibrium and is a founding member of the mixed quartet Hinge and the Boston Percussion Group. In demand as a chamber musician, Matt is the resident percussionist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and has performed with the Lydian String Quartet, Boston Musica Viva, Sound Icon, the Lorelei Ensemble, and Dinosaur Annex, among others. As an orchestral percussionist, Matt can be heard regularly with the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra of Indian Hill, and the Grammy-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project. They have recorded on Beauport Classical, BMOP/sound, Innova, Navona, New Focus, and Ravello record labels. They teach music theory and liberal arts at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music and applied percussion at Bunker Hill Community College. Matt proudly endorses Marimba One and Encore Mallets. For more information, visit www.mattsharrock.com. The Table Manners, DJs Megan Anderson, Dance Haley Day, Dance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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