Position Title
Associate Professor of Psychology
In addition to his academic appointment in Psychology, Brian Wiltgen is lab director of the Wiltgen Lab at UC Davis. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the Society for Neuroscience, the Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society, and the Pavlovian Society. Professor Wiltgen studies cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory formation in the hippocampus and neocortex. He is particularly interested in systems-level consolidation and the process by which new memories are stabilized and maintained over time. To examine these issues, he combines behavioral analysis (spatial and contextual learning) with pharmacology, electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and optogenetic techniques in transgenic mice.