Center Facilities
The headquarters of the CNLM are located in the Herklotz Research Facility on the UC Irvine main campus. This is the home of the CNLM administrative offices and conference facilities, as well as the laboratories and offices of several faculty members of the Center. The research complex, consisting of the Bonney Research Laboratory and the Qureshey Research Laboratory, comprises almost 40,000 square feet of dedicated space. The buildings are located near the UCI Science Library and the laboratories and facilities of the School of Biological Sciences.
The Bonney Research Laboratory (BRL), built by the campus in 1981, was designed specifically as a state-of-the-art The Bonney Centerresearch facility for the study of brain and memory, and contains laboratories, a vivarium and a small conference room. The Qureshey Research Laboratory (QRL), completed in 1997, contains laboratories, offices and a large conference center. CNLM laboratories are specially designed and equipped for:
- Animal training, testing, surgery, histology
- HPLC analysis
- Electrophysiological recording from whole animals and brain tissue
- Testing of human subjects
- Digital image analysis
- Quantitative analysis of biological sounds
Funds for building the Qureshey Research Laboratory were raised by the CNLM, exclusively from private sources, the first research building so funded in the UC system.
The 120-seat Dale Melbourne Herklotz Conference Center is well-equipped for scientific meetings and is the site of many colloquia and workshops organized by the CNLM, as well as by other neuroscience groups at UCI. This conference center, along with adjacent reception space and a large interior courtyard, are all part of an environment designed specifically to promote scientific interaction. A library housing journals and books on the neurobiology of learning and memory is available to students and others working in the CNLM.
The facilities of the CNLM were named in recognition of generous gifts from John C. Herklotz, Robert and Meryl Bonney, Safi and Anita Qureshey and Audrey Schneiderman. Other major donors have been recognized with the naming of laboratories and meeting space in the Center buildings. Naming opportunities are still available at several levels.
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