Neuroscientist André Fenton will give a lecture titled “Erasing, Tracing, and Harnessing Memory” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in Shambaugh Auditorium in the University of Iowa Main Library.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Fenton is a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur working on three related problems: how brains store information in memory; how brains coordinate knowledge to selectively activate relevant information and suppress irrelevant information; and how to record electrical activity from brain cells in freely moving subjects.

In 2006, Fenton and colleagues identified PKMzeta, a key molecular component of long-term memory. The editors of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, identified the discovery as one of the 10 most important breakthroughs in all the science reported that year.

Fenton is a professor of neural science at New York University's Center for Neural Science. He also founded Bio-Signal Group Corp., which is developing an inexpensive, miniature, wireless EEG system for functional brain monitoring of patients in emergency medicine applications and other clinical scenarios.