2023
Neuroscience and Special Lectures
February 13 – Special Lecture
Justus Kebschull, John Hopkins University, USA: Brain region evolution by duplication-and-divergence — lessons from the cerebellar nuclei. Host: Gilles Laurent
April 28 – Neuroscience Lecture
Claude Desplan, Department of Biology , New York University, USA: The generation and evolution of neural diversity. Host: Erin Schuman
May 03 – Neuroscience Lecture
Eric Klann, Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA: Mechanisms of Cell Type-specific Translation in Memory. Host: Erin Schuman
July 04 – Neuroscience Lecture
Andrew Gordus, John Hopkins University, USA: Untangling the web of behaviors used in spider orb-weaving. Host: Kun Song
September 13 – Neuroscience Lecture
Carmen Sandi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland: A Neurometabolic Nexus Linking Anxiety and Low Motivation. Host: Erin Schuman
September 27 – Neuroscience Lecture
Sam Reiter, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan: Behavioral and neural measurement of 2-stage sleep in an octopus. Host: Gilles Laurent
November 08 – Special Lecture
Maude Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried, Germany: Evolution of Sensory and Physiological Systems. Host: Gilles Laurent
November 21 – Neuroscience Lecture
Xiao Wang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA: Deciphering and Engineering mRNA Translation in Mammalian Cells. Host: Erin Schuman
November 22 – Neuroscience Lecture
Peter Dayan, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany: Risking your Tail: Curiosity, Danger & Exploration. Host: Hiroshi Ito
November 27 – Special Lecture
Mayank Mehta, Center for Physics of Life, UCLA, USA: Hippocampus 2.0: 3 simple rules. Host: Gilles Laurent
December 04 – Neuroscience Lecture
Weizhe Hong, Neurobiology, Biological Chemistry, and Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA: Neural Basis of Prosocial Behavior. Host: Alison Barker
December 06 – Neuroscience Lecture
Claire Wyart, Paris Brain Institute, France: A bottom-up Approach for Analyzing Circuits underlying Navigation in Vertebrates. Host: Erin Schuman