ICPBR Colloquia/Seminars
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Nov 20, 2024Dr. Peter Mombaerts: "Visualizing how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the olfactory system in COVID-19 patients"
Anosmia, the loss of smell, is a common and often the sole symptom of COVID-19. The onset of the sequence of pathobiological events leading to olfactory dysfunction remains obscure. We reasoned that the neurotropic or neuroinvasive capacity of SARS-CoV-2, if it e... -
Sep 02, 2024Prof. Anna Wang Roe: "A cortical specialization for foveal vision"
A common tenet of neural sensory representation is that species-specific behaviors are reflected in specialized brain organizations1. In humans and nonhuman primates, the central one degree of vision is processed by the foveola2, a retinal structure which compris... -
Aug 26, 2024Prof. Mingsha Zhang: "Human intralaminar and medial thalamic nuclei transiently gate conscious perception through the thalamocortical loop"Human high-order thalamic nuclei have been known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, given the great difference of conscious states and contents (conscious perception), it is nearly unknown how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactio... -
Jun 05, 2024Prof. Alan Jasanoff: "Analyzing integrated brain function with molecular MRI"
Understanding the neural bases of behavior and cognition requires determining how mechanistical-ly distinct processing elements combine to carry out brain function. In this talk, I will introduce some of our laboratory’s efforts to address this goal using a comb... -
May 27, 2024Prof. Athanasios Fokas: “The two ‘big bangs’ of our mental evolution”
Visual perception will be used to show that every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process. In particular, in visual perception- which is achieved via the deconstruction of a given percept followed by its reconstruction- about a third of second ... -
Apr 12, 2024Prof. Brian A. Wandell: "Cortical circuitry for vision: plasticity, stability, and reading"
There has been extraordinary progress in our ability to measure and model the tissue properties and activity in the living human brain using magnetic resonance imaging.