ICPBR Colloquia/Seminars
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2026.06.18Sze Chai Kwok: "Intracranial Population Dynamics Supporting Episodic Memory": How does the brain transform continuous experience into temporally organized episodic memories? In this talk, I will present a series of studies from our group combining intracranial electrophysiological recordings, naturalistic behavioral paradigms, and popula... -
2026.06.15Prof. Athanasios Fokas: "Can AI reach the human thought?"The transformative achievements of deep learning have led several scholars to raise the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can reach and then surpass the level of human thought. Here, after addressing methodological problems regarding the possible a... -
2026.05.26Prof. Tadashi Isa: "From genetic tools to motor recovery, blindsight, decision and disease modeling in nonhuman primates"What are unique to primates include (1) fine hand motor skill which is often affected by stroke or spinal cord injury, and (2) high level cognition, including flexible decision making, which is often affected in neuropsychiatric disorders. Both of them are diffic... -
2026.05.18Prof. Vladimir Parpura: "Glutamate release by regulated exocytosis in human glioblastomas"Glioblastomas (GBMs) are the most common primary malignant brain tumors in adults. They are one of the deadliest cancers, having a median survival of 14 months despite of standard of care (surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy with temozolomide). GBMs are cha... -
2026.05.18Prof. Vedrana Montana: "Impact of metabolic microenvironment on normal and cancerous astrocytes"Astrocytes, subtype of glial cells, are essential for maintaining physiological homeostasis in the brain. Their functions are fueled by D-glucose, systemically delivered to the brain by the blood, and L-lactate, locally generated or systemically delivered. The ef... -
2026.05.13Dr. Reona Yamaguchi: "Neural mechanisms underlying functional recovery after spinal cord injury in macaque monkeys"Recent studies have shown that brain areas not typically involved in motor control can contribute to motor recovery after central nervous system injury. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the motor networks involved ...