Event Detail (Archived)
Optically probing visual codes and computations
Event Details
- Type
- Other Seminars
- Speaker(s)
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Hillel Adesnik, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
- Speaker bio(s)
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Dr. Adesnik was born and raised in New York City and obtained a B.A. in biology from Columbia University where he worked on moth olfaction. He obtained his Ph.D. with Roger Nicoll at UCSF, studying the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. He performed postdoctoral work at UCSD with Massimo Scanziani studying neocortical circuitry. He started his lab at UC Berkeley in 2012. His lab has focuses on studying contextual processing in the somatosensory and visual cortices and, in parallel, developing high precision two photon optogenetic technologies for probing neural codes of perception and cortical dynamics.
- Open to
- Public
- Host
- Dr. Winrich Freiwald
- Contact
- Lihong Yin
- Phone
- (212) 327-7620
- Sponsor
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Winrich Freiwald
(212) 327-7697
wfreiwald@rockefeller.edu - Notes
- Understanding the neural basis of sensory perception requires technologies that can access and control the underlying neural codes with great precision. I will present three short projects that develop and leverage new approaches to understand visual perception. First, I will present our advances towards high speed, volumetric read/write control of naturally evoked cortical activity patterns with single spike and milliescond timescale precision. Second, I will show our lab's work to reveal the neural basis underlying perceptual inference as exemplified by visual illusions. Third, I will present a new model of visual awareness and blindsight in mice, and provide a genetic dissection of the underlying cortical cell types involved in visual experience.