When:
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, Simpson QuerreyAuditorium, 303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Department of Ophthalmology
(312) 503-4030
Group: Department of Ophthalmology
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings
“A Modular Logic of Coordinated Movements”
Evan Feinberg, PhD
Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco
Abstract: Most behaviors involve moving multiple body parts. For example, lifting a coffee cup involves shoulder, elbow, and wrist movements, and glancing at a street sign involves head and eye movements. How single neurons coordinate the movement of multiple body parts is poorly understood. My lab investigates this question by applying neural ensemble recordings, perturbations, and modeling to a suite of mouse innate behaviors we have identified. In this talk, I will describe a surprising computational principle and network architecture underlying coordinated movements.