Tuesday April 23,2024
9.45 a.m. - 11a.m.
Pelouchova Lecture HallPlzeňská 311, 150 06 Praha 5 - Motol
Contact: kveta.janouskova@lfmotol.cuni.cz
EpiReC is proud to announce Lecture One of the Elite Neuroscience Lecture Series.
Lecture will be delivered by Karel Svoboda who is the Vice President and Executive
Director of the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Before joining the Allen
Institute, he was a Senior Group Leader at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus.
Svoboda’s work is at the intersection of neuronal biophysics and cognition. His
goal is to identify core principles underlying information processing in
mammalian neural circuits at the level of the whole brain.
Karel Svoboda has developed several widely-used methods to
interrogate neural structure and function in intact brains. Notable
contributions include microscopy methods to image synapses over times of weeks
in the intact brain during learning; engineered sensitive fluorescent protein
sensors for noninvasive imaging of neural activity; microscopes with very large
fields of view that enable imaging multiple brain regions with single neuron
resolution.
Karel Svoboda was born in Prague, then part of Czechoslovakia, and grew up in West
Germany. He graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Physics (1988) and
from Harvard University with a PhD in Biophysics (1994). He was a member of
technical staff at Bell Laboratories (until 1997) and a principal investigator
at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (until 2006).
Dr. Svoboda was awarded the Society for Neuroscience Young
Investigator Award (2004) and the Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation
(2015). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).
DUE TO THE LIMITED CAPACITY OF THE VENUE, PLS MAKE SURE TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE ASAP. The event registration is strictly on a first-come, first-served basis.
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