Patterns and Plasticity in the Adult Cortex

Host

Leopoldo Petreanu, PhD, Cortical Circuits Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Abstract

Mark will discuss his lab’s work on the patterns of neuronal activity in the cortex of awake adult mammals and how this interacts with a range of different plasticity mechanisms that contribute to learning.

Bio

Mark received his B.A. in Biology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His senior thesis was on auditory neuron electrophysiology in the lab of Larry Trussell at Oregon Health Sciences University. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on midbrain dopamine neuron physiology and plasticity. Mark then did his postdoctoral training with Jeff Magee at HHMI-Janelia, where he investigated synaptic and dendritic biophysics of cortical neurons. He started his own lab at MIT in 2015. He became graduate program director in 2021 and was tenured in 2023.

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About CR Colloquia Series

Champalimaud Research (CR) Colloquia Series is a seminar programme organised by the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown to promote the discussion about the most interesting and significant questions in neuroscience and physiology & cancer with appointed speakers by the CR Community.