Rafael Yuste (Columbia University, New York) Maria Neimark-Geffen (University of Pennsylvania, Programme https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/rmy5/ Philadelphia) Rafael Yuste is Professor of Biological Sciences and https://geffenlab.weebly.com/maria.html Neuroscience at Columbia University. He was born in Maria is interested in the way the brain encodes 16:30 – Welcome and Madrid, where he obtained his MD at the Universidad information about the world around us and how our Autónoma. After a brief period in Sydney Brenner's perception is shaped by our emotional state and El Ministerio de Economía, Industria presentation of Cajal Institute laboratory in Cambridge, UK, he performed Ph.D. studies experience. She combines computational and y Competitividad y la Agencia (Juan José Garrido, Cajal with Larry Katz in Torsten Wiesel’s laboratory at biological approaches to study the mechanisms Estatal de Investigación, en Rockefeller University and was a postdoctoral student of behind dynamic auditory perception, memory and Institute, CSIC, Spain) David Tank at Bell Labs. In 1996 he joined the learning. Maria first got interested in systems colaboración con National Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, neuroscience through her undergraduate thesis under Science Foundation (NSF) y where he is Full Professor. In 2005 he became HHMI mentorship of John Hopfield at Princeton University, in National Institutes of Health 16:45 – Rafael Yuste Investigator and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain which she explored the mechanics of whisking in rats. Circuits and in 2014 Director of the Neurotechnology She studied texture encoding in the somatosensory (NIH), se complacen en invitarles Center at Columbia. Yuste is interested in the system with Christopher Moore at MIT during her first al 17:15 – José Carmena: endogenous function of neural circuits, using both mouse two years of graduate school at Harvard. She visual cortex and Hydra vulgaris as experimental completed her Ph.D. in the laboratory of Markus “Mechanisms of neural preparations. Meister at Harvard University, where she discovered a Scientific Seminar on Jose Carmena (University of California, Berkeley) novel retinal circuit for processing moving images. activity exploration and https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/carm After her Ph.D., she was a fellow at the Center for Computational ena.html Physics and Biology at Rockefeller University, where consolidation underlying Jose M. Carmena is the Chancellor's Professor of she worked first in collaboration with the Laurent Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience at the University laboratory on temporal processing in the olfactory Neuroscience neuroprosthetic skill learning” of California-Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Center for system, and next under mentorship of Marcelo Neural Engineering and Prostheses at UC Berkeley and Magnasco, exploring the dynamics of natural sounds. 17:45 – Maria Neimark-Geffen: UCSF. His research program in neural engineering and She has joined Penn in 2011, and has enjoyed Madrid, 14 Febrero systems neuroscience is aimed at understanding the building a cutting edge laboratory that explores de 2018 “Excitatory-inhibitory circuits in neural basis of sensorimotor learning and control, and at neuronal mechanisms of auditory processing. building the science and engineering base that will allow Hernan Makse (Levich Institute and Physics Instituto Cajal, auditory processing” the creation of reliable neuroprosthetic systems for the Department, City College of New York) severely disabled. Dr Carmena received the B.S. and http://www- Av. Doctor Arce, 37. M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the levich.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/webpage/hmakse/ 18:15 – Hernan Makse: Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in 1995 and the Hernán Makse currently serves as Professor of 28002 Madrid – Spain University of Valencia (Spain) in 1997. Following those he Physics at City University of New York, wherein he is "Cracking the locomotion received the M.S. degree in artificial intelligence and the responsible for the Complex Networks Lab at the Ph.D. degree in robotics both from the University of Levich Institute. He holds a PhD degree in Physics code in C. elegans" Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) in 1998 and 2002 respectively. from Boston University. He has been author of From 2002 to 2005 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the numerous publications on the theory of complex 18:45 – Questions & Answers Department of Neurobiology and the Center for systems at the interface of physics, biology and social Neuroengineering at Duke University (Durham, NC). sciences. For further information, please contact to: 19:15 – End of seminar [email protected] .