8th Distinguished Kavli Lecture - Professor Michael Hausser, 9th of December 2011

Professor Michael Hausser from University College London will hold a lecture on 9th of December 2011 at 14:30.

Title: “Dendritic computation.”

Abstract: The computational power of dendrites has long been predicted using modelling approaches, but actual experimental examples of how dendrites solve computational problems are rare.
I will describe results from experiments combining patch-clamp recordings with two photon imaging and glutamate uncaging that demonstrate how the dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons can decode spatiotemporal sequences of synaptic inputs, and can implement different temporal coding strategies along single dendrites.

Location: MTFS, CBM/Kavli, seminar room, 5th floor.