Open lecture: From image to brain function

Open lecture by Moritz Helmstädter (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

The goal of the Helmstaedter Department is to decipher how the cerebral cortex stores sensory experience and uses it to detect objects in the current environment. To this end, they develop and apply methods for measuring communication maps of neuronal circuits, connectomes. They strive to push the frontiers of connectomics to make the mapping of neuronal circuits a high-throughput technique.

Born 1978 in Berlin, Germany. 1998 onwards studies of medicine and physics at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany (Medical license and Diploma in physics). Brief interlude as strategy consultant with McKinsey. Doctoral thesis with Bert Sakmann and Post-Doc with Winfried Denk at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. 2011-2014 Research Group leader and Principal Investigator at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich. For his research activities, Moritz Helmstaedter was honored with the Otto Hahn Medal and the Bernard Katz Lecture. Since August 2014 Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. Since 2016 Professor (Chair, extraordinary professor) for Neuronal Networks at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Interested people from all over the world are invited to join the series of public lectures live broadcasted from the 22. of February to the 4^th of March 2021. Designated experts give insights in their research work and visions on future developments. The public lectures are part of the Giersch Summer School & Conference on “Theoretical and Experimental Quantitative Cell Biology” – funded by the Giersch Foundation and FIAS and the scientific networks DynaMem, CMMS, ‘Xidian-FIAS Joint Research Center’ (XF-JRC), the Rhein-Main Universities, and the graduate program GRADE – iQbio.

To follow the lectures please refer to https://fias.institute/en/events/gsic2020, where you can also find information about the event.