Lecturer: Dieter Jaeger
Fields: Neuroscience
Content
This course will introduce the structure and function of the central nervous system of mammals from molecules to circuits. It is intended as a crash course for non-neuroscientists to see how we understand and study the brain and its function.
Session 1: The world of molecules in the nervous system – and how they functionally matter
Session 2: The world of single neuron computation through electrical signaling
Session 3: The world of circuits, plasticity, and control of behavior
Session 4: How to model all 3 worlds – separately, or combined?
Literature
- textbook: Neuroscience, 7th edition, Augustine et al., Oxford University Press; OR Kandel et al, Principles of Neural Science, Sixth edition, McGraw Hill
- Herz, A.V.M., Gollisch, T., Machens, C.K. & Jaeger, D., Modeling single-neuron dynamics and computations: A balance of detail and abstraction. Science 314: 80-85, 2006
Lecturer
Dieter Jaeger received his undergraduate education with a specialization in Biochemistry in Tübingen, Germany. He joined the PhD program in neuroscience at the University of Michigan in 1984 where his dissertation research investigated the function of the basal ganglia in behaving primates. Dr. Jaeger joined the California Institute of Technology as postdoctoral fellow in 1991, and pursued research in computer modeling and electrical recordings of single neurons in the cerebellum. Dr. Jaeger joined the faculty of the Department of Biology at Emory University in 1997 and is currently a full professor. His research is now concerned with corticothalamic interactions and the influence of basal ganglia and cerebellar inputs to thalamus. He combines behavioral mouse experiments with voltage imaging, electrophysiology, and optogenetics.
Affiliation: Emory University
Homepage: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/jaegerlab/