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Title: Formation of Neuronal Connectivity: Nature versus Nurture
Speaker: Alexei Koulakov, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Abstract: Neural development leads to the establishment of precise connectivity in the nervous system. By contrasting the information capacities of cortical connectivity and the genome, I will argue that simplifying rules are necessary in order to create cortical connections from the limited set of instructions contained in the genome. Such rules contain compact statistical summary of our prior evolutionary experience and form the blueprint for the cognitive capacity of human brain. I will review the mathematical formalism that can explain a wide range of data on the interplay between molecular and experience-dependent mechanisms of connectivity formation.
Co-Sponsored by the NSF-funded Research Training Grant in Quantitative Biological Modeling
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TIME Monday February 3, 2020 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
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CONTACT Meelee Ahn Park meelee.park@northwestern.edu
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics