Thursday, February 11, 2016

Gordon Shepherd joins us from the Northwestern University School of Medicine.  We discuss the relevance and evolution of the idea of the "canonical" cortical circuit, and some of the ways in which cortical microcircuitry is being recast in light of new genetic tools.

Duration: 45 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Alfonso Apicella (Asst. Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc. Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.