International selection symposium for the "Functional Imaging" Professorship

On Friday, October 10, 2014, a selection Symposium for the appointment of a Professorship for "Functional Imaging" will take place at the German Primate Center. The appointment will be for a joint professorship between the Department for Neuroscience at the DPZ and the Faculty for Biology and Psychology at the University of Göttingen. For this, a new department ”Functional Imaging” will be established at the DPZ. At the symposium, six candidates from Germany, England, Canada and the USA will present their intended research in the form of lectures and discussions. The event will take place from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the DPZ lecture hall in Kellnerweg 4 in Göttingen. You are cordially invited. The lectures will be held in English.

Program

09:00 am

Stefan Treue, German Primate Center, Director
Introductory remarks

09:05 – 09:50 am

Alexander Thiele, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, UK Electrophysiology and fMRI signals in macaque visual cortex during passive viewing and bottom-up attention tasks

09:55 – 10:40 am

Michael Schmid, Ernst Strüngmann-Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany Thalamo-cortical processes: from blindsight to dynamic visual perception

10:40 – 10:55 am

Coffee break

10:55 – 11:40 am

Alexander Maier, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
The cortical microcircuit: a bridge between microscopic neurophysiology and macroscopic whole brain imaging?

11:45 – 12:30 am

Stefan Everling, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Intrinsic and task-driven frontal lobe networks in nonhuman primates

12:30 am – 01:25 pm

Lunch break

01:25 – 02:10 pm

Bevil Conway, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA
Parallel, multi-stage processing of places, colors, and faces in macaque and human

02:15 – 03:00 pm

Susann Boretius, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
Understanding the functions of the brain: current and future potentials of magnetic resonance imaging