Join the WashU Medicine Department of Neuroscience on Oct 30th for the Andreas Burkhalter Symposium: Functional Architecture of Cortex, a tribute to the career of Burkhalter.

The symposium will cover the structure, function, connectivity and architecture of the cerebral cortex.

Andreas Burkhalter has been a member of the Department of Neuroscience since 1984. He is Professor of Neuroscience at WashU.

Burkhalter pioneered the analysis of structure, function, and connectivity of mouse visual cortex. His work has shown that partitioning into multiple areas, distributed sensory processing, hierarchical wiring of bottom-up and top-down pathways, and modular circuit organization are conserved architectural features of mammalian cortex. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Burkhalter Symposium: Functional Architecture of Cortex is Oct 30, 8am at WashU Medicine in the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) Auditorium and NRB McDonnell Lobby.

Program of Events

Friday, October 30th

8-8:30 a.m.

Registration (NRB McDonnell Lobby)

8:35 a.m. Welcome

Linda Richards, AO, FAA, FAHMS, PhD, WashU
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Edison Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine

8:45-9:45 a.m. Architecture of Mouse Cortical Networks

Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine

9:45-10:15 a.m. Coffee Break

10:15-11:15 a.m. Making up your Mind: The Integration of Interneurons into Cortical Circuits

Gord Fishell, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

11:15 a.m.-12:15p.m. Can You See a Thought? Neuronal Ensembles as Building Blocks of Cortical Function

Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Professor or Biological Sciences and Neurosciences
CoDirector of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science and Director of the NeuroTechnology Center
Columbia University