Computational Neuroscience InitiativeBarchi Library, 140 John Morgan Building
Jeremy Freeman
Janelia Farms
Using computation to study the brain
Despite spanning a range of species and modalities, most of my work has concerned the same basic challenge: understanding neural coding. I will describe how computation serves a crucial role in both the analysis of data and the design of experiments, in the context of measuring and manipulating neural activity in richly behaving zebrafish and mice, at the scale of large neural populations or entire brains. I will also discuss our efforts to develop open-source, large-scale, real-time approaches to analyzing and visualizing the data from these experiments, with an emphasis on sharing and coordinating progress through cloud-based solutions. Together, these efforts stand at an exciting new intersection of disciplines that may begin to reveal the fundamental operating principles of the brain.
A pizza lunch will be served at 12:00pm. The talk will begin at 12:15pm.