Pathways and Connections - Ed Ruthazer
How does one become a successful neuroscientist?
This seminar series will address this question through a series of conversations with some of the most successful neuroscientists in the world: researchers who are affiliated with 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Integrated Program in Neuroscience (IPN).This is your chance to talk to them about the circuitous pathways and the important, but often serendipitous, connections that led them to where they are now.
The second session of the Pathways and Connections series will feature and will be held at Thomson House (3650 McTavish, room 403) starting at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 23rd.聽 Dr. Ruthazer has been an assistant professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute for the last 6 years, where he is a Killam Fellow and holds the Canada Research Chair in Neuronal Circuit Development.聽 uses in vivo imaging and electrophysiology to study how sensory experience controls circuit refinement in the visual system.
Born and raised in the US, Dr. Ruthazer did his doctoral studies in the laboratory of Michael Stryker at UCSF where he studied the development of orientation selectivity in the mammalian visual cortex.聽 Tempted to image living neurons, he briefly worked as an NSF-JSPS International Research Fellow at Osaka University in the lab of Nobuhiko Yamamoto, studying the growth of corticocortical projections in organotypic cultures of visual cortex through a combination of confocal imaging and multielectrode array recordings.聽 He then returned to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Holly Cline at Cold Spring Harbor Lab in New York, where he pioneered the use of multiphoton microscopy for in vivo imaging of retinotectal axon development in the transparent Xenopus laevis tadpole.聽 Dr. Ruthazer has optimistically applied for Canadian residency despite suffering the handicap of not even knowing how to ice skate forwards.
Please RSVP to Zografos Caramanos聽(zografos.caramanos [at] mcgill.ca)
