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SUMMARY:Reverse Engineering Wiring Principles of the Fly Eye: How Flies Av
 oid Double\, Double\, Double Vision
DTSTART:20150916T141500
DTSTAMP:20260406T161436Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Steven J. Altschuler\, University of California\, San Fr
 ancicso\, CA (USA)\nDISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERINGAbstrac
 t:\nHow do complex neural circuits assemble during development? The wiring
  of compound eyes to the brain of flies provides a fascinating model syste
 m for studying this question: each point in visual space is captured by mu
 ltiple photoreceptors\, each in a different ommatidium\, which wire to the
  same synaptic unit in the brain.\nWe will describe recent studies that co
 mbine intravital imaging and data-driven computational modeling to identif
 y three simple self-organizing principles that underlie this wiring proces
 s.Bio:\nEDUCATION\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\, BA\, 1985\, Mathematics\nU
 niversity of California\, San Diego\, MA\, 1986\, Mathematics\nUniversity 
 of California\, San Diego\, PhD\, 1990\, Mathematics (Advisor: Richard Ham
 ilton)\nPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE\n1990-1991\n    Research Fellow\, Unive
 rsity of Minnesota\, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Minnea
 polis\, MN.\n1991-1992\n    Research Associate\, Australian National Un
 iversity\, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications\, Canberra\, Austra
 lia.\n1992-1993\n    Research Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Study\, P
 rinceton\, New Jersey.\n1993-1994\n    Instructor\, Mathematics Departm
 ent\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, New Jersey.\n1994-2000\n    Gr
 oup Manager and Senior Researcher\, Microsoft Corporation\, Redmond\, WA.\
 n2001-2005\n    Fellow\, Bauer Center for Genomics Research\, Harvard U
 niversity\, Cambridge\, MA.\n2000-2001\n    Director Research\, Informa
 tics\, Rosetta Inpharmatics\, Kirkland\, WA.\n2005-2009\n    Assistant 
 Professor\, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center\, Dallas\, TX.
 \n2005-2014\n    Associate Professor\, University of Texas Southwestern
  Medical Center\, Dallas\, TX.\n2014-present\n    Professor\, Universit
 y of California\, San Francisco\, San Francisco\, CA.
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