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SUMMARY:Blue Brain Seminar - Dendrites of human neurons:  old bugs and new
  features
DTSTART:20200309T140000
DTEND:20200309T150000
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DESCRIPTION:Albert Gidon\nBlue Brain is delighted to announce that the nex
 t seminar in the series in Neural Computation\, will be on ‘Dendrites of
  human neurons: old bugs and new features’.\nThe seminar will be given 
 by Albert Gidon\, Ph.D.\n\nAbstract:\nIn comparison to other mammalian spe
 cies\, layers 2 and 3 of the human cerebral cortex are disproportionately 
 thick. Consequently\, the pyramidal neurons in these layers have large and
  elaborated dendritic trees. We studied the physiology of these dendrites 
 and found that a "bug" previously described in rodents\, where distal dend
 ritic inputs are severely attenuated at the soma\, is even worse in human 
 dendrites. We also discovered a new feature – dendritic calcium-mediated
  action potentials (dCaAPs). In my talk\, I will discuss the unique proper
 ties of these dendrites and the consequences for the computational complex
 ity emerging from their active properties.\n\nBio:\nI completed my undergr
 aduate in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) studying biology. Then
 \, I did my Masters on modeling synaptic plasticity in dendritic\, and PhD
  on the theory of synaptic inhibition in dendrites\, both with Idan Segev 
 in the HUJI. In this time\, I also worked in close collaboration with the 
 Blue Brain Project on the modeling of cortical neurons. In 2013\, I starte
 d my postdoc with Matthew Larkum where finally I started to electrically r
 ecord and image dendrites of cortical neurons from human and rodent brains
  with the aim to study the biophysical building blocks that constitute the
  algorithms of cellular function.
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