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SUMMARY:CIS - "Get to know your neighbors" Seminar series - Prof. Mackenzi
 e Mathis
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mackenzie Mathis\n \nTitle:"Using mice and machine lear
 ning to understand cortical contributions to forelimb motor adaptation"\n\
 nAbstract: Understanding how sensorimotor cortex enables motor learning an
 d control is a crucial challenge in neuroscience: it has important implica
 tions for brain-machine-interfaces (BMIs)\, neuro-rehabilitation\, and in 
 neurological disease research. In this talk I will discuss our progress in
  making a mouse motor of forelimb adaptation. I will also discuss advances
  in behavioral tasks\, computer vision for markerless pose estimation\, an
 d our efforts and modeling and measuring sensory information in cortical c
 ircuits. \n\nBio:\nMackenzie Mathis is the Bertarelli Foundation Chair o
 f Integrative Neuroscience and an assistant professor within the Brain 
 Mind Institute\, Center for Neuroprosthetics\, and Center for Intelligent 
 Systems\, as well as an EPFL ELLIS Unit Member (and ELLIS Fellow)\, ha
 ving joined EPFL in August 2020 after moving her lab from Harvard Univer
 sity where she held the Rowland Fellowship. Her lab works on mechanisms u
 nderlying adaptive behavior in intelligent systems. Specifically\, the la
 boratory combines machine learning\, computer vision\, and experimental wo
 rk in rodents with the combined goal of understanding the neural basis of
  adaptive motor control\, which may lead to new avenues in therapeutic 
 research for neurological disease. Her work has recently been featured i
 n the news at Bloomberg BusinessWeek\, Nature\, and The Atlantic.\n\n\
 nThe Center for Intelligent Systems at EPFL (CIS) is a collaboration amo
 ng IC\, SB\, STI and ENAC that brings together researchers working on dif
 ferent aspects of Intelligent Systems.\n \nIn order to promote exchanges 
 among researchers and encourage the creation of new\, collaborative projec
 ts\, CIS is organizing a "Get to know your neighbors" series. Each seminar
  will consist of one short overview presentation geared to the general pub
 lic at EPFL.\n \nThe CIS seminar will take place live on Zoom: https://ep
 fl.zoom.us/j/92425058558\n\n \nMonday\, 14th December 2020 from 3:15 to 4
 :15 pm\n\n\nNB: Video recordings of the seminars will be made available on
  our website and published on our social media pages
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/92425058558 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/92
 425058558
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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