Short Stories in Neuroethology

Date changed
Date: Mar 5, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gilles Laurent
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
Location: MPI BI Martinsried
Room: MPI BI, T-Building, Main lecture hall
Host: PhD representatives

I will describe my lab’s recent work on camouflage in cuttlefish and on sleep in a reptile, to emphasize the value of comparative and evolutionary approaches to understand brain function and to identify potential principles of computation.