WEBINAR SERIES—Unveiling the Primate Brain: Advanced Insights through Ultra-dense Electrophysiology

November 1, 2023
11 a.m. EDT

Sponsor: Diagnostic Biochips

André Bastos, PhD, will present data from Diagnostic Biochips’ Deep Array optrodes in primates, and Thilo Womelsforf, PhD, will present very high channel count Deep Array data along with AI enhanced spike sorted results.

Speakers

Andre Bastos, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Andre Bastos, PhD, received his PhD from the University of California, Davis, where he worked with Ron Mangun, PhD, and Marty Usrey, PhD, on thalamocortical communication. During his doctoral studies, Bastos was a Fulbright scholar in the laboratory of Pascal Fries, PhD, at the F.C. Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging in the Netherlands and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Germany, where he focused on distinct oscillatory frequencies used in feedforward versus feedback cortical communication. He joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, where his lab uses sophisticated neuronal recordings, computational modeling and optogenetics to unravel the neural mechanisms for how the brain builds predictions.

Thilo Womelsdorf, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Attention Circuits Control lab, Vanderbilt University

Womelsdorf, PhD, received his PhD at the German Primate Center (Göttingen University) with Stefan Treue, PhD, on visual attention and spatial tuning. He did his postdoctoral training at the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in the Netherlands with Pascal Fries, PhD, on neuronal communication and synchronization and at the Robarts Research Institute in Canada with Stefan Everling, PhD, on cognitive control in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex. Womelsdorf is currently head of the Attention Circuits Control lab at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studies how neural circuits learn and control attentional allocation in nonhuman primates and humans.