Speaker
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Ruben PortuguesMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Decision making and motor control in larvalk zebrafish, by Ruben Portugues
Abstract
In order to succeed in a changing environment, animals need to take into account noisy and ambiguous stimuli and select appropriate behavior. Furthermore, animals need to modify their behavior when the outcome is unsuccessful. In this talk,
I will present two projects from my lab, which works on larval zebrafish, which touch upon these topics of decision making and motor control.
Short CV
BA & MA in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK (1995 – 1999)
PhD in theoretical physics, University of Cambridge, UK (1999 – 2004)
Postdoctoral Fellow in theoretical physics at Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS) in Valdivia, Chile(2004 – 2006)
Postdoctoral Fellow in neurobiology in the laboratory of Florian Engert, Harvard University, USA (2006 – 2014)
Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany (since 2014)