Jung-Bum Shin, PhD from the Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia will give a talk during the MBExC Lecture on November 9th, 2023 at 11:00 am at the lecture hall at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3.

Host: Prof. Dr. TIna Pangrsic, University Medical Center Göttingen

Prof. Dr. med. Frank M. Bengel from the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School will talk about “Positron-Emission-Tomography: Translation. Total-Body Imaging. Theranostics” during the MBExC Lecture on 24 November, 2023 at 1 pm at the lecture hall, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3.

Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, University Medical Center Göttingen

Prof. Dr. Johannes Letzkus from the Institute for Physiology I, University of Freiburg will talk about “Top-down control of neocortical threat memory”

Abstract
Accurate perception of the environment is a constructive process that requires integration of external bottom-up sensory signals with internally-generated top-down information reflecting past experiences and current aims. Decades of work have elucidated how sensory neocortex processes physical stimulus features. In contrast, examining how memory-related top-down information is encoded and integrated with bottom-up signals has long been challenging. Here, I will discuss our recent work identifying the outermost layer 1 of neocortex as a central hotspot for processing of experience-dependent top-down information during threat perception, one of the most fundamentally important forms of sensory perception.

Chairs: Tobias Moser and Thomas Mager

The MBExC Line of Research 2 “Multiscale approaches to heart and brain” will meet monthly every last Thursday in the lecture hall of the MPI-NAT City Campus.

LoR2 Moderators: Jan Huisken and Sarah Köster

The MBExC Research Alliance 3.1, 3.2 and 3.2 will meet in the lecture hall of the MPI-NAT City Campus.

Moderators: Stephan Lehnart, Tobias Moser and Silvio Rizzoli