Scaler Lecture Series | Carl Schoonover

Scaler Lecture Series | Carl Schoonover
How to Look Inside the Brain
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 7:30pm

Our understanding of the brain depends in large part on the tools we have invented to look at it. This talk will present a whirlwind survey ranging from the earliest attempts to interact with this extraordinarily complex organ, to the seminal technical innovations in the late 19th Century that launched the modern field, and the plethora of technologies that power research today.

The spectacular data that are the fruit of these methods range from medieval sketches and intricate drawings by groundbreaking scientists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Santiago Ramón y Cajal, to the architectures revealed through the use of cutting edge biotechnology and imaging. These exquisite images, which emerge from microscopes, electrophysiological instruments, and MRI machines, are the fuel of daily neuroscience research.

Carl Schoonover is a postdoctoral fellow in the Axel Laboratory at Columbia University where he studies the neural circuitry of odor-driven behaviors. His doctoral work in the Bruno Laboratory at Columbia University focused on microanatomy and electrophysiology of rodent somatosensory cortex. He is the author of Portraits of the Mind, has written forThe New York Times, Le Figaro, and Scientific American, and he co-founded NeuWrite, a collaborative working group for scientists, writers, and those in between. His radio program on WKCR 89.9FM, focuses on opera, postwar classical music, and occasionally their relationship to the brain.

Additional Information

Price: Admission is free, but reservation is required. Click here to make a free reservation for Carl Schoonover’s lecture.

Location: The Watermill Center, 39 Water Mill Towd Road, Water Mill, NY 11976

Contact Information: 631.726.4628 | events@watermillcenter.org

The lecture series is curated by Robert Wilson and administered & co-curated Kate Eberstadt, Founder of The Hutto Project and a former International Summer Program participant. Our summer lecture series is made possible by the generous support of the Scaler Foundation.