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SUMMARY:ICFO | RAFAEL YUSTE
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DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 21st\, 12:00\, ICFO's AuditoriumRAFAEL YUSTEMD. 
 PhD.\, Neurotechnology Center\, Columbia University\, Chair of Cell Types 
 and Connections Advisory Board$$Rafael Yuste is Professor of Biological Sc
 iences and Neuroscience at Columbia University. He was born in Madrid\, wh
 ere he obtained his MD at the Universidad Autónoma. After a brief period 
 in Sydney Brenner´s laboratory in Cambridge\, UK\, he performed Ph.D. stu
 dies with Larry Katz in Torsten Wiesel’s laboratory at Rockefeller Unive
 rsity and was a postdoctoral student of David Tank at Bell Labs. In 1996 h
 e joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University\, wh
 ere he is Full Proefessor. In 2005 he became HHMI Investigator and co-dire
 ctor of the Kavli Institute for Brain Circuits and in 2014 Director of the
  Neurotechnology Center at Columbia. Yuste is interested in the structure 
 and function of cortical circuits\, the biophysical properties of dendriti
 c spines and the pathophysiology of cortical diseases such as epilepsy and
  schizophrenia. To study these questions\, Yuste has pioneered the develop
 ment of imaging techniques\, such as calcium imaging of neuronal circuits\
 , two-photon imaging of spines and circuits\, photostimulation using inorg
 anic caged compounds\, two-photon optogenetics and holographic spatial lig
 ht modulation microscopy. Yuste has obtained many awards for his work\, in
 cluding New York City Mayor´s\, the Society for Neuroscience´s Young Inv
 estigator and the NIH Director Pioneer Awards. Finally\, he led the group 
 of researchers who proposed the Brain Activity Map Project\, recently spon
 sored by the White House’s BRAIN initiative.
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