Control of movement in Hydra

Dr Adrienne Fairhall is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and adjunct in the Departments of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She obtained her Honors degree in theoretical physics from the Australian National University and a PhD in statistical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. She joined the UW faculty in 2004 and now co-directs the University of Washington’s Computational Neuroscience Center. Her research group focuses on mathematical modeling of neural systems, collaborating with experimentalists on a wide range of model organisms, from hydra to mosquitoes to primates.

Speaker: Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington

Room: Auditorium