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Gilles Laurent has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt (Germany) since 2009. Before this, he was the Lawrence Hansson Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA), whose faculty he joined in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow and Locke Research Fellow of the Royal Society at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 1990, after studies in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Neuroethology (PhD) in Toulouse, France.

Gilles Laurent’s interests are centered on identifying principles of brain operations, often through comparative approaches. He has worked on olfactory computation in insects, fish and rodents, and on motor control, local circuits, and vision in insects. His research today concerns sleep (in reptiles), brain evolution, and texture perception and generation (as expressed during camouflage in cephalopods). The theme that binds these diverse topics is the dynamics of neuronal circuits.

Welcome to this exciting seminar! 

Eero Castrén and Claudius Kratochwil

Gilles is available for meeting with local scientists in Viikki on Monday 27th and in Biomedicum on Tuesday 28th. If you are interested in talking to him, please contact Claudius  for Monday and Eero for Tuesday. 

Recent Publications:

1.   Fenk LA, Riquelme JL, Laurent G (2023). Inter-hemispheric competition during sleep. Nature 625:244-245. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05827-w

2.  Woo T*, Liang X*, Evans D, Fernandez O, Kretschmer F, Reiter S and Laurent G (2023). The Dynamics of Pattern Matching in Camouflaging Cuttlefish. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06259-2

3.  Riquelme JL, Hemberger M, Laurent G and Gjiorgjieva J (2023). Single spikes drive sequential propagation and routing of activity in a cortical network. eLife 79928 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79928

4.   Hain D, Gallego-Flores T, Klinkmann M, Macias A, Ciirdaeva E, Arends A, Thum C, Tushev G, Kretschmer F, Tosches M and Laurent G (2022). Molecular diversity and evolution of neuron types in the amniote brain. Science 377(6610), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abp8202

5.   Laurent G (2020). On the value of model diversity in neuroscience. Nat Rev Neurosci 21:395-96.

6.  Norimoto H, Fenk LA, Li HH, Tosches MA, Gallego-Flores T, Hain D, Reiter S, Kobayashi R, Macias A, Arends A, Klinkmann M and Laurent G (2020). A claustrum in reptiles and its role in slow-wave sleep. Nature 578:413-18.

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