BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:David Ginty - Making sense of touch X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260617T124000Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42042443320558 DTSTART:20230202T200000Z DTEND:20230202T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us at Gunn Rotunda in the Stanford Neurosciences Building to learn about the latest cutting-edge\, cross-disciplinary brain research \, from biochemistry to behavior and beyond\n\nWu Tsai Neuro's weekly semi nar series is back to being held in-person since Fall 2022. Masking is str ongly encouraged for the health and safety of our community\n\nJoin the sp eaker for coffee\, cookies\, and conversation after the talk\n\nMaking sen se of touch\n\nAbstract\n\nOur relationship with the physical world is ric h\, complex\, and essential for virtually all aspects of life. How does th e nervous system encode component dimensions of a tactile stimulus –pres sure\, sharpness\, vibratory frequency\, roughness\, wetness\, adhesivenes s\, and compliance– and superimpose these dimensions with respect to sti mulus location on the body\, and direction and speed of stimulus movement? In this lecture I will describe our work addressing the form underlying f unction of cutaneous mechanoreceptors\, which are the primary sensory neur ons of touch. I will also describe recent insights into the central repres entation of touch and the functional organization of the subcortical somat osensory system.\n\nDavid Ginty\n\nHarvard University\n\n(Visit lab websit e)\n\nDavid Ginty is the Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School\, and an inves tigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his PhD degree in physiology from East Carolina University and did postdoctoral research on neuronal signaling mechanisms at Harvard Medical School. In 1995 he be came a faculty member in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopki ns University School of Medicine. In 2013 he returned to Harvard Medical S chool to join the Department of Neurobiology. Research in the Ginty labora tory explores the properties and functions of mechanosensory neurons whose mechanosensitive endings are embedded in the skin as well as the function al organization of the subcortical touch circuitry and its role in the neu ral encoding of touch and mechanical pain\, in health and disease. The lab also investigates development of the somatosensory system\, following the assumption that if we know how it’s built\, we can better understand ho w it works. David is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research awards includ e co-recipient of Columbia University’s Alden Spencer Award (2017\, shar ed with Ardem Patapoutian)\, the 2021 Julius Axelrod Prize from the Societ y for Neuroscience\, and the 2022 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience from MIT. He has served as a council member for NINDS and director (Johns Hopkins) and associate director (Harvard) of neuroscience graduate programs.\n\nHos ted by - Miriam Goodman\n\nAbout the Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar Series\n\nThe W u Tsai Neurosciences Institute seminar series brings together the Stanford neuroscience community to discuss cutting-edge\, cross-disciplinary brain research\, from biochemistry to behavior and beyond.\n\nTopics include ne w discoveries in fundamental neurobiology\; advances in human and translat ional neuroscience\; insights from computational and theoretical neuroscie nce\; and the development of novel research technologies and neuro-enginee ring breakthroughs.\n\nUnless otherwise noted\, seminars are held Thursday s at 12:00 noon PT.\n\nSign up to learn about all our upcoming events GEO:37.430178;-122.176478 LOCATION:Stanford Neurosciences Building\, Gunn Rotunda (E241) SUMMARY:David Ginty - Making sense of touch URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/david_ginty_making_sense_of _touch CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR