Suzana Herculano-Houzel Colloquium Lecture: "Remarkable, But Not Extraordinary: The human brain as a scaled-up primate brain"

Date: 

Thursday, February 11, 2016, 11:30am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall (Room 100), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She heads the Laboratory of Comparative Neuroanatomy, which uses quantitative morphological approaches to investigate the diversity of the nervous system across animals, its evolution and developmental origins.

Most of the studies conducted in the lab apply the Isotropic Fractionator, a non-stereological method developed in 2005 that allows the fast, simple and reliable determination of numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells in any dissectable brain structure, and has been shown to be as reliable as stereology.

For more information about Dr. Herculano-Houzel's work, please visit her website.

This event is free and open to the public.