Visiting scientists are hosted by Kavli NDI to share their expertise and stimulate interdisciplinary scientific interactions that advance our understanding of the structure and function of the brain.
The 2017 Kavli NDI Distinguished Visiting Scientists are:
JUAN GOUTMAN
INGEBI CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Hosted by: Paul Fuchs, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Project: Structure and function analyses of how calcium influx, endoplasmic storage and release may contribute to synaptic function.
MENACHEM HANANI
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
Hosted by: Xinzhong Dong, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience
Project: Advanced methods to determine glial cells influence on nerves, pain transmission and sensation.
MENNO WITTER
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience/ Centre for Neural - NTNU
Hosted by: Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Development of a common representation of structural data on animal models, AD patients, and healthy humans focussing on the entorhinal-hippocampal system.
Download the Announcement HERE.