Keynote Lectures
INTERNATIONAL :
2017
Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision - Tainan City - Taiwan
Symposium: “A New World in Vision Research: The Common Marmoset”.
“The role of feedback in early visual processing”.
2013
Brazilian Society for Neuroscience Meeting
Symposium: “Neuroscience in non-human primates”
“Corticocortical connections in the primate visual cortex: structure and function”
2005
European Conference for Visual Perception (ECVP) - La Coruna - Spain
Symposium: “Recent discoveries on receptive field structure”.
“The contribution of feedforward, lateral and feedback connections to the classical receptive field center and extra-classical receptive field surround of primate V1 neurons”.
2000
European Neuroscience Meeting - Brighton - UK
Workshop: “Spatial factors in visual cortex function”.
“Anatomical scale and patterning of intra-areal lateral connections and extrastriate feedback connections within area V1 of macaque monkey: relationships to physiologically measured classical receptive fields and surround fields.”
1998
European Winter Conference on Brain Research - Les Arc - France
Symposium: “Plasticity after lesions to the visual system”.
“Rewiring the brain: role of afferents and targets in the generation of specific and patterned connections”.
NATIONAL :
2020
Cosyne, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Workshop: “Closing the gap between neural networks and the brain: a collaborative effort for bridging computational models and experimental data for visual cognition”. “Organization and function of feedback connections in early visual processing”.
2018
ARVO, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Minisymposium: “Primate retina and Visual Brain”
“Organization and function of feedback connections in early visual processing”.
2009
Cosyne, Salt Lake City - Utah - USA
Workshop: “The role of spatial context in biological and computational vision”.
“Contextual effects in primary visual cortex: pathways and mechanisms”.
2008
Spring Brain Conference, Palm Spring - CA - USA
“Contextual effects in primary visual cortex: pathways and mechanisms”.
2007
Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego CA - USA
Minisymposium: “Mechanisms and functions of visual signals from beyond the classical receptive field in primary visual cortex.”
“The “near” and “far” surround of macaque V1 neurons: the role of feedforward and intracortical connections”.
INVITED MEETING PRESENTATIONS
INTERNATIONAL :
2019
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience, and Max Planck Society, Frankfurt - Germany
ESI System Neuroscience Conference on “The recurrent cortex: dynamics, feedback, and dimensionality”.
2008
European Summer School
“Visual Neuroscience: from spikes to awareness” - Hessia - Germany
2008
Delmenhorst, Germany
Workshop on: “Aspects of adaptive cortex dynamics”.
“The role of feedback in shaping the extra-classical receptive field of visual cortical neurons: models and experiments”.
2006
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Italy
Workshop: “Neuromathematics of vision”.
“The role of feedback in shaping the extra-classical receptive field of visual cortical neurons: models and experiments”.
2004
Italian Academy of Science, Bologna - Italy
Workshop: “From Neuroscience to Phenomenology. Mathematical models of visual perception”
“Spatial and functional organization of lateral, feedforward and feedback pathways in the primate visual cortex”.
2004
Isle of Mull, Scotland - U.K.
Workshop on: “New perspectives on visual cortex”
“Spatial and functional organization of feedforward and feedback pathways in the primate visual cortex”.
1999
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe - NM - USA
Workshop: “Understanding the Visual Cortex”.
“Anatomical scales of intra-areal lateral connections and feedback fields from extrastriate cortex: possible spatial relationships to physiological measures of receptive field size and modulatory field surround”.
NATIONAL :
2018
28/31 October: Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA.
Workshop:”Why does the neocortex have layers and columns?”
2018
Soc for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA
Chair : Marmoset Social
2017
Soc for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, DC, US
Marmoset Social
2015
UC Berkeley, Kavli Foundation, MSRI, Redwood Center, CA - USA
Workshop: “Theory of Neural Computation”.
2011
Los Alamos International Laboratories, New Mexico - USA
Workshop: Grand Challenges in Neural Computations II: Neuromimetic processing and Synthetic Cognition”.
“Circuits for contextual integration in primary visual cortex”
2009
Janelia Farm, Ashburn VA, USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, JFRC Conference: “Computations in Neocortical Circuits: What does the Cortex do?”
“Anatomical circuits for classical and extra-classical receptive field interactions in macaque V1”.
2007
Mathematical Biology Institute, Ohio State University, OH - USA
Workshop on: “Information processing in the visual system”.
“Cortical circuits for classical and extra-classical receptive field interactions and the role of feedback in the primate visual cortex.”
2003
The Redwood Neuroscience Institute, Palo Alto, CA - USA
Workshop on: “Inference and prediction in neocortical circuits”.
"Anatomical substrates for functional responses of neurons in the primate visual cerebral cortex"
INVITED/VISITING PROFESSOR PRESENTATIONS
INTERNATIONAL :
2019 Centre for Vision Research, VISTA, York University, Toronto, Canada.
2019 Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, German Primate Center (DPZ), Frankfurt.
2019 Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel Switzerland.
2019 Dept of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2015 Dept of Human Physiology, Medical School, University of Rome “La Sapienza” - Italy
2013 Dept. of Morphology, Autonoma University Medical School, Madrid - Spain
2010 Dept of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Oxford University - UK
2010 Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle - U.K.
2010 Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology - Finland
2010 Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam - Netherlands
2008 Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London - U.K.
2000 Centre de Recherche Cervau et Cognition, CNRS, Toulouse - France
2000 Neural Information Processing Group. Technische Universität Berlin - Germany
1999 Dept. of Mathematics, University of Chicago, IL - USA
1998 Dept. of Physiology, National Research Center (CNR), Pisa - Italy
1998 University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University - U.K.
NATIONAL :
2020 Dept. Ophthalmology, Stanford University, CA, USA
2019 Dept of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
2019 Dept of Neuroscience, UT Austin, TX, USA
2019 Dept of Neurobiology & Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston, TX, USA
2018 Vision Seminar Series, UCLA, CA, USA
2018 Dept of Neurobiology, Duke University, USA
2018 Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, USA
2018 Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute San Diego, CA, USA :
2017 Center for Perceptual Systems, UT Austin - USA
2016 Dept. of Biological Sciences, SUNY, NY - USA
2016 Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh - USA
2013 Dept of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania - USA
2010 Dept of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Boston University, MA - USA
2009 “Oxyopia” Vision Seminar Series, UC Berkeley, CA - USA
2007 Distinguished Speaker Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC - USA
2005 Bodian Seminar Series, Brain and Mind Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD - USA
2003 The Courant Institute, New York University, NY - USA
2003 Center for computational biology, Dept. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State University, Bozeman - MN - USA
2002 The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco - CA - USA