Past KIBM Distinguished Visitors

Edvard Moser

Professor and Director
The Centre for the Biology of Memory
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Spatial Maps in the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex
February 14 – 27, 2006

May-Britt Moser

Professor and Co-Director
The Centre for the Biology of Memory
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Computational Functions of Hippocampal Subfields
February 14 – 27, 2006

Marcus Raichle

Professor of Radiology & Neurology
Co-Director, Division of Radiological Sciences
Washington University
Functional Brain Imaging & Systems Neuroscience
April 2 – 8, 2006

Daniel Geschwind

Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Dr. Geschwind's visit included two talks and numerous meetings and lab tours with members of the local research community. KIBM also hosted a pre-visit discussion lead by David Kang and Pascal Gagneux, to discuss Dr. Geschwind's most recent discoveries.
Understanding Humans: From Genes to Brains and Diseases
Developmental Vulnerability to Neurodegeneration
Pre-visit talk
April 4 – 17, 2007

Simon Fisher

Royal Society Research Fellow
Head of Molecular Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
University of Oxford
Molecular Windows into Speech and Language
October 29 – November 2, 2007

Thomas Insel

Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Joint Distinguished visitor with the Salk Institute.
Social Neuroscience: Toward a New Basic Science for Psychiatry
May 8, 2008