Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, March 10, 2011 Dieter Jaeger (Professor, Emory University) talks about the complexity of modeling systems whose biological function is ill-defined, and how to determine how complex a model needs to be.  The possibility of building structured queryable databases for mining neuroscience data is  discussed, as are thoughts on mouse model systems as an approximation of  the human brain. Duration: 41 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA) Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA, UTHSCSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.