April 8th, 10:40am

Multimedia Classroom(3B-103) in Teaching Building 3 at West Campus

Edvard .I. Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is the Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and  the Centre for the Biology of Memory in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Moser and his wife May-Britt Moser have guided a series of frontier researches in the field of brain mechanism, and they shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with their mentor John O’Keefe.

Edvard Moser is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, which provides the first clues to a neural mechanism for the metric of spatial mapping. Subsequent to this discovery the Mosers have identified additional space-representing cell types in the entorhinal cortex and they are beginning to unravel how the neural microcircuit is organized and how grid patterns are generated.