2025 Heiligenberg Lecture

HOW FROGS AND NEURONS COUNT: Insights from neuroethological studies of anuran acoustic communication

2025 Walter F. Heiligenberg Lecture:
Friday, April 11, 2025
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Kavli Auditorium, TATA Hall
Host: Dr. Jill Leutgeb

The lecture is open to the public. No RSVP required.

About the Lecturer

Gary J. Rose, Ph. D.
Professor of Biology
School of Biological Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
University of Utah

Dr. Rose is renowned for his work investigating how neural circuits in anuran amphibians and electric fish control natural behaviors. He uses methods that describe the activity of single neurons, networks, and the subsequent control of natural behavior, both in the laboratory and in the field. His neuroethological studies of acoustic communication in frogs have uncovered fundamental principles for temporal information processing and have revealed network computations important for processing communication signals. Through a combination of electrophysiology, behavior, neuropharmacology and computational analyses, his research group continues to reveal how auditory information is represented and integrated by neural networks.

Dr. Rose graduated from the University of California, San Diego and then received his PhD from Cornell University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at NIH and a research associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the lab of Dr. Walter Heiligenberg. He is an engaging and dynamic speaker, and we hope that you can join us for this special event.