MPS: Ana Marija Jakšić - Emergence of complex and individual behaviour from the multiscale architecture of the brain
Max Planck Seminar
- Date: Mar 27, 2025
- Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Ana Marija Jakšić
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL)
- Location: MPI-IE
- Room: Lecture Hall
- Host: Nicola Iovino
Dr. Ana Marija Jakšić is a researcher in evolutionary neurobiology and »EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research« (ELISIR) scholar who merges experimental evolutionary biology and neuroscience in her lab at EPFL School of Life Science, Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland.
The lab's mission is to explore and map natural genetic and adaptive variation of cognition and related neuronal traits. Jaksic and her team use long-term experimental evolution, robotics-assisted high-throughput behavioural phenotyping, next generation sequencing, genome-wide association mapping, and the full range of Drosophila genetic toolkit to reveal the mysteries of the evolution of the brain.