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Can Molecules Explain Minds?
Media Advisory
8 February 2008
Public lecture by
Professor Andrew Matus, Hood Fellow
Can Molecules Explain
Minds?
Our senses and our behaviour depend on the
pattern of connections in the enormously complex circuits of
the brain. Recent research has uncovered a molecular
mechanism that produces rapid changes in the structure of
synaptic connections between nerve cells. This discovery
adds a new perspective to the debate on the extent molecular
events in the brain can explain mental phenomena such as
consciousness.
Professor Andrew Matus grew up in Auckland where he studied Chemistry and Cell Biology at The University of Auckland. After obtaining a PhD in Anatomy and Embryology at University College London he spent the following 36 years as a Neurobiologist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland studying the plasticity of brain circuits. He is a Professor at the University of Basel and received a Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from Stockholm University.
Event: Public
Lecture: Can molecules explain minds?
Speaker: Professor Andrew Matus
Date: Wednesday 12 March 2008
Time: 5.30pm
Welcome drinks
6.00pm Lecture
7.00pm Social
Function
Venue: Engineering Lecture Theatre 1.439, 20 Symonds St
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