Professor Gero Miesenboeck, Co-Director of the Programme on Mind and Machine, gives a talk at TEDGlobal 2010 about his pioneering research into optogenetics – genetically modifying nerve cells to respond to light. Optogenetics allows researchers to track a nerve’s function more clearly, to gather better evidence on how electrical impulses on tissue translate into actual behaviour and thoughts.
How to re-engineer a brain
08 December 2010
with Professor Gero Miesenböck
Waynflete Professor of PhysiologyOxford Martin Senior Alumni FellowGero Miesenböck was the Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Mind & Machine, which was part of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. He studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck in his native...