Dr. Kristina Nielsen is an associate professor of neuroscience at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine and a researcher at the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. Her research focuses on the function and development of higher level visual cortex.

Dr. Nielsen earned her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. There, she conducted research in the lab of Nikos Logothetis, investigating the encoding of objects and object parts in the inferotemporal cortex. In 2006, she joined the labs of Ed Callaway and Rich Krauzlis at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, as a post-doctoral fellow. Her post-doctoral work focused on two techniques that allow the study of the function of neural circuits in vivo with a high degree of specificity: viral vector-based approaches and two-photon microscopy.

Dr. Nielsen joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012. Ongoing research in her lab focuses on the structure and function of circuits in higher visual cortex, as well as their development and plasticity.

Conference programme: 

• Earlier stages of development of the motion pathway
  Wednesday, November 27th, 2pm, ENS, Jaurès, 29 rue d'Ulm 
• Motion integration and its development
  Wednesday, December 4th, 2pm, ENS, room U207, 29 rue d'Ulm
• Ferret as mode for visual behavior
  Monday, December,  9th, 2pm, ENS, Jaurès 
• Encoding of 2D and 3D shape in primate V4 (talk and methods)
  Tuesday, December 17th, 2pm, ENS, Favard, 29 rue d'Ulm -

To contact Kristina Nielsen: knielse[at]jhu.edu

To find out more about Kristina Nielsen's research
Kristina Nielsen is invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs