For this event, as for most of our TEDxNorrköping events, we are aiming at enabling networking and links between our attendees, and also, mutually, between the attendees and the speakers. We are looking for speakers who are internationally leading mediators of ideas and findings in their areas and disciplines. We are also looking for regional and national "rookies" to give them opportunity to get international recognition.
For this event on Mind Matters, March 2016, we had three live speakers, all of them of them researchers of highest international standards within their areas. The two replayed TED talks were selected to create a thread across the "ideas worth spreading" in the live talks. To experience this particular event, we are advising you to use the playlist and follow the talks in original sequence.
Speakers
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Markus Heilig
Professor, Centre for Translational Psychiatric Research, Linköping University.
Markus Heilig arrived at Linköping University in 2015 as a professor of psychiatry and the founding director of a new Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience. For over a decade before this, he led a major NIH intramural translational research program focused on the neuropharmacology and pharmacogenetics of addictive disorders. His new research group studies brain processes through which stress and negative emotionality contribute to psychiatric disorders, and the research strategies include behavioral pharmacology and gene expression analysis in rat and mouse models, and experimental medicine in humans using behavioral, neuroendocrine, and functional brain imaging methods.Patricia Churchland
UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford, she taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is married to the philosopher Paul Churchland. The New Yorker magazine observed regarding the philosophical couple that, "Their work is so similar that they are sometimes discussed, in journals and books, as one person."Per Jensen
Professor of Ethology, Linköping University, Sweden.
Per Jensen, Professor of Ethology, Linköping Universitry, is scientific leader of the AVIAN group, consisting of five principal investigators, and a total of about 35 people including technicians and master students. The research of his own lab within the AVIAN group is focused on genomic aspects on welfare and behaviour, where domestication related effects form a central framework. Chickens and dogs are the main models for this. In our hatchery (Kruijt) and experimental chicken house (Wood-Gush), we keep two different populations of red junglefowl, a model laying strain, and various crosses between these animals. We cooperate with the Swedish Defence Forces to study their dog breeding program, and also use companion dogs and the standardised behaviour tests common in Sweden. This is combined with molecular methods to find the genetic basis for various behaviour affected by domestication, such as social behaviour, learning and stress reactions.Organizing team
