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quantitative biology

Perception Inception: Exploring How the Brain Makes Up the World with New Faculty Rishidev Chaudhuri

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  • Rishidev Chaudhuri is a new faculty member who holds appointments in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, the Department of Mathematics and the Center for Neuroscience
  • His research spans the field of neuroscience, from exploring theoretical principles of neural computation to analyzing large neural datasets, and other topics outside and in between
  • He takes techniques from physics and mathematics and applies them to neuroscience
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Professor Mark Goldman Appointed to the Joel Keizer Endowed Chair in Theoretical and Computational Biology

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  • To figure out the labyrinthine-like puzzle of the brain, scientists need computational and quantitative biology skills
  • Professor Mark Goldman applies the quantitative skills he learned as a physicist to questions in neuroscience
  • Named to the Keizer Chair, Goldman will continue to make UC Davis a home for quantitative biology by ushering in a new quantitative biology major

Our brains are incredible biological machines synthesizing uncountable, chaotic, sen