2026 Kuffler Lectures

Edvard I. Moser
Neural codes for space, navigation, and memory

Neural computation of space: From single cells to neural populations
Tuesday, May 5^th, 4:00 p.m.
Skaggs/HSEC Auditorium, UC San Diego

Dynamics of grid cells: From spatial coding to navigation
Wednesday, May 6^th, 4:00 p.m.
Skaggs/HSEC Auditorium, UC San Diego

Grid cells, place cells, and memory
Thursday, May 7^th, 4:00 p.m.
Skaggs/HSEC Auditorium, UC San Diego

The lectures are open to the public. No RSVP required.

About the Lecturer

Dr. Moser’s lab explores how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain’s neural networks. His work, conducted with long-term collaborator May-Britt Moser, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, which provides clues to a neural mechanism for the metric of spatial mapping. The discovery of grid cells led to identifying other functional cell types, including border cells and speed cells, and his current research is unraveling interactions between neural microcircuits for space, time, and memory and thousands of diverse neurons with known functional identity.

Edvard I. Moser, together with May-Britt Moser and John O’Keefe, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014.