DIPC courses on transferable skills: On Neurons, Stories and Magic Tricks

DIPC Seminars

Speaker

Mario Galarreta, San Francisco, California, USA

When

2019/07/19
14:00

Place

Donostia International Physics Center

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Mario Galarreta is a neuroscientist, a physician, a filmmaker and a mindfulness teacher. After almost 20 years studying the brain, Mario joined Google in 2009, where he worked as a video production manager and led Search Inside Yourself (a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program). Before Google, Mario was a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine where he studied the physiology of cortical inhibitory circuits and discovered the existence of gap junctions (electrical synapses) between GABAergic interneurons. Previously, Mario did a post-doc in Shaul Hestrin's lab at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Mario was born in Logroño (Spain) and holds an M.D. (Neurology), a Ph.D. (Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid) and an MFA in Cinema (San Francisco State University). He lives in San Francisco (California) since 2000. In this talk, Mario will guide us through his trans-disciplinary professional journey, showing us that disciplines that may seem very far from each other, can be more connected than what one can imagine at a first glance.