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Education/Degrees
| 1995 – 99 | Ph.D. (Neurophysiology) Dept. Anatomy & Structural Biology, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. (Supervisor: Jeff Wickens) |
| 1994 – 95 | DipSci (Human Anatomy) Dept. Anatomy & Structural Biology, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. |
| 1989 – 94 | BSc (Human Anatomy) Dept. Anatomy & Structural Biology, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand |
Academic Career
| 2013-present | Director, Dept. Behavior and Brain Organization, Center of Advanced European Studies And Research (Caesar), Bonn, Germany |
| 2013-present | Scientific member of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany |
| 2006-2013 | Independent Group Leader. Network Imaging Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany. |
| 2005-2006 | Project leader in Dept. Cell Physiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany. Head of Dept: Prof. Bert Sakmann. |
| 2003 – 2005 | Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Fritjof Helmchen, Dept. Cell Physiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany. Head of Dept: Prof. Bert Sakmann. |
| 1999 – 2003 | Postdoctoral fellow, Unit of Neural Network Physiology, Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Lab head: Dr. Dietmar Plenz. |
| 1998 – 1999 | Assistant Lecturer (non-tenure), Dept. Anatomy and Structural Biology, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. (Human Gross Anatomy) |
| 1997 – 1998 | Senior tutor and Demonstrator coordinator in Human Gross Anatomy, Dept. Anatomy and Structural Biology, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. |
Awards and Honors
| 2013 | “Leica Scientific Forum” June 2013 speaker for UCSD UCLA UCSF |
| 2013 | Roger Eckert Lecture 2013 German Neuroscience Meeting Göttingen |
| 2001 | NIH Fellows Award for research excellence (FARE), USA |
| 1997-1998 | Neurological Foundation Scholarship |
| 1995 – 1997 | Neurological Foundation Miller Scholarship |
Memberships and professional functions
| 2015 | Speaker, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Brain and Behavior, Bonn, Germany and Jupiter, Florida. |
| 2016 | Member of the Minerva Weizmann Committee, Minerva Foundation GmbH |
| Member of the Society for Neuroscience |
Most important publications
- Wallace, D. J*., Greenberg, D. S*., Sawinski, J*., Rulla, S., Notaro, G., & Kerr J. N. D. (2013). “Rats maintain an overhead binocular field at the expense of constant fusion”. Nature. 498, 65-69.
- Pawlak, V., Greenberg, D. S., Sprekeler, H., Gerstner, W. & Kerr, J. N. D. (2013) “Changing the responses of cortical neurons from sub- to suprathreshold using single spikes in vivo” eLife 2, e00012
- Mittmann, W., Wallace, D. J., Czubayko, U., Herb, J. T., Schaefer, A. T., Looger, L. L., Denk, W. & Kerr, J. N. D. (2011) “Two-photon calcium imaging of evoked activity from L5 somatosensory neurons in vivo” Nature Neuroscience 14, 1089-1093
- Sawinski, J.*, Wallace, D. J.*, Greenberg, D. S.*, Grossmann, S., Denk, W. & Kerr, J. N. D. (2009) “Visually evoked activity in cortical cells imaged in freely moving animals” PNAS 106, 19557-19562
- Greenberg, D. S.*, Houweling, A. R.* & Kerr, J. N. D. (2008) “Population imaging of ongoing neuronal activity in the visual cortex of awake rats” Nature Neuroscience 11, 749-751