PhD Defense by Zhaoke Luo

Event date: November 19, 2026

Réseaux ascendants et descendants du cortex du macaque

Jeudi 19 novembre 2026 à 9h, en salle de conférence du SBRI

Jury :

Romain Goutagny – rapporteur

Nicola Palomero-Gallagher – rapporteure

Matteo Di Volo – examinateur

Huifang Wang – examinatrice

Colette Dehay – directrice de thèse

Henry Kennedy – co-directeur de thèse

Kenneth Knoblauch – invité

Julien Vezoli – invité

Yujie Hou – invité

Excerpt from the abstract :

“The primate cortex receives dense recurrent cortical input together with numerically sparse subcortical

projections that can influence sensory processing and cortical state. This thesis examines how directed-weighted

cortical connectivity, subcortical projection patterns and cellular composition are organized

across the macaque cortex, from cortex-wide gradients to retinotopic specialization within visual areas.”