SG - The Brain During Sleep
In short
Lecture- 15 September
- 20:00h
- Impulse Wageningen Campus
- Speaker: Lisa Genzel
Dreaming
Since time immemorial, dreaming has been a deeply personal, mysterious and even sacred or magical realm. What we know about dreaming and how we know it are at the centre of this series. How have ancient contemplative dreaming cultures contributed to what we know today about dreaming? What is actually known and still unknown about the brain during sleep? And just where do reality and fantasy meet when it comes to sleep state steering, the mechanics of your wildest nighttime mind wanderings, dream hacking and even dream engineering?
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The Brain During Sleep
What is going on in the brain during sleep? Why is remembering dreams difficult? What does sleep do to memory? Tour the world behind your eyes when you are asleep.
Sleeping is part of rest and recovery. We turn ‘off’. Or do we? One of the Netherlands’ leading experts on what is going on in the brain during sleep is Dr. Lisa Genzel. Tonight, she sheds light on the dark corners of consciousness. She (sleep)walks us through the world behind our eyes when we are not awake. Why is remembering dreams difficult? What does sleep do to memory? An engaging storyteller, she shares aspects of her own fascinating research that will enable us to tour the different things that are happening in the brain during sleep. All of this is put into context about what we know and don’t know about dreaming, why it happens and the circumstances of dreaming. How contested is sciences’ understanding of what leads to dreaming? Take this opportunity to explore sleep states through the some of the world’s leading research on night-time mind wanderings.
About Lisa Genzel
Lisa Genzel studied Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. In parallel she performed her MD thesis on sleep related memory consolidation in humans at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. She then first did a short post-doc at the Max Planck Institute before moving to Edinburgh and working in the lab of Richard Morris with rodent models. She became a Branco Weiss Fellow in 2014 and moved to the Donders Institute at Radboud University in the Netherlands in 2017, where she took up an Professor position and started her own lab.
She received numerous honours such as the Early Career Scientist Award of the German Sleep Research Foundation in 2015, the prestigious Dutch VIDI starting grant in 2018, Radboud Science Award in 2022, ERC consolidator grant in 2023 and became Chair of the FENS Kavli Network of Excellence in 2024. Her research focus is understanding how memories of individual experiences transform into knowledge and prediction networks using a translational, cross-species approach.
Date
20:00 - 22:00