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Doug Altshuler, Professor, University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology, presents "Visual control of avian flight".
Doug Altshuler studies the neural control of complex locomotion. His lab focuses on subcortical pathways that encode optic flow and transform this signal into motor output. Their research model is avian flight because birds will perform maneuvers within a lab setting and their pathways for rapid visuomotor transformations are shared across vertebrates. Doug got his undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts in history, at the University of California Santa Cruz. His Ph.D. research on comparative avian biomechanics was supervised by Robert Dudley at the University of Texas. His postdoctoral work focused on aerodynamics and motor control, and it was supervised by Michael Dickinson at Caltech. Doug started his laboratory in 2006 at the University of California Riverside and moved to the University of British Columbia in 2011. He is appointed in the Department of Zoology and is also a member of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health.
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