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SUMMARY:Computational Neuroscience Journal Club - Department of Zoology\, 
 Cambridge
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CONTACT:Puria Radmard
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fortnightly Computational Neuroscience 
 journal club on Tuesday 10th October at 2pm UK time in the CBL seminar roo
 m\, or online on zoom. \n\nThe title is ‘A new look at eye design’\, p
 resented by Simon Laughlin.\n\nZoom information: \nhttps://eng-cam.zoom.us
 /j/84204498431?pwd=Um1oU284b1YxWThObGw4ZU9XZitWdz09 \nMeeting ID: 842 0449
  8431 Passcode: 684140\n\nSummary:\nAn animal invests resources in an eye
 ’s optics and photoreceptor array to meet behavioural needs economically
 . Thus eyes are adapted to meet these needs using designs that inspire phy
 sicists and engineers and provide opportunities for biologists to discover
  how complicated organs evolve. We take a new look at eye design by asking
  a question that is commonplace in engineering\, but has not been addresse
 d by biologists\; how should the space\, materials and energy invested in 
 an eye be allocated to optics and photoreceptor array? To provide answers 
 we develop a new cost:benefit approach that uses optical\, geometrical and
  physiological constraints to link investments to an eye’s ability to ca
 pture information from light. Our models and data analysis show that eyes 
 are configured efficiently. Photoreceptor costs dominate and influence the
  structure of the entire eye by competing with optics for resources.
LOCATION:CBL Seminar Room\, Engineering Department\, 4th floor Baker build
 ing
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