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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Julio C. Martinez Trujillo, MD, Ph.D. IDENTIFICATION Current Position: Address: Languages: Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier II Department of Physiology, McGill University 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Room 1220, McIntyre Medical Services Building Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1Y6 Tel: , Fax: Web: English, Spanish, German, and French EDUCATION Undergraduate Doctor of Medicine, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba Medical year of residency in Internal Medicine Hospital Manuel Fajardo, Havana, Cuba year residency in Clinical Neurophysiology Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana, Cuba Mentor: Dr. P. Valdes-Sosa Graduate M.Sc. in Neurobiology, Neurology Clinic University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Mentors: Dr. Stefan Treue and Peter Thier PhD Student, Neurology Clinic University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Mentor: Dr. Stefan Treue and Peter Thier Post-Graduate Training Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Vision Research York University, Toronto, Canada Mentor: Dr. J. D. Crawford Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Vision Research York University, Toronto, Canada Mentor: Dr. J. K. Tsotsos 1

2 APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia SPECIAL HONORS AND AWARDS Canada Research Chair (2009) Ann Wechsler Teaching Award, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, (2008) Canada Research Chair (2004) Magna Cum Laude (great honor) University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (2000) Summa Cum Laude (highest honor) University of Havana (1991) Outstanding academic performance. Award from the Cuban Ministry of Health (1991) Award Carlos J. Finlay (Best Graduate in Medicine), Havana University (1991) Award Scientific Honor (for Research in Medicine), Havana University (1991) OPERATING AND EQUIPMENT GRANTS CIHR Operating Grant ( ) Quebec Bio-imaging network fellowship (Quebec, ) EJLB Foundation Scholar Research Program for research in schizophrenia (Montreal, ) NSERC Discovery Grant ( ) CIHR Operating Grant ( ) Canadian Foundation for Innovation Equipment Grant (2004) McGill University Faculty of Medicine Operating Grant (2004) RESEARCH TRAINEES SUPERVISED Current Lab Members: Mr. Santiago Torres-Gomez (PhD student since 2010) Mrs. Megan Schneiderman (PhD/MD program student since 2010) Mr. Robert Nierbergall (Postdoctoral fellow since 2009) Fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. Mr. Diego Mendoza (PhD Student since 2008) Principal Award from the Department of Physiology. Ms. Therese Lennert (PhD Student since 2007) Vanier Award from the CIHR. This is the top award to a graduate student in Canada. Mr. Matthew Leavitt (undergraduate student) Nour Malek (undergraduate student) Mr Walter Kucharski (machine shop) 2

3 Mr. Stephen Nuara (chief animal technician) Past Members: Dr. Florian Pieper (Post-Doctoral Fellow currently at the University of Hamburg) Dr. Paul Khayat (Post-Doctoral Fellow since 2005) NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award; Faculty of Medicine at McGill Research Award. Dr. Adam Sachs (Clinical Scientist and Post-Doctoral Research Associate , currently a clinical fellow in functional neurosurgery at Stanford University) Dr. Mario Ruiz-Ruiz (Postdoctoral Fellow , currently a clinical neurophysiologist) INVITED SEMINARS AND SYMPOSIA York Center for Vision Research, Toronto (2010) Zanvyl Krieger Brain/mind Institute John Hopkins, MA (2010) Telluride Workshop in Neuromorphic Engineering, Telluride, CO (2010) Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, (2009) Neurodevelopment Research Seminars, Douglas Hospital, Montreal (2009) Max Plank Institute and German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany (2009) London University College, London, UK (2008) Cold Spring Harbor, Banbury Conference, USA (2008) Vanderbilt Center for Vision Research, Vanderbilt University, USA (2008) Department of Physiology, McGill University, Canada (2006) Department of Physiology, Queens University, Canada (2006) University of Montreal school of Optometry, Montreal, Canada (2006) Group for non-linear Dynamics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2006) Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2006) European Neuroscience Society, Lisbon, Portugal (2004) Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Barcelona, Spain (2004) Australian Neuroscience Meeting. Melbourne, Australia (2004) University of Magdeburg, Neurology Department, Germany (2003) Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2003) German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany (2002) Donders Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2002) Meeting, Group for Action and Perception, University of Waterloo, Canada, (2001) Institut für Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen, Germany (2000) Verona University, Verona, Italy (2000) Max Plank Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany, (2000) Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Bremen, Germany, (1999) OTHER RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS Service to journals and in grant committees Associated Editor: The Journal of Neuroscience. Refereed articles in: Neuron, The Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Vision, Vision Research, Cerebral Cortex, PLos Biology, Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, and the European Journal of Neuroscience. 3

4 Reviewed grants for the Canada Research Chair program, NSERC, Hong Kong Research Council, European Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health (USA). Scientific societies membership 1998 Present Society for Neurosciences 2000 Present Vision Sciences Society 2004 Present Canadian Physiological Society 2007 Present Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (Montreal) 2009 Present Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPNET) 2009 Present International Society for behavioral Neuroscience Other committees Steering Committee CAPNET, Canada Curriculum Committee, Department of Physiology, McGill University Chair of the Non-Human-Primates users network at McGill University Since 2004 serve in 14 PhD thesis committees at McGill and the Montreal Neurological Institute Committee for admissions of students to the McGill Medical School, McGill BIBLIOGRAPHY (articles, book chapters, and abstracts) Journal Articles 1. Lennert T, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Strength of response suppression to distracter stimuli determines the speed and accuracy of attentional filtering by prefrontal neurons. Neuron (in press). 2. Mendoza D, Schneiderman M, Kaul C, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Working memory and feature-based attention simultaneously modulate the perception of visual motion direction. Journal of Vision (in press). 3. Niebergall R, Huang L, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Similar perceptual costs for dividing attention between retina- and space-centered targets in humans. Journal of Vision 10(12):4, Monteon JA, Constantin AG, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. Electrical Stimulation of the Frontal Eye Fields in the Head-Free Macaque Evokes Kinematically Normal 3D Gaze Shifts. Journal of Neurophysiology, [Epub ahead of print] Sep 29, Sachs A, Khayat P, Niegerball R, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Contribution of spike timing to contrast and motion direction coding by single neurons in macaque area MT. Brain Research. [Epub ahead of print] Sep 8, Khayat P, Niebergall R, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Frequency-dependent attentional modulation od local field potential signals in macaque area MT. The Journal of Neuroscience 30(20): , Khayat P, Niebergall R, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Attention differentially modulates similar neuronal responses in area MT evoked by varying contrast and direction stimuli. The Journal of Neuroscience 30(6): , Rodriguez-Sanchez AJ, Tsotsos JK, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Comparing neuronal and behavioral thresholds for spiral motion discrimination. NeuroReport 20(18): , Constantin AG, Wang H, Monteon JA, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. 3-D eye-head 4

5 coordination in gaze shifts evoked during stimulation of the lateral intraparietal cortex. Neuroscience 164(3): , Ruiz-Ruiz M, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Human Updating of Visual Motion Direction During Head Rotations. Journal of Neurophysiology, 99(5): , Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Attending to features inside and outside the spotlight of attention. Neuron 55(2): 174-6, Constantin AG, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. Frames of Reference for Gaze Saccades Evoked During Stimulation of Lateral Intraparietal Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 98(2): , Martinez-Trujillo JC, Cheyne D, Gaetz W, Simine E, Tsotsos JK. Activation of Area MT/V5 and the Right Inferior Parietal Cortex during the Discrimination of Transient Direction Changes in Translational Motion. Cerebral Cortex 17(7): , Martinez-Trujillo JC. Noncommutativity of Eye Rotations and the Half-Angle Rule. Neuron 47(2): 171-3, Monteon JA, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Wang H, Crawford JD. Cross-coupled Adaptation of Eye and Head Position Commands in the Primate Gaze Control System. Neuroreport 16(11): , Martinez-Trujillo JC, Tsotsos JK, Simine E, Pomplun M, Wildes R, Treue S, Heinze HJ, Hofp JM. Selectivity for Speed Gradients in Human Area MT/V5. Neuroreport 16(5): 435-8, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Medendorp WP, Wang H, Crawford JD. Frames of Reference for Eye-Head Gaze Commands in Primate Supplementary Eye Fields. Neuron 44(6): , Martinez-Trujillo JC, Treue S. Feature-Based Attention Increases the Selectivity of Population Responses in Primate Visual Cortex. Current Biology 14 (9): , Crawford JD, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Klier EM. Neural control of three-dimensional eye and head movement. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 13(6): , Martinez-Trujillo JC, Klier EM, Wang H, Crawford JD. Contribution of head movements to gaze command coding in monkey frontal cortex and superior colliculus. Journal of Neurophysiology 90(4): , Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Cognitive Physiology: Moving the mind s eye before the head s eye. Current Biology 13(11): R442-4, Klier EM, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Medendorp WP, Smith AM, Crawford JD. Neural control of 3-D gaze shifts in the primate. Progress in Brain Research 142: , Martinez-Trujillo JC, Wang H, Crawford JD. Electrical stimulation of the Supplementary Eye Fields in the head-free macaque evokes kinematically normal gaze shifts. Journal of Neurophysiology 89(6): , Martinez -Trujillo JC, Treue S. Attention changes apparent stimulus contrast in primate visual cortex. Neuron 35: , Treue S, Martinez -Trujillo JC. Feature-based attention influences motion processing gain in macaque visual cortex. Nature 399, , Book Chapters 1. The feature similarity gain model of Attention: Unifying multiplicative effects of spatial and featurebased attention. 49: J Martinez-Trujillo & S Treue, The Neurobiology of attention. Edited by Itti, Rees and Tsotsos, Elsevier Academic Press,

6 2. Attentional modulation of apparent stimulus contrast. 70: By J Martinez-Trujillo & S Treue, published in The Neurobiology of attention. Edited by Itti, Rees and Tsotsos, Elsevier academic Press, Selected Abstracts Pieper F, Sachs A, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Correlations of neural activity in macaque prefrontal cortex during a contrast detection task: Spikes and local field potentials. Society for Neuroscience, Lennert T, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortical neurons encode speed and accuracy of target selection through response suppression. Society for Neuroscience, Niebergall R, Khayat P, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Expansion of spatiotemporal receptive field profiles of macaque MT neurons during attentive tracking. Society for Neuroscience, Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Therese Lennert, Roberto Cipriani, Pierre Jolicoeur, and Douglas Cheyne. MEG activity in visual areas of the human brain during target selection and sustained attention. Vision Science Society, Diego Mendoza, Megan Schneiderman, and Julio Martinez-Trujillo. Working memory, featurebased attention, and their interaction modulate the perception of motion direction in human observers. Vision Science Society, Therese Lennert and Julio Martinez-Trujillo. Response profiles of macaque dorsolateral prefrontal cortex neurons during a rule-guided target selection and sustained attention task. Vision Science Society, Diego Mendoza, Megan Schneiderman and Julio Martinez-Trujillo. Working memory and featurebased attention modulate the perception of coherent motion in human observers. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Therese Lennert and Julio Martinez-Trujillo. Response profiles of macaque dlpfc neurons during target selection and sustained attention. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Cheyne DO, Lennert T, Cipriani R, Jolicoeur P, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Feature-based attention modulates MEG evoked responses in human visual cortex during target selection. Society for Neuroscience, Mendoza D, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Activity profiles of macaque dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlpfc) neurons during a working memory task for visual motion direction. Society for Neuroscience, Khayat P, Niebergall R, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Feature-based attention modulates the strength of direction-selective inputs into MT neurons. Society for Neuroscience, Pieper F, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Attention increases responses of area MT neurons to transient direction changes. Society for Neuroscience,

7 5. Niebergall R, Khayat P, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Splitting and zooming the focus of attention in primate visual cortex during multiple-object tracking. Society for Neuroscience, Lennert T, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Temporal dynamics of attentional signals in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlpfc) and visual area MT in macaque monkeys. Society for Neuroscience, Mendoza D, Kaul C, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Working memory and feature-based attention independently modulate the perception of coherent motion in human observers. Vision Sciences Society, Khayat P, Niebergall R, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Attentional modulation of local field potentials response tuning to direction and contrast in macaque s area MT. Society for Neuroscience, Niebergall R, Khayat P, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Neural correlates of multiple spotlights of attention in area MT during multiple object tracking. Society for Neuroscience, Lennert T, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Responses of dorsolateral prefrontal cortical neurons during target selection and sustained attention in macaques. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Lennert T, Jolicoeur P, Cheyne D. Mechanisms of target selection in the human brain. Society for Neuroscience, Sachs A, Khayat P, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Contribution of spike timing in contrast and motion direction coding by single neurons in macaque area MT. Vision Sciences Society, Lennert T, Jolicoeur P, Cheyne D, Martinez-Trujillo JC. MEG responses in the human brain during the selection of visual targets. Vision Sciences Society, Khayat P, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Spatial attentional modulation in area MT of depends on visual inputs. Society for Neuroscience, Ruiz-Ruiz M, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Frames of reference for perceiving motion direction in the human visual system. Vision Science Society, Niebergall R, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Reference frames for covert spatial attention during smooth pursuit tracking of visual targets. Vision Science Society, Ascencio-Monteon J, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Wang H, Crawford JD. Frames of reference for eyehead gaze shifts evoked during stimulation of the primate frontal eye fields. Vision Sciences Society, Pieper F, Womelsdorf T, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Treue C. Basic neuronal response properties shape the dynamics and strength of attentional modulation in visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience, Ascencio-Monteon J, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. Frames of reference for eyehead gaze shifts evoked during stimulation of the primate frontal eye fields. Society for Neuroscience, Constantin A, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. A quantitative comparison of head- 7

8 free gaze shifts evoked through electrical stimulation of the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) and the superior colliculus (SC) in the macaque. Society for Neuroscience, Constantin A, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. Frames of reference for gaze shifts in lateral intraparietal cortex. Vision Sciences Society, Monteon J, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. Microstimulation of the frontal eye field evokes kinematically normal gaze shifts. Vision Sciences Society, Constantin A, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Wang H, Crawford JD. Frames of reference for gaze shifts evoked during microstimulation of laterial intraparietal cortex. Society for Neuroscience, Monteon, JA, Wang H, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Crawford JD. Gaze shifts evoked by electrical stimulation of the frontal eye field in the head-free macaque. Society for Neuroscience, Khan AZ, Crawford JD, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Attention modulates saccade latency but not kinematics. Vision Science Society, Simine E, Gaetz W, Cheyne D, Tsotsos JK, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Transient Changes in the Direction of Moving Stimuli Activates Human MT/V5+ and Inferior Parietal Lobe. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Khan AZ, Crawford JD. Attention and Stimulus Contrast Modify Saccade Latency but not Kinematics. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Wang H, Crawford JD. Macaque supplementary eye fields encodes gaze in head centered coordinates. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Wang H., Klier EM, Crawford JD. Gaze shifts evoked by electrical stimulation of the Supplementary Eye Fields in the Macaque Monkey. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Simine E, Pomplum M, Tsotsos JK. Human integration time thresholds for discriminating transient changes in the direction of moving stimuli change with signal intensity. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Klier E, Wang H, Crawford JD. Head fixed vs. head free electrical microstimulation in Frontal Cortex and Superior Colliculus of the macaque monkey. Society for the Neural Control of movement, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Treue S. Effects of attention on direction-selective MT/MST cell responses during direction changes. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Treue S. Reducing stimulus contrast increases attentional modulation in the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque monkey. Society for Neuroscience, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Treue S. Attention does not sharpen direction-tuning curves in macaque monkey MT/MST neurons. Society for Neuroscience, Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC. Attentional modulation of direction-selective responses in MT/MST resembles the effect of reducing contrast of unattended stimuli. Society for Neuroscience,

9 36. Treue S, Martinez-Trujillo JC, Patzwahl D. From sensation to perception: The role of attention in shaping visual motion perception. Göttingen Neurobiology Conf.,

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