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Schedule
Monday, September 21, 2020
11:00 PM America/New_York
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
Picower at MIT
Duration
70 minutes
The Aging Brain Initiative is an ambitious interdisciplinary effort by MIT focusing on understanding neurodegeneration and efforts to find hallmarks of aging, both in health and disease. The Initiative is broad, made up of scientists in several areas, including systems neuroscience, cell biology, engineering and computational biology, with core investigators from the Departments of Biology, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Biological Engineering, and Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Labs. "The theme of this symposium is Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration.
David Atwell, Anne Brunet, Diane Chan, Don Cleveland, Marco Colonna, Valina Dawson, Myriam Heiman, Jonathan Kipnis, Lennart Mucke, Dorothy Schafer
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