Topic: Symposium

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33 seminars
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8 conferences
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Cancer Neuroscience: Neural Mechanisms as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer

Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado, United States
Feb 21, 2027

This Keystone Symposium examines how nerves and neural activity shape cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, cognition, and treatment, with a focus on actionable therapeutic targets.

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Single Cell Biology: Expanding Potential Across Diseases

Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Feb 15, 2027

A Keystone Symposium bringing together single-cell genomics, spatial biology, perturbation technologies, computational methods, and clinical translation across high-burden diseases.

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Mechanisms and Therapeutics

Beaver Run Conference Center, Breckenridge, Colorado, United States
Jan 19, 2027

A Keystone Symposium connecting genetics, functional genomics, developmental neurobiology, and industry to identify convergent mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities in neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Knight Initiative - Rosenkranz Aging Symposium

Li Ka Shing Center, Paul Berg Hall, Stanford University, California
Nov 6, 2026

An in-person Stanford symposium highlighting recent progress in brain resilience and aging research, followed by a neuroscience poster session featuring work from the Stanford community.

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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium 2026: Building the Brain

Li Ka Shing Center, Stanford University, California
Oct 15, 2026

This Stanford symposium examines how molecular, cellular, and circuit-level advances in neurodevelopment shape understanding of behavior and health, with scientific talks, awards, and a poster session.

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6th Annual Precision Mental Health Symposium: From Circuits to Mindsets: Precision Mental Health in the Real World

Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305
Sep 25, 2026

Stanford's annual Precision Mental Health Symposium explores how neuroscience, psychiatry, data science, and artificial intelligence can translate brain research into real-world mental-health care. Themes include circuits and cognition, biomarkers and neuroimaging, rapid-acting interventions, neuromodulation, and precision therapeutics.

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Stem Cell & Developmental Biology Early Career Symposium

Allen Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
Sep 23, 2026

A three-day scientific symposium led by early-career scientists, combining invited talks, selected short talks, poster sessions, workshops, networking, and cross-disciplinary exchange in stem cell and developmental biology.

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Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics

EMBL Heidelberg and virtual
Sep 15, 2026

This EMBO-EMBL symposium joins population genetics, bioinformatics, microbiology, anthropology, archaeology, and history to study human variation, ancient pathogens, domestication, analytical methods, and ethics in paleogenomics.

SeminarChronobiology

Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Research Symposium

Jamie Zeitzer
Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford
Aug 26, 2026

Stanford's summer research symposium features a keynote by Jamie Zeitzer, undergraduate lightning talks, and a poster and demonstration session on human performance research.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 22, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 21, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 20, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 19, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 18, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 15, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 14, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 13, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 12, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarVision Science

The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, August 11 – 22, 2025, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
Aug 11, 2025

Applications are invited for our third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school since 2023, designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models, featuring lectures, guided exercises and discussion sessions. The summer school will end with a Systems Vision Science symposium on frontier topics on August 20-22, with additional invited and contributed presentations and posters. Call for contributions and participations to the symposium will be sent out spring of 2025. All summer school participants are invited to attend, and welcome to submit contributions to the symposium.

SeminarCognition

Analogy and Law

Dr An Hertogen*, Dr. Fred Schauer**, Joe Blass***, David G. Kamper****
*University of Aukland, **University of Virginia, ***Northwestern University, ****University of California, Los Angeles
Mar 21, 2024

Abstracts: https://sites.google.com/site/analogylist/analogical-minds-seminar/analogy-and-law-symposium

SeminarPsychology

The Picower Institute Spring 2023 Symposium "Environmental and Social Determinants of Child Mental Health

Cecile Richards (Keynote - fmr President of Planned Parenthood), Gregory Bratman, PhD, Annie Belcourt, PhD, Paul Dworkin, MD, Byungkook Lim, PhD, Sarah Milligan-Toffler, Catherine Jensen Peña, PhD, Ravi Raju, MD. PhD, Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH
May 11, 2023

Studies show that abuse, neglect or trauma during childhood can lead to lifelong struggles including with mental health. Fortunately research also indicates that solutions and interventions at various stages of life can be developed to help. But even among people who remain resilient or do not experience acute stresses, a lack of opportunity early in life due to poverty or systemic racism can still constrain their ability to realize their full potential. In what ways are health and other outcomes affected by early life difficulty? What can individuals and institutions do to enhance opportunity?" "This daylong event will feature talks by neuroscientists, policy experts, physicians, educators and activists as they discuss how our experiences and biology work together to affect how our minds develop and what can be accomplished in helping people overcome early disadvantages.

SeminarPodcastsRecording

Started at 09 .15 - A WHOLE DAY symposium celebrating the work of Mike Land

Animal Vision - The work of Mike Land
University of Sussex
Apr 27, 2023

Note: British 16.15 is the finishing time

SeminarBiology

LifePerceives

Michael Levin, Katie Bentley, Anil Seth, Lucia Pietroiusti, Andrew Adamatzky, and many more..
Jan 20, 2023

Life Perceives is a symposium bringing together scientists and artists for an open exploration of how “perception” can be understood as a phenomenon that does not only belong to humans, or even the so-called “higher organisms”, but exists across the entire spectrum of life in a myriad of forms. The symposium invites leading practitioners from the arts and sciences to present unique insights through short talks, open discussions, and artistic interventions that bring us slightly closer to the life worlds of plants and fungi, microbial communities and immune systems, cuttlefish and crows. What do we mean when we talk about perception in other species? Do other organisms have an experience of the world? Or does our human-centred perspective make understanding other forms of life on their own terms an impossible dream? Whatever your answers to these questions may be, we hope to unsettle them, and leave you more curious than when you arrived.

SeminarNeuroscience

Glial and Neuronal Biology of the Aging Brain Symposium, Alana Down Syndrome Center and Aging Brain Initiative at Picower, MIT

Adam M. Brickman (Columbia University), Myriam Heiman (Picower Institute, MIT), Michael Heneka (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine), Shane Liddelow (NYU), Nancy Yuk-Yu Ip (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Oct 6, 2022

The Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) is an interdisciplinary effort by MIT focusing on understanding neurodegeneration and discovery efforts to find hallmarks of aging, both in health and disease." "The Alana Down Syndrome Center (ADSC) aims to deepen knowledge about Down syndrome and to improve health, autonomy and inclusion of people with this genetic condition." "The ABI and the ADSC have joined forces for this year's symposium to highlight how aging-related changes to the brain overlap with neurological aspects of Down syndrome. Our hope is to encourage greater collaboration between the brain aging and Down syndrome research communities.

SeminarNeuroscience

Glial and Neuronal Biology of the Aging Brain Symposium, Alana Down Syndrome Center and Aging Brain Initiative at Picower, MIT

Gilbert Di Paolo (Denali Therapeutics), Li Gan (Weill Cornell Medical College), Elizabeth Head (University of California, Irvine), Beth Stevens (Boston Children's Hospital), Tracy Young-Pearse (Brigham and Women's Hospital)
Oct 5, 2022

The Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) is an interdisciplinary effort by MIT focusing on understanding neurodegeneration and discovery efforts to find hallmarks of aging, both in health and disease." "The Alana Down Syndrome Center (ADSC) aims to deepen knowledge about Down syndrome and to improve health, autonomy and inclusion of people with this genetic condition." "The ABI and the ADSC have joined forces for this year's symposium to highlight how aging-related changes to the brain overlap with neurological aspects of Down syndrome. Our hope is to encourage greater collaboration between the brain aging and Down syndrome research communities.

SeminarNeuroscience

The Picower Institute 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Two Decades of Discovery & Impact

Ben Auerbach (Illinois), Joel Blanchard (Mt. Sinai), Emery N. Brown (MIT), Jerry Chen (BU), Steven Flavell (MIT), David Foster (UC Berkeley), Myriam Heiman (MIT), Sung-Yon Kim (Seoul National University), Jeong Tae Kwon (MIT), Earl K. Miller (MIT), Zachary Piccioli (Moderna), Mriganka Sur (MIT), Susumu Tonegawa (MIT)
Sep 22, 2022

On September 22, 2022 we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory with an Exhibition Symposium — a day-long hybrid event highlighting "Two Decades of Discovery & Impact" since the launch of the Institute by a transformational gift from Barbara and Jeffry Picower. The symposium will feature a range of lay-friendly brain science talks from Picower Institute faculty and their alumni with opportunities to informally interact at lunch and at the reception that will follow the talks.

SeminarNeuroscience

Imperial Neurotechnology 2022 - Annual Research Symposium

Marcus Kaiser, Sarah Marzi, Giuseppe Gava, Gema Vera Gonzalez, Matteo Vinao-Carl, Sihao Lu, Hayriye Cagnan
Nottingham University, Imperial College, University of Oxford
Jul 5, 2022

A diverse mix of neurotechnology talks and posters from researchers at Imperial and beyond. Visit our event page to find out more. The event is in-person but talk sessions will be broadcast via Teams.

SeminarCognitionRecording

Symposium on cross-cultural research in analogical reasoning

Dr Stella Christie*, Dr Lindsey Richland**, Dr Daniel Casasanto*** and Dr Caren Walker****
*Tsinghua University, **University of California Irvine, ***Cornell University, **** University of California San Diego
Mar 17, 2022

Abstracts: https://www.sites.google.com/site/analogylist/cross-cultural-symposium

SeminarNeuroscience

Online "From Bench to Bedside" Neurosciences Symposium

Anissa Kempf (BZ), Prof. Urs Fischer (USB)
Feb 4, 2022

2 Keynote lectures :“Homeostatic control of sleep in the fly"and “Management of Intracerebral Haemorrhage – where is the evidence?” and 2 sessions: "Cortical top-down information processing” and “Virtual/augmented reality and its implications for the clinic”

SeminarNeuroscience

The Picower Institute Fall 2021 Symposium, Dendrites: Molecules, Structure, and Function

Marla Feller (UC Berkeley), Fritjof Helmchen (University of Zurich), Masanori Murayama (RIKEN Center for Brain Science), Richard Naud (University of Ottawa), Corette Wierenga (Utrecht University)
Oct 12, 2021

Dendrites play a central role in neuronal computation, and many complex mechanisms shape their structure, function, and connectivity. Dendrites can undergo plastic changes during development and learning, as well as during neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease. We will discuss how the molecular and electrophysiological properties of dendrites enable them to perform complex computations important for sensory-motor processing and higher cognitive function, and how these can go awry.

SeminarNeuroscienceRecording

Imperial Neurotechnology 2021 - Annual Research Symposium

Yulong Li, Christos Kapatos, Mary Ann Go, Sonja Hofer, Oscar Bates, Christian Wilms
Peking University, SERG Technologies, Imperial College, UCL, Scientifica Ltd
Jul 7, 2021

A diverse mix of neurotechnology talks from academic and industry colleagues plus presentations from our MRes Neurotechnology students. Visit our event page to find out more and register now!

SeminarRobotics

The 2021 Annual Bioengineering Lecture + Bioinspired Guidance, Navigation and Control Symposium

Prof Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Dr Stefan Leutenegger, Dr Basil el Jundi, Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Dr Josh Merel, Dr Huai-Ti Lin
May 26, 2021

Join the Department of Bioengineering on the 26th May at 9:00am for The 2021 Annual Bioengineering Lecture + Bioinspired Guidance, Navigation and Control Symposium. This year’s lecture speaker will be distinguished bioengineer and neuroscientist Professor Mandyam V. Srinivasan AM FRS, from the University of Queensland. Professor Srinivasan studies visual systems, particularly those of bees and birds. His research has revealed how flying insects negotiate narrow gaps, regulate the height and speed of flight, estimate distance flown, and orchestrate smooth landings. Apart from enhancing fundamental knowledge, these findings are leading to novel, biologically inspired approaches to the design of guidance systems for unmanned aerial vehicles with applications in the areas of surveillance, security and planetary exploration. Following Professor Srinivasan’s lecture will be the Bioinspired GNC Mini Symposium with guest speakers from Google Deepmind, Imperial College London, the University of Würzburg and the University of Konstanz giving talks on their research into autonomous robot navigation, neural mechanisms of compass orientation in insects and computational approaches to motor control.

SeminarDevelopmental Neuroscience

The Picower Institute Spring 2021 Symposium: Early Life Stress & Mental Health

Mariana Arcaya, Nadine Burke Harris, Geoffrey Canada, Gloria Choi, Bryan Stevenson, Jose Antonio Vargas
May 10, 2021

Though studies show that abuse, neglect or trauma during childhood can lead to lifelong lifelong struggles including in mental health, research also indicates that solutions and interventions at various stages of life can be developed to help. And while many people manage to remain resilient, a lack of opportunity early in life, including because of poverty and systemic racism, can constrain their ability to realize their full potential. In what ways are health and other outcomes affected? How can systems instead restore opportunity? "The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory's biennial spring symposium, 'Early Life Stress & Mental Health,' will examine these issues. The daylong event will feature talks by neuroscientists, policy experts, physicians, educators and activists as they discuss how our experiences and biology work together to affect how our minds develop and what can be accomplished in helping people overcome early disadvantages.

SeminarDevelopmental Neuroscience

Synapse and Circuit Development

Jenny Gunnersen (Australia), Tommas Ellender (UK), Thomas Marissal (France)
Mar 25, 2021

The symposium will start with A/Prof Jenny Gunnersen who will present “New insights into mechanisms of excitatory synapse development”. Then, Dr Tommas Ellender will deal with the “Embryonic neural progenitor pools and the generation of fine-scale neural circuits” and Dr Thomas Marissal will talk about “Parvalbumin interneurons: the missing link between the micro and macroscopic alterations related to neurodevelopmental disorders?"”.

SeminarDevelopmental Neuroscience

Assembly of the neocortex

Song-Hai Shi (China), Lynette Lim (Belgium), Alfredo Molina (UK), Tomasz Nowakowski (USA)
Feb 25, 2021

The symposium will start with Prof Song-Hai Shi who will present “Assembly of the neocortex”. Then, Dr Lynette Lim will talk about “Shared and Unique Developmental Trajectories of Cortical Inhibitory Neurons”. Dr Alfredo Molina will deal with the “Tuneable progenitor cells to build the cerebral cortex”, and Prof Tomasz Nowakowski will present “Charting the molecular 'protomap' of the human cerebral cortex using single cell genomic”.

SeminarDevelopmental Neuroscience

Fundamental Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms governing Brain Development

Helen Cooper (UQ, Australia), Jin-Wu Tsai (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan), Dr Isabel Del Pino (Instituto Principe Felipe, Spain), Dr Hongyan Wang (Duke-NUS, Singapore)
Jan 28, 2021

The symposium will start with Prof Cooper who will present “From neural tube to neocortex: the role of adhesion in maintaining stem cell morphology and function”. Then, Dr Tsai will talk about “In the search for new genes involved in brain development and disorders”. Dr Del Pino will deal with the “Regulation of intrinsic network activity during area patterning in the cerebral cortex”, and Dr Wang will present “Modelling Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Flies”.

SeminarEpidemiology

SARC-CoV-2 modeling: What have we learned from this pandemic about how (not) to model disease spread?

Workshop, Multiple Speakers
Emory University
Jan 21, 2021

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is awash in data, including daily, spatially-resolved COVID case data, virus sequence data, patients `omics data, and mobility data. Journals are now also awash in studies that make use of quantitative modeling approaches to gain insight into the geographic spread of SARS-CoV-2 and its temporal dynamics, as well as studies that predict the impact of control strategies on SARS-CoV-2 circulation. Some, but by no means all, of these studies are informed by the massive amounts of available data. Some, but by no means all, of these studies have been useful — in that their predictions revealed something beyond simple back of the envelope calculations. To summarize some of these findings, in this symposium, we will address questions such as: What do we want from models of disease spread? What can and should be predicted? Which data are the most useful for predictions? When do we need mechanistic models? What have we learned about how to model disease spread from unmet and/or conflicting predictions? The workshop speakers will explore these questions from different perspectives on what data need to be considered and how models can be evaluated. As at other TMLS workshops, each speaker will deliver a 10-minute talk with ample time set aside for moderated questions/discussion. We expect the talks to be provocative and bold, while respecting different perspectives.

SeminarNeuroscience

Aging Brain Initiative Symposium: 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
Sep 22, 2020

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.

SeminarMedical Imaging

Duke VisionFest Symposium Keynote: Applications of High-Resolution Retinal Imaging

Joseph Carroll
Medical College of Wisconsin
Sep 11, 2020

Duke VisionFest is a virtual research symposium conceived to bring together the many Duke groups studying aspects of the visual system. Keynote by Dr. Joseph Carroll, Medical College of Wisconsin, and featuring talks ranging from photoreceptor biology to visual system evolution to clinical diagnosis. Pre-registration is required to attend but open to anyone interested.

SeminarNeuroscienceRecording

Inaugural Simons-Emory Symposium On Motor Control: "What tools are we missing to understand motor control? What could we learn if we had them

Workshop, Multiple Speakers
Emory University
Jun 26, 2020

This is the inaugural symposium of the Simons-Emory International Consortium on Motor Control, and speakers will deliver 10 minute talks (each followed by 10 minutes of discussion) addressing this question: "What tools are we missing to understand motor control, and what could we learn if we had them?”

SeminarDevelopmental Neuroscience

Mini-symposium on the Neuroscience of Cognitive Development

Gaia Scerif & Kirsten Donald
University of Oxford & University of Cape Town
Jun 23, 2020

Speakers will highlight research on the developmental processes underlying cognitive control and the effects of environmental risk factors on neural pathways in human cognitive development. Gaia Scerif, from University of Oxford, will be giving a talk on Using developmental cognitive neuroscience tools to investigate mechanisms of atypical cognitive control, followed by Kirsten Donald, from University of Cape Town, who will give a talk titled Neuroimaging the very young high risk brain: lessons from a south African birth cohort.

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