MCB Calendar
Monday, August 26, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Catherine Klapperich, PhD Boston University; Associate Dean for Research and Technology Development
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Friday, August 30, 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Uwe Rudolph, PhD University of Illinois; Department of Comparative Biosciences "GABAA Receptor Subtypes: A new perspective on functional selectivity of inhibition in the brain"
NHGRI presents a public forum "Artificial Intelligence, Health, & Society" Rashida Richardson Director of Policy Research AI Now Institute Kristian J. Hammond Professor of Computer Science McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Friday, September 6, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Siobhan Brady, PhD University of California, Davis; Department of Plant Biology "Transcriptional Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism"
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Friday, September 13, 2019
Monday, September 16, 2019
Sarah E. O’Connor, PhD Director, Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena, Germany "Chemistry and Biology of Plant Natural Products"
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
James Eberwine, PhD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Co-Director Penn Program in Single Cell Biology "Integrating Single Cell Subcellular Biology in the Quest for Emergent Biologies"
Network science describes principles by which large numbers of pairwise relationships between brain regions can be illuminated. Examples will be given of descriptions of collections of brain regions into subnetworks or communities, individual differences in community structure, how community structure relates to disease, and how it might be changed through experience.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Nathalie Pochet, PhD Broad Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Neurology
While there is general agreement about which patches of cortex are involved in reading words, there is extensive debate about the type of cognitive comptutation carried out in those patches.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
"Even a Moon Shot Needs a Flight Plan: Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration" Dr. Alondra Nelson President, Social Science Research Council Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
There are significant concerns about the reproducibility of scientific results across many fields including neuroimaging. This talk will discuss the source of these problems and outline a set of approaches to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging research.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The last few years has seen rapid progress in the discovery of genes underlying risk for severe mental illness, Research in the Ament lab aims to trace mechanisms from genes to brain to mental illness through human genetics, stem cell models of brain development, and single-cell genomics.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
There has been a surge in technologies to observe how genes and proteins change in the brain during disease. I will describe a new method, DART (drugs acutely restricted by tethering), to rapidly restrict drugs to genetically defined neurons in behaving mice. The approach offers a new way to establish causal circuit and molecular substrates of normal and aberrant behavior.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
In this talk I will describe ongoing work focused on how the experiences of both mothers and fathers can induce epigenetic, neurobiological and behavioral effects and the interactive and multigenerational consequences of these effects.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
This talk will focus on the role of the gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), the first itch-specific receptor identified in the spinal cord, in itch transmission. He will also discuss about the differences between itch and pain sensations.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
Monday, December 2, 2019
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Spontaneous physical activity (SPA) behavior, or the drive to move, is initiated by brain centers and could therefore be therapeutically targeted. A major goal of our work is to understand the brain circuitry driving SPA, so that obesity therapies based on SPA can be considered.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
While many animals use the earth's magnetic field to navigate their environment, much remains unknown about its molecular and cellular basis. We will present insights into the behavioral, cellular, and molecular basis for magnetoreception yielded by the tiny nematode worm, C. elegans.