2005 Archive

		Friday May 13, 2005 McGovern Institute Symposium Smart Molecules This one-day event will sample the brave new world of intelligently-designed molecules for studying the nervous system. The Symposium's six invited speakers are all leaders in creating and applying innovative tools to probe or control biological systems; their lectures will describe new methods to look at cells (with genetically-encoded fluorescent indicators and noninvasive imaging agents) and new strategies to manipulate cells with precision stimuli and with custom-made proteins that perform entirely new functions in living organisms. Our survey of "Smart Molecules" will bring the audience into contact with some of the biology, chemistry, and physics that drive progress in this fast-paced area. Several of the presentations will also dwell on specific problems in neuroscience. The Symposium will challenge listeners from beginning to end to find clever ways to use clever molecules to speed discoveries in their own research. Speakers: Dr. Gero Miesenboeck Yale University Dr. Ehud Isacoff University of California, Berkeley Dr. Thomas Meade Northwestern University Dr. Lee Josephson Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Homme Hellinga Duke University Dr. Sheila Nirenberg University of California, Los Angeles 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Wong Auditorium, E51
		Thursday April 14, 2005 Brain Development in Healthy, Hyperactive and Psychotic Children Dr. Judith L. Rapoport 4:00pm E25-111
		Tuesday March 1, 2005 Systems Neuroscience Approaches to Psychiatric Illness: Neural Correlates of Anxiety in Serotonin 1A Receptor-Deficient Mice Dr. Joshua Gordon Columbia University 2:00pm E25-401

Past events and seminars

2004

Processing of sounds by cortical circuitry

Structure and function of neural circuits:
a combined molecular, viral and electrophysiological approach

1st Annual Scolnick Prize

2004 Retreat

2003

Mechanisms Underlying Perception, Action and Mind

Investigating the Mind

2003 Retreat