The McGovern Institute sponsors events and programs to
encourage the communication of progress in interdisciplinary brain research.
They are designed to promote synergy in the international research community
and to enrich the learning environment on the MIT campus.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Scolnick Prize Lecture: Dr. Michael Davis
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Seminar: Michael Halassa, Ph.D.
"Astrocytic Adenosine Controls Mammalian Sleep Homeostasis."
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, June 13, 2008
1:00 PM
Seminar Room 46-3189
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Seminar: Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D.
"Of mice, men and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control at the cellular scale in behaving subjects."
Departments of Biological Sciences
and of Applied Physics
Stanford University
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
2:00 PM
Seminar Room 46-3002
Host: Ann Graybiel
Past events and seminars:
2008
Seminar: Yi-Yuan Tang
"How Does Meditation Improve Attention, Self-regulation and Enhance Flow?"
Visiting Professor
University of Oregon
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Seminar: Geoffrey Schoenbaum, Ph.D.
"Dopamine and the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Reinforcement and Expectation"
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Seminar: Josh Huang, Ph.D.
"Construction and Function of the GABA Inhibitory Circuits"
Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
10:00 AM
Seminar Room 46-3310
Seminar: Daniel Baldauf, Ph.D.
"Visual selection during the preparation of movement sequences"
Department of Psychology
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Symposium:
"Biological Basis of Psychiatric Disease."
April 28-29, 2008
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Scolnick Prize Lecture: Dr. Michael Davis
"Neurobiology of Fear, Anxiety and Extinction: Implications for Psychotherapy."
Emory University
Monday, April 14, 2008
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Seminar: Philip Low, Ph.D.
"A New Way to Look at Sleep."
The Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical & Computational Biology - CNL
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Founder & CEO, NeuroVigil, Inc.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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Special Seminar: Chun Li Zhang,
"Nuclear Receptor Signals in Adult Neural Stem cells and Animal Behavior"
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Monday, March 17, 2008
Special Seminar: Weidong Li, Ph.D.
"Specific Developmental Disruption of DISC1 Function Results in Schizophrenia-related Phenotypes in Transgenic Mice"
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
UCLA
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Special Seminar: Angela Yu, Ph.D.
"Attentional Control: Toward a Rational Bayesian Account"
Center for Study of Brain, Mind & Behavior
Princeton University
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Seminar: Yoichi Sugita, Ph.D.
"Preference for Face Stimuli in Monkeys Before and After the First Exposure to Flesh Faces"
Laboratory for Cognitive & Behavioral Science
Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST
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Special Seminar: Yinxi Lin, Ph.D.
"Activity-dependent Regulation of Inhibitory Synapse Development"
Department of Neurobiology and Neurology
Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Special Seminar: Xiangmin Xu, Ph.D.
"Specific Neuronal Types and Functional Cortical Circuits"
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories
Salk Institute
Thursday, February 28, 2008
10:00 AM
Seminar Room 46-3189
Special Seminar: Joseph Kable, Ph.D.
"Neural Mechanisms for Choosing Between Immediate and Delayed Rewards"
Center for Neural Science
New York University
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Special Seminar: Christoph Kellendonk, Ph.D.
"Modeling Schizophrenia Endophenotypes in Mice"
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
2:00 PM
Seminar Room 46-3189
Seminar with Charles E. Schroeder, Ph.D.
"Neural Oscillations as Instruments of Sensory Selection."
Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
2:00 PM
Seminar with Thomas Boraud, Ph.D.
"A Dynamic Model of Decision Making in the Cortex-Basal Ganglia Loop
and its Confrontation with Experimental Data"
Monday, February 4, 2008
2:00 PM
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Scene Understanding Symposium -SUnS 08
Friday February 1, 2008
9 am to 5 pm
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Special Seminar with Henrik Ehrsson, Ph.D.
"Brain Mechanisms of Body Ownership"
Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Xintian Hu, Ph.D.
"The Representation of Motor Command on Single Neurons"
Laboratory of Sensory Motor Integration
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Leon Reijmers, Ph.D.
"Genetic Tools For Studying Memory Circuits"
Department of Cell Biology
Scripps Research Institute
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
2007
Christopher Moore
"Perception, Cortical Dynamics, and the Hemo-Neural Hypothesis."
November 28, 2007
4pm, Building 46-3002
Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D.
"Visual Masking Approaches to Visual Awareness"
Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
November 19, 2007
Seminar with Shihab Shamma
"Encoding task performance, rules, and objectives in auditory and prefrontal cortex."
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
2pm
Seminar Room 46-3002
Prof. Laurenz Wiskott
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin
"Slow feature analysis for invariant object recognition and its relationship to spike timing dependent plasticity."
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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Seminar withTony Zador, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Timing in the auditory cortex: From synapses to behavior."
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
2:00 PM
Seminar Room 46-3002
Paul Tiesinga, Ph.D.
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina
"The role of interneuron diversity in the cortical circuit for attention."
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
12:00 PM
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Seminar with Holly Cline, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Seminar with Dejan Vucinic, Ph.D.
Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"How to build a fast and cheap two-photon 3D imaging system for recording neuronal activity
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Summer Seminars on Neurotechnology
CIMIT Education Series: Technology in Neuroscience, MIT
MIT Building 46-3002 Auditorium
Tuesdays from 4-6 pm
July 10, 17, 24, 31 (2007)
McGovern Institute Retreat
Marriott Hotel
Newport, Rhode Island
June 3-6, 2007
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Edward M. Scolnick Prize Lecture
David Julius, Ph.D.
Professor, University of California, San Francisco
“From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway”
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Brain Imaging Symposium:
Plumbing the Mind: Brain Activation and the Regulation of Cerebral Blood Flow
May 15, 2007
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Seminar with David J. Brooks, MD, DSc, FRCP, FMedSci
Hartnett Professor of Neurology, Imperial College London
“Recent Advances in Imaging Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases”
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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Special Seminar with Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
“Neuronal Encoding of Economic Value”
Monday, May 7th, 2007
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Seminar with Grant Mulliken, Ph.D.
Computation and Neutral Systems, California Institute of Technology
“Online Control Signals for Goal-directed Movements in Posterior Parietal Cortex: Encoding and Decoding”
Thursday, April 26, 2007
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Seminar with Ryuji Kaji, M.D., Ph.D.
“Molecular Dissection of Dystonia”
Friday, April 27, 2007
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H. Robert Horvitz's Killian Lecture
“Worms, life and death: Cell Suicide in Development and Disease”
April 24, 2007
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Special Seminar with David Badre, Ph.D.
(Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley)
“Cognitive control of memory and action: Contributions of the prefrontal cortex”
April 18th, 2007
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Research Associate
Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Science Unit (UK)
“Neural mechanisms of attentional control over threat-related stimuli: the role of individual differences”
April 3, 2007
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
“Processing of invisible visual information”
March 14, 2007
Seminar with Yves Agid, M.D., Ph.D.
Head of Federation de Neurologie and
the Centre d'Investigation Clinique at the
Hôpital de la Salpêtriére in Paris, France
“Basal Ganglia and the Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders”
March 14, 2007
McGovern Institute/Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT
Feb 1-2, 2007
Symposium: Is There Science Underlying Truth Detection?
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
February 2, 2007
Read about the Symposium in MIT’s Tech Talk
2006
(The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
“Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of visual cortical circuits”
November 29, 2006
(California Institute of Technology)
“The Neurobiology of Intuition”
September 28, 2006
(University of California, San Francisco)
“Multiple Cortical Networks for Top-Down Deployment of Attention”
July 25, 2006
Brain Imaging Symposium:
Imaging the Human Brain in Health and Disease
May 30, 2006
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Michael Greenberg, Ph.D
(Childrens Hospital/Harvard Medical School)
“Signaling Networks that Control Synapses Development and Cognitive Function”
April 25, 2006
2005
The McGovern Institute has moved into its new home.
Experience the celebration!
View the webcast of the opening celebration, and the video of the McGovern Gala Dinner.
November 4, 2005
Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Van Khai visits the McGovern Institute
June 25, 2005
Symposium: Smart Molecules
May 13, 2005
Judith L Rapoport, Ph.D
“Brain Development in Healthy, Hyperactive and Psychotic Children”
April 14, 2005
2004
Seminar: Processing of sounds by cortical circuitry
May 27, 2004
Seminar: Structure and function of neural circuits
May 13, 2004
1st Annual Scolnick Prize
Masakazu Konishi, Ph.D
April 23, 2004
2004 Retreat
2003
Symposium: Mechanisms Underlying Perception, Action and Mind
October 20-21, 2003
Conference: Investigating the Mind
September 13-14, 2003
2003 Retreat
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