2020 MCN Seminars
All seminars will begin at 4:00 PM in 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium), followed by a social till 6 PM
MCN student lunch with all visisting speakers only. (Non MIT Staff). Studnet need to sign up by contacting Charles Moss (vmoss@mit.edu)
Feb. 07 Joseph Takahashi, UT Southwestern
Title: Circadian Clock Genes and the Importance of Timing in Aging and Longevity.
"Genetic Eveidence for a Neuro-immune Mechanism in Schizophrenia"
March 4 Nace Golding (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
“Life in the fast brain: mechanisms and temporal codes underlying sound
localization”
April 8 Kwanghun Chung (MIT)
"Scalable Proteomic Imaging of Intact Biological Systems"
May 6 MCN Student Symposium Sep. 16 Cagla Eroglu (Duke University) "How do Astrocytes Control Development and Plasticity of Synaptic Circuits?" Oct. 14 Elly Nedivi (MIT) "Visualizing Synapse Sructural Dynaics in Neocortex in vivo" Nov. 18 Sebastian Kadener (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) "Molecular and Physiological Functions of Circular RNAs in the Brain" Dec. 09 Chinfei Chen (Children's Hospital) "A Role for Cortical Feedback in Thalamic Development"
Mar. 06 Piali Sengupta, Brandeis University
Title: Food Mind Control: Regulation of Sensory Behaviors by Bacterial Diet in C. elegans.Apr. 03 Corey Harwell, Harvard Medical School
Title: Origins of Neural Diversity in the Septum.May 08 Sheena Josselyn, University of Toronto
Title: Neuronal Alocation to an Engram. 2019 MCN Seminars All seminars will begin at 4:00 PM in 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium), followed by a social till 6 PM MCN student lunch with all visisting speakers only. (Non MIT Staff). Studnet need to sign up by contacting Charles Moss (vmoss@mit.edu) -- Fall 2019 -- Sep. 20 Steve Flavell (MIT) Serotonergic Circuits that Control Persistent Behavioral States Oct. 04 Krezel Wojcieh (IGBMC- at the Universityh of Strasbourg) Vitamin A in Striatal Development and Neurodegeneration Nov. 08 Matthew Kennedy (University of Colorado Denver) New Approaches for Manipulating Synapse Function and Neuronal Cell Biology with Light Dec. 06 Matthew Dalva (Jefferson College of Life Sciences) Synapse Formation and Plasticity: Effects of Biological-Sex and Synaptic Nanostructure -- Spring 2019 -- Feb. 08 David Bartel (MIT) A Network of Noncoding Regulatory RNAs that Act in the Mammalian Brain Mar. 15 Oleg Butovsky (Harvard Medical School) Dual Faces of Dr. Jekyll Microglia: Degenerating Neurons Cannot 'Hyde' Apr. 05 Avi Rodal (Brandeis Unversity) Routing and Remodeling Membranes at the Synapse May 10 Susumu Tomita (Yale School of Medicine) Molecular Constituents of Synaptic Transmission 2018 MCN Seminars (All seminars begin at 4:00 PM in 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium), followed by a social to 6 PM) (December 7, 2018 will be held in Picower Seminar Room 46-3310) MCN student lunch with all guest speakers that aren't MIT staff members. To sign up contact Charles Moss (vmoss@mit.edu) -- Fall 2018 -- Sep. 14 CANCELLED Fan Wang (Duke University) "General Anesthesia, Sleep, and Pain" Rescheduled: October 26, 2018 Oct. 05 Rosalind Segal (Dana-Faber Cancer Inst.) "Axonal Survival: RNA Transport and Translation" Oct. 26 Fan Wang (Duke University) "General Anesthesia, Sleep, and Pain" Special Location: Picower seminar room 46-3310 Nov.16 MCN Student Symposium Scarlet Barker (Tsai Lab) "Resilient Brains: Mef2 Activity is Associated with Cognitive Enhancement and Reserve in Mice and Humans" Galen Lynch (Fee Lab) "Rhythmic Continuous -Time Coding in the Songbird Analog of Vocal Motor Cortex" Hannah Wirtshafter (Wilson Lab) "Neuronal Activity in the Lateral Septum During Navigation" Dec. 07 Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University) "The Genetic Basis of Behavioral Evolution" Picower seminar room 46-3310 -- Spring 2018 -- Feb. 09 Joshua Sanes (Harvard University) "Formation of Neural Circuits in the Retina: Cells and Molecules" Mar. 02 Rachel Wilson (Harvard medical School) "Neural Correlates of Orienting Behaviors and Latent Action Biases" Apr. 06 Troy Littleton (MIT) "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Heterogeneity of Neurotransmitter Release Probability at Synapses" May. 04 Hisashi Umemori (Boston Children's Hosp.) "The Dopaminergic Synaptic Organizers" May. 11 Uri Ashery (Tel Aviv University) "From Protein Structure to Neuronal Network Activity: The Role of DOC2B in Asynchronous Neurotransmitter Release" 2017 MCN Seminars (All seminars begin at 4:00 PM in 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium), followed by a social to 6 PM) -- Fall -- Sep. 15 Fen-Biao Gao (UMass Medical School) "Insights from Drosophila and iPSC Models of C90RF72-related ALS/FTD" Oct. 20 MCN Student Symposium: Kutay Atabay (Reddien Lab) "Mechanisms of Self-Organization in the Planarian Nervous System" Zoe Hilbert (Kim Lab) "Sexually Dimorphic Decision-Making in C. elegans" Caitlin Vander Weele (Tye Lab) "Dopaminergic Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex Subpopulations" Lou Beaulieu-Laroche (Harnett Lab) "Dendritic Integration in Human Neurons" Nov. 17 Gloria Choi (MIT) "Gut Microbiome to Cortical Dysfunction: Neural Circuits Underlying Behavioral Abnormalities in Mice Exposed to Prenatal Immune Activation" Dec. 08 Phillip Haydon (Tufts Medical School) "Sleep and Wake Coordinated by Glia" -- Spring -- March 03 Zhigang He (Harvard Medical School / Boston Children Hospital) “From axon regeneration to functional recovery after injury” April 07 Bradford Lowell (Harvard Medical School) "Hunger Management: Feedback/Feedforward Regulation and the Effector Circuits" May 05 Susumu Tongegawa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Monitoring and Engineering Memory Engram Cells and Their Circuits" 2016 MCN Events (All seminars begin at 4:00 PM in 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium), followed by a social 5 PM to 6 PM) February 5 Steve McCarroll (Broad Institute - Harvard Medical Sch)"Genetic Eveidence for a Neuro-immune Mechanism in Schizophrenia"
March 4 Nace Golding (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
“Life in the fast brain: mechanisms and temporal codes underlying sound
localization”
April 8 Kwanghun Chung (MIT)
"Scalable Proteomic Imaging of Intact Biological Systems"
May 6 MCN Student Symposium Sep. 16 Cagla Eroglu (Duke University) "How do Astrocytes Control Development and Plasticity of Synaptic Circuits?" Oct. 14 Elly Nedivi (MIT) "Visualizing Synapse Sructural Dynaics in Neocortex in vivo" Nov. 18 Sebastian Kadener (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) "Molecular and Physiological Functions of Circular RNAs in the Brain" Dec. 09 Chinfei Chen (Children's Hospital) "A Role for Cortical Feedback in Thalamic Development"
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