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| Friday, October 1, 2010
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8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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First Biennial Symposium on Age Related Macular Degeneration
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The Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology presents its First Biennial AMD Symposium from September 30 - October 2, 2010 at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Schepens Eye Research Institute.
This conference, organized by Dr. Patricia A. D’Amore, Dr. Ivana K. Kim, and Dr. Joan W. Miller, will bring together international experts from a diverse array of fields as well as leaders from related disciplines outside ophthalmology in an interactive format to discuss current and future topics in AMD research. Subjects that will be covered include genetics, RPE/Bruch's membrane/choriocapillaris, inflammation, stem cells and tissue engineering, imaging, animal models, and neurodegenerative disease.
For hotel information and registration please visit: www.schepens.harvard.edu/amd_symposium
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| Contact: |
Charles Ruberto
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1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
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| Monday, October 4, 2010
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Noon
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Regulation of Endothelial Differentiation by the ETS Factor ERG
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Research Seminar Series
Peter Oettgen, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
LOCATION: Room 220, Boston University, College of Health and
Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, 635 Commonwealth Avenue
HOST: Dr. Kathleen Morgan
Refreshments will be served
For more information on Dr. Oettgen go to:
http://www.bidmc.org/Research/Departments/Medicine/CenterforVascularBiology/AboutUs/Faculty/PeterOettgenMD.aspx
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| Contact: |
Danka Charland
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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AWIS Speed Networking event
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Announcing the 2010: SPEED NETWORKING EVENT
Location: Tommy Doyle’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 96 Winthrop Street
Cambridge
Please join the Massachusetts AWIS chapter for an evening of Speed Networking led by Diane Darling, a dynamic speaker and the author of the book “The Networking Survival Guide.” Dinner will be provided and a free copy of Diane’s book will be given to the first 75 registrants. Remember to bring your business cards!
This event is open to everyone; both men and women are encouraged to attend this fun, informative, interactive event. The discounted registration fee is only available for AWIS members and students; consider becoming an AWIS member at www.awis.org and if you become a member, be sure to select the Massachusetts Chapter.
We can host 120 attendees for the Speed Networking Event so register today!!!
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=209085
Agenda:
6:00-7:00pm: Registration/Networking/Dinner
7:00-7:30pm: Introduction to Speed Networking by Diane Darling
7:30-8:30pm: Speed Networking Event
8:30-9:00pm: Concluding Remarks by Diane Darling/Networking
$20 – AWIS Members & Students; $40 – Non-members
Street parking and garages are available in the area. The MBTA’s Harvard Square Station (Red Line) & the LMA M2 Shuttle Bus stop are within walking distance.
Massachusetts AWIS Chapter (www.mass-awis.org)
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AWIS
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| Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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The importance of cross-syndrome comparisons
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| Description: |
Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, University of London
Location: Building 46, MIT
Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu
Scientists tend to focus on single domains and single syndromes, searching for dissociations. However, the search for cross-syndrome associations can yield deeper insights and raise new cognitive-level and brain-level questions. In this talk, I will show how cross-syndrome and cross-domain comparisons of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Williams syndrome, Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome allow us to pinpoint basic domain-general deficits in infancy and their cascading effects across domains over developmental time, yielding domain-specific deficits in the phenotypic outcome.
Supported by the Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain at MIT (web.mit.edu/autism)
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| Contact: |
Lee Mavros Rushton
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| Friday, October 8, 2010
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1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
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| Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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(All Day)
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Harvard / NCI-MMHCC 5th Hematopoietic Malignancies Workshop
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The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Workshop, Thomas Look, Daniel Tenen, Scott Armstrong, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi, invite you to join us as a guest at the:
Harvard / NCI-MMHCC 5th Hematopoietic Malignancies Workshop
MEETING TIMES:
START: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 1:00 PM
END: Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 12:00Noon
LOCATION: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
REGISTRATION WEBSITE: http://www.team-psa.com/NCI-MMHCC-HematopoieticMalignancies/home.asp
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| Contact: |
Mariyn Nciolosi
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Seminars in Oncology: A Tribute to Ruth Sager, PhD
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The Countway Library’s Archives for Women in Medicine & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seminars in Oncology presents: “Legacy of Science - A Tribute to Ruth Sager, Ph.D.”
"Reflections on Ruth Sager and her Influence on my Early Career"
Jack Szostak, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ Harvard Medical School
"Remembering Dr. Ruth Sager and Her Legacy"
Mary Hendrix, Children’s Memorial Research Center
Hosted By: Ursula Matulonis
Location: Jimmy Fund Auditorium, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
http://dfcionline.org/research/oncologyseminars/default.aspx
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| Contact: |
Claudia Steele
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6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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How to Balance a Successful Career and a Satisfying Life
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| Description: |
Massachusetts Association for Women in Science presents:
How to Balance a Successful Career and a Satisfying Life
L110 (first floor of 72 E. Concord St. Boston, MA 02118), Boston University School of Medicine
TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=210106
Details:
Please join MASS-AWIS, the Boston University Department of Graduate Medical Sciences the Boston University Department of Medicine Faculty Development and Diversity Office for a discussion of work/life balance. Hear from leaders in academy and industry on how they deal with the modern pressures of juggling a successful career with a satisfying life. Open to men and women alike.
Featured speakers:
Dr. Joanne Kamens, Senior Director of Research Collaborations, RXi Pharmaceuticals, founder of the Boston chapter of AWIS and
Dr. Galit Lahav, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, author of "How To Survive and Thrive in the Mother-Mentor Marathon"
Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm: Registration, Networking and Sandwiches
7:00-8:45pm: Talks from Drs. Galit Lahav and Joanne Kamens
8:45-9:00pm: Networking and Dessert
AWIS members and BU Students/Postdocs FREE
$5 non-member students - $20 for non-members
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| Contact: |
Anne-Elise Tobin
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| Thursday, October 14, 2010
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Do we understand multi-drug resistance in Mycobacteria?
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MSI Monthly Seminar Series!
Please join us for a wine and cheese reception at 5:30pm, followed by the seminar at 6:00pm.
Speaker: Deb Hung (HMS, MGH)
Location: Harvard Univ Center for the Environment, 24 Oxford St, 3rd Floor, Room 310
http://www.msi.harvard.edu/events/thursdays.html
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| Contact: |
Andrea Lenco
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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"MARKETING YOUR IDEAS (AND YOURSELF) IN BUSINESS
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Success often requires presenting scientific and technical ideas (and yourself) to others. This can range from persuading a company of your work's value, convincing potential funders to invest, or getting upper management to take you seriously. This panel discussion will address both "hard" and "soft" issues to better articulate and market your ideas (and yourself) to achieve your goals.
Location: 200 Cambridgepark Drive, Cambridge (One block from Alewife T stop) Pfizer (formerly Wyeth) Cafeteria. Free parking available.
Cost:
Advance Registration (by 9pm Tues. Oct. 12):
$35 for WEST Members, $45 for non-WEST members
At the Door: $10 additional.
For more information visit: http://www.westorg.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=118240
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| Contact: |
Susan Silberman
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| Friday, October 15, 2010
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1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
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| Monday, October 18, 2010
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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The 17th Annual Dr. J. Murray Gavel Clinical Research Lecture
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Location: The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, 17th Floor, Cambridge, MA
5:00 Registration
6:00 Greetings
Philip Stashenko, President and CEO
6:10 Welcome
J. Max Goodson, Chairman, Dr. J. Murray Gavel Clinical Research Lectureship
6:20 Thomas Van Dyke, The Forsyth Institute
"Management of Inflammation in Periodontitis"
7:30 Reception
Please Note: Advanced registration is required due to limited seating. Please RSVP to Pam Quattrocchi, 617-892-8604 or e-mail at pquattrocchi@forsyth.org
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| Contact: |
Pam Quattrocchi
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| Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Next Generation Sequencing Technologies: Principles and Applications
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Traditional capillary sequencing technology using base-specific chain termination by fluorescent di-deoxy nucleotides represents modifications to the original sequencing methodology devised by Sanger and colleagues in the 1970s. Recent years have seen the development of next generation parallel sequencing technologies that are rapidly replacing older methodologies. Sequencing by synthesis enables the simultaneous sequence analysis of millions of DNA templates at the same time, or in parallel. These new approaches allow for DNA sequencing at a markedly faster pace, and often at a much cheaper price, making sequencing projects feasible for an ever-expanding number of researchers. This nanocourse will explore the methodology and principles behind parallel sequencing technology, and how it measures up to traditional sequencing methods. Examples of the numerous applications of this ever-evolving technology, as well as the limitations of parallel sequencing, will also be discussed.
LOCATION: Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School
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Leah Brault
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Interpreting the non-coding human genome using chromatin and regulator dynamics in multiple cell types
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Joint meeting of IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES), and GBC/ACM
Our group at MIT aims to further our understanding of the human genome by computational integration of large-scale functional and comparative genomics datasets. (1) Using alignments of multiple closely related species, we have defined evolutionary signatures for the systematic discovery and characterization of diverse classes of functional elements, including protein-coding genes, RNA structures, microRNAs, developmental enhancers, regulatory motifs, and biological networks. (2) Using epigenomics datasets of multiple chromatin marks across the complete genome, we have defined chromatin signatures that reveal numerous classes of promoter, enhancer, transcribed, and repressed regions, each with distinct functional properties. (3) Using diverse functional datasets across many cell types, we have defined multi-cell activity signatures for chromatin states, regulator expression, motif enrichment, and target gene expression, and have used their correlations to link candidate enhancers to their putative target genes, infer cell type-specific activators and repressors, and to predict and validate functional regulator binding in specific chromatin states.
We have used these evolutionary, chromatin, and activity signatures to elucidate the function and regulatory circuitry of the human and fly genomes, to reveal many new insights on animal gene regulation and development, including abundant translational read-through in neuronal proteins, functionality of anti-sense microRNA transcripts, and thousands of novel large intergenic non-coding RNAs. We have also used these signatures to revisit previously uncharacterized disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variants linked to several diseases and phenotypes from genome-wide association studies, which has enabled us to provide mechanistic insights into their likely molecular roles.
Manolis Kellis is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at MIT, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he directs the MIT Computational Biology Group (compbio.mit.edu). His group has recently been funded to lead the integrative analysis efforts of the modENCODE project for Drosophila melanogaster, and also for integrative analysis of the NIH Epigenome Roadmap Project. He has received the NSF CAREER award, an NIH R01 for work in Computational Genomics, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Karl Van Tassel chair in EECS, the Distinguished Alumnus 1964 chair, and the Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award in EECS. He was recognized for his research in genomics as one of the top young innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review Magazine, one of the principal investigators of the future by Genome Technology magazine, and one of three young scientists representing the next generation in biotechnology by the Boston Museum of Science. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT, where he received the Sprowls award for the best doctorate thesis in computer science, and the first Paris Kanellakis graduate fellowship. Prior to computational biology, he worked on artificial intelligence, sketch and image recognition, robotics, and computational geometry, at MIT and at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He lived in Greece and France before moving to the US.
This joint meeting of the Boston Chapters of the IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, the MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES) and GBC/ACM will be held in the Broad Institute Auditorium (MIT building NE-30). The Broad Institute is on Main St between Vassar and Ames streets. You can see it on a map at this location. The auditorium is on the ground floor near the entrance.
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/manolis2010talk.html
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Peter Mager
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| Thursday, October 21, 2010
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8:15 AM - 6:00 PM
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The Picower Symposium: Molecules, Circuits, and Cognition
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Location: Rooms 3002 and 3310, Building 46, MIT
Speakers:
Troy Littleton Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Catherine Dulac Harvard University
Nils Brose Max Planck Institute, Germany
David McCormick Yale University
Thomas Insel National Institute of Mental Health
Yang Dan University of California Berkeley
David Sheinberg Brown University
Matt Wilson Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For more information visit http://web.mit.edu/picower/events/symposium.html
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Najat Kessler
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5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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ASSERTIVENESS AS ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT
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| Description: |
Women are often advised to be more assertive. Research shows that men ask for more and they get more – in salaries, promotions, and visibility. But there can be a cost to women if they are perceived as too assertive or aggressive. What’s a woman to do? This workshop will share strategies & techniques and give you an action plan to begin Assertiveness as Active Engagement your next day at work!
Cost:
Preregistration (until 9pm Tuesday October 19)
Members: $95 Members; $125 Non-Members; $25 additional at door if space available.
Special: $170 Workshop & Membership (Save $40!)
Light dinner and refreshments are included.
Location:
Riverfront Office Park, One Main Street, Cambridge MA, 02142
(Corner of Main St. and Memorial Drive., Near Kendall Square T stop).
http://www.westorg.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=118242
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| Contact: |
Susan Silberman
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| Friday, October 22, 2010
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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13th Annual JBL Symposium
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We cordially invite you to this year's Thirteenth Annual John B. Little Symposium entitled, "Stress responses in radiobiology, cancer and aging."
The Symposium will be held Fri-Sat, October 22-23 at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA.
Registration is required but open to the public at no cost. Detailed information on the program and online registration for the Symposium is available on the JBL website at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/jbl-center/jbl-symposium/
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| Contact: |
Holly Johnsen
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1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
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| Saturday, October 23, 2010
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8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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13th Annual JBL Symposium
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| Description: |
We cordially invite you to this year's Thirteenth Annual John B. Little Symposium entitled, "Stress responses in radiobiology, cancer and aging."
The Symposium will be held Fri-Sat, October 22-23 at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA.
Registration is required but open to the public at no cost. Detailed information on the program and online registration for the Symposium is available on the JBL Website at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/jbl-center/jbl-symposium/
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| Contact: |
Holly Johnsen
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| Monday, October 25, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Transcriptional Control of Cardiovascular Development
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| Description: |
Cardiovascular Seminar Series
Speaker: Brian Black, University of California, San Francisco
Location: Folkman (Enders) Auditorium, John F. Enders Research Bldg., Children's Hospital Boston
This conference is supported by the Faye and Karen Sinclair Research Fund for Congenital Heart Disease
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| Contact: |
Michelle Merry
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| Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Noon - 1:15 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition: Toward a single-trial view of motor preparation
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Speaker: Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University
Location: Room 3002, Bldg 46, The Singleton Auditorium, MIT
Abstract:
Our seemingly effortless ability to reach out and swat a fly or grab a cup belies the sophisticated neural computations at work in our nervous system. It has long been recognized that, before moving, we somehow prepare neural activity such that, when called upon, the desired movement unfolds. But the goals of movement preparation and the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. I will describe some of our recent electrophysiological investigations of how premotor cortex prepares and helps execute movements. Our results suggest that the brain is attempting to optimize preparatory neural activity and can delay movement until this activity is sufficiently accurate. We note that the spiking activity during motor preparation exhibits dynamics beyond that driven by external stimulation, presumably reflecting the extensive recurrence of neural circuitry. We have been developing analysis methods for capturing the dynamics from (96 channel) simultaneous PMd neural recordings while monkeys perform delayed reaching tasks, and I will present recent work that examines the trial-by-trial neural trajectories during movement preparation and generation and their relationship with behavior. Characterizing these dynamics may reveal important features of neural computation, and may be useful for further increasing the performance of neural prostheses.
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Vivi Hinh
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5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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| Friday, October 29, 2010
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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1:40 PM - 3:00 PM
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Month of October 2010
