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| Monday, May 9, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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HNRCA Spring Seminar Series with Dr. Trygve Tollefsbol
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Join us for a seminar led by Dr. Trygve Tollefsbol. The topic will be "Epigenetics, Aging and Cancer Prevention: The Nutrient Connection".
Location: Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA @ Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Mezzanine Conference Room, Boston
The event is held in a government building, with security at the front door. In order to gain admittance you will need to bring a government ID to present at the door.
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Christine O'Connell
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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The 15th Andrew H. Weinberg Lecture
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Title of Talk: Childhood Cancer Research: 21st Century Science, 20th Century Clinical Trials
Peter C. Adamson, M.D. Chair, Children’s Oncology Group
Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Location:Smith Family Room (Dana Building, 16th Fl, Room 1620), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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Sarah Hagan
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| Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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8:30 AM - 5:15 PM
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McGovern Institute Symposium: Inhibition & Neural Circuit Function
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Symposium Schedule
8:30 am Continental breakfast served in atrium
8:45 am - 9:00 am
Robert Desimone and Yingxi Lin, McGovern Institute
Welcoming remarks
Session I (Chair: Martha Constantine-Paton)
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Gordon Fishell (New York University School of Medicine)
The transcription factor SatB1 is essential for the maturation of most Martinotti neurons
9:45 am - 10:30 am
Hollis Cline (The Scripps Research Institute)
Manipulation of inhibition/excitation ratio in vivo disrupts information processing and behavior
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Chris McBain (National Institute of Child Health & Human Development)
Development and maturation of a hippocampal feedforward inhibitory circuit
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Josh Huang (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Toward a genetic dissection of GABAergic circuits in cerebral cortex: chandeliers light up the path
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Lunch served in atrium
Session II (Chair: Guoping Feng)
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Peter Somogyi (University of Oxford)
Network oscillations and the anatomy of spike timing in the hippocampus
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Ed Callaway (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
Rabies-based tools for elucidating neural circuits and linking connectivity to function
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Andreas Luthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
Defining the neuronal circuitry of fear
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
David Lewis (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)
Cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
Reception in atrium
For more information visit http://mcgovern.mit.edu/component/content/article/21-events/457-mcgovern-institute-2011-symposium
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Keren Miller
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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| Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Vascular Cognitive Aging
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Angela L. Jefferson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, Education & Information Transfer Core, Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine.
Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, L-112, Boston, MA.
Part of the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics Weekly Seminar Series.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments served at 1:45 pm, R-Building 6th Floor.
www.bumc.bu.edu/busm-pm
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Kristina Bigdeli
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| Thursday, May 12, 2011
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4:00 AM - 5:00 AM
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2011 MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition - Mapping Olfaction
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Speaker: Liqun Luo, PhD Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Place: Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002, MIT
We are interested in studying how neural circuits are organized to process information, and how they are assembled during development. To address these questions, we use Drosophila and mice as model organisms, and combine advanced molecular genetics with developmental, anatomical, physiological and behavioral approaches. We have also developed genetic tools that allow us to answer these questions with more precision. In this talk, I will discuss our recent studies on the organization of olfactory circuits in flies and mice, and mechanisms of olfactory circuit assembly in flies.
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Keren Miller
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Interactions of Porphyromonas gingivalis with macrophages ? implications toward atherosclerosis and oral disease
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Speaker: Frank C. Gibson III, Ph.D., Boston University Medical Center
Location: The Forsyth Institute, Seminar Room A, 245 First St., 17th Floor, Cambridge
Summary: Porphyromonas gingivalis is a bacterium closely associated with periodontal disease. Clinical data support that periodontal disease may represent reservoir of increased risk for systemic diseases including atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Chronic inflammation with complex immune cell infiltration is a hallmark of both periodontal
disease and atherosclerosis. Macrophages are present in both diseased periodontal tissues and athromatous plaques; however the precise role these cells play in the pathogenesis of oral and vascular diseases remains incompletely defined. Focusing on the P. gingivalis ? macrophage interaction, our recent studies illuminate potential underlying mechanisms contributing to infection-elicited macrophage lipid uptake. Furthermore, our investigations suggest that macrophage
heterogeneity may participate in the inflammatory response to bacteria associated with periodontal disease.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, May 13, 2011
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Monroe Schlesinger Lecture
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Monroe Schlesinger Lecture
Speaker: David Baltimore, PhD
Location: The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Rotunda, NRB, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur.
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Nicole Magner
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Week of Sunday, May 8, 2011
