Optogenetics

Sat, May 25, 2013 - 6:32am

May

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1 12:00pm - 01:00pm Christian Langkammer - Insights into tissue composition and microstructure by postmortem MRI 02:00pm - 03:00pm Gabrielle Liverant - Relations among Smoking, Anhedonia, and Reward Learning in Unipolar Sepression 02:30pm - 03:30pm Dima Amso - The Utility of Visual Attention: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development	2 05:00pm The role of fMRI in Cognitive Science: A discussion with Rebecca Saxe and Brian Scholl 06:00pm - 07:00pm Steven Hassan - Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers	3 01:00pm - 02:00pm David Osher - Function Follows Form: How Connectivity Patterns Govern Neural Responses 04:00pm - 05:00pm Linda Van Aelst - The role of G proteins in neuronal development and plasticity	4	5
6 10:00am - 11:00am Retsina Meyer - Neurobiologically-motivated treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model	7 12:00pm - 01:00pm Leon Bergen - The lexicon in learning and pragmatic inference 04:30pm - 06:00pm Rosemary Varley - Language and Thought: evidence from severe aphasia	8 08:30am - 05:30pm 2013 McGovern Institute Symposium: NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT 12:00pm - 01:00pm Chongzhao Ran - Optical Imaging of Amyloidosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brown Adipose Tissue	9	10	11	12
13 12:00pm - 01:00pm Joshua Buckholtz - The Causal Biology of Antisocial Behavior 12:00pm - 01:00pm Brian Kangas - Touchscreen Technology and the Preclinical Pharmacology of Complex Behavior 05:00pm - 06:30pm MIT Workshop: Transforming Science Coverage in the General Media	14 12:00pm - 01:00pm Laura Schulz's Infant and Childhood Cognition class 04:00pm - 05:00pm Joshua Sanes - Wiring up the retina 04:00pm - 05:00pm Suzanne Corkin - The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.	15 12:00pm - 01:00pm Martha Shenton - The Role of Neuroimaging in mTBI, Schizophrenia, and CTE: DTI, MRS, and Emerging PET Tau Imaging in CTE 06:00pm - 07:00pm Lawrence Fitzgerald - Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery for Autism Spectrum Disorders	16 01:00pm - 02:30pm Eric Reiman - Advancing The Preclinical Study and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease 04:00pm - 05:00pm Paul Greengard - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Major Depressive Disorder: A Work in Progress	17 10:30am - 12:00pm Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity 12:00pm - 01:00pm Paul Muentener - Predicting developmental outcomes from infants' early exploratory behaviors	18	19
20 01:00pm - 02:00pm Chia-Huei Tseng - Perceptual grouping in visual search	21 02:00pm - 03:00pm Krista Ehinger - Visual Features for Scene Recognition and Reorientation	22 12:00pm - 01:00pm Evelina Fedorenko - A novel framework for a neural architecture of language	23	24 10:30am - 12:00pm Hideki Kawahara 03:00pm Nonie Finlayson - The effects of depth information on visual search	25	26
27	28 04:30pm - 05:30pm Sharon Thompson-Schill - Costs and benefits of cognitive control for language processing	29 02:00pm - 03:00pm Amanda Tarullo - Developmental Consequences of Early Deprivation: Neural Function, Diurnal Cortisol Activity, and Social Behavior in Post-institutionalized Children	30	31

Time:

Thu, Mar 28, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

45 Francis St., Boston, MA 02446, Bornstein Amphitheater

Louis de Lecea (Stanford University)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/7645

Time:

Mon, Mar 18, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Northwest Building Room 243

Kay Tye (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/7645

Time:

Mon, Nov 19, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3189

Ada Celis Felix-Ortiz & Anna Beyeler (MIT Tye lab)

Abstract:

Time:

Wed, May 23, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, Room 2204

Darin Dougherty, MD, MSc
MGH

Abstract:

Time:

Wed, Feb 22, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

149 13th St, Charlestown Navy Yard, Room CNY2204

Ed Boyden, PhD
Benesse Career Development Professor
Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Joint Professor, MIT Dept. of Biological Engineering, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator, MIT McGovern Institute
Associate Member, MIT Picower Institute

Abstract:

Time:

Tue, Nov 22, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

115 Mill St Belmont, MA 02478, deMarneffe Building Room 132

Kelly Tan (University of Geneva)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/7055

Time:

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 - 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Place:

220 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115, Goldenson Building 122

1:30 p.m., Harvard Medical School Goldenson Building 122, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston.

* Sandeep Robert Datta (Harvard Medical School). Mapping Smell in the Cortex.

* Miklos Antal (Regehr Lab, Harvard Medical School). Functional studies of basal ganglia output using optogenics.

Longjun Wu (Clapham Lab, Harvard Medical School). The function of voltage-gated proton channel, Hv1, in brain microglia.

4:00 pm, Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston.

* Robert Malinow (University of California at San Diego), keynote speaker. Synapses in health and disease.

Time:

Fri, May 13, 2011 - 8:30am - 9:15am

Place:

677 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215

Ed Boyden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

http://cns.bu.edu/cns-meeting/schedule.htm

Time:

Fri, Apr 8, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

46 Vassar St Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3002

Ed Boyden, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab http://edboyden.org/

Host: Troy Littleton, MCN program Leader

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/6845

Time:

Mon, Mar 28, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

45 Francis Street, Boston. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Bornstein Amphitheater.

Louis de Lecea (Stanford University)

http://sleep.med.harvard.edu/calendar/1531/Optogenetic+Control+of+Arousa...

Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

May

Keywords:

Louis de Lecea - Optogenetic Control of Arousal and Reward

Kay Tye - Optogenetic Dissection of Neural Circuits Underlying Anxiety

Ada Celis Felix-Ortiz/Anna Beyeler - The Functional Contribution of Distal Amygdala Projections in Anxiety: An Optogenetic Circuit Dissection

Darin Dougherty - Neurotherapeutic Interventions in Psychiatry

Ed Boyden - Optogenetics, Robotic Neural Recording, and Other Neuroscience Tools

Kelly Tan - Probing inhibitory circuitry of the VTA with pharmacological and optogenetic tools

Harvard 2011 Leffler Symposium

Ed Boyden - Controlling brain circuits with light: New tools for analyzing neural systems

Ed Boyden - Controlling The Brain With Light: New Molecular Tools and Devices for Optogenetics

Louis de Lecea - Optogenetic Control of Arousal and Reward

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