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Academic Symposia
Francis Crick: The Astonishing Hypothesis
A symposium in honor of the centenary of Francis Crick
8:30 a.m.: Registration 9:00 a.m.: Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Welcoming Remarks 9:10 a.m.: Adrian Bird, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Molecular Basis and Reversibility of a Neurodevelopmental Disorder 9:40 a.m.: Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, What Makes Us Human? Insights from a Dynamic Genome 10:10 a.m.: Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Parental Inheritance and Brain Function 11:00 a.m.: Gerald Rubin, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Learning and Memory in Drosophila 11:30 a.m.: Moritz Helmstaedter, M.D., Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Cellular-Resolution Connectomics 12:00 p.m.: Edward Callaway, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Astonishing Prescience: What Would Francis Do? 2:10 p.m.: Kristen Harris, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Silent Synapse Growth and the Augmentation of Learning 2:40 p.m.; Yang Dan, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neural Circuits Controlling Sleep 3:30 p.m.: Sabine Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., Princeton University, Cognitive Functions of the Visual Thalamus 4:00 p.m.: Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D., INSERM-CEA; Collège de France, Decoding the Time Course of Conscious and Unconscious Operations 4:30 p.m.: Christof Koch, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science, Francis Crick and the Search for the Footprints of Consciousness in the Brain 5:00 p.m.: Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Closing Remarks
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