Calendar of Events Mobile Version

9:00 a.m.: Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, and Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Welcoming Remarks

9:25 a.m.: Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Stanford University, Saving the Synapse: What the Visual System Can Teach Us about Alzheimer’s Disease

10:05 a.m.: Takao Hensch, Ph.D., Harvard University, Unlocking Critical Periods

11:15 a.m.: Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Bonding

11:55 a.m.: Doris Tsao, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Representing the Visual World

12:35 p.m.: Pieter Roelfsema, M.D., Ph.D., Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Role of the Primary Visual Cortex in Conscious Perception

2:30 p.m.: Edvard Moser, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Grid Cells – Geometry in Space and Time

3:10 p.m.: Liqun Luo, Ph.D., Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rewiring of an Olfactory Circuit

3:50 p.m.: Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Concluding Remarks

4:35 p.m.: Richard Axel, M.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Bill Newsome, Ph.D., Stanford University and, Torsten Wiesel, M.D., The Rockefeller University, Round Table Discussion

Capucine van Rechem, Ph.D., assistant professor, department of pathology, Stanford University

Mia Levine, Ph.D., associate professor and associate chair, biology, University of Pennsylvania

Leonid A. Mirny, Ph.D., Richard J. Cohen (1976) Professor in Medicine and Biomedical Physics, and Physics, MIT; associate member, Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT