MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain Workshop

When:
Wednesday, Sep 04, 2013 4:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Singleton Auditorium, Building 46-3002 (3rd floor)
43 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
http://web.mit.edu/scsb/SocialBrainWorkshop.html

The Simons Center for the Social Brain will host a workshop to share ideas and foster discussion around current research and funding opportunities in understanding the social brain and its disorders, including autism.


Speakers:
Mriganka Sur, PhD, Newton Professor of Neuroscience; Director, Simons Center for the Social Brain, MIT
Leonard Rappaport, MD, Chief, Division of Developmental Medicine; Director, Developmental Medicine Center, Boston Children's Hospital; Mary Deming Scott Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Evelina Fedorenko, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School
Jorg Scholvin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT


Panel Discussion on Technologies for Understanding the Brain:
Alan Jasanoff, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Engineering; Associate Member, McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Director, Center for Neurobiological Engineering, MIT
Guoping Feng, PhD, Poitras Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Edward Boyden, PhD, Benesse Career Development Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, MIT


Reception:
The panel discussion will be followed by a reception from 6:00-7:00pm in the Atrium outside of Singleton Auditorium.


Register in advance at: http://scsbworkshop2013-es2.eventbrite.com/

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