“Enhancing gamma oscillations in Alzheimer’s disease: mechanism and pilot study in humans”
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D
Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This seminar is in conjunction with the Conte Center Undergraduate Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Poster session being held in the NWL Cafe from 3:00 - 4:15, please stop by to see the newest research and grab a bite!

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“Dynamic consequences of early life stress on brain development: from endocrinology to epigenetics”
Catherine Jensen Peña, PhD
Assistant Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute

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“Neuroinclusion at Work: Belonging, not the Buzzwords”
Ludmila Praslova, PhD, SHRM-SCP
Author, “The Canary Code”,
Professor, Graduate Organizational Psychology,
Vanguard University of Southern California

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“Adolescence as a Critical Period in Humans”
Theodore Satterthwaite, MD
McClure Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Research,
Director of Penn Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center,
UPenn Perelman School of Medicine

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“My Brother Chases Dinosaurs: Embracing Neurodiversity”
Giacomo Mazzariol

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“Psychedelics and Related Plasticity-Promoting Neurotherapeutics”
David Olson, PhD
Director, Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics,
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis

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“Cell-type specific transcriptional networks related to neurodevelopmental disorders”
Genevieve Konopka, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neuroscience; Jon Heighten Scholar in Autism Research,
Townsend Distinguished Chair in Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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“Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms Linking Childhood Adversity with Psychopathology Across the Life-Course”
Katie A. McLaughlin, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Psychology
Harvard University

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“The neuroscience of social isolation through the big-data lens”
Danilo Bzdok, MD, PhD
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila-Quebec A.I. Institute,
Associate Professor, McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Montreal Neurological Institute

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“Gephyrin phosphorylation drives sex-dimorphic GABAergic connectivity in the hippocampus”
Shiva Tyagarajan, PhD
Neurodevelopmental Pharmacology Lab
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Zurich, Switzerland

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“Progress in Understanding the Genetic Basis of Mental Illnesses”
Benjamin Neale, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute

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“Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health”
Thomas R. Insel, MD
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science,
Stanford University School of Medicine

To view his seminar click here: Dr. Insel seminar talk

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“Neural Mechanisms of Sociability”
Robert C. Malenka, MD PhD
Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
Director, Nancy Pritzker Laboratory,
Deputy Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute,
Associate Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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“The influence of maternal prenatal stress trajectories on offspring brain and behaviors and new directions in precision brain mapping in infancy”
Damien Fair, PA-C,PhD
Redleaf Endowed Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
Professor, Institute of Child Development, College of Education and Human Development
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School
University of Minnesota

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“Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live”
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale University

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“The genetics of autism from risk to resilience”
Thomas Bourgeron, PhD, MS
Universite de Paris, CNRS, Institut Pasteur

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“Studying social cognition and its dysfunction in humans at a single-cell resolution”
Ziv Williams, MD
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at Mass General Hospital
Faculty at the Program for Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and HST

FREE and open to the public
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“A Gut Choice”
Diego V. Bohórquez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Gastroenterology and Neurobiology
Duke University

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“The consequences of SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion”
Eric Song, MD
Yale University, Dept Immunobiology (Iwasaki lab, HHMI)
and Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology

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“Rhythms and Brain Disorders”
Nancy Kopell, PhD
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University

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Join the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Conte Center at Harvard for the 3rd Japan-US Science Forum in Boston, “Changing the World Through Japan’s Scientific Endeavors - The Science of Sleep” on Saturday November 10, 2018 at 52 Oxford Street, Room B103, Cambridge, MA.

Leading researchers from Japan will introduce us to the neuroscientific aspects of  sleep. In the panel discussion, panelists will discuss the human and social aspects of sleep. There will also be a poster session at the start of the program (11:00 am).

Find the program and registration information here. Registration is REQUIRED.

"On Being a Circuit Psychiatrist"
Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD
Director, National Institute of Mental Health

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Free and open to the public

"The infantile amnesia paradox: a critical period of learning to learn and remember"

Cristina Alberini, PhD
Professor, Center for Neural Science
New York University

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Free and open to the public

"Modeling Prenatal Cortical Development Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Flora M. Vaccarino, MD
Harris Professor at the Child Study Center
Professor in the Dept. of Neuroscience, Yale University of Medicine

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"Sensitive periods in affective development: nonlinear maturation of fear learning"
Francis Lee, MD, PhD
Mortimer D. Sackler Porfessor, Dept of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine

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