Activities

Seminars                 

CBS invites scientists from around the world to visit our community and present their work. We also share a seminar series with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the FAS Center for Systems Biology.

2008-2009 Thursday CBS Seminars

9 October 2008

 

 

Michael Dickinson
Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology
California Institute of Technology
Title: The visual ethology of fruit flies
Noon, Fairchild 102

6 November 2008

 

 

Joe Fetcho
Department of Neurobiology & Behavior
Cornell University 
Title: Unifying principles that govern the development and later function of motor systems in the spinal cord and hindbrain
Noon, Fairchild 102

4 December 2008

 

 

Nancy Kanwisher
Department of Biological Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Title: Feedback of Visual Object Information to Foveal Retinotopic Cortex
Noon, Fairchild 102

2 April 2009

 

 

Allison Doupe
Professor of Psychiatry and Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
Title: TBA
Noon, Fairchild 102

16 April 2009

 

 

Karel Svoboda
HHMI, Janelia Farm Scientist
HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus & Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title: TBA
Noon, Fairchild 102

7 May 2009

 

 

Larry Zipursky
HHMI Investigator
University of California, Los Angeles 
Title: TBA
Noon, Fairchild 102

Link to 2007-2008 CBS Seminars

Link to 2006-2007 CBS Seminars

 

CBS also hosts a weekly Brownbag Lunch Seminar Series, featuring neuroscientists in the Boston area. Recently, we have heard interesting talks from

Donald Katz

Kamal Sen

Carlos Lois

David Cox

Paul Garrity

Piali Sengupta

Clif Saper

Bernardo Sabatini

Narayanan "Bobby" Kasthuri

AlanJasanoff

Chinfei Chen

Takao Hensch

Emery Brown

Hopi Hoekstra


Other regional seminars

 

Neurolunch

CBS graduate students and postdocs have organized a lunchtime journal club every Wednesday at 1pm in the Biolabs building, room 1075. For more information contact Kaveri Rajaraman (krajaram@fas.harvard.edu). The neurolunch schedule of presenters and other information can be found here.

 

Retreat

Each May, CBS holds an annual retreat for students, postdocs, and faculty to share scientific information and ideas in both formal and informal interactions.

The 2008 CBS retreat will be held on Friday 30 May 2008 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA.