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.


Joint CBS and MCB Seminar Series             
Thursdays at noon, Sherman Fairchild Bldg Lecture Hall, Room 102


2007 ~ 2008
Speaker
 Title
October 4

Matt Wilson
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Picower Insitute for Learning and Memory, MIT

 Sequential event memory formation and reactivation in the hippocampus and beyond
October 25

Karl Deisseroth
Department of Bioengineering
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University  

Fast multimodal optical interrogation of neural circuitry: Development and applications

November 29

Sam Pfaff
Gene Expression Laboratory
Salk Institute  

Molecular signals guiding embryonic motor neuron
axon navigation
March 13

Russ Fernald
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University  

TBA
April 3

Gero Miesenböck
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Magdalen College, Oxford Univeristy

TBA

May 7, 8, 9 (Prather Lectures)

Huda Zoghbi
Departments of Molecular Genetics, Pediatrics and Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine

TBA
May 22

Brian Wandell
Department of Psychology
Stanford Univeristy  

The human visual pathways: Maps, plasticity, and reading


Other CBS Seminars             

2007 ~ 2008 Speaker Title


October 31

Sebastian Seung
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences  
Department of Phyics, MIT 
Noon, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg, Room G115

The computational challenges of connectomics



October 19

Andreas Luthi
Senior Group Leader
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel 
Noon, Biolabs Bldg Auditorium, Room 1068

 Be very afraid: Neural substrates of context-dependent fear extinction
December 4

Yang Dan
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Noon, Fairchild Lecture Hall, Room 102

Hebbian plasticity in the visual cortex: synaptic learning and network reverberation

 

 

Past CBS Seminars


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.