Symposium
ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE
Annual Symposium:
Open Questions in Neuroscience
The annual symposium, Open Questions in Neuroscience, offers a thought-provoking program that addresses key areas of neuroscience and looks to the future of the field. Bringing together a diverse group of leading scientists, the meeting features a mixture of talks and discussion to inspire innovative thinking and engage participants in exploring compelling avenues for advancing brain research.
2012 Annual Symposium Video Archives
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Cori BargmannThe Rockefeller University
Genetic conservation and ancient behavior
Ricardo DolmetschAllen Institute for Brain Science
Using human genetics and stem cells to study brain development
John DonoghueBrown University
Neurotechnology: Fixing broken brains by decoding cortex
Susan DymeckiHarvard Medical School
Decoding the brain serotonergic system: intersectional genetics and functional probing
Ila FieteThe University of Texas at Austin
A new class of neural population codes
Jack L. GallantUniversity of California, Berkeley
Modeling and decoding the human brain
Sabine KastnerPrinceton University
The role of thalamo-cortical interactions in spatial attention
Ed LeinAllen Institute for Brain Science
Deciphering the mammalian brain transcriptome
Earl K. MillerMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Brain rhythms and cognition
Thomas Mrsic-FlogelUniversity College London
The functional organization of connectivity in visual cortex
Bence ÖlveczkyHarvard University
A comparative approach to understanding motor skill learning
David Van EssenWashington University in St. Louis
The human connectome project
2011 Annual Symposium Video Archives
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University of Washington
Sensorimotor control of movement: Even the circuits of little brains accomplish complex tasks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prime movers of the brain: Localizing neural circuits that drive complex motor behaviors
University of California, Los Angeles; Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Neurons as will and representation: Recordings from the human brain
The Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Genetic dissection of the mouse brain: Toward a 21st century brain pharmacology
University of California, Davis
How does evolution build a complex brain?
Harvard University
Neural computation in the retina
Sacha B. Nelson
Brandeis University
Defining the mammalian neurome
Richard Palmiter
University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Deciphering a neural circuit controlling anorexia in the mouse
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The computational magic of the ventral stream: A theory
Harvard University
Discovering circuits that control fate choices in embryonic stem cells
Harvard Medical School
Functional and structural imaging of cortical circuits
Pacific Biosciences
A systems framework for understanding the complexity of living systems
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Design principles for dendritic inhibition
Salk Institute; University of California, San Diego; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
A new view of the neuropil
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Genomics and psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Rewiring the cortex
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis
Hongkui Zeng
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Genetic approaches for brain circuit dissection and connectivity mapping
2010 Annual Symposium Video Archives
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Allen Institute for Brain Science
Introduction and opening presentationCalifornia Institute of Technology
How is 'emotion' represented in the brain?Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Controlling brain computations: Towards new brain insights and brain therapiesSalk Institute for Biological Studies
Rutgers University
Internally evolving cell assembly sequences in the service of cognitionHarvard Medical School
Reading and writing complex bionetworksCalifornia Institute of Technology
Towards an integrated view of brain functionHarvard University
Relationship between genome information and brain functionUniversity of California, San Diego
Multiscale challenges in brain sciences: Bridging gaps in knowledge and understandingThe Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
The problem of synapse complexityCalifornia Institute of Technology
Thinking of Jennifer Aniston and Marilyn Monroe: Linking perception to single neurons in humansUniversity of Washington
The neurobiology of decision-making: A window on cognitionStanford School of Medicine
Synaptic diversity: Friend or foe?Indiana University Bloomington
The human brain: A complex networkJanelia Farm Research Campus
Causal neuroscience: Beyond cell typesSusumu Tonegawa Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How dentate gyrus handles pattern separation and completion
California Institute of Technology
Mechanisms for face recognition
