Event Category: John D. Wiley Seminar Series
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Sep 3Seminar – Ari Ne’eman, PhD – “The Role of Public Policy in Facilitating the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Society” **Special Thursday seminar**John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Ari Ne’eman, PhDHarvard UniversityProfile About the Speaker: Ari Ne’eman is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on the role that public policy can play in facilitating the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout society. His primary research interests are in long-term services …
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Sep 11Seminar – Brian Lee, PhD – “Integrated Multimodal Profiling of Human Cortical Neurons”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Brian Lee, PhDAllen InstituteProfile About the Speaker: Brian Lee joined the Allen Institute in 2014 as a scientist in the Mouse Cell Types research program. Before joining the Allen Institute he was a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Paul Kenny at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, FL. In Dr. Kenny’s lab he …
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Sep 18Seminar – Jonathan Kipnis, PhD – “Anatomy of ‘Brainwashing’ and How It is Related to Brain Health”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Lab Website About the Speaker: Dr. Jonathan (Jony) Kipnis is BJC Investigator, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery at Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine. He is also the inaugural Director of Brain immunology and Glia (BIG) …
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Sep 25Seminar – Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD – “Development of Human Microphysiological Systems for Modeling Disease Complexity and Testing Interventional Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Tracy Young Pearse, PhDHarvard UniversityProfile About the Speaker: Tracy Young-Pearse is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, the Dennis J. Selkoe Distinguished Chair in Neurology, and the co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s Nervous System Diseases program. She received her undergraduate degree in her hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY from Skidmore College and …
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Oct 2Seminar – Ralph Adolphs, PhD – “Social Cognition, Autism, and the Human Amygdala”
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Ralph Adolphs, PhD Caltech Profile About the Speaker: Ralph Adolphs studies the neural and psychological basis for human social behavior. His work has focused on examining how people recognize, perceive, and process emotions and other social cues in facial expressions. Some of the questions his lab is trying to answer are: How do people make social …
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Oct 9Seminar – Ben Philpot, PhD – “Translational Opportunities for Angelman Syndrome”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Ben Philpot, PhD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Ben Philpot is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell Biology & Physiology at the University of North Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in psychobiology from Dr. Peter Brunjes at the University of Virginia and performed a postdoctoral …
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Oct 16Seminar – Scott Soderling, PhD – “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Proximity as a Driver of Synaptic Signaling in Health and Disease”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Scott Soderling, PhD Duke University Profile About the Speaker: Scott Soderling, Ph.D., is a George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology at Duke University School of Medicine. He is an expert in molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell biology and dysfunction linked to human brain disorders. His lab has …
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Oct 23Seminar – Anand Swaroop, PhD – “Genetic Variants, Genome Topology, and Complex Traits: Making Sense of Genetics of AMD and Glaucoma”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Anand Swaroop, PhD National Eye Institute Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Anand Swaroop obtained his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore–both in India. After completing his postdoctoral training at Yale University in molecular biology and human genetics, …
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Nov 6Seminar – Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD – “The Current State of Clinical Trials for Down Syndrome Associated Alzheimer’s Disease”John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD University of Southern California Profile About the Speaker: Michael S. Rafii, MD, PhD, is Medical Director of the Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He earned his MD and PhD degrees from Brown University, conducted neurogenetics research at …
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Dec 4Seminar – Judith Steen, PhD – Topic: Cell Types Within the Visual Cortex and the Encoding of Visual Information Within the Brain
John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
Judith Steen, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital Profile About the Speaker: Dr. Steen is a Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Director of the Neuroproteomics Laboratory in the F. M. Kirby Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her laboratory works to understand neuro-regeneration and neurodegenerative diseases …