8th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & William Shucart Lecture

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Thank you for registering for the Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & William Shucart Lecture. We look forward to seeing you there! Please visit the Tufts Neuroscience Department website for additional information: http://medicine.tufts.edu/Education/Academic-Departments/Basic-Science-Departments/Neuroscience/Neuroscience-Symposium-and-Shucart-Lecture Please contact Shelley Antonio (shelley.antonio@tufts.edu) with any questions regarding the event.

8th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & William Shucart Lecture

By Tufts Neuroscience

Date and time

Thursday, May 11, 2017 · 9am - 5:30pm EDT

Location

Behrakis Auditorium

Jaharis Building 150 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02111

Description

Join us on Thursday, May 11th for the 8th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium and William Shucart Lecture. The day-long event features diverse speakers from around the country, and consistently brings together many from Neuroscience disciplines in the Boston area for a day of educational talks and discussions.

All talks will take place in the Behrakis Auditorium on the 1st floor of the Jaharis Building, 150 Harrison Avenue. Breakfast refreshments will be offered starting at 9:00 am and the talks will begin promptly at 9:30 am.

Registration is free, however we kindly ask that you RSVP if you plan to attend. Lunch will be provided to all who register prior to May 5th.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Schedule:

9:00 - 9:30 am
Registration & Coffee/Breakfast Refreshments

9:30 - 10:30 am
Opening Remarks - Thomas Biederer, PhD, Symposium Director

“Dissecting synaptic and circuitry mechanisms of psychiatric disorders”
Guoping Feng, PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:30 - 11:20 am
“A role for cortical feedback during developmental critical periods”
Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD - Boston Children’s Hospital

11:20 - 11:45 am (Break)


11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Tufts Neuroscience Postdoc & Graduate Student Presentations

Adema Ribic, PhD - Research Associate, Biederer Lab
Thomas Papouin, PhD - Research Assistant Professor, Haydon Lab
Jenny Koenig - MD/PhD Candidate, Dulla Lab, Neuroscience Graduate Program

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Lunch for all registered attendees

2:00 - 2:50 pm
“Molecular pathogenic mechanisms of C9ORF72-related ALS/FTD”
Fen-Biao Gao, PhD - University of Massachusetts Medical School

2:50 - 3:40 pm
“Microbial modulation of host neurochemicals”
Elaine Hsiao, PhD - University of California, Los Angeles

3:40 - 4:00 pm (Break)

4:00 - 5:15 pm
Shucart Lecture:
“From lineages of humans to lineages of neurons: evolution and development of human cerebral cortex”
Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital

5:15 - 6:00 pm
Reception (Jaharis Cafe & Courtyard)

Organized by

Tufts Neuroscience
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