4th Annual Simons Center Workshop 2015: Opportunities for Discovery & Technology Development
Description
Please join us to hear about current research and funding opportunities in understanding the social brain and its disorders, including autism.
Leonard Rappaport, M.D., M.S. Chief, Division of Developmental Medicine; Mary Deming Scott Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: “Autism Spectrum Disorders – Current Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment”
Paul Blainey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering; Core Member, Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
Talk Title: “Combinatorial Pooled High-Content Genetic Screening with CRISPR/Cas”
Gloria Choi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Talk Title: “Oxytocin Mediates Entrainment of Sensory Stimuli to Social Cues of Opposing Valence”
Jae-Byum Chang, Ph.D. Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT
Talk Title: “Next-generation expansion microscopy”
Stefano Anzellotti, Ph.D. Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Saxe Laboratory, MIT
Talk Title: “Dynamic interactions between brain regions during emotion recognition”