Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute

Vienna City of Science Symposium

Event Date: 
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 12:00am

Neuroscience: At the Cutting Edge of Discovery and Translation 

Friday, February 19, 2016 2:30-5:30 pm
Weill Auditorium (C-200), 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065

Hosted by
Laurie H. Glimcher, MD
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)
 

Josef Penninger, MD
Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)

Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD
Associate Dean for International Medicine and Distance Learning (WCM) Medical Director American Austrian Foundation (AAF)

Costantino Iadecola, MD
Director, Brain and Mind Research Institute (WCM)

2:30 – 2:45 PM: Opening Remarks

2:45-3:25 PM: Glioblastoma Stem Cells and Cerebral Organoids: A Better Model and Therapeutic Implications

Presented by: Howard Fine, MD

Director of the Brain Tumor Center at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/WCM Associate Director of Translational Research at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, WCM Chief of the Division of Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neurology, WCM

3:25-4:05 PM: The Age of Insight, the Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
 

Presented by: Eric Kandel, MD

Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science Co-Director, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University
Senior investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 
4:05-4:45 PM: Diagnosing and Rescuing Dysfunctional Brain Circuits in Depression
 
Presented by: Conor Liston, MD, PhD
 
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Mind Research Institute, WCM
 
4:45-5:25 PM: Towards Interrogation and Analysis of Whole-Brain Neuronal Dynamics at Single Cell Level
 
Presented by: Alipasha Vaziri, PhD
 
Head of Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, Rockefeller University
Group Leader - Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Director Interfaculty Research Platform Quantum Phenomena and Nanoscale Biological Systems (QuNaBioS), University of Vienna
 

Supported by the American Austrian Foundation and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund

*Lectures are recorded and are available to Weill Cornell Faculty and Staff as podcasts at: 

 

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