Feb 14 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Alison Goate, D.Phil., Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Neurogenetics, Director, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alzheimer’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disease that has no effective treatment. We are using genetic approaches to determine the underlying mechanisms of disease with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets for treatment. Informatic analyses indicate that AD heritability is enriched within...
Feb 8 2019 - 12:00pm
Speaker: Rebecca Cox (Graduate Student, Dr. Petsko's Laboratory, WCM
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Feb 1 2019 - 12:00pm
Speaker: Silky Pahlajan (B2B)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Jan 31 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Adam Kepecs, Ph.D.
Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Every decision we make is accompanied by a sense of confidence about the likely outcome. An accurate sense of confidence confer benefits for a broad range behavior, such as investing more when a gain is more likely. Conversely, the pathological misevaluation of confidence contributes to a wide range of neuropsychiatric conditions, including anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and addiction. I will...
Jan 25 2019 - 12:00pm
Speaker: eresa Sanchez Garcia Vao (PhD, Assistant Prof of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and of Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Jan 18 2019 - 12:00pm
Speaker: Marilena D’Aurelio (PhD, Assistant Research Prof of Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Jan 17 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Akira Sawa, M.D.
Director and S&R Innovation Professor, Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health
Supported by technological advances and collaborative efforts, psychiatric genetics has provided robust genetic findings in the past decade, particularly through genome-wide association studies (GWASs). However, translating these genetic findings into biological mechanisms and new therapies has been enormously...
Jan 4 2019 - 12:00pm
Speaker: Charlotte Bavley (PhD Candidate, Rajadhyaksha Lab, WCM)
Location: Feil Family Research Building Conference Room 108
Jan 3 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Weill Auditorium
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Neurotechnology Center, Dept., Biological Sciences, Columbia University
The design of neural circuits, with large numbers of neurons interconnected in vast networks, strongly suggest that they are specifically build to generate emergent functional properties (1). To explore this hypothesis, we have developed two-photon holographic methods to selective image and manipulate the activity of neuronal populations in 3D in vivo (2). Using them we find that groups of...