The Rockefeller University » The Joshua Lederberg–John von Neumann Symposium: Towards Quantitative Biology

Event Details

Type: Academic Symposia
Speaker(s): 10:30 a.m.: Edo Kussell, Ph.D., associate professor, department of biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, Correlated Mutations and Homologous Recombination in Bacterial Populations

11:45 a.m.: Paul François, Ph.D., associate professor, department of physics, McGill University, Canada, Immune Recognition, Spandrel and Antagonism

2:00 p.m.: Tatyana O. Sharpee, Ph.D., associate professor and Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Neural Mechanisms of Visual Object Recognition

3:00 p.m.: Mariano Sigman, Ph.D., associate professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina; visiting professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, Confidence, Deliberation, and Democracy

4:30 p.m.: Mukund Thattai, Ph.D., associate professor, Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India, Possible and Impossible Cells
Event URL: http://www.rockefeller.edu/lederbergvonneumann
Open to: Public
Reception: Refreshments, 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Lower Level Greenberg Building (CRC)
Contact: Jill Benz
Phone: (212) 327-7244
Sponsor: Jill Benz
(212) 327-7244
benzj@rockefeller.edu

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