Event Detail (Archived)

Francis Crick: The Astonishing Hypothesis

A symposium in honor of the centenary of Francis Crick

  • This event already took place in March 2016
  • Caspary Auditorium

Event Details

Type
Academic Symposia
Speaker(s)
08:30 AM: Registration
09:00 AM: Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Welcoming Remarks
09:10 AM: Adrian Bird, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Molecular Basis and Reversibility of a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
09:40 AM: Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, What Makes Us Human? Insights from a Dynamic Genome
10:10 AM: Catherine Dulac, Ph.D., Harvard University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Parental Inheritance and Brain Function
11:00 AM: Gerald Rubin, Ph.D., Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Learning and Memory in Drosophila
11:30 AM: Moritz Helmstaedter, M.D., Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Cellular-Resolution Connectomics
12:00 PM: Edward Callaway, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Astonishing Prescience: What Would Francis Do?
02:10 PM: Kristen Harris, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Silent Synapse Growth and the Augmentation of Learning
02:40 PM: Yang Dan, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neural Circuits Controlling Sleep
03:30 PM: Sabine Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., Princeton University, Cognitive Functions of the Visual Thalamus
04:00 PM: Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D., INSERM-CEA; Collge de France, Decoding the Time Course of Conscious and Unconscious Operations
04:30 PM: Christof Koch, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Brain Science, Francis Crick and the Search for the Footprints of Consciousness in the Brain
05:00 PM: Thomas Jessell, Ph.D., Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Closing Remarks
Event URL
http://www.rockefeller.edu/crick
Open to
Public
Contact
Jill Benz
Phone
(212) 327-7244
Sponsor
Jill Benz
(212) 327-7244
benzj@rockefeller.edu