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March 2015
Ongoing
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3/11
5:00pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Collective computation in nonlinear networks and the grammar of evolvability
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Total Synthesis of Rare Natural and Designed Molecules of Biological and Medicinal Importance
K. C. Nicolaou,
Harry C. and Olga K. Weiss Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Rice University,
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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NEW SPEAKER: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The power of expectations: examples in visual perception and decision-making
Peggy Seriès,
Lecturer, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh,
Monday, March 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Insights from a global view of secondary metabolism: Small molecules from the human microbiota"
Michael Fischbach,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Learning of invariant representations in visual cortex: i-theory
Tomaso Poggio,
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, McGovern Institute, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Brain Science Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
2:00pm
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2:45pm
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Special Neuroscience Seminar
Beyond Prosthetics: Turning Science Fiction into Science, and Science into Technology
Phillip Alvelda,
Program Manager Biological Technologies Office Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Shaping the Blood: Lessons from Chromatin and Single Cell RNA Dynamics
Ido Amit,
Department of Immunology,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2015
8:00am
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3/15
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
tRNA synthetase beyond translation: from vascular development to neurodegeneration
Xiang-Lei Yang,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Physiology and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
Monday, March 16th, 2015
8:00am
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3/18
5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup Meeting
Experimental And Computational Analysis Of A Large Protein Network That Controls Fat Storage Reveals The Design Principles Of A Signaling Network
Bader Al-Anzi,
Zinn Lab, Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
When Not to Let Your Heart Decide: Insights from Cardiac Systems Biology
Jeff Saucerman,
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering ,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MedE Special Seminar
"Application of CFD to arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis"
Andrea Remuzzi,
Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Bergamo, Dalmine (BG), Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
"Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics to arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis"
Andrea Remuzzi,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering ,
University of Bergamo, Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture
Reading the Neural Code in Behaving Animals, ~1000 Neurons at a Time
Mark Schnitzer,
Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Departments of Biology and Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 19th, 2015
8:00am
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3/29
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Patience and the Wealth of Nations
Armin Falk,
Director, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn,
Friday, March 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Neural Circuits for Elementary Motion Detection
Alexander Borst,
Director,
Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology,
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology,
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication
Kwabena Boahen,
Professor,
Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
9:00am
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9:01am
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar - CANCELED
!! CANCELED !! James Berger Biochemistry Seminar has been canceled
James Berger,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,
Monday, March 30th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:15am
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12:15pm
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Special Biology Seminar -- CANCELLED
Merging Population and Molecular Biology, Fly Examples
Sergey Nuzhdin,
Principal Investigator,
Center for High-Performance Computing,
University of Southern California ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"CRISPR-Cas Genome Surveillance: From Basic Biology to Transformative Technology"
Jennifer Doudna,
Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Collaborative Research Seminar
Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts
Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós,
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Do We Know Enough to Design Biology?
Pamela Silver,
Professor,
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,