Seminars

Featuring Shriya Srinivasan (Harvard SEAS)

This series features clinicians and patients discussing the lived experience of people with neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Featuring Gary Yellen (Harvard Medical School)

Featuring Clifford Woolf (HMS/BCH)

This series features clinicians and patients discussing the lived experience of people with neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Featuring Nadine Gaab (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Featuring Erin Hecht (Harvard)

Featuring: Daniel Schacter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Harvard

Featuring talks by Michael Miller (Assistant Professor, BWH), Soha Ashrafi (Director of Research, Neurobiology, HMS), Anna Rios (Grad student, PiN/RSI), and Marcelo Armendariz (Postdoc, BCH)

Featuring talks by Adam Cohen (Professor, Harvard), Zuri Sullivan (Postdoc, Harvard), Ya’el Courtney (Grad student, BCH), and Asem Wardak (Postdoc, HMS)

Featuring talks by Saranna Fanning (Assistant Professor, BWH), Connie Cepko (Professor, HMS), Dustin Tillman (Grad student, Harvard), and Luis Hernandez Nunez (Postdoc, Harvard).

Featuring talks by Michela Fagiolini (Associate Professor, BCH), Huixin Xu (Postdoc, BCH), Parth Bhatia (RA, BWH), AJ Schick (Grad student, MGH)

Featuring Sabina Berretta (McLean)

Featuring Chenghua Gu (HMS/HHMI) and Maria Lehtinen (HMS/BCH)

Featuring Amanda Whipple (Harvard)

Featuring Michael Murphy (McLean/HMS/Broad Institute) and Alen Juginović (HMS)

Join us for an interactive evening in the Mugar Omni Theater with MGH researcher Ted Zwang as he guides you through virtual reality and digitized brains that are being used to better understand dementia,

Featuring Mariela Zirlinger (Editor-in-Chief, Neuron)

Featuring Francis X. Shen (MGH/HMS/Harvard Law) and Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz (MGH/HMS)

Featuring Christiane D. Wrann (MGH/HMS)

Featuring C. Alex Goddard (Takeda Pharmaceuticals).

Featuring Jonathan Garst Orozco (Cerevel Therapeutics).

Featuring Nicholas Bellono (Harvard)

Featuring Dragana Rogulja.

Featuring Vikram Khurana.

Featuring Graduate Student Olivia Rose and Professor Jeff Holt

Featuring Dustin Tillman (Lab of Jeff Macklis, Harvard) and Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya (Lab of Susan Dymecki, Harvard Medical School)

Featuring Connie Cepko and David Liu.

Featuring Dragana Rogulja.

Featuring Sydney Cash (HMS/MGH)

Featuring Mark Richardson (MGH/HMS/MIT)

Featuring Isaac Chiu (HMS). Co-sponsored with the Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative.

Featuring Evan Macosko (HMS/Broad Institute)

Featuring: Hayan Yoon, Senior Associate, Fenwick & West

Featuring Grace Lindsay (University College London)

Featuring Paola Arlotta (Harvard University/Broad Institute).

Featuring Magdalene Moran (President and Chief Scientific Officer, Caraway Therapeutics)

Featuring Stephanie Courchesne (Senior Advisor in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health)

Featuring: Stacie Weninger (F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative)

A virtual book talk focused on psychiatry & science by Karl Deisseroth

Featuring: Liza Shoenfeld (Glia Consulting)

Robert Stickgold will discuss his new book. Free and open to the public.

Featuring Christopher A. Walsh (Boston Children's Hospital)

Featuring Kerry Ressler (McLean Hospital)

Hosted by Jennifer J. Thomas (MGH/HMS) and Kendra Becker (MGH/HMS).

Led by Kamryn T. Eddy (MGH/HMS) and Lauren Breithaupt (MGH).

A book talk by Ashley Juavinett. So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? is a contemporary and engaging guide for aspiring neuroscientists of diverse backgrounds and interests. Co-Sponsored with BIPOC Neuro.

Dr. Burstein’s talk will provide a brief overview of our current understanding of migraine pathophysiology, and a more detailed description of the neural substrate of photophobia, & how this understanding has led to marketing a cure in <4 yrs.

A broad overview for clinician-scientists & basic researchers. Featuring Drs. Hisashi Umemori (BCH/HMS) and Beth Stevens (BCH/HMS)

An overview and discussion session for basic scientists. Featuring Dr. Emery N. Brown (MGH/HMS/MIT)

A clinical overview and discussion session for basic scientists. Featuring Drs. Sabine Wilhelm (MGH/HMS) and Darin Dougherty (MGH/HMS)

A clinical overview and Q&A session for basic scientists. Hosted by Dr. Reisa Sperling MD (HMS/BWH)

A Clinical Overview and Q&A Session for Basic Scientists. Hosted by Dr. Joshua L. Roffman, MD, MMSc (MGH)

From the womb in which we developed to the food we just ate, Linden’s book explores the myriad factors that make us each unlike any other.

A Clinical Overview and Q&A Session for Basic Scientists. Hosted by James Berry, MD, MPH (HMS/MGH)

Featuring Dost Ongur (McLean)

Featuring: Lisa Nickerson, PhD, Sam Marsh, PhD, Rebecca Senft, and Seul Ah Kim

Featuring: Sam Gershman, PhD, Juliana Rhee, Davide Valeriani, PhD, Sarah Hersman, PhD

Featuring: Yakeel Quiroz, PhD, Jasmine Reggiani, Nikita Sturrock, Rachel Essner, and Taralyn Tan

Featuring: Bertha Madras, PhD, Tanvi Ranjan, Stephanie DeCross, and Kelly McGuire

Cox will talk about the ARIADNE project--a multi-university effort to study a living animal brain like never before to figure out how it learns.

Natural light controls our circadian clocks, synchronizing our activities with the day-night cycle.

Winston Chiong, Lee Schwamm, Shamai Grossman

Julian Savulescu, Anna Wexler, Aaron Kesselheim

Reception follows

Neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone and photographer Sharon Harper will explore the science and art behind seeing, perceiving, and creating images.

Joe Giacino, Joe Fins, Jim Bernat

Adam Cohen and Dimitar Sasselov will discuss the role of light in expanding our ability to “see” and describe new advances in light-based technologies.

Paul Ford, Darin Dougherty, Elizabeth Hohmann