Neuro Week
Celebrating Innovations in Brain Research@CMU
November 4-8, 2019
Join us for a week-long celebration of brain research at Carnegie Mellon.
Monday, November 4
9:00-10:00 Welcome
President Farnam Jahanian; Dean Rebecca W. Doerge (Mellon College of Science); Dean Richard Scheines (Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences); and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Director, Neuroscience Institute)
Join us for breakfast as we kick off a week-long celebration of brain research at Carnegie Mellon.
Simmons Auditorium B, Tepper Quad
10:00-12:00 Symposium: Leveraging Science and Technology to Beat Brain Disease
10:00-11:00 Keynote by Dr. Robert Bowser (Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology; Interim Chief Scientific Officer, Barrow Neurological Institute and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center; Director, Gregory W. Fulton ALS and Neuromuscular Research Center)
Biomarkers to Gain Mechanistic Insights and Monitor Treatments in Neurodegenerative Diseases
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:30 Aryn Gittis (Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, CMU)
Science to Unravel Parkinson’s Disease
11:30-11:45 Maysam Chamanzar (Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU)
Technology to Target Brain Stimulation
11:45-12:15 Panel Discussion
With Robert Bowser; Pulkit Grover (Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU); Jana Kainerstorfer (Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, CMU); Andreas Pfenning (Assistant Professor, Computational Biology, CMU)
Moderated by Jon Hamilton (Journalist and Science Correspondent, NPR)
Followed by audience Q&A.
Tuesday, November 5
4:00-6:00 Neuroscience Institute’s Presidential Fellows Showcase
Data blitz presentations
Followed by reception
Moderated by Wayne Wu (Associate Professor, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition)
Steinberg Auditorium, Baker Hall A53
Thursday, November 7
2:00-3:30 diversity in science
Public panel discussion with Coty Gonzales (Research Professor, Social and Decision Sciences); Kevin Jarbo (Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Social & Decision Sciences); Eve Marder (University Professor and the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University); Sophie Scott (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, University College London); and Eric Yttri (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences)
Moderated by Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Connan Room, University Center
4:00-4:30 Carnegie prize reception
Rashid Hall, Gates Hillman 4401
RSVP Not required
4:30-5:30 Andrew carnegie prize in mind and brain sciences lecture
Dr. Eve Marder (University Professor and the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University), 2019 Carnegie Prize Recipient
Rashid Hall, Gates Hillman 4401
RSVP Not required
Friday, November 8
12:00-1:30 Victor M. Bearg Lecture
Neuroscience of Laughter
Dr. Sophie Scott (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, University College London)
Followed by reception
Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts
