Nervous System Diseases

2018 Sep 12

Modeling Human Neurological/Psychiatric Diseases with iPSC Technologies and Genetically Modified Non-Human Primates

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Brigham and Women's Hospital | Renal Division Basic Research Conference
Co-sponsored by HSCI

Guest speaker:

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Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD
Head, Institute for Regenerative...

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2018 Feb 12

DRB Student Data Club & Faculty Seminar Series

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Development, Degeneration, and Regeneration of Cerebral Cortex Projection Neurons: from Molecular Control of Subtype Diversity to Subtype-Specific, Autonomous Growth Cone Molecular Machinery
Jeffrey Macklis, MD
Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School

Deciphering the role of reptin in driving zebrafish cardiomyocyte proliferation
Michke Sharpe...

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2017 Dec 13

Genetic and spatial dissection of proteotoxicities from yeast to human neurons

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA

Harvard Medical School Department of Cell Biology | Departmental Seminar

Guest speaker:
Vikram Khurana, MD, PhD

Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Principal Investigator and Associate Neurologist
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute

Host:  Dan Finley

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2018 Jan 18

Achieving Fidelity in Cellular Models of Neurological Disease

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, BioLabs Lecture Hall, Room 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Harvard Brain Science Initiative | A dialogue on best practices in academia and industry

Guest speakers:
Kevin Eggan, PhD

Principal Investigator
HHMI, HSCRB and HSCI

Robin Kleiman, PhD
Senior Director
Translational Cellular Sciences
Biogen

Laurence Daheron, PhD
Head, HSCI iPS Core Facility

Refreshments provided -...

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2018 Mar 14

CANCELED: Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture

12:00pm to 1:00pm

CANCELED! We hope to reschedule!

HSCRB-HSCI Seminar Series

Guest speaker:
Jurgen Knoblich, PhD

Deputy Director and Senior Scientist
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, (IMBA)
Adjunct Professor, Medical University of Vienna

Faculty host: Paola Arlotta

Postdocs interested in...

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2018 Feb 14

Design for inference: reconstructing cellular circuits

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Mallinckrodt, Pfizer Lecture Hall, B23, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

HSCRB-HSCI Seminar Series

**Please note special time and venue for this seminar

Guest speaker:
Aviv Regev, PhD

Professor, MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chair of the Faculty, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Faculty host:  Amy Wagers

Postdocs interested in joining a social hour with ,Dr....

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2017 Aug 02

The Science of Pain | Complexities and Therapies

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, REB Auditorium, 190 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

TALKS @12 | Light refreshments served

Guest speaker:
Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Director, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Boston Children's Hospital

Pain is a protective mechanism that can indicate possible threats to our health. Without pain to serve as a warning signal, we would be at high risk of harming our body. Clifford Woolf will share his...

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2017 Jun 13

Lunch & Learn with STEMCELL's Neural Experts

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Sherman-Fairchild Building, Room G062, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

RSVP to Mark Fairey (mark.fairey@STEMCELL.com) by June 8, 2017 to ensure adequate food will be available.

 

Join us for a complimentary lunch at Harvard's Sherman-Fairchild Building and learn about STEMCELL Technologies' latest tool for cutting-edge neural research.

 

Featured speaker:
Sam Lloyd Burton, PhD

Associate Director, Strategic Marketing
STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.

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2017 May 11

Harvard Brain Science Initiative and The BCH Translational Neuroscience Center Discussion Series

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Warren Alpert Bldg., Room 236, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

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All members of the Boston area academic and research community interested in cellular modeling of neurological disease to join the first of an ongoing series of discussions.

Speakers:
Pin-Fang (Ivy) Chen, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
BCH Human...

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2017 May 12

Usher 1F Workshop

8:00am to 1:00pm

Location: 

W Hotel on the Boston Common, 100 Stuart Street, Boston, MA

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To register for this free morning workshop, geared toward investigators who have been funded for work in this area, and others in the Boston biomedical community who might help inform approaches to identify a cure,...

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