The subject of our first meeting on March 28th–29th, is “Chemistry’s Role in the Brain Initiative, in part because of our community’s emerging interest in the National Institutes of Health’s “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies” (BRAIN) Initiative and the apparent or likely opportunity for chemistry to impact it. Here at JHU, there are already considerable research efforts in this direction, with a Krieger School Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, an associated Center for Imaging Science, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, the prominent JHU School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience, and the JHU Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute (with participating scientists from 14 JHU departments).
Speakers:
Prof. Anne Andrews, University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Psychiatry and Chemistry & Biochemistry
Functional Nanomaterials and Chemical Neurotransmission
Prof. Ed Boyden, MIT, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Expansion Microscopy and Optogenetics: Tools for Deconstructing Neural Circuits
Prof. Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Real-Time Control of Dopamine Neurons During Behavior Reveals Distinct Reward Functions of Parallel Circuits
Prof. Tom Kempa, Johns Hopkins, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Perspectives on Recording and Modulating Chemical Transients in the Brain
Prof. Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins, Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor and University Gilman Scholar, Biomedical Engineering
Understanding the Brain in the Condensed Matter Continuum
Prof. Thomas V. O’Halloran, Northwestern U., Molecular Biosciences; Director, Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
Elements of Brain Function: Metallome Profiles, Zinc Sparks and Inorganic Fluxes
Location:
- 233 Remsen Hall, Homewood Campus, Johns Hopkins
Agenda:
- 1:00pm – Welcome and Introductions
- Beverly Wendland, Johns Hopkins, Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
- Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins, Chair of the Chemistry Department
- Rigoberto Hernandez, Johns Hopkins, Chemistry
- 1:15pm – Session # 1 (3 talks), Chaired by Ken Karlin
- 1:15pm – Anne Andrews, UCLA, Psychiatry and Chemistry & Biochemistry
- 1:45pm – Ed Boyden, MIT, Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- 2:15pm – Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- 2:45pm – Mixer with food and drinks (140 Remsen)
- 3:30pm – Session #2 (3 talks), Chaired by Rigoberto Hernandez
- 3:30pm – Tom Kempa, Johns Hopkins, Chemistry
- 4:00pm – Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins, Biomedical Engineering
- 4:30pm – Thomas V. O’Halloran, Northwestern, Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
- 5:00pm – Panel Discussion, Facilitated by Rigoberto Hernandez and Ken Karlin
- All 6 speakers
- 5:45pm – Conclude