Join the WashU Medicine Department of Neuroscience on Sept. 8-9 for the Insights Into Cortex: David Van Essen Symposium, a tribute for the 80th birthday of Van Essen.
The symposium will cover the structure, function, connectivity, architecture, development, evolution and computations of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex.
David Van Essen has been a member of the Department of Neuroscience since 1992, serving as chair from 1992-2012. He is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience at WashU.
Van Essen pioneered the analysis of cortical structure, function, connectivity, development and evolution in humans and nonhuman primates. He has served as a principal investigator for the Human Connectome Project (HCP), a large-scale effort to acquire, analyze and freely share high-quality neuroimaging data from 1,200 healthy adults, in order to enable exploration of brain connectivity and its relationship to behavior.
He previously served as the president of the Society for Neuroscience and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroscience. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Insights Into Cortex: David Van Essen Symposium is Sept. 8-9 at WashU Medicine in the Jeffery T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) Auditorium.
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Agenda
Day One
8:25 a.m. Welcome
- Linda Richards, PhD
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Edison Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine
8:30-9:55 a.m. Architectonics and Transcriptomics
Chair: Allan Jones, PhD
President-Emeritus
Allen Institute for Brain Science
- 8:30-8:55 a.m.
Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine - 9-9:25 a.m.
Hongkui Zeng, PhD
Executive Vice President and Director
Allen Institute for Brain Science - 9:30-9:55 a.m.
Ed Lein, PhD
Senior Investigator
Allen Institute for Brain Science
10-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:35 a.m.-Noon Connectivity and Function I
Chair: Greg DeAngelis, PhD
George Eastman Professor
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor in the Center for Visual Science
University of Rochester
- 10:35-11 a.m.
Edward Callaway, PhD
Professor
Vincent J. Coates Chair in Molecular Neurobiology
Salk Institute - 11:05-11:30 a.m.
Henry Kennedy, PhD
INSERM Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute - 11:35 a.m.-Noon
John H.R. Maunsell, PhD
Albert D. Lasker Distinguished Service Professor of Neurobiology
Professor of Neuroscience Institute
Director of Neuroscience Institute
The University of Chicago
12:05-1:10 p.m. Lunch (NRB Lobby and Room 1101)
1:15-2:40 p.m. Morphogenesis and Development
Chair: Karina Cramer, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
University of California, Irvine
- 1:15-1:40 p.m.
Linda Richards, PhD
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Edison Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine - 1:45-2:10 p.m.
Alexandra Joyner, PhD
Courtney Steel Chair in Pediatric Cancer Research
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - 2:15-2:40 p.m.
Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
2:45-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:20-5 p.m. Computation and Neuroinformatics
Chair: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine
- 3:25-3:50 p.m.
Chris Eliasmith, PhD
Professor and Founding Director
Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience
University of Waterloo - 3:55-4:20 p.m.
Bruno Olshausen, PhD
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
School of Optometry
University of California, Berkeley - 4:25-4:50 p.m.
Michael Hawrylycz, PhD.
Senior Investigator
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Day Two
8:30-9:55 a.m. Cartography and Function II
Chair: Jack L. Gallant, PhD
Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
- 8:30-8:55 a.m.
Martin Sereno, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Director of the SDSU Imaging Center
San Diego State University - 9-9:25 a.m.
Ed Connor, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
Johns Hopkins University - 9:30-9:55 a.m.
Doris Tsao, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
10:05-10:35 a.m. Coffee Break
10:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Parcellations and the Big Picture
Chair: Marcus E. Raichle, MD
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor of Radiology, Neurology, Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering
WashU Medicine
- 10:45-11:10 a.m.
Matthew F. Glasser, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
WashU Medicine
- 11:15-11:40 a.m.
William Newsome, PhD
Harman Family Provostial Professor
Professor Of Neurobiology And, By Courtesy, Of Psychology
Stanford University School of Medicine
- 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
David Van Essen, PhD
Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience
WashU Medicine
12:20 p.m. Concluding Remarks
- Linda Richards, PhD, Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Edison Professor of Neuroscience,
WashU Medicine
12:30 p.m. Lunch (NRB Lobby)