Join the Department of Neuroscience in celebrating the contributions of our former Chair, Dr. Azad Bonni.
Dr. Azad Bonni, currently serving as Senior Vice President at Roche where he is Global Head of Neuroscience & Rare Diseases at Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), was Chair of the Department from 2012-2019. During that time, he oversaw tremendous growth and led the renaming of the Department from Anatomy and Neurobiology to Neuroscience. His laboratory studies the mechanisms governing neuronal connectivity during brain development and plasticity, providing fundamental insights into both healthy brain function and dysfunction in disease.
On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, we will acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Bonni and his lab with a full day of presentations by Department members past and present as well as close colleagues from other institutions. Food and beverages will be provided.
We anticipate the Symposium will be held at the new Neuroscience Research Building at the School of Medicine. Stay tuned for details.
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Agenda
8:30 – 8:40 a.m.
Opening remarks
Linda Richards, PhD
Edison Professor and Chair
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine
8:40 – 9:20 a.m.
Michael Greenberg, PhD
Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
9:20 – 11 a.m.
Maria Lehtinen, PhD
Hannah C. Kinney, MD, Chair in Pediatric Pathology Research
Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
10 – 10:20 a.m.
Yao Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine
30 minute break
10:50 – 11:30 a.m.
Yang Shi, PhD
Professor of Epigenetics
Ludwig Cancer Research
University of Oxford
11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Genevieve Konopka, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neuroscience
Jon Heighten Scholar in Autism Research
Townsend Distinguished Chair in Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders
UT Southwestern Medical Center
12:10 – 12:30 p.m.
Martha Bagnall, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine
Lunch
1:30 – 1:50 p.m.
Adam Kepecs, PhD
Robert J. Terry Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
1:50 – 2:30 p.m.
Esther Becker, PhD
Professor of Translational Neuroscience
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Oxford
2:30 – 2:50 p.m.
Ilya Monosov, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine
2:50 – 3:10 p.m.
Albert Kim, MD, PhD
August A. Busch Jr. Professor of Neurological Surgery
Professor of Neurosurgery, Genetics, Neurology, and Developmental Biology
Director, Brain Tumor Center
Washington University School of Medicine
30 minute break
3:40 – 4 p.m.
Harrison Gabel, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine
4 – 4:20 p.m.
Sid Puram, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
Washington University School of Medicine
4:20 – 5 p.m.
Azad Bonni, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President
Head of Neuroscience & Rare Diseases at Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED)
Roche
5 – 5:10 p.m.
Closing remarks
Linda Richards, PhD
Edison Professor and Chair
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine