Talks & Lectures

2018 Jun 14

Materials Science Seminar - Matt Fernandes

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Turnbull (McKay 402)

This week's Materials Science summer lunch seminar presentation will be given by Matt Fernandes from Prof Bertoldi's group on Thursday in Turnbull (McKay 402) from 12:00-1:00.

Matt will present on lattices inspired by glass sponges.

Hope to see you all there

2018 Jun 28

Materials Science Seminar - Luhan Ye

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Turnbull (McKay 402)

Luhan Ye from Prof Li's group will be giving this week's talk on the Stabilization of Lithium Metal Anodes.

The talk will be in Turnbull (McKay 402) on Thursday from 12:00-1:00

Hope to see you all there

2018 Jun 21

Materials Science Seminar - Sam Peppou-Chapman

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Turnbull (McKay 402)

Sam Peppou-Chapman from Prof Aizenberg's group will be giving this week's seminar talk on Thursday in Turnbull (McKay 402) from 12:00-1:00.

Sam will be discussing mapping lubricant thickness on antifouling slippery surfaces.

Please join us and feel free to bring your lunch!

2016 Oct 26

NEUROSCIENCE ACROSS THE CHARLES

1:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Goldenson Building, Room 122, 220 Longwood Ave, Boston

A Special Symposium Highlighting Collaborative Neurobiology Research
Generously supported by Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III

Dopamine and Timing Naoshige Uchida, PhD and John Assad, PhD - Joint Lecture

Maturation of Connectivity within a Neural Circuit Rachel Wilson, PhD and Aravinthan Samuel, PhD - Joint Lecture

Molecular Profiling of Neuronal Diversity Lisa Goodrich, PhD and Paola Arlotta, PhD - Lecture by Dr. Goodrich

The Evolution, Genetics and Neurobiology of Social Behaviors Bob Datta, MD, PhD and Hopi Hoekstra, PhD - Lecture by Dr. Datta

Oxygen,...

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2016 Oct 13

Mitochondria position and function play instructive roles in presynaptic release properties and axon morphogenesis

12:00pm

Location: 

NORTHWEST B103

 

Franck Polleux
Columbia University

My laboratory is focusing on the cellular, molecular and evolutionary mechanisms underlying the establishment of cortical connectivity. I will present recent published and unpublished results uncovering a new signaling pathway regulating terminal axon branching and presynaptic function through the regulation of mitochondria position, structure and function. Our results demonstrate that (1) the presynaptic capture of mitochondria plays a critical role during terminal axon branching, (2) presynaptic...

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2016 Oct 04

THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AS A WINDOW INTO THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIND

4:00pm

Location: 

The Biological Labs, Room 1080 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

CONTE-CBS COLLOQUIUM ON MENTAL HEALTH

THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AS A WINDOW INTO THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIND


Nancy Kanwisher, PhD
PROFESSOR OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN & COGNITIVE SCIENCES AT MIT

Cookies and Coffee at 3:30 pm
Discussion Session at 5:15 pm
Register at
http://conte.harvard.edu/events/

Nancy Kanwisher is the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and Investigator at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain...

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2023 Feb 01

Kavli Discussions -- Spring 2023 Edition

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Location: 

Kavli Meeting Room, Pierce Hall 306

Kavli Discussion Hour

    

The Kavli Discussion hour is a weekly meeting that aims to bring together experimentalists and theorists in bio-nano science and soft...

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2015 Sep 30

One brain, many genomes: genomic variability between single neurons in health and disease

6:30pm

Location: 

The Biological Labs, Room 1080 - 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Christopher A. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Children's Hospital Boston
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bullard Professor, Pediatrics and Neurology, Harvard Medical School
 
As soon as the fertilized egg divides for the first time, the genomes of cells start accumulating spontaneous mutations, due to errors in DNA replication or other causes.  In principle, every cell in the body has its own distinct genome defined by spontaneous mutations. ...

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2015 Oct 31

Engineering Proteins for Bidirectional Neuro-optical Interfaces

4:00pm

Location: 

Pierce Hall, Room 209

Adam Cohen, CCB and Physics at Harvard.
CCB and Physics at Harvard
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 

In the wild, microbial rhodopsin proteins convert sunlight into biochemical signals in their host organisms. Some microbial rhodopsins convert sunlight into changes in membrane voltage. We engineered a microbial rhodopsin to run in reverse: to convert changes in membrane voltage into optical signals that are readily detected in a microscope. These proteins have very strong optical nonlinearities, enabling new approaches to...

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2015 Jan 14

Studies of genome processing using recent developments of in vitro and in vivo single-molecule techniques

2:00pm

Location: 

Room 521, Wyss Institute 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115

Host: William Shih, Ph.D.

Nynke Dekker, Professor of Physics from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, will explore innovations in determining the genes that make up the genotype of a particular organism by using recent advances in in vivo and in vitro single-molecule techniques.

2015 Feb 06

KIBST Lectureship Series

5:00pm

Location: 

Pfizer Lecture Hall

R.B. Woodward Lectures in the Chemical Sciences, Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar.

Professor Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology; Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.

2015 Mar 25

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

12:15pm

Location: 

Kavli Conference Room 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall 306

Host: Michael Brenner

Dr. Silvia Vignolini
Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
 
Nature’s most vivid colours are produced when light repeatedly scatters against periodically organized interfaces within nanostructured materials. This brilliant iridescent colouration is frequently used in many insect and animals but also in different species of plants. 
One of the most striking example is...

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2015 Apr 22

Experiments at the Intersection of Geometry, Mechanics, and Microstructure

12:15pm

Location: 

Kavli Conference Room 29 Oxford Street, Pierce Hall 306
Host: Michael Brenner
Jesse L. Silverberg

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Climbing cucumbers, popping pollen grains, wrinkled fingers, and curly hair.  At heart, the modern revival of mechanics covers a diverse range of subjects at the intersection of function and form.  It's at this point – where geometry, mechanics, and microstructure meet – that we find...

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