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DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating The Picower Institute for Learning and M
 emory's 20th Anniversary!\n\nAbout this event\n\nOn September 22\, 2022 we
  will celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Picower Institute for Learning
  and Memory with an Exhibition Symposium — a day-long hybrid event highl
 ighting "Two Decades of Discovery & Impact" since the launch of the Instit
 ute by a transformational gift from Barbara and Jeffry Picower. The sympos
 ium will feature a range of lay-friendly brain science talks from Picower 
 Institute faculty and their alumni with opportunities to informally intera
 ct at lunch and at the reception that will follow the talks.\n\n__________
 ____________________________________________\n\nRegistration\n\nThis event
  is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC but registration is required. Please click
  here to register or enter https://picower20.eventbrite.com into your sear
 ch bar. \n\n______________________________________________________\n\nLoca
 tion\n\nThis will be a hybrid event\, with options to join both in-person 
 and/or virtually.\n\nJoin Us:\n\nIn-person in Singleton Auditorium (46-300
 2)\, located on the third floor of MIT Building 46 (43 Vassar St\, Cambrid
 ge\, MA 02139)Virtually via livestream. All registrants will be sent the l
 ivestream link via email one week prior to the event (with reminders the d
 ay prior and morning of the event). Please keep in mind that emails will b
 e sent to the email address you use to register.__________________________
 ____________________________\n\nAgenda\n\n9:00 - 9:30am: Opening Remarks\n
 \nFeaturing Institute Director Li-Huei Tsai \, MIT President L. Rafael Rei
 f\, and JPB Foundation President Barbara Picower.\n\nSession 1: Learning &
  Memory || Moderator: Tonegawa lab alumnus Steve Ramirez\, Assistant Profe
 ssor at Boston University\n\n9:30-9:50am: Wilson lab alumnus David Foster\
 , UC Berkeley\, "Do Animals have Imagination?" 9:50-10:10am: Susumu Tonega
 wa\, MIT\, "Memory Engram for Knowledge"10:10-10:30am: Earl K. Miller\, MI
 T\, "One Journey from 20th to 21st Century Neuroscience"10:30 - 10:45am: B
 reak\n\nSession 2: Development & Plasticity || Moderator: Morgan Sheng\, P
 rofessor\, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT\n\n10:45-11:05am: Nedivi Lab
  alumnus Jerry Chen\, Boston University\, "Investigating Learning and Plas
 ticity Through Vertically Integrated Neuroscience"11:05-11:25am: Littleton
  lab alumnus Zachary Piccioli\, Moderna\, "Current Advantages and Future P
 rospects for mRNA Vaccines"11:25-11:45am: Mriganka Sur\, MIT\, "Cortical P
 lasticity"11:45 - 12:45: Lunch\n\nSession 3: Brain Health & Disease || Mod
 erator: Pam Belluck\, Health and Science Writer\, The New York Times\n\n12
 :45-1:05pm: Bear lab alumnus Ben Auerbach\, University of Illinois\, "Brid
 ging the Gap from Genes to Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorders"1:05-1:25
 pm: Tsai lab alumnus Joel Blanchard\, Mount Sinai\, "Investigating Mechani
 sms of Aging with Stem Cells"1:25-1:45pm: Choi lab Postdoctoral Associate\
 , Jeongtae Kwon\, MIT\, "Neuromodulatory Regulation of Social Behavior in 
 Amygdala"1:45-2:05pm: Myriam Heiman\, MIT\, "Single-cell Dissection of the
  Human Cerebrovasculature"2:05 - 2:20pm: Break\n\nSession 4: Innovation & 
 Invention || Moderator: Eric Grimson\, Chancellor for Academic Advancement
 \, MIT\n\n2:20-2:40pm: Emery N. Brown\, MIT\, "The Dynamics of the Unconsc
 ious Brain Under Anesthesia"2:40-3:00pm: Chung lab alumnus Sung-Yon Kim\, 
 Seoul National University\, "Warm and Full: The Neurobiology of Innate Beh
 avior"3:00-3:20pm: Steven W. Flavell\, MIT\, "Recording and Understanding 
 Neural Activity Across an Entire Brain"3:20 - 3:30pm: Closing Remarks\n\nC
 losing remarks given by Dean Nergis Mavalvala\, School of Science\, MIT\n\
 n3:30 - 5:00pm: Reception\, Poster Session\, Art Reveal\n\n_______________
 _______________________________________\n\nQuestions?\n\nContact Brittany 
 Greenough at bgreeno@mit.edu
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LOCATION:Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
SUMMARY:Picower Institute 20th Anniversary Exhibition Symposium: Two Decade
 s of Discovery and Impact
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