2018 Mong Family Foundation Symposium
The Third Annual Cornell Neurotech
Mong Family Foundation Symposium 2018
Thursday, September 27
Biotechnology Building, Room G10
| 1:30 pm | Opening remarks – Andrew Bass, Cornell University Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences | |
| 1:40 pm | Welcome and Speaker introduction – Chris Xu | |
| 1:45 pm | Michale Fee – Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Music in the Brain: How Neural Circuits in the Songbird Learn to Sing” |
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| 2:45 pm | Coffee Break | |
| 3:05 pm | Gail Mandel – Vollum Institute, OHSU “How Close Are We to Curing Multi-Cellular Neurological Diseases: Lessons from Rett Syndrome” |
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| 4:05 pm | Kamil Ugurbil – University of Minnesota “Imaging Function and Connectivity in the Human Brain withHigh Magnetic Fields: Spanning Scales from Cortical Columns to the Whole Brain” |
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| 5:05 pm | Concluding remarks – Joe Fetcho | |
| 5:10 pm | Reception (open to all) outside G10 |
For more information email: neurotech@cornell.edu
NeuroNex Technology Conference
Wednesday, July 18 and Thursday, July 19, 2018
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The goal of the NSF NeuroNex initiative is to clear major technological hurdles in order to better study and understand the brain. Thank you to those who who made the 2018 NeuroNex Technology Conference possible. Please stay tuned for next year’s details. Co-organizers: Chris Xu, Joe Fetcho, Mert Sabuncu, Chris Schaffer, and Nilay Yapici. For details please visit: http://neuronex.cornell.edu
Top neuroscientists headline Mong neurotech symposium
In his opening remarks at the second annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium Sept. 22, Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff said: “The goals of Cornell Neurotech are vital ones, with life-changing implications, and I am grateful to Stephen Mong and the Mong Family Foundation for enabling Cornell faculty and staff to strive toward them. Cornell Neurotech fosters connections across the Ithaca campus and our Ithaca and NYC campuses, one of our major strategies for strengthening Cornell.” Read the Full Cornell Chronicle article here.
2017 Mong Family Foundation Symposium
The Second Annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium will feature Edward Boyden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Catherine Dulac of Harvard University, and Thomas Jessell of Columbia University.
Friday, September 22, 2017
G10 Biotechnology Building
Time: 1:30 pm- 5:00pm, reception to follow
For more information email: neurotech@cornell.edu