Event Schedule
08:30 am
Continental Breakfast
09:00 am
Lore McGovern, Co-Founder, McGovern Institute, MIT
Welcoming remarks
09:10 am
Phillip Sharp, Founding Director, McGovern Institute, MIT
Thank you Pat for the legacy
09:25 am
Robert Desimone, Director, McGovern Institute, MIT
Precision Neuroscience: A journey through McGovern research
09:55 am
Feng Zhang, McGovern Institute, MIT
Advances in genome editing
10:25 am
Break
10:55 am
Fang Fang, IDG/McGovern Institute, Peking University
The IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at PKU: past, present and future
11:25 am
Rebecca Saxe, McGovern Institute, MIT
Infant brains developing in a social world
11:55 am
Yanchao Bi, IDG/McGovern Institute, Beijing Normal University
The science of learning at Beijing Normal University
12:30 pm
Lunch & poster session
02:15 pm
Ed Boyden, McGovern Institute, MIT
From structure to function: optical tools for analyzing the complexity of the brain
02:45 pm
Nancy Kanwisher, McGovern Institute, MIT
Selective responses to music in the human brain
03:15 pm
Songhai Shi, IDG/McGovern Institute, Tsinghua University
McGovern Institute and brain research at Tsinghua University: The first 10 years
03:45 pm
Break
04:00 pm Ann Graybiel, McGovern Govern Institute, MIT
An ancient brain system for modulating mood
04:30 pm
Guoping Feng, McGovern Institute, MIT
Thalamic reticular nucleus dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorder