**** DATE: Friday May 2, 2014 TIME: 8:30am – 5:15pm LOCATION: MIT Bldg 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium) QUESTIONS? Laura Dargus | ldargus@mit.edu | 617.715.5396 Registration is now closed. Selected talks from the symposium may be viewed in our video gallery. **** SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE 8:30 am Check-In 9:00 am – 9:15 am Robert Desimone and […]
SPEAKER: Xiaoqin Wang, PhD AFFILIATION: Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Director of Tsinghua-Johns Hopkins Joint Center for Biomedical Engineering Research DATE + TIME: Thursday, April 10, 2014 @ 4:00 PM LOCATION: MIT Bldg 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium) HOST: Guoping Feng, McGovern Institute ABSTRACT: Properly chosen […]
A photo montage of McGovern Institute co-founder Patrick J. McGovern. Pat McGovern passed away on March 19, 2014.
New MIT technique could help decipher genes’ roles in learning and memory.
We report with great sadness the death of Pat McGovern, on March 19, 2014. Recently Pat gave an interview in which he discussed his motivation for establishing the McGovern Institute.
We report with great sadness the death of Pat McGovern, on March 19, 2014. Since the founding of the institute, he has been a constant source of inspiration and encouragement. He will be greatly missed.
2014 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience
How accurate are our memories after a traumatic event? Does chronic stress make us more vulnerable to trauma? Will scientists one day succeed in preventing PTSD? We invite you to join the discussion with a distinguished group of experts who will explore new lines of research and treatment strategies for stress disorders and traumatic memory. […]
Huda Y. Zoghbi, of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, is the winner of the 2014 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
Work uncovers secret of how genome-editing tool works as “guided missile” to correct errors in the genetic code.
