Past Events

Speaker: Roy H. Hamilton, MD, Penn Department of Neurology

For the 2015-16 Academic Year, the Center is proud to highlight Penn researchers!  Come find out what your very own colleagues are working on in the area of neuroscience and society!

Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Limited seating, please rsvp to: info@neuroethics.upenn.edu.

Cathy Price
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
University College London
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Price/
"Predicting Language Outcome and Recovery After Stroke"
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall - 3417 Spruce Street

This talk is also the annual Sprague Lecture, part of the MINS Seminar Series (http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/wwdWeekly.html).

William Newsome
Vincent V. C. Woo Director, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Stanford University
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/william-newsome
"Flexible cognition: Detecting changes-of-mind on single behavioral trials through neural population dynamics"
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall - 3417 Spruce Street

This talk is also the annual Adler Lecture, part of the MINS Seminar Series (http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/wwdWeekly.html).

Betsy Murray
Chief, Section on Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/labs-at-nimh/principal-investigators/elisabeth-m...
"From knowledge to action: The role of the primate orbitofrontal cortex"
Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building), 3620 Hamilton Walk

This talk is also the annual INS Colloquium, part of the MINS Seminar Series (http://...

Salvatore Aglioti
Professor, Department of Psychology
Sapienza University of Rome
http://agliotilab.org/
"Flesh Made Soul: Bodily Representations in the Brain of Healthy and Diseased People"
Medical Alumni Hall, 1 Maloney Building, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - 3400 Spruce Street

This talk is also the annual Department of Neurology Grand Rounds Lecture (http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/neuro/).

Edvard Moser
Founding Director, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Co-Director, Centre for Neural Computation
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/edvard.moser
"Grid cells and the neural map of space"
Smilow Center for Translational Research Auditorium, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard (entrance is on Service Drive) This talk is also the 18th Annual Pinkel Endowed Lecture (http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/pinkel/)....

Ray Dolan
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
University College London
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Dolan/
"Representation, subjective states and psychopathology"
Smilow Center for Translational Research Auditorium, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard (entrance is on Service Drive)

This talk is also part of the Behavioral Neuroscience Retreat.

Olaf Sporns
Center for Memory and Brain
Indiana University – Bloomington
http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/osporns.php
"Human Connectomics: The Structure and Function of Complex Brain Networks"
Class of '62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building), 3620 Hamilton Walk

This talk is also part of the CCN Talk Series (http://ccn.upenn.edu/home/news/events/talks.shtml).

Michael Hasselmo
Center for Systems Neuroscience | Center for Memory and Brain
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/hasselmo/
"Neural coding of space and time in entorhinal cortex"
BRB II/III Auditorium, 421 Curie Boulevard

This talk is also part of the MINS Seminar Series (http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/wwdWeekly.html).

Pietro Perona
Director, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
California Institute of Technology
http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Perona.html
"A computational approach to ethology"
Class of '62 Auditorium (John Morgan Building), 3620 Hamilton Walk

This talk is also part of the CNI Speaker Series (https://cni.upenn.edu/events/.