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McGovern Institute Symposium – February 24, 2009         

09:00 - 09:30 am Opening addresses VIDEO

09:30 - 10:05 am Bai Lu (National Institute of Health) VIDEO
                         “Role of BDNF in cognitive function and dysfunction”

10:05 - 10:40 am Yingxi Lin (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT) VIDEO
                         "Activity-Dependent Regulation of Inhibitory Synapses"

10:40 – 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 11:35 am Lifang Wang (Peking University Mental Health Hospital) VIDEO
                         “Whole Genome Association Studies of Autism”

11:35 - 12:10 pm Zhiqi Xiong (ION) VIDEO
                         “The role of Rett syndrome gene stk9 in dendrite development and synapse formation”

12:10 - 01:55 pm Lunch

01:55 - 02:30  pm Yi Rao (Peking University School of Life Sciences) VIDEO
                           “Molecular Biology of Social Behavior”

02:30 – 03:05 pm Guosong Liu (Tsinghua University) VIDEO
                           “Rejuvenation of brain”

03:05 - 03:25 pm    Break

03:25 – 04:00 pm Ed Boyden (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT) VIDEO
                             "Optical Control of Normal and Pathological Neural Circuit Computations"

04:00 – 04:35 pm Jing Cheng (Tsinghua University) VIDEO
                           "The development of biochips for medical research and clinical application"

04:35 – 05:10 pm Ki Ann Goosens (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT) VIDEO
                          "The stressed brain: new treatments for pathological fear and anxiety"

McGovern Institute Symposium – February 25, 2009         

09:00 – 09:35 am Haishan Yao (ION) VIDEO
                        "Processing of Complex Spectral Signals in the Early Visual System"

09:35 – 10:10 am Wu Li (State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University) VIDEO
                          "Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning"

10:10 – 10:30 am Break

10:30 – 11:05 am Robert Desimone (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT) VIDEO
                        "Neural Synchrony and Attention"

11:05 – 11:40 am Zhaoping Li (University College London/ Tsinghua University) VIDEO
                          "A bottom-up saliency map in the primary visual cortex - theory and experimental tests"

11:40 – 12:15 pm Lin Chen and Ke Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science and Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) VIDEO
                          "Interaction between topological perception and fear-emotion, and its neural correlation in amygdala and anterior temporal lobe"

12:15 – 02:00 pm Lunch
 
02:00 – 02:35 pm Li Liu (State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science) VIDEO
                        “Functional Structure in central brain of Drosophila for visual pattern memory”

02:35 – 03:10 pm Jia Liu (National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University) VIDEO
                        "The brain network for face perception: its structure, behavioral significance, and development"

03:10 – 03:30 pm Break

03:30 – 04:05 pm Minmin Luo (NIBS) VIDEO
                          "CO2 sensing by the nose"

04:05 – 04:40 pm Michale Fee (McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT) VIDEO
                        "The role of basal-ganglia-forebrain circuitry in vocal exploration and learning in the songbird"