Education / Graduate Education / PhD Programs / Neuroscience Graduate Program / Retreat / Past Keynote Speakers Past Keynote Speakers Kristina Nielsen, PhD Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University "The shape of the world – representation of 3D versus 2D shapes in visual area V4" Dr. Lorenz Studer, MD Director for the Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Bo Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor - Ophthalmology, Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, and Neuroscience Mount Sinai Generating New Neurons and Protecting Old Neurons in Vision Restoration Cristina M. Alberini, Ph.D. Professor: NYU - The Center for Neural Science The infantile amnesia paradox: a critical period of learning to learn and remember David Amaral, Ph.D. Beneto Foundation Chair, MIND Institute; University of California Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine; Core Investigator, California National Primate Research Center The Ups and Downs of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Tracking the trajectories of autism in the Autism Phenome Project. Brian A. MacVicar, PhD. FRSC, FCAHS Co-Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Univ. British Columbia New roles for pericytes and astrocytes in the function, repair and regeneration of cerebral blood vessels Eve Marder, PhD Professor of Biology, Member, US National Academy of Sciences Brandeis University Variability, Robustness and Homeostasis in Neurons and Networks Jeffrey Lichtman, MD, PhD Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Connectomics Valina Dawson, Ph.D. Director Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs Institute for Cell Engineering Professor of Neurology Johns Hopkins University PARsing Cell Death in Parkinson's disease Martin Chalfie, Ph.D. Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2008 William R Kenan Jr. Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University Touch Sensing in C. elegans: Transduction and Modulation Lorna W. Role, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY Stony Brook Cholinergic Modulation of Cortico-limbic Circuits Related to Attention, Memory and Mood Carol Barnes, Ph.D. Regents' Professor Psychology and Neurology, Director Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Research Scientist ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, University of Arizona Brain Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in Aging: What is Normal? Larry Young, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders Daniel Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D. Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair, Human Genetics Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) Co-Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Genomic investigations of human higher cognition and transcriptome organization Pat Levitt, Ph.D. Director Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Where are we with the Autisms? Elizabeth Grove, Ph.D. Professor of Neurobiology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago Embryonic patterning and the mammalian forebrain Elissa L. Newport, Ph.D. George Eastman Professor, Former Chair of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms for Language Acquisition in Human Infants and Adults Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D. Professor & Chair of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine Disorders of Neuronal Position Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D. Frederick P. Rose Professor, Rockefeller University New Directions in the CNS Neuronal Migration