Keynote Speaker
Professor Neurology & Neurosurgery
Director of the Center for Neural Science and Medicine
Cedars Sinai
Bio
Anne Hart’s research focuses on fundamental problems in neuroscience using tools available in the nematode C. elegans. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA, where she trained with Dr. Larry Zipursky working on bride of sevenless in the Drosophila eye. For her postdoctoral work, Dr. Hart moved to Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she worked with Dr. Joshua Kaplan using the nematode C. elegans to study mechanosensation and sensory encoding. Dr. Hart joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and established her own research group at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1996. In 2009, she moved her group to Brown University and joined the Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Hart’s research group was the first to develop an explicit C. elegans model of human neurodegenerative disease in 1999. Currently, her group focuses on understanding the pathological mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative and neurological diseases, including ALS, FTD, HD and AHC. Dr. Hart is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she serves as an Academic Editor for PLoS Genetics and Neuroscience (IBRO). She was a founding officer of the International C. elegans Society and now serves as Speaker for the MBL Society. Currently, Dr. Hart is Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University.