Annual Symposium

2013 SYMPOSIUM
Systems Biology & the Brain
Sunday, April 14 and Monday, April 15

It's an exciting time to be discussing brain research, given the Brain Activity Map project that the Obama administration is proposing. You won't want to miss what will be a dynamic Symposium on a hot topic, so join us and our distinguished speakers.

Registration is open. Please visit our Symposium site.

Join a distinguished group of researchers and experts in Seattle for Institute for Systems Biology’s (ISB) 12th Annual Symposium, a two-day dialogue about the brain and how using a systems approach can help decipher some of its complexities.

The Symposium will take place on April 14-15, 2013, at ISB’s state-of-the-art facilities in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. We welcome all who are interested in hearing from brain researchers from institutions such as University of Utah, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Rockefeller University, Indiana University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Salk Institute, Institute for Systems Biology, Emory University, and more.

Sunday, April 14, 2013
Welcoming Remarks
Lee Hood, MD, PhD, Co-founder and President, Institute for Systems Biology
Opening Keynote Address
Christof Koch, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science Project MindScope
SESSION I Imaging and technology (Computer Visualization)
Christopher Johnson, PhD, University of Utah Biomedical Visualization: Techniques and Tools
Hanchuan Peng, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science High-throughput Bioimage Informatics for Neuroscience
Michael Phelps, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles Building a scientific and clinical relationship between in vivo and in vitro molecular diagnostics
SESSION II Complex Neurological Disorders
Daniel Geschwind, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles Transcriptional Networks in Neurological and Psychiatric Disease
Mary Beth Hatten, PhD, Rockefeller University Molecular Mechanisms of Glial Guided Migration
Lee Hood, MD, PhD, Institute for Systems Biology TBA
Monday, April 15, 2013
SESSION III Brain Biology
Keynote Address
Linda Buck, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Unraveling Smell
John Beggs, PhD, Indiana University The Criticality Hypothesis: How cortical networks might optimize information processing
Ann Graybiel, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Basal Ganglia: Binding Values to Action
Terry Van Dyke, PhD, Center for Cancer Research, NIH Engineered Cancer Models: From Basic Science to Therapeutic and Diagnostic Discovery
SESSION IV Systems Biology & the Brain
Olaf Sporns, PhD, Indiana University New Frontiers in Human Connectomics
Nathan Price, PhD, Institute for Systems Biology Biomolecular Networks in the Brain
Chuck Stevens, PhD, Salk Institute Anti-maps: a new organizational principle for brain regions
Closing Keynote Address Larry J. Young, PhD Emory University The Chemistry Between Us: The Neurobiology of Social Relationships