The Warren Alpert Foundation Prize honors: Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck
for the development of optogenetics as a way to control the activity of specific circuits in the nervous system, to determine their function and ultimately to control them to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders.
The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to the award symposium: Optogenetics: Illuminating the Path toward Causal Neuroscience
Seating is on a first come, first served basis
Featured Speakers
Edward Boyden, PhD: Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD: D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, Stanford University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Peter Hegemann, PhD: Hertie Professor for Neuroscience and Head of Experimental Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Gero Miesenböck, FRS: Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Founding Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour University of Oxford
Charlotte Arlt, PhD: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Kimberly Reinhold, PhD: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School