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