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Behavior & Neurogenetics of Nonhuman Primates

 
  January 11, 2013  
     
 


Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
September 6 - 9, 2013


We are pleased to announce a new Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Behavior & Neurogenetics of Nonhuman Primates, which will begin the evening of Friday, September 6, and end at lunchtime on Monday, September 9. This conference is designed to bring together a diverse group of researchers, both junior scientists and established investigators, who study the behavior, behavioral genetics, neurogenetics, and/or brain evolution of nonhuman primates.

Topics

Evolution and Behavior

Genome Structure and Brain Function

Comparative Evolution of the Brain

Neurodevelopment and Stem Cell Biology

Genetics of Primate Behavior

Optogenetics and Transgenics in Primate Neuroscience


 
 
Organized by: Jeffrey Rogers, Nelson Freimer
Invited Speakers:

Keynote Speaker

Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

 

Invited Speakers:

Susan Alberts, Duke University

Ajit Varki, University of California San Diego

Evan Eichler, University of Washington

Lisa Stubbs, University of Illinois

Philipp Khaitovich, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, China

Ed Lein, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Collette Dehay, Inserm Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, France

Dan Geschwind, University of California Los Angeles

Judy Cameron, University of Pittsburgh

Ned Kalin, University of Wisconsin

Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University

Erika Sasaki, Keio University, Japan