Community Event: Eye, Brain, and Vision

Date and Time

May 5, 2014
09:00AM - 05:15PM EDT

Location

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

Eye Brain and Vision: A Symposium to Honor the Life and Science of David Hubel
Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School

Morning Session (9:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.)
Opening remarks by Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D. The Rockefeller University
Carla Shatz, Ph.D. Bio-X, Stanford University
David Ferster, Ph.D. Northwestern University
Charles D. Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D. The Rockefeller University
A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. The Rockefeller University

Afternoon Session (1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
William A. Harris, FRS University of Cambridge, UK
Michael Stryker, Ph.D. UC San Francisco
Ursula Dräger, M.D. UMass Medical School
Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School Simon LeVay, Ph.D.
Paul Hubel, Ph.D. Senior Image Specialist, Apple, Inc.

Concluding Session (4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)
Perspective by Robert H. Wurtz, Ph.D., Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, NIH

Reception to follow.