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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing with Lawrence Krauss
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible The Good Book: A Humanist Bible with AC Grayling
Braintrust: A public conversation about Morality and the Brain Braintrust: A public conversation about Morality and the Brain with Patricia Churchland
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human with V.S. Ramachandran

 

8th Annual Industry/Academia Translational Oncology Symposium 

     
Armed with Genomics, Is the Target in Sight for Myelodysplastic Syndromes?
Azra Raza, MD, MDS Center, Columbia University Medical Center
  Stem Cells and Cancer
Irving Weissman, MD, Stanford School of Medicine
  Malignant Progenitor Re-Programming
Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, Moores Cancer Center
  Panel Discussion: Discovery to Therapies…It’s Changing and Quickly
Duane Roth
Robert Abraham, PhD
Sandra Brown, PhD
Dennis Carson, MD, PhD
David Kabakoff, PhD
Jonathan Thomas, PhD, JD
Carl Weissman

 

More lectures and symposia from the Industry/Academia Translational Oncology Symposium 2012.

 

Conversations at the Glenn Symposium on Aging

   
Staying Hungry for Life
A conversation with Tamas Horvath
  Mitochondria and Aging
A conversation with Gerry Shadel
  Botanicals and the Pathways of Aging
A conversation with Mahtab Jafari

 

 

Conversations at the Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa 2011 

     
Stem Cell Research: The Teenage Years
A conversation with Evan Snyder
  Reprogramming Cells
A conversation with Sir Ian Wilmut
  Epigenetics from Transgenic Mice to Stem Cells
A conversation with Rudolf Jaenisch
  The Zigzag of Science
A conversation with Mahendra Rao

 

More lectures and panels from Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa 2011.

 

A Look Inside the Research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

     
Perception and the Beholder's Share
Tom Albright
  Viruses: The Common Cold to HIV
John Young
  Understanding the Human Brain
Terry Sejnowski
  A Neuroscientist's Neuroscientist Talks Science
Chuck Stevens

 

 

Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa 2011 

     
iPS technology and disease research: Issues to be resolved
Rudolf Jaenisch, Keynote
  Redirecting cell fate: past, present, and future
Sir Ian Wilmut, Keynote
  Mahendra Rao
Panel 2: Getting There – Translating the Science of Stem Cells
  Steven Schwartz
Panel 4: Stem Cells in Clinical Trials

 

More lectures and panels from Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa 2011.

 

Recent Videos and Speakers in the News

     
Sheryl Sandberg
on Digital Culture

Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

filmed for the Women's Forum in Deauville
  Vicious cycles that impair sleep
Charles Czeisler
Harvard Medical School
  Helen S. Mayberg
Emory University
research featured in Discover Magazine Presents The Brain
  Paul Root Wolpe
Emory University
interviewed in this month's Atlantic

 

 

NIPS at 25 

     
NIPS Panel
Terry Sejnowski
John Platt
Hanna Wallach
Michael Mozer
  Michael Mozer
University of Colorado, Boulder
  John Platt
Microsoft Research
  Hanna Wallach
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation at 25 page can be found here.

 

CogSci 2011 

     
Robots and the Illusion of Free Will
Conversation with Judea Pearl, Rumelhart Prize Winner
  Barbara Landau
Johns Hopkins University, Governing Board - Cognitive Science Society
  Arthur Markman
University of Texas
 

Susan Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago

 

More conversations, lectures and symposia from Cogsci 2011.

 

Stem Cell Research & Aging: A Glenn Foundation Workshop 

     
Stem Cell Research & Aging Panel One
Mark Collins
Stephanie Lederman
Michael West
  Derrick Rossi
Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston
  Stem Cell Research & Aging Panel Two
Heinrich Jasper
Kevin Lee
Evan Snyder
Christi Walter
  Norman Sharpless
University of North Carolina

 

More interviews at the Stem Cell Research & Aging page.

 

International Mind, Brain, and Education Society 2011 

     
IMBES Panel One
Tamar Katzir
Joanna Christodoulou
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
  Helen Neville
University of Oregon
  Daniel Ansari
University of Western Ontario
  David B. Daniel
James Madison University

 

More interviews at the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society 2011 page.

 

One Mind for Research Forum 

     
Imagining the Future: A 10-Year Plan for Neuroscience
Steve Hyman
Harvard University
  Exceptional Opportunities in Translational Neuroscience
Francis S. Collins
Director; National Institutes of Health, HHS
  The Blasted Brain:
Traumatic Brain Injury on the Battlefield

Kevin Kit Parker
Harvard University
  Call to Action
Hon. Patrick Kennedy
co-chair, One Mind for Research
             
     

Karl Deisseroth
Stanford University

 

Thomas Insel
Director, National Institute of Mental Health

 

Helen S. Mayberg
Emory University

 

Story Landis
and Nora Volkow

Directors, National Institute
for Neurological Disorders
and Stroke and National Institute on Drug Abuse

More sessions and one-on-one interviews on the One Mind for Research Forum page. Funding for filming was provided by the Dana Foundation, a One Mind for Research partner organization.

 

Music, Science & Medicine at the New York Academy of Sciences 

     
The Role of Auditory Processing in Language Development and Disorders
Paula Tallal
Rutgers University
  Neural syntax: what does music offer to neuroscience (and vice versa)
Gyorgy Buzsáki
Rutgers University
  The Science In Clinical Music: Questions Needing Answers
Dorita S. Berger
The Music Therapy Clinic
  Functional Brain Organization in Relation to Music Cognition & Emotion
Mark Jude Tramo
David Geffen School of Medicine & Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA
             
     

Clancy Blair
Steinhardt School, NYU

 

Nina Kraus
Northwestern University

 

Daniela Schiller
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

 

Joseph LeDoux
New York University

 

More videos on the Music, Science and Medicine page.

 

Newark Workshop on Music, Brain and Education 

     
Music for the Development of Auditory Skills: Impact on Education
Nina Kraus, Keynote
Northwestern University
  Influences of musical training on language processing and executive functioning in typical and atypical developing children
Nadine Gaab, Keynote
Harvard School of Medicine
  The gamelan project: a study of synchrony and attention
Alex Khalil
UC, San Diego
  Neural Mechanisms of Beat Perception
John Iversen
The Neuroscience Institute

 

More videos on the Newark Workshop on Music, Brain and Education page.

 

SuperEducators and SuperAgers - NYC, January 2011

     
Nir Barzilai and
Ana Maria Cuervo
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  John Steele, Heather McKellar and Daniel Gilmer
  Meghan Groome
The New York Academy of Sciences
  Ellis Rubinstein
President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences

 

 

The Great Debate - What is Life? 

     

What is Life?
Panel discussion

 

Richard Dawkins
Oxford University
(introduction by Roger Bingham)

 

Sidney Altman
Yale University

 

Lee Hartwell
Arizona State University

             
     

Chris McKay
NASA Ames Research Center

 

J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter Institute

 

Paul Davies
Arizona State University

 

Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University

 

The Great Debate: Can Science Tell Us Right from Wrong? 

       
The Great Debate Panel

  Sam Harris
Project Reason
  Patricia Churchland
UC San Diego
  Peter Singer
Princeton University
             
       
Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University
  Simon Blackburn
University of Cambridge
  Steven Pinker
Harvard University
   

 

 

Special thanks to The National Science Foundation, The Glenn Foundation, The ResMed Foundation, The Dana Foundation, The Zeps Family, Robert and Mary Jane Engman, Ernest W. Moody, and Richard C. Atkinson.