Innovation and Translation in Brain Sciences
Highlighting the Next Generation of Leaders in Neuroscience
Organizers
Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Dean for Academic Affairs and Chief Scientific Officer
Director, Friedman Brain Institute
Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience
Paul J. Kenny, PhD
Professor and Chair, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Director, Drug Discovery Institute
Opening Remarks
Dennis S. Charney, MD
Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Speakers & Panelists
Denise Cai, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Alexander Charney, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Priti Balchandani, PhD
Professor
Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Silvia De Rubeis, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
Yizhou Dong, PhD
Professor
Oncological Sciences
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurology, Neuroscience and Pathology
Xiaosi Gu, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology
James Murrough, MD, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Towfique Raj, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Neurology
Erin L. Rich, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Ignacio Saez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience, Neurosurgery and Neurology
Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD
Professor
Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Daniela Schiller, PhD
Professor
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Nadejda Tsankova, MD, PhD
Professor
Pathology and Neuroscience
Daniel Wacker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacological Sciences and Neuroscience
Nan Yang, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Trainee Panelists
Jennifer Chan (Maze Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Arianna Davis (Gu Lab)
MD/PhD Student
Michael Fernando (Slesinger Lab)
PhD Student
Miguel Rodriguez de los Santos (Breen Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carmen Romero-Molina (Goate Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joe Zaki (Cai Lab)
PhD Student
Moderators
Jennifer Blaze, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry, Neuroscience
Alison M. Goate, DPhil
Professor and Chair of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology
George W. Huntley, PhD
Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Professor
Neuroscience
Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Director, Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai
Professor
Pharmacological Sciences, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Helen S. Mayberg, MD
Director, Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics
Professor
Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Ian S. Maze, PhD
Director, Center for Neural Epigenome Engineering
Professor
Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences
Sarah Millar, PhD
Professor
Director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professorial Chair in the Departments of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dermatology
Peter H. Rudebeck, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Panagiotis Roussos, MD, MS, PhD
Director, Center for Disease Neurogenomics
Professor
Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Psychiatry
Paul Slesinger, PhD
Director of the Center for Neurotechnology and Behavior
Professor
Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences
Rachel Yehuda, PhD
Director of The Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research
Professor
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
The Friedman Brain Institute
15th Anniversary Symposium
Agenda
Innovation and Translation in Brain Sciences
Highlighting the Next Generation of Leaders in Neuroscience
October 3, 2023 in Goldwurm Auditorium
8:30 am | Arrival and Registration (Coffee/Tea)
9:00 am | Opening Remarks: Dennis S. Charney, MD, Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
9:10 am | Welcome and Introduction: Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, Director, Friedman Brain Institute
9:30 am | Denise Cai, PhD
“Memory stability and flexibility across the lifetime”
Introduced by Jennifer Blaze, PhD
10:10 am | Break
10:25 am | Panel: The Human Brain Laboratory
Priti Balchandani, PhD, Alex Charney, MD, PhD, Xiaosi Gu, PhD, Ignacio Saez, PhD, Daniela Schiller, PhD
Moderated by Yasmin Hurd, PhD and Helen Mayberg, MD
11:15 am| Towfique Raj, PhD
“Using Integrative Functional Genomics to Decode the Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration”
Introduced by Panos Roussos, MD, MS, PhD
11:55 pm | Lunch
1:10 pm | Panel: The Future of Neuroscience
Silvia De Rubeis, PhD, Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD, Nadejda Tsankova, MD, PhD, Hiro Morishita, MD, PhD
Moderated by Alison Goate, DPhil
2:00 pm | Nan Yang, PhD
“Neuronal Autophagy and Schizophrenia: Explorations through Human Stem Cell-Derived Models”
Introduced by Sarah Millar, PhD
2:40 pm | Panel: The Future of Neurotherapeutics
Yizhou Dong, PhD, Daniel Wacker, PhD, James Murrough, MD, PhD, Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD
Moderated by Paul Slesinger, PhD and Rachel Yehuda, PhD
3:30 pm | Break
3:45 pm | Erin L. Rich, MD, PhD
“Neural circuits and mechanisms for social cognition”
Introduced by Peter Rudebeck, PhD
4:25 pm | Panel: The Future of Neuroscience – Students & Postdocs
Arianna Davis (Gu Lab)
MD/PhD Student
Michael Fernando (Slesinger Lab)
PhD Student
Joe Zaki (Cai Lab)
PhD Student
Miguel Rodriguez de los Santos (Breen Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Chan (Maze Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carmen Romero-Molina (Goate Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Moderated by Ian Maze and George Huntley
5:15 pm | Closing remarks: Paul Kenny, PhD, Chair, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
5:45 pm | Adjourn for Reception
Join us to be in a raffle for a signed, fine art print by Dr. Dunn
“Hippocampus II”
Visit Dr. Greg Dunn’s website
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Michael Greenberg, PhD
Thursday, October 5, 1 – 2 pm
Hosts: Eric Nestler, MD, PhD and Paul M Wassarman, PhD
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