Brain Development and Disorders Project at MIT

Below is a list of past speakers featured in our Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series. The colloquia are sponsored by the Autism Consortium and supported by the Simons Foundation, the Anne and Paul Marcus Family Foundation and the Autism Treatment Network.

All lectures begin at 6 p.m. If you are interested in attending, contact Lee Mavros, Project Coordinator, via email lmavros@mit.edu or call 617-324-5493 to register.

Click on the respective link to view abstracts for each colloquium, as well as publications written by the speaker.

9.28.05	Charles Nelson, Ph.D.	Richard David Scott Chair of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Research Director, Developmental Medicine Center, Children's Hospital Boston
10.19.05	John Gabrieli, Ph.D.	Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Associate Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11.17.05	Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D.	Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine Department of Psychology, Boston University
12.14.05	Martha Herbert, MD, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School Pediatric Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
2.8.06	Pawan Sinha, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Computation Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2.15.06	Anthony Bailey, MD	Cheryl Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford University Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Park Hospital for Children
3.1.06	Alan Leslie, Ph.D.	Director, Cognitive Development Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Studies, Rutgers University
4.5.06	Fred Volkmar, MD	Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology Co-director, Yale Child Study Center
4.19.06	Ami Klin, Ph.D.	Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Co-director, Yale Child Study Center
5.17.06	Mark Bear, Ph.D.	Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
9.6.06	Mark J. Daly, MD, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
9.20.06	Eric Courchesne, Ph.D.	Professor of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Department, University of California San Diego School of Medicine
10.4.06	Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D.	Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research Department of Psychiatry, M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California, Davis
10.10.06 * To be held at MGH *	Michael Laposata, MD, Ph.D.	Director of Clinical Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
10.25.06	Autism Consortium Annual Retreat	To be held at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT October 25, 2006
11.15.06	Carolyn B. Mervis, Ph.D.	Distinguished University Scholar and Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville
12.6.06	Geoff Bird, Ph.D.	University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
12.12.06	Craig Newschaffer, Ph.D.	Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health
1.9.07	Tim Buie, MD	Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and LADDERS * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
2.13.07	Eric Hollander, MD	Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Director, Seaver and NY Autism Center of Excellence * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
2.28.07	Kenneth N. Wexler, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Principal Investigator for Brain Development and Disorders Project language study
3.20.07	Susan L. Hyman, MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities, University of Rochester Medical Center * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
4.10.07	Paul Ashwood, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California, Davis * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
4.11.07	Peter Mundy, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychology, University of Miami Director, Child Division and The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, University of Miami
4.25.07	Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
5.8.07	Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alberta * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
5.9.07	Luis F. Parada, Ph.D.	Professor/Chairman, University of TX Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
5.16.07	David G. Amaral, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Beneto Foundation Chair and Research Director of the M.I.N.D. Institute , University of California, Davis
5.23.07	*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT BEGINS AT 3 P.M.!!!* Daniel Geschwind, MD, Ph.D.	Gordon & Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, UCLA
6.13.07	Francesca Happe, Ph.D.	Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
6.19.07	Alice Carter, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
9.5.07	Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
9.19.07	Jacqueline Crawley, Ph.D.	Chief of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience of the Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
10.3.07	Marcel Just, Ph.D.	D. O. Hebb Professor of Psychology; Director, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging Carnegie Mellon University
10.9.07	Elena Orekhova, Ph.D.	Visiting Scholar, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
10.17.07	Omar Khwaja, MD, Ph.D.	Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital Boston
10.24.07	John Rubenstein, MD, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
11.13.07	Gagan Joshi, MD	Clinical Investigator in the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinical and Research Programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
12.11.07	Laurent Mottron, MD, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
2.6.08	Gordon Fishell, Ph.D.	Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Dept. of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
2.12.08	Heidi Feldman, Ph.D., MD	Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
2.20.08	John D. E. Gabrieli, Ph.D.	Grover Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
3.5.08	Joseph D. Buxbaum, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics And Genomic Sciences, and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
3.11.08	Andrew Zimmerman, MD	Associate Professor, Neurology and Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Pediatric Neurologist and Director of Medical Research at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
3.19.08	Joseph Piven, MD	Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
4.2.08	Wendy L. Stone, Ph.D.	Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center/TRIAD
4.8.08	Pat Levitt, Ph.D.	Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
4.23.08	Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D.	Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC)
5.7.08	Sir Michael Rutter, MD	Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (MRC) and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
5.21.08	Aaron DiAntonio, MD, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
6.4.08	Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
6.10.08	Nancy Minshew, MD	Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Director of the Center for Excellence in Autism Research at the University of Pittsburgh * This colloquium will be hosted by Partners Center for the Study of Autism and Related Disorders at MGH.
7.1.08	Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D.	Professor of Psychiatry, BioEngineering, and Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine Director, Brain-Body Center

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