Mriganka Sur Lectures 2006-2011
• 2011
Jan. 1-14 National Brain Research Center, India
Jan. 6-7 IIT Bombay, Infosys Science Foundation
Jan. 17 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Jan. 26 IAP Talk: MIT
Feb. 1-4 Thalamocortical Development Meeting, Arolla, Switzerland
Feb. 4 Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel
Feb. 27-Mar. 1 National Eye Institute Board of Scientific Counselors, DC
Mar. 17 Truffle Capital, Paris
Apr. 4 Seminar at the Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
Apr. 25 Brains on Brains 2, MIT
Apr. 26-27 BCS Visiting Committee
May 3-5 MIT150 “Brains, Minds and Machines” Symposium
May 28 International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF) Keynote Speaker, Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Jun. 13 & 20 MIT/CHB Symposia, "Brain Development and Disorders"
Jun. 15-16 Picower Retreat, Cape Cod, MA
Jun. 27-28 Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Keynote Lecture, Québec City, Canada
Jul. 29 Science of the Eye Lecture, MIT
Aug.15-30 National Brain Research Center, India
Aug. 16-19 NBRC lectures, India
Aug. 23-24 Chandigarh lectures, India
Sept. 16 School of Science, Breakfast Series, MIT
Sept. 18-20 SFARI, Washington, DC
Sept. 22-23 Chairing: Symposium on Emerging Genetics & Neurobiology of Severe Mental Illness, MIT
Sept. 25-27 NIH workshop, “Setting Priorities for Therapy Development in Rett Syndrome”, Washington DC
Sept. 28-30 The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance committee
Oct. 8 Young Investigator Meeting, MIT in Boston
Oct. 10-11 Summit on the Global Agenda, World Economic Forum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Oct. 14 McGovern Institute Scientific Advisory Board, MIT
Oct. 25 Autism Consortium Symposium
Nov. 4 Intelligence Class, MIT
Nov. 9-11 Cell Neuron Meeting @ SFN, Washington, DC
Nov. 12-16 SFN, Washington, DC
Dec. 6-9 The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance
• 2010
Jan 5-7 National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Jan 11-14 National Brain Research Center, Delhi, India
Jan 26 IAP Talk, MIT
Feb 19 Moses Seminar, MIT
March 10-15 56th National Institute for Basic Biology Symposium, Okazaki, Japan
April 8 Pathways to Convergence Symposium, MIT
April 14-21 India Alliance
April 29-30 SFN/IWiN Workshop, Washington DC
May 9-11 International Symposium of the GRSNC, University of Montreal
May 20-22 Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND5) Meeting, Pittsburgh
May 24 Academia Sinica Symposium, MIT
May 26 New York
July 16-18 IITK Golden Jubilee, Santa Clara, CA
July 22 Summer Program for High School Teachers, MIT
Aug. 19-20 National Brain Research Center, India
Aug. 25 IISER Mohali, India
Sept 12-13 Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Science Meeting
Oct 4-8 29th Naito Conference, Japan
Oct 13-15 Williams Syndrome meeting, The Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle WA
Oct 26 Autism Consortium Symposium
Oct 27-30 India Alliance
Nov. 4-5 Vanderbilt Conte Center’s 3rd Annual Symposium, Vanderbilt University
Nov 12 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nov 13-17 Society for Neuroscience, San Diego
• 2009
January 21 Keynote, International Conference on Human-Computer Interactions, IIIT Allahabad, India
January 29 IAP, MIT
February 6 Genentech, San Francisco
February 9 Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle
March 1-3 Neuroscience Research Program, La Jolla, CA
March 7-8 Symposium, Society for Neurochemistry, Charleston, SC
March 9-11 Royal Society, London
March 17-20 Gordon Conference on Astrocytes, Los Angeles, CA
March 22-28 Convocation address, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
March 31-April 2 Simons Foundation Annual Meeting, New Orleans
April 20-22 NIH Workshop on Neuroplasticity, Washington, DC
May 4 Symposium on Brain Disorders, MIT
May 5-6 BCS Visiting Committee, MIT
May 10-14 Tinnitus Research Foundation Meeting, Lake Como, Italy
June 3-4 PILM retreat
June 5-7 Keynote, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, Shanghai, China
June 17-19 Annual Lecture, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle, UK
June 28-30 Symposium, International Rett Syndrome Foundation meeting, Chicago
July 7-10 Symposium, Physiological Society meeting, Dublin, Ireland
July 15 Symposium, L.V.Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
July 16-17 Wellcome Trust/DBT Alliance meeting, Hyderabad, India
July 28 Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest
Sept 18 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sept 26-28 National Academies Kavli Chinese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, Kunming City, China
Sept 30-Oct 2 Keynote, Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany
Oct 18-21 SFN 2009, Chicago
Oct 28 Autism Consortium Symposium, Harvard Med School, Boston
Nov 6 University of California, Berkeley
Nov 30 Translational Health Sci and Tech Inst Workshop, MIT
Dec 13-14 Science Conclave, IIIT Allahabad, India
Dec 16-17 National Brain Research Center, Delhi, India
Dec 19-20 Indian Inst of Science, Education and Research, Pune, India
• 2008
January 2 Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
January 7-9 Platinum Jubilee Celebration Lecture, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
January 11 National Brain Research Centre, Delhi, India
January 14-17 Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
February 4 Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science: The Revolution in Mind/Brain Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
February 19 Program in Neuroscience Seminar Series, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
March 11 Meeting of the Royal Society, London, UK
March 30-April 2 Medical Research Council (MRC), Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford, UK
May 3-4 Sinneave Center meeting on Autism, Phoenix, AZ
May 20 University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
May 27-28 PILM Retreat, Cape Cod, MA, USA
June 2-3 MIBR Retreat, Newport, RI, USA
June 9-11 German-US Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Munich, Germany
June 19-21 Second International Symposium on the Cognitive and Neuronal Bases of Language: Mechanisms of Learning, Brain Plasticity, and Critical Periods, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
June 23-27 Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium, Lake Tahoe, USA
July 9 Darwin Bicentennial Lecture, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
July 14 Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
July 16 National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
July 24 Univ. Rene Descartes, Paris
August 28 Mid-Career Acceleration Program, MIT
September 8-10 FENS/IBRO School: Imaging Brain Function, Lausanne, Switzerland
September 22 Symposium in honor of Brenda Milner, McGill University, Montreal
September 24 WGBH, Boston
October 10-13 Rett World Congress, Paris
October 16-18 Symposium to Honor Professor Lamberto Maffei, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
October 26-28 Learning and Dynamics in Vision, Glion, Lake Geneva, Switzerland
October 29 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
November 10-13 Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Silver Jubilee Anniversary Celebration, Mexico City, Mexico
November 15-19 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA
November 24-25 International Neural Network Society (INNS) New Directions in Neural Networks Symposia, Auckland, New Zealand
December 14 Indian Institute of Science Centenary Symposium, Bangalore, India
December 16 Foundation Day Lecture, National Brain Research Center, India
• 2007
January 4 National Brain Research Center, India
January 17 PILM Advisory Committee Meeting, MIT
January 18 Advisory Council, National Eye Institute, Washington DC
January 23 Keynote Lecture, Techvista 2007, Microsoft Research, Bangalore
February 22-25 Symposium, Institute for Neuroscience, Natal, Brazil
March 5-7 Neuroscience Research Program, La Jolla
March 13 Royal Society, London
March 14-15 Scientific Advisory Committee, Dept of Biotechnology, India
March 22 MIT Neuroscience meeting, MIT
March 27 Modern Optics and Spectroscopy seminar, MIT
April 23-24 Workshop on Information Processing in the Visual System, Ohio State Univ
May 2-3 BCS Visiting Committee, MIT
May 5 Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Hong Kong
May 9 Autism Consortium Scientific Advisory Board
May 30 - June 1 PILM Retreat, Cape Cod, MA
June 3 - 5 MIBR Retreat, Newport, RI
June 21 MIT Summer Research Program
July 30 Course on Learning and Memory, Cold Spring Harbor
August 30 Mid-Career Acceleration Program, MIT
September 19 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
October 4 Brown University
October 12 Family Weekend, MIT
November 3 - 7 Special Lecture, SFN Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
December 3 Autism Consortium Retreat, Boston, MA
December 6 NLM Foundation, Boston, MA
December 13 Sigma Xi Lecture, NSRDEC
• 2006
January 9 Foundation Day Lecture, Biotechnology Society of India, New Delhi
January 10 National Brain Research Center, Delhi, India
January 18 University of Hong Kong
January 20 8th Annual "MIT in Japan" Symposium, Japan
January 25 Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
January 31 Keynote address, Satellite Symposium on Visual Sciences, "Seeing Connections", Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney
January 31 Keynote address, Satellite Symposium on Developmental Neurobiology, Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney
March 9 Euroconference Institute Pasteur, Paris France
March 14-15 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, Department of Biotechnology, India
March 19-23 Cajal Winter Conference,
Huesca, Spain
March 29 UCSF, Department of Psychiatry, Symposium in Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco
April 3 National Academies Keck Initiatives Planning Meeting, Washington DC
April 19 Harvard Graduate School of Design, Annual International Advisory Board Meeting
April 21 Boston University School of Medicine
May 10 Presentation to Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
May 27 Brain Research Center, University of British Colombia, Vancouver
June 5-7 Picower Institute Retreat, Falmouth MA
June 8-9 Advisory Council, National Eye Institute, Washington DC
June 21-23 Institute of Cellular Physiology, Mexico City
June 27-29 Merck Summer Institute on Biology of Developmental Disorders, NJ
July 10 Simons Project Annual Meeting
July 12-14 Royal Society, London
July 17 University College London
September 12 Yale University Neuroscience Graduate Program
September 14-15 Advisory Council, National Eye Institute, Washington DC
September 26 Morehouse College, Atlanta
October 5 Schmidt Lecture, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
October 13 Family Weekend, MIT
October 14-18 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Atlanta GA
November 2 Presidential Fellows Lecture, MIT
December 28 Postgraduate Institute for Medical Studies, Chandigarh, India