Past KIBM Workshop Series

Winter 2012 Workshop

Topic: The Neurobiology of Consciousness

Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Pat Churchland

  • Session 1: Christof Koch (Allen Institute)
  • Session 2: Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France)
  • Session 3: R. Greenspan (UCSD)
  • Session 4: Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute)
  • Session 5: Bud Craig (Bud Craig)

Winter 2011 Workshop

Topic: Genes and Human Brains: Architecture and Cognition

Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Eric Halgren

  • Session 1: Primer on human gene mapping and its associated statistics - N. Schork (TSRI)
  • Session 2: Genes and autism - D. Geschwind (UCLA)
  • Session 3: Human gene mapping and its frustrations - J. Flint (Wellcome Trust Genome Ctr., UK)
  • Session 4: Brain architecture - A. Dale
  • Session 5: Development - T. Jernigan, S. Bielas
  • Session 6: Stem cells and psychiatric disease - A. Muotri
  • Session 7: Williams Syndrome - U. Bellugi, R. Greenspan

Spring 2005 Workshop

Topic: Evolution of the Brain

Organizers: Marty Sereno and Harvey Karten

  • Session 1: Overview of vertebrate brain evolution - M. Sereno
  • Session 2: Evolution of neocortex - M. Sereno
  • Session 3: Avian/mammalian deep homologies in cortical circuitry - H. Karten

Winter 2005 Workshop

Topic: Evolution of Communication

Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Tim Gentner

  • Session 1: Insect communication, physiology and behavior - R. Greenspan
  • Session 2: Insect communication, genetics and species variation - R. Greenspan
  • Session 3: Birdsong - T. Gentner
  • Session 4: Amphibian communication, anatomy and behavior - N. Spitzer

Fall 2004 Workshop

Topic: Genes and Language

Organizers: Ralph Greenspan and Jeff Elman

  • Session 1: Genetics - what does it mean to say "it's genetic"? - R. Greenspan
  • Session 2: Basic Linguistics - is language biologically "special"? - J. Elman
  • Session 3: Developmental and hereditary disorders of language - clues to its biology. - J. Elman
  • Session 4: Biological basis for communication in non-human species - R. Greenspan