Brain prize winners, Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, as well as award-winning Cornell faculty will share how they are exploring the brain using the most modern, innovative technologies.

Poster and Schedule

MONG FAMILY FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 2016

CORNELL NEUROTECH

Alex MacKerell, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland

Host: Andrea Acevedo and Max Kushner.

Electronic Polarization in Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics: Development and Application of a Polarizable Force Field based on the Classical Drude Oscillator

Edward Yu, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University

Host: Peng Chen

Bacterial multidrug efflux transporters

Seminar guest: Eva Kanso, Deparment of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, will present seminar. Professor Z. Jane Wang, host.

Seminar Title: Phonons in Confined Active Crystals

Stephen Levy, Department of Physics, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, will present seminar. Professor Jim Sethna, host.

Seminar Title: Stretching and Relaxing Confined DNA Molecules

Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Professor Jim Sethna, host.

Seminar Title: Towards active metamaterials

Melissa Warden, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, will present seminar. Professor Z. Jane Wang, host.

Seminar Title: To seek or to flee: the neural circuits of approach and avoidance

Guillaume Lambert, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, will present seminar. Professor Jeffrey Moses, host.

Seminar Title: Quantitative Single-Cell Biophysics: Unraveling Bacterial Adaptation Dynamics under Fluctuating Environments

EPiQM Summer School 2016

June 1st – 3rd, 2016 at Cornell University

Jeffrey Moses, Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, will present seminar. Professor Erich Mueller, host.

Seminar Title: New optical sources for physics and spectroscopy based on an old trick of atomic physics