Education / Graduate Education / PhD Programs / Neuroscience Graduate Program / Retreat / Past Keynote Speakers Past Keynote Speakers Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology; Professor, Neurology (Children’s Hospital); Center for Brain Science, Harvard University "Translating Critical Periods" Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University "The shape of the world – representation of 3D versus 2D shapes in visual area V4" Director for the Center for Stem Cell Biology, Associate Professor - Ophthalmology, Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, and Neuroscience Generating New Neurons and Protecting Old Neurons in Vision Restoration Professor: NYU - The Center for Neural Science The infantile amnesia paradox: a critical period of learning to learn and remember David Amaral, Ph.D. Beneto Foundation Chair, MIND Institute; University of California Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine; Core Investigator, California National Primate Research Center The Ups and Downs of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Tracking the trajectories of autism in the Autism Phenome Project. Co-Director, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Univ. British Columbia New roles for pericytes and astrocytes in the function, repair and regeneration of cerebral blood vessels Professor of Biology, Member, US National Academy of Sciences Brandeis University Variability, Robustness and Homeostasis in Neurons and Networks Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Connectomics Director Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs Institute for Cell Engineering Professor of Neurology PARsing Cell Death in Parkinson's disease Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2008 William R Kenan Jr. Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Touch Sensing in C. elegans: Transduction and Modulation Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cholinergic Modulation of Cortico-limbic Circuits Related to Attention, Memory and Mood Carol Barnes, Ph.D. Regents' Professor Psychology and Neurology, Director Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Research Scientist ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, Brain Mechanisms of Learning and Memory in Aging: What is Normal? Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair, Human Genetics Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART) Co-Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics Genomic investigations of human higher cognition and transcriptome organization Pat Levitt, Ph.D. Director Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Where are we with the Autisms? Professor of Neurobiology, , Embryonic patterning and the mammalian forebrain Elissa L. Newport, Ph.D. George Eastman Professor, Former Chair of the Department of , Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms for Language Acquisition in Human Infants and Adults Professor & Chair of , Disorders of Neuronal Position Frederick P. Rose Professor, New Directions in the CNS Neuronal Migration