ADC EVENTS/NEWS
Michael Greenberg’s Lundbeck Prize
Michael Greenberg is announced as one of the recipients of the Lundbeck Foundation’s Brain Prize 2023. Each year 10 million DKK (about 1.4 mil USD) to one or more brain researchers who have had a ground breaking impact on brain research. Congratulations Mike!
Spectrum News “40 under 40”
Principle Investigator, Ryan Doan has made Spectrum News “40 under 40” for future leaders in Autism Research.
The Allen Institute Conference on Human Brain Evolution
‘Expanding Minds’ Virtual Seminar Series
In 2021, we held a virtual Allen Institute Conference on Human Brain Evolution — A multidisciplinary perspective on the questions that intersect genetics, neurobiology, and evolution to shed light on the very nature of who we are.
We thank our speakers:
- Liran Carmel, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Patricia Churchland, DLitt, BPhil, LLD, University of California, San Diego
- Alex Pollen, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
- Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
We also thank the scientists who joined us for subsequent sessions to discuss their work:
- Philipp Gunz, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Christof Koch, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Mark Harnett, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Fenna Krienen, PhD, Harvard Medical School
- Rebecca Hodge, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Erin Hecht, PhD, Harvard University
- Flora Vaccarino, MD, Yale School of Medicine
Harvard Grad Students Shyam Akula and Mark Aurel Nagy awarded 2020 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Founded in 1997, the Fellowship honors the contributions of immigrants to the US. The program has supported graduate students in public policy, business, law, music, arts, humanities and the social sciences. The 2020 award to Shyam K. Akula, MD, PhD and Mark Aurel Nagy, MD, PhD, supported their work towards MD/PhD degrees in Medicine and Neuroscience at Harvard University.
Read more about Shyam Akula >
Read more about Mark Aurel Nagy >
“Braided History: Reporting on Human Origins”
A talk by science writer and New York Times journalist Carl Zimmer at the October, 2019 Allen Frontiers Symposium.
Watch the 47-minute video of his talk here.
2019 Allen Discovery Center Seminar series at Harvard Medical School
We collaborated with other centers in the academic community to produce a series of public seminars open to the general public.
Dr. Jason Buenrostro
Assistant Professor, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
September 23
Dr. Steven Reilly
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sabeti Lab, Harvard University/Broad Institute
October 28
Dr. Erin Hecht
Assistant Professor, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
November 4
Dr. Hopi Hoekstra
Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
December 16
Evolution Matters! Series at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
In Fall, 2018, ADC participated in this series at the Harvard Museum of Natural History with the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
Dr. Christopher Walsh
will present on October 10, 2018
Watch a recording of his lecture entitled “Genes, Cognition, and Human Brain Evolution”
Dr. David Reich
will present on November 8, 2018
Watch a recording of his lecture entitled “Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past”
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Many thanks to Diana Xochitl Munn and Jane Pickering for their partnership!
Perspectives on Human Brain Evolution
See the Gallery below for photos of the event. Photography by Celia Muto.
