SENSING the WORLD
2024 Dartmouth Symposium for the Life Sciences
Tuesday October 1, 2024
Life Sciences Center | Dartmouth College
| 8:00 - 8:50 AM | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:50 - 9:00 AM | Welcome/Introductions Marnie Halpern, PhD Chair and Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth |
| 9:00 - 9:45 AM | Sensing neurophysiology with light Michael Hoppa, PhD Associate Professor of Biology, Dartmouth College |
| 9:45 AM -10:30 AM | Life on the edge: Cellular interface regulators in the visual system Melanie Samuel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 10:30 - 10:45 AM | Break
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| 10:45 - 11:30 AM | Taste by touch in octopus Nicholas Bellono, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University |
| 11:30 - 12:15 PM | The power of hunger Amber L. Alhadeff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Monell Chemical Senses Center |
| 12:15 - 1:15 PM | Lunch
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| 1:15 - 2:00 PM | From ear to brain in zebrafish: molecular insights into hearing and balance Teresa Nicholson, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. OHNS, Stanford University |
| 2:00 - 2:45 PM | Pain goes viral: neural mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 pain and airway inflammation Diana Bautista, Ph.D. Professor & HHMI Investigator, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2:45 - 3:30 PM | Hippocampal spatial representations in complex environments Daniel Dombeck, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Wender-Lewis Teaching and Research Professor, AT&T Research Fellow Northwestern University |
| 3:30 - 5:30 PM | Afternoon Activities
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