1. webeasties
  2. Attn Boston Beasties: Mind/Machine Interface Lecture this week

Attn Boston Beasties: Mind/Machine Interface Lecture this week

By kbonham on September 20, 2011.

Harvard Science in the News begins its fall lecture series this week with a talk on the interface between human brains and machines:

Screen Shot 2011-09-20 at 11.10.22 AM.png

I went to the practice talk last week, and it's going to be great! From retinal implants to controlling robots with your mind, Harvard neuroscience graduate students will take you through the science behind melding mind with machine. The lecture is tomorrow (wednesday) night at 7pm in the Armenise amphitheater at the Harvard Med School. Check out the website for more info.

Next week: Me! I'll be presenting next wednesday along with my lab mate Sky Brubaker and fellow immunology grad student Jillian Astarita on innate immunity - "How to Spot a Virus: The Origins of an Immune Response."

Full schedule:
SITN fall schedule

SITN archives.

Last year's lecture series on Vimeo.

Tags
education
SITN

More like this

Living Factories: How Scientists Engineer Microbes to Make Useful Molecules

"How to Spot a Virus" - Free lecture tomorrow night in Boston

For anyone in the Boston Area, two of my colleagues and I will be giving a talk on how the immune system recognizes and responds to pathogens, and how understanding this will allow scientists to design better vaccines and more effectively treat illness.

SITN Spring Lecture Series

If you don't live in/around Boston, feel free to move along. Otherwise: Dear SITN followers,

Our Microbial Organ

Did you know that bacteria make up 90% of the cells in your body? That they make up ~5% of your mass? That they colonize you at the moment of birth and are different if you were born via c-section than if you were born naturally?

I find this material extremely interesting. Understanding the link between neuroscience and behaviour, personality and the rest of human experience. What is particularly interesting is the link between attachment between two separate individuals and the neurology that drives us together.