Chen Institute Retreat 2022
The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience hosted its 2022 annual retreat on May 13 - 14, 2022. Due to COVID the retreat took place on-campus in the lecture hall in the Chen Neuroscience Research building. The talks were also broadcast in the breezeway, where attendees were given the option of enjoying the talks in a shaded outdoor setting. The retreat brought together the Caltech neuroscience community for two days of talks and social interactions, including a poster session. The posters presented are available here.
Attendees at the retreat included, 17 Chen Graduate Fellows, a total of 58 graduate students, 4 undergraduates, 38 postdocs, 10 scientific staff and 18 faculty. Attendees represented 35 labs across 4 academic divisions.
Follow the links for speaker talk titles and abstracts.
Speakers: John Allman, Anima Anandkumar, Michelle Effros, Viviana Gradinaru, Elizabeth Hong, Joseph Parker, John O'Doherty, Hannah Greenfeld Zernicka-Goetz lab, Mengyu Liu Anderson lab, Johan Melis Dickinson lab, Sumner Norman Andersen lab, Sarah Tashjian Mobbs/Camerer labs and Yameng Zhang Oka lab.
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