“Brain mapping and integrating multimodal data across subjects and projects.”

Dr. Arthur Toga is Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Radiology and Engineering at the University of Southern California, and serves as the inaugural Director of the USC Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics. He also holds an appointment in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. A leading authority on neuroimaging, informatics, mapping brain structure and function, and brain atlasing, Dr. Toga is the former Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University Professor, Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology, Associate Dean at the Geffen School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the UCLA Brain Mapping Center.

Published on October 3, 2013  by Allen Institute for Brain Science

Commercializing auditory neuroscience

Dr. Donald “Lloyd” Watts has worked as an engineer at Microtel Pacific Research, Synaptics and Arithmos. In 1997, he joined Paul Allen’s Interval Research Corporation and continued his research in reverse-engineering the human auditory pathway. In 2000, he founded Audience, Inc., to commercialize his research, with investment from Paul Allen, Carver Mead and Allan Crawford. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2000-2005, leading the development of the company’s core technologies. In 2005, he transitioned to the role of Audience’s Chief Technology Officer. In 2011, he became Chief Scientist. In 2013, he retired from Audience.

Published on October 3, 2013 by Allen Institute for Brain Science

Molecular architecture of the circadian clock in mammals

Dr. Joseph Takahashi is Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He currently holds the Loyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience. Before moving to UT Southwestern, Dr. Takahashi was the Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor in the Life Sciences at Northwestern University. Dr. Takahashi has pioneered the use of forward genetics and positional cloning in the mouse as a tool for discovery of genes underlying neurobiology and behavior, and his discovery of the mouse and human clock genes led to a description of a conserved circadian clock mechanism in animals.

Published on October 3, 2013  by Allen Institute for Brain Science

Title: Fluid dynamics in the brain

Dr. Gregor Eichele is Director and Scientific Member at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. At the Max-Planck Genes and Behavior Department, Dr. Eichele investigates the dynamic interplay between gene expression, development and behavior. His research focuses on mammalian brain development and takes advantage of a gene expression database in which a very large number of gene expression patterns are stored. Dr. Eichele’s second focus of research is on circadian clocks which determine sleep/wake and daily feeding patterns, regulate the 24-hour patterns of production of certain hormones and steer other biological activities that are tied to the recurring day/night cycle. His third focus of research concerns functional genomics. Work using robotic in situ hybridization reveals in detail the spatial and temporal dynamics of the transcriptome in the developing and adult mammalian brain.

Published on October 3, 2013  by Allen Institute for Brain Science

OnAir Post: Gregor Eichele: 2013 Annual Symposium