Partha Mitra of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is seeking to change all that, embarking on a bold new project to map the brain’s architecture. Dr. Mitra asks: What is the brain circuitry that underlies human behavior and emotion? How many basic emotions do we have, and what causes them? How can we fundamentally expand our knowledge of the brain’s systems and interconnections in order to better treat neurological conditions and diseases of the mind?
A neuroscientist and theoretical physicist, Dr. Mitra is the Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The author of Observed Brain Dynamics and over 100 scientific papers, he is also a musician and artist, recently collaborating with Berlin-based sculptor Fre Ilgen on artistic renditions of neurosystem anatomy. Earlier this year, Dr. Mitra was awarded a prestigious Transformative Grant from the National Institutes of Health for his Brain Architecture Project. These special grants were designed to fund “exceptionally innovative, high-risk, original and/or unconventional research that has the potential to create new or challenge existing scientific paradigms.”
A neuroscientist and theoretical physicist, Dr. Mitra is the Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The author of Observed Brain Dynamics and over 100 scientific papers, he is also a musician and artist, recently collaborating with Berlin-based sculptor Fre Ilgen on artistic renditions of neurosystem anatomy. Earlier this year, Dr. Mitra was awarded a prestigious Transformative Grant from the National Institutes of Health for his Brain Architecture Project. These special grants were designed to fund “exceptionally innovative, high-risk, original and/or unconventional research that has the potential to create new or challenge existing scientific paradigms.”
Before & After--Groove to wet-wired tunes
--Stick around for the nervy Q&A
--Peek into Dr. Mitra’s mind-blowing microscope!
--Try our synapse-stimulating cocktail of the night, the Circuit Party
Don't miss one microsecond of this mind-expanding evening!
This cerebral edition of the Secret Science Club meets Wednesday, July 6 at 8 pm @ the Bell House,149 7th St. Brooklyn , p: 718.643.6510. Subway: F or G to 4th Ave 9th St
This cerebral edition of the Secret Science Club meets Wednesday, July 6 at 8 pm @ the Bell House,
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+
Free! Just bring your smart self!
Free! Just bring your smart self!
