Slideshow
The Brains Behind the Brains of
THEATER OF THOUGHT:
Q&A with Film Subjects Cori Bargmann & Richard Axel
Friday, December 13
7:00
Moderated by Science Entrepreneur and Film Subject Jamie Daves
Screening presented as part of the Alfred P. Sloan Science on Screen® series, an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theater, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Cori Bargmann is the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University and Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. She studies the neuronal basis of behavior in C. elegans, an animal whose small nervous system and powerful genetics provide unique opportunities to characterize genes, neurons, and circuits at multiple levels of analysis.
Richard Axel is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won him and Linda Buck, a former postdoctoral research scientist in his group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004.
Jamie Daves is the Co-founder and Board Member of The Neurorights Foundation, the leading brain data research and advocacy organization in the world. https://www.jamiedaves.com/
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Supported by a Humanities New York Action Grant
