Announcing 2020 MBM Retreat Speakers – Miniature Brain Machinery

On September 17, 2020, the MBM Program will hold its third annual retreat — virtually! This year’s retreat will be hosted on Zoom and feature presentations by our trainees, as well as plenary lectures from highly acclaimed scientists in the field:

	Alysson Muotri Professor and Director of the Stem Cell Program for the Institute for Genomic Medicine University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
	Penny Burgoon Director of the Office of Policy, Communications, and Education National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) National Institutes of Health
	Na Ji Associate Professor of Physics University of California, Berkeley

For speaker bios, registration information, and schedule, please visit the event page.

Overview

Discoveries relevant to our brains, which influence and control such a wide range of actions, emotions, and thoughts, have relied on two complimentary approaches: cognitive and behavior studies and brain cell and tissue biology studies. Our research traineeship program utilizing miniature brain machinery, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), combines these two paradigms to train the next generation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce to advance discovery. Our students are recruited from neuroscience, cell and developmental biology, molecular and integrative physiology, chemistry, chemical and biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and psychology to foster a culture of innovation and translational research, and will significantly impact efforts to understand and control brain activities ongoing at other institutions.