The Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series at MIT

Below is a list of the Spring 2009 speakers featured in our Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series. The colloquia are supported by the Simons Foundation.

All lectures begin at 6 p.m. If you are interested in attending, contact Lee Mavros, Project Coordinator, via email at lmavros@mit.edu or call 617.324.5493 to register.

Click on the respective link to view abstracts for each colloquium, as well as publications written by the speaker.

9.2.09 Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D.

Professor of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine

Laurel Schendel Professor of Communication Disorders, Florida State University

*CANCELED* 9.16.09 David Miller, MD, Ph.D.

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Division of Genetics and Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston

10.7.09 Dara S. Manoach, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

11.4.09 Laurent Mottron, MD, Ph.D.

Universite de Montreal Autism Center of Excellence

Marcel & Rolande Gosselin Research Chair on Cognitive Neuroscience of Autism(CETEDUM)

11.18.09 Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, CPEA Imaging Project

Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

12.2.09 Thomas R. Insel, MD

National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA

12.16.09 Jim Bodfish, Ph.D.

Professor, Psychiatry and Pediatrics

Director, Center for Development and Learning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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