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Past colloquia

Below is a list of past speakers featured in our Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series.

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

9.28.05 Charles Nelson, Ph.D. Richard David Scott Chair of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Research Director, Developmental Medicine Center, Children's Hospital Boston
 
10.19.05 John D. E. Gabrieli, Ph.D. Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Associate Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
11.17.05 Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D. Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine

Department of Psychology, Boston University
 
12.14.05 Martha Herbert, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Pediatric Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
 
2.8.06 Pawan Sinha, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computation Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
2.15.06 Anthony Bailey, MD Cheryl Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

University Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Park Hospital for Children
 
3.1.06 Alan Leslie, Ph.D. Director, Cognitive Development Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Studies, Rutgers University
 
4.5.06 Fred Volkmar, MD Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology

Co-director, Yale Child Study Center
 
4.19.06 Ami Klin, Ph.D. Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology

Co-director, Yale Child Study Center
 
5.17.06 Mark Bear, Ph.D. Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 
9.6.06 Mark J. Daly, MD, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
 
9.20.06 Eric Courchesne, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Department, University of California San Diego School of Medicine
 
10.4.06 Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D. Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research

Department of Psychiatry, M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California, Davis
 
11.15.06 Carolyn B. Mervis, Ph.D. Distinguished University Scholar and Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville
 
12.6.06 Geoff Bird, Ph.D. University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
 
2.28.07 Kenneth N. Wexler, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator for Brain Development and Disorders Project language study
 
4.11.07 Peter Mundy, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Miami

Director, Child Division and The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities, University of Miami
 
4.25.07 Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
 
5.9.07 Luis F. Parada, Ph.D. Professor/Chairman, University of TX Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
 
5.16.07 David G. Amaral, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Beneto Foundation Chair and Research Director of the M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California, Davis
 
5.23.07 Daniel Geschwind, MD, Ph.D. Gordon & Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, UCLA
 
6.13.07 Francesca Happe, Ph.D. Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience

MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
 
9.5.07 Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 
9.19.07 Jacqueline Crawley, Ph.D. Chief of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience of the Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
 
10.3.07 Marcel Just, Ph.D. D. O. Hebb Professor of Psychology; Director, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie Mellon University
 
10.17.07 Omar Khwaja, MD, Ph.D. Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Children's Hospital Boston
 
10.24.07 John Rubenstein, MD, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
 
2.6.08 Gordon Fishell, Ph.D. Professor, Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
 
2.20.08 John D. E. Gabrieli, Ph.D. Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Associate Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
3.5.08 Joseph D. Buxbaum, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics And Genomic Sciences, and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
 
3.19.08 Joseph Piven, MD Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
 
4.2.08 Wendy L. Stone, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center/TRIAD
 
4.23.08 Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D. Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge

Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC)
 
5.7.08 Sir Michael Rutter, MD Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (MRC) and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
 
5.21.08 Aaron DiAntonio, MD, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
 
6.4.08 Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
 
7.1.08 Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry, BioEngineering, and Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

Director, Brain-Body Center
 
9.3.08 Richard Paylor, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular & Human Genetics / Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
 
9.17.08 Paul H. Patterson, Ph.D. Anne and Benjamin Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology
 
10.1.08 Christopher A. Walsh, MD, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BIDMC

Chief, Division of Neurogenetics, BIDMC

Chief, Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital Boston
 
10.15.08 Peter Szatmari, MD Professor and Head, Division of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
 
11.5.08 Susan E. Bryson, Ph.D. Professor and Craig Chair in Autism Research, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre
 
12.3.08 James Sutcliffe, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
 
12.4.08 John Elder Robison Author, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
 
12.17.08 Stephen Walker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
 
2.4.09 Arthur L. Beaudet, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
 
2.18.09 Margaret Bauman, MD Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
 
3.4.09 Matthew K. Belmonte, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, Cornell University
 
3.18.09 Elizabeth Pellicano, Ph.D. University Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
 
4.15.09 Karen Dobkins, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
 
5.20.09 Karen Pierce, Ph.D. Director of Clinical Research, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence

Assistant Research Neuroscientist, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
 
6.17.09 Catherine Lord, Ph.D., ABPP Director, University of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders Center
 
9.2.09 Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D. Professor of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine

Laurel Schendel Professor of Communication Disorders, Florida State University
 
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. Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry

Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
1.20.10 Nicole M. Gage, Ph.D. Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
 
2.10.10 Thomas C. Sudhof, MD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Avram Goldstein Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
 
2.17.10 Tony Charman, Ph.D. Chair in Autism Education, Centre for Research in Autism and Education, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London
 
3.17.10 Randy Blakely, Ph.D. Allan D. Bass Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry

Director, Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research
 
4.7.10 Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University

4.21.10 Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D. Director, Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
 
5.5.10 David Miller, MD, Ph.D. Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Division of Genetics and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
6.2.10 Dilja Krueger, Ph.D.

Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9.1.10 Nim Tottenham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
 
9.15.10 Christopher W. Cowan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 
10.6.10 Annette Karmiloff-Smith Professional Research Fellow, Birkbeck Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, University of London
 
10.20.10 Larry J. Young, Ph.D. William P. Timmie Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University
 
11.3.10 Eric Hollander, MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Director, Compulsive, Impulsive and Autism Spectrum Disorders Program, Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
12.1.10 Alea A. Mills, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
12.15.10 Edwin H. Cook, Jr., MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Direction Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Illinois, Chicago
1.19.11 Vijaya Ramesh, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
 
2.16.11 Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr. P.H.

Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Professor of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY

Director, The Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies , Mailman School of Public Health and The New York State Psychiatric Institute

 
3.2.11 Nicholas Gaiano, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Oncology; Institute for Cell Engineering; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 
3.16.11 Guoping Feng, Ph.D.

Poitras Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

 
4.6.11 Nancy Minshew, MD

Program Director, Center for Excellence in Autism Research; Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
4.20.11

 

Professor Anthony Monaco

 

Head, Neurodevelopmental and Neurological Disorders Group, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
5.18.11

 

Lisa M. Monteggia, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center

6.29.11

 

Yuhong V. Jiang, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
9.7.11 Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Complex Disease Genomics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics

McKusick - Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 
9.21.11 Nurit Ballas, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University

 
10.5.11 Lauren Weiss, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

 
10.19.11 Adele Diamond, Ph.D., FRSC

Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Britisth Columbia

 
11.9.11 Andrew Chess, MD

Professor, Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

 
12.7.11

 

Soma Mukhopadhyay

 

 Executive Director of Education, HALO (Helping Autism through Learning and Outreach)