The
1996 Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Scientific Retreat
The Center for Complex Systems: New Directions
Marine Biological
Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
April 8 - April 9, 1996
On April 8
and 9, 1996, the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
held its annual scientific retreat. This year for the
first time the retreat was an overnight event held at
the marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts. The MBL facility includes lecture halls,
function rooms, cafeteria-style dining, and overnight
dorm room accommodations. Bringing the researchers together
off-campus for a 24-hour retreat was tremendously successful.
The MBL provided a stimulating environment for interactions
between the faculty, post-docs and graduate students,
as well as a scenic site for walking and relaxing. Over
100 people attended this year's retreat, which consisted
of a poster session, a keynote speaker, and talks by four
of the Center's junior faculty.
Monday,
April 8, 1996
"Regulation
of excitability in the auditory system"
Keynote Speaker:
Dr.
Len Kaczmarek, Yale University School of Medicine
Tuesday,
April 9, 1996
"Activity-dependent
modification of neuronal firing properties"
Gina Turrigiano,
Assistant Professor of Biology
and Volen National Center for Complex Systems
"Slowly
inactivating potassium currents and cortical dynamics"
Xiao-Jing
Wang, Assistant Professor of Physics
and
Volen National Center for Complex Systems
"Function
and development of chemosensory neurons in C.elegans"
Piali Sengupta,
Assistant Professor of Biology
and
Volen National Center for Complex Systems
"Issues
in human movement control raised by studies in unusual
force environments"
Paul DiZio, Assistant
Professor of Psychology
and
Volen National Center for Complex Systems
