Genetic disorders with high penetrance of autism symptoms provide an opportunity to investigate the cellular and circuitry abnormalities underlying autism spectrum disorder. Mustafa Sahin studies the basis of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) in cell culture, in animal models and in the clinic and will present an update on translational research in TSC.
Download the meeting booklet for agenda, abstracts and other annual meeting details: The 2016 annual MPS meeting took place October 20–21. It featured exciting talks about research at the frontiers of math, physics and theoretical computer science, as well as lively discussions among the heterogeneous crowd of attending scientists. The keynote speaker, Mina Aganagic, talked...
The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was built to search for and explore habitable environments. In this lecture, John Grotzinger will review Curiosity’s latest discoveries and describe the biological viability of ancient environments on Mars, along with the value of robots in geologic exploration.
Katepalli Sreenivasan will describe what is known about the convective phenomena in the sun, using results from basic turbulence modeling, numerical simulations, as well as helioseismology.
