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- This is our...
opening of our symposium today
sponsored by our local Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind,
which is very generously supported by the Kavli Foundation.
There are a variety of these institutes
that are around the country
and the unique Southern California version of this is
as you can see our KIBM,
bridges disciplinary boundaries to further understanding
of the origins, evolution, and mechanisms of human cognition
relating neural mechanism to behavior.
I'm fortunate to share the directorship with Nick Spitzer
and our Co-Director Ralph Greenspan.
So in addition to the support from the Kavli Foundation,
in this aggregate underneath the KIBM
is the Center for Brain Activity Mapping,
and the California Brain:
a Neurotechnology Program of California,
and the San Diego Brain Consortium,
all of which Ralph has been organizing and putting together
and we've aggregated them under a single head
though they have independent functions
and activities throughout the year.
In general, the Kavli Foundation has been
as I said very generously supporting research.
They are dedicated to the advances of science.
Fred Kavli's vision was a dedication to advanced science
and benefit of humanity,
promoting public understanding of scientific research,
and support of scientists and their work.
It's a real international program.
They have five major areas that they focus on
including astrophysics, theoretical physics,
nanoscience, and neuroscience.
And in addition to meetings and institutes
that are supported by the Foundation
there are a series of prizes
that are given on a regular basis
that I think some of you are familiar with.
The president of that organization is Bob Conn
who we've known for a while.
Miyoung Chun is the Executive Vice President
of Science Programs,
and James Cohen is the Director of Communications.
We have two representatives, Chris Martin and Syl Albin
are here representing the Kavli Foundation
and will be participating today and in tomorrow's meeting
so thanks very much for coming.
I want to start by acknowledging
some of the people that have really made this happen.
This is our, we call our KIBM staff
but really as some of you can see
that attend these regularly
this is sort of a hybrid of our CARTA meetings
together with our KIBM meetings.
So, Ingrid Benirschke-Perkins, Rachel Emens,
Kate Kaya, Kristen Michener, Linda Nelson,
Jesse Robie and Janet Shin.
We're being filmed, well, I'm being filmed currently
but speakers will be filmed by UCSD-TV
and that'll be able to be visualized at a later time point
in a modified version.
Rich Wargo is the Science Producer, Matt Alioto is...
and Marci Bates and Jacob Parker make this happen.
I'm very happy to introduce Kent Schnoeker and Mike Jeffs
who are our local soft media folks.
So we have two...
Nick and I generally search out two experts
in a field of interest that we've identified
to help put together an outstanding program
and we were lucky enough to have
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Mark Ellisman
to agree to put together this unusually good meeting today
and they will be chairing the first and second session
which are, you have the programs in your hand.
So without any further ado,
I'm going to ask Jennifer to come up
and give us just a very brief introduction to the,
our title and our objectives
and then she'll chair the session.
Jennifer?
- Thank you very much, Rusty.
And I just wanna say how delighted Mark Ellisman and I are
to have the opportunity to co-chair this symposium today.
I mean it was a real delight
and we heard from Rusty and Nick that we were chosen to pick
out of the whole world the people who really define
this field of imaging brain and neurobiology.
So that way that Mark, and Mark,
why don't you come over just so that everybody can see.
This is my... - Can I get close to you?
- Sure. (audience laughs) Exactly.
So, the way Mark and I really
went about choosing people to be part of this symposium
was to cross scales of imaging
from looking at the ultra-structure of brain slices,
to an intermediate level where one's looking at organelles
and intercellular communication
all the way up to tissue and brain in-vivo imaging.
We've also invited people who analyze
these data sets, these huge data sets
from the in-vivo brain imaging experiments
and finally, and in many ways most importantly,
we've invited two scientists who are pioneers
in the development of tools that all of us are using
for doing this type of imaging of the brain.
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