The American Legion and University of Minnesota Lecture in Brain Sciences

     The American Legion and University of Minnesota Lecture in Brain Sciences is an annual event that features some of the most prominent investigators in neuro-research.  Nobel prizes winners Eric Kandel and Gerald Edelman are among the keynote speakers  that have presented at this lecture series, held each Spring, at the University of Minnesota campus.

     The 2006 lecture featured Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.,Duburg Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology at Yale University’s School of Medicine, who presented "Making Maps of the Mind: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Migration"

Previous Speakers from the Lecture in Brain Sciences Series:

2006: Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.,Duburg Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology, Yale University’s School of Medicine.

2005: Michael Merzenich, Ph.D, University of California, San Francisco

2004: Emilio Bizzi, M.D., MIT

2003: Pablo Rudomin, Ph.D., Institute for Advanced Studies, Mexico

2002: Robert H. Wurtz, Ph.D., National Eye Institute

2001: Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D., Yale University

2000: Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., Neuroscience Institute

1999: Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., Harvard University

1998: Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., Johns Hopkins University

1997: Floyd E. Bloom, M.D., Scripps Research Institute

1996: Eric R. Kandel, M.D., Columbia University

1995: Vernon Mountcastle, M.D., Johns Hopkins University