Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Department of Neuroscience and The Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences are pleased to present the 40th Annual W. Alden Spencer Lecture and Award Presentation

Awardees:

Silvia Arber, PhD, Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Basel, Switzerland

“Circuit Solutions for Programming Actions”

Botond Roska, MD, PhD, Director, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Basel, Switzerland

“First Steps in Vision: Cell Types, Circuits and Repair”

The lectures will be held in the 9th floor lecture hall at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center. A reception will follow.