This Science News Wire page contains a press release issued by an organization and is provided to you "as is" with little or no review from Science X staff.

Scientists and artists celebrate father of brain science at NIH

October 27th, 2015

What: The NIH will host a symposium to honor Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish scientist whose drawings have served as blueprints for understanding how the brain works for over a century. As part of the celebration, the NIH will unveil seven original drawings that will be on display in a Santiago Ramón y Cajal exhibit housed in Porter Neuroscience Research Building (PNRC) on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

Who: The symposium will feature lectures by leading American and Spanish scientists, including Juan de Carlos, Ph.D, curator of the Ramón y Cajal drawings at the Instituto Cajal, along with artists who have created Cajal-inspired works that will be on display alongside the drawings. Keynote speaker Raphael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, co-authored the white paper that served as inspiration for President Obama's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

When: The symposium will take place on Wednesday, October 28, starting at 9:00 a.m. in conference room G20 of the Porter Neuroscience Research Center (Building 35) on the NIH campus in Bethesda. The original drawings will be on display through April 2016.

Why: In 1906, Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize with Italian scientist Camillo Golgi for work describing the nervous system. His drawings became the basis for how scientists think about the nervous system. The symposium was designed to inspire multi-disciplinary collaborations among more than 800 neuroscientists from 10 NIH institutes based in the PNRC, and to educate a wider audience about the brain circuits that scientists are mapping as part of President Obama's BRAIN Initiative. The symposium will also mark the beginning of a transatlantic collaboration between NIH and Spanish neuroscientists, an initiative started by Jeffrey S. Diamond, Ph.D., senior scientist, at NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke together with representatives from the Spanish Science Research Council. For more information:http://www.ninds.nih.gov/CajalatNIH

Please RSVP to http://www.ninds.nih.gov/CajalatNIH if planning to attend. For directions consult the NIH Visitors Map: http://www.ors.od.nih.gov/maps/Pages/NIH-Visitor-Map.aspx

Provided by National Institutes of Health

Citation: Scientists and artists celebrate father of brain science at NIH (2015, October 27) retrieved 10 May 2024 from https://sciencex.com/wire-news/207404614/scientists-and-artists-celebrate-father-of-brain-science-at-nih.html

This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.