[ExI] Online talk next Sunday: Ken Hayworth on How to create a Connectome Observatory of the mouse brain and beyond

[Giulio Prisco]

Ken Hayworth will give an online talk next Sunday Nov. 13 at 10am PST
in teleXLR8, on How to create a Connectome Observatory of the mouse
brain and beyond. If you wish to attend:
- If you have a teleXLR8 account created in 2011, you can just show up.
- If you have a teleXLR8 account created in 2010, I will need to
create a new account for you. Please contact me.
Please read: IMPORTANT – invitations and logistics
http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/important-invitations-and-logistics/

How to create a Connectome Observatory of the mouse brain and beyond
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-create-a-connectome-observatory-of-the-mouse-brain-and-beyond

Dr. Kenneth Hayworth will present an online talk and Q/A on How to
create a Connectome Observatory of the mouse brain and beyond on
Sunday, November 13, at 10am PST.

He will present a plan to map the mouse brain at very high resolution.

The talk will be in teleXLR8, a 3D interactive video conferencing
space. Please contact the organizers if you wish to attend the talk.

Hayworth is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a co-founder
of the Brain Preservation Foundation, and designer of the Automatic
Tape-Collecting Lathe Ultramicrotome (ATLUM), which could allow
efficient nanoscale imaging of brain tissues.

“In 100 years, if we have the technology to bring someone back, it
won’t be in a biological body,” he said in a New York Times article
last year. “It is these scanning techniques and mind-uploading that, I
think, will bring people back. This is a taboo topic in the scientific
community. But we have a cure to death right here. Why aren’t we
pursuing it?”

See also:
Ken Hayworth on How to create a Connectome Observatory of the mouse
brain and beyond, OpenQwaq, November 13 2011, 10am PST | teleXLR8
http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/ken-hayworth-on-how-to-create-a-connectome-observatory-of-the-mouse-brain-and-beyond-openqwaq-november-13-2011-10am-pst/