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

[Giulio Prisco]

Reminder - Ken's talk is at 10am PST, 1pm EST, 7pm continental EU

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
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