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

[Giulio Prisco]

Ken gave a GREAT talk yesterday.

Here is a writeup with video:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-connectome-observatory-for-nanoscale-brain-imaging

There are two videos, one recorded by Catarina Lamm and one by Eugen
Leitl, on Youtube, Blip.tv and Vimeo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFA2q-tS5hk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1TlhxZQmk
http://blip.tv/telexlr8/v1-ken-hayworth-on-how-to-create-a-connectome-observatory-of-the-mouse-brain-and-beyond-openqwaq-november-13-2011-5734670
http://blip.tv/telexlr8/v2-ken-hayworth-on-how-to-create-a-connectome-observatory-of-the-mouse-brain-and-beyond-openqwaq-november-13-2011-5734653
http://vimeo.com/32086767
http://vimeo.com/32086247

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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