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Beginning in 2006, SITN offers audio recordings of its seminars! So, even if you can’t make it to the lecture, you can still hear the entire presentation on the web. You can download each seminar as a .mp3 audio file along with the lecture slides in .pdf format. You can listen to the seminar on your computer with any mp3-compatible media player such as Windows Media Player, iTunes or on your iPod. To view our slides you’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free from .

Starting in 2010, SITN offers streaming video of our lectures on our Vimeo page.

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2011 Seminar Archives

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Copies of the lecture slides are made available on this page following each lecture. We are working to get video of the 2011 spring lecture series online as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience and in the meantime please check-out video of previous lecture series here.

Thanks!

-The SITN staff-

Fall Seminars

The Mind-Machine Interface: Computers and the Wired Brain
Sasha Krol – How machines communicate with the brain	Presentation	Video
Allison Nishitani – How the brain controls machines	Presentation	Video
Alicia Nugent – How machines control the brain	Presentation	Video
How to Spot a Virus: The Origins of an Immune Response (Outline)
Kevin Bonham – The “eyes” of the immune system	Presentation
Sky Brubaker – Different Responses for different disease causing organisms	Presentation
Jillian Astarita – Instructing the immune system to make better vaccines	Presentation
Toward the Final Frontier of Manned Space Flight
Ryann Fame – How we got here: Background and challenges	Presentation
Luke Bruneaux – Why boldly go? Why not?	Presentation
Emily Russell – Where are we going?	Presentation
Beneath the Surface: The Present and Future of Our Oceans
Peter Yang – Why study the ocean?	Presentation	Video
Roxanne Beinart – Lessons from Deepwater Horizon	Presentation	Video
Heather Olins – Studying the sea – past, present, and future	Presentation	Video
Are We Programmed to Age? (Outline)
Sara Leiman – Are we supposed to age?	Presentation
Nick Weir – Evidence against the theory of programmed aging	Presentation
Philip Shiu – Evidence supporting the theory of programmed aging	Presentation
The Evolution of the Universe: from Cosmic Soup to Earth (Outline)
Ian Czekala – The Big Bang and Stellar Nucleosynthesis	Presentation
Nathan Sanders – Galactic Enrichment	Presentation
Elisabeth Newton – Making Planet Earth	Presentation
Obesity: How Science Approaches Weighty Matters
Meg Freeland – Epidemiology: the big picture	Presentation
Kaitlin Samocha – Genetics: little genes, big consequences	Presentation
Mary Haas – New topics in obesity research	Presentation
Species Interactions: More than the Sum of their Parts (Outline)
Jon Sanders – How Symbiosis Created the World	Presentation
Shelbi Russell – Most Organizms Cannot Live on Their Own	Presentation
Leonora Bittleston – Power Struggles and Partnerships	Presentation
30 Years with AIDS: Where it Came From and Why It’s Still With Us (Outline)
Kevin McCarthy – The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic	Presentation		Video
Ben Morris – HIV: The Retrovirus	Presentation
Jamie Schafer – An HIV Vaccine: What’s the Hold Up?	Presentation		Video

Spring Seminars

Black Holes And Cosmic Roles: Understanding The Center of The Galaxy (Outline)
Nick Stone – Black hole astrophysics	Presentation
Nathan Sanders – Observing black holes	Presentation
Tarek Anous – Black holes and the math that describes them	Presentation
The Mystery of Sleep: How Neuroscientists Are Solving One of The Brain’s Most Interesting Puzzles
Rebecca Reh – Why do we sleep?	Presentation
Nina Vujovic – How does the brain regulate sleep?	Presentation
Neal Dach – What happens in the brain during sleep?	Presentation
Origins and Applications of Pluripotent Stem Cells (Outline)
Daisy Robinton – What is a stem cell?	Presentation
Luis Williams – Reprogramming: Making stem cells from skin!	Presentation
Gabriella Boulting – What can we do with iPS cells	Presentation
The War on Cancer: Where we Are in The Battle, and Why we Haven’t Won (Outline)
Adrianna San Roman – Principles of cancer	Presentation
Leah Liu – Cancer therapeutics	Presentation
Clare Malone – Obstacles in developing cancer therapies	Presentation