#  Alex Pollen Colloquium Lecture: "Development and Evolution of the Human Cerebral Cortex " 

 



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 **November 5, 2015** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **Haller Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

Dr. Alex Pollen (Postdoctoral Scholar, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California at San Francisco) will be kicking off HEB's 2015-16 Colloquium Lecture Series by lecturing on *"Development and Evolution of the Human Cerebral Cortex."*

**Abstract:** What are the genetic and developmental changes underlying the expansion of the human brain over the last six million years? I will discuss our recent identification of a human-specific mutation that increases brain size and improves learning behavior. Next, I will highlight how we have used single cell genomics to characterize the neural stem cell populations that contribute to the expansion of the cerebral cortex during development. Finally, I will describe ongoing work establishing a new model system for studying human-specific biology.

*This event is free and open to the public.*



 

 



 

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