The Guardian has just reported on our work on computational modeling, consciousness and organoids.

GN is calling for a moratorium on brain organoid research that approaches sentience and a ban on organoid transplantation in animals.

We will be presenting on the topic at the Society for Neuroscience 2019 Annual Meeting:

Monday Oct. 21, 2019, 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

• A computational window into the problem with organoids: Approaching minimal substrates for consciousness
  Nanosymposium: Learning and Decision-Making
  Session location: 273.07/ Room S106
  Talk at: 9:30 – 9:45 AM
  E.L. Ohayon, P.W. Tsang, A. Lam
  https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/7883/presentation/58037

Want to work on this urgent scientific and policy issue with us? Please send us your name, contact info and affiliation to sentience@greenneuro.org

We’re at SfN 2019, Saturday October 19 – Wednesday October 23, 2019.

Green Neuro talk, event & poster times:

Saturday Oct. 19, 2019 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM & Sunday Oct. 20, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

• On teaching environmental neuroscience and protection from “dual-use” technology: Toward an inclusive and ethical curriculum
  P.W. Tsang, A. Lam, E. L. Ohayon
  Poster location: 023.18SU / CC74
  https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/7883/presentation/54168

Monday Oct. 21, 2019, 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

• A computational window into the problem with organoids: Approaching minimal substrates for consciousness
  Nanosymposium: Learning and Decision-Making
  Session location: 273.07/ Room S106
  Talk at: 9:30 – 9:45 AM
  E.L. Ohayon, P.W. Tsang, A. Lam
  https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/7883/presentation/58037

Monday Oct. 21, 2019, 6:30 – 9:00 PM

• The Green and Open Neuroscience Symposium and Soiree – SfN 2019 Satellite Event
  Marriott Marquis Chicago
  (Official conference headquarters hotel, across from convention center)
  2121 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
  3rd Floor, Room B Glessner House

For more information, please see: https://greenneuro.org/sfn_symposium/
or contact us at: info@greenneuro.org

Dear friends,

You are cordially invited to the Green and Open Neuroscience Symposium & Soiree.

Now an official SfN satellite event!

No Registration Required. Just come on by!

Monday, October 21, 2019, Doors open at 6:30pm

Marriott Marquis Chicago
(Official conference headquarters hotel, across from convention center)
2121 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
3rd Floor, Room B Glessner House

Join us for a lively symposium on the next steps in green and open neuroscience. Also, over good food and drinks, celebrate progress in forwarding neuroscience in the following areas: open science, environmental sustainability, human-based approaches, protecting sentience, neurodiversity and addressing disparities. Brief state of the art talks. Mixer and music to follow.

Co-hosted by the Green Neuroscience Laboratory, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), Neurolinx Research Institute; the Brain Observatory and the Institute for Green & Open Sciences (IGOS).

This is an open and free event!

See you there!