“One brain, many genomes: Somatic mutation and genomic diversity

in the human cerebral cortex”

Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD

Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard

Chief of Division of Genetics and Genomic, Boston Children’s Hospital

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center 

Co-sponsored by MD/PhD Program and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Communicate the role of somatic mutations in epileptic brain disease
2. Describe what somatic mutations are, and how they arise
3. Describe patterns of normal variation in the genomes of neurons

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