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25th Annual Neuroscience Day
Thanks to everyone who attended 25th Annual Neuroscience Day
Congratulations to poster competition winners!
Undergraduate:
1st, Alyssa Hoeper & Emily Martin (co-presenters)
2nd, Nicholas Lynch, Mark Stewart (tie)
Graduate:
1st, Amanda Pocratsky
2nd, Kimberly Cheffer
3rd, Sarah Minton
Postdoctoral:
1st, Andrew Banksong, James Fransen (tie)
2nd, Nino Muradashvili
Thanks to our speakers: the Data Blitzers, Dr. Brendan Depue, Dr. Pat Levitt, and Dr. Chi Zhang
When: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Registration starts at 8:00am; event runs 8:00am - 5:00pm. For detailed program itinerary, please click here.
Where: Kosair Charities Clinical & Translational Research Building, HSC Campus, UofL
505 S. Hancock Street , Louisville, Kentucky 40202
(on S Hancock St between E Muhammad Ali Blvd & E Madison St; parking in garage behind CTRB)
Registration: Free, register by April 6 (see link to the left)
Those who register by April 6 get to eat lunch first! Registering on time helps us order enough food (& coffee!), so please pre-register. Those who do not register by the deadline are still welcome to join us for lunch, but will be asked to wait for pre-registrants to go through the lunch line first.
Plenary speaker: Pat Levitt, PhD
Provost Professor and W. M. Keck Chair in Neurogenetics at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, Director of the Developmental Neurogenetics Program of the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and also Science Director of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. Levitt's research focuses on the development of brain architecture that controls learning and emotional and social behavior in children.
Dr. Levitt will give two talks, one geared more toward neuroscientists, and a short talk geared more toward the public or scientists who want tips for public science education.
“The View Through a Neurobiological Lens – Addressing Autism Heterogeneity”
“Communicating The Core Story of Early Brain and Child Development (EBCD): Building Brains, Forging Futures."
What's Happening in Our Own Backyard?
Dr. Brendan Depue, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Using Multimodal Neuroimaging to Understand Self Control of Behavior
Dr. Chi Zhang, winner of Neuroscience Day 2014 graduate student poster competition
AAV-RNAi Characterization of Subunit- and Synapse-Specific Glycinergic Inhibition in Mouse Retina
Poster Competition
Categories: undergraduate, graduate, postdoc/resident
Abstract submission deadline is 5pm on April 6, see the "Submit an Abstract 2015" link to the left. Neuroscience Day features invited talks and a poster competition. Registration and lunch are free. Abstract submission opened in mid-February and the deadline is April 6.
We need poster judges! To volunteer, please email SFNChap@louisville.edu with 'judge' in the subject line. Please list any potential conflicts of interest (e.g., you or your lab members are co-authors on a poster) to aid in assigning judging categories.
Again for Neuroscience Day 2015! Data Blitz!
Last year's poster winners have been invited to participate in the Data Blitz, a rapid-fire poster overview presented to the entire audience at the beginning of Neuroscience Day.
Support Neuroscience Day
Companies and departments wishing to help support Neuroscience Day should email SFNChap@louisville.edu with "vendor info" in the subject line. Display tables near the posters will be available for a fee of $500. Contact Chapter Treasurer at patrick.scott.1@louisville.edu for our W-9.