SfN Trainee Professional Development Award

Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who submit abstracts to the SfN Annual Meeting can apply for Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience.  These awards recognize people who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research.

TPDA recipients receive:

  • Travel stipend ($1,000 for trainees in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico or $2,500 for trainees based in other countries) to attend the SfN Annual Meeting.
  • Complimentary SfN Annual Meeting registration.

All recipients must present their abstract during a special TPDA poster session on Saturday, October 5 and attend two professional development workshops during the meeting.

Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity Summer School

Applications for Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity summer school is a two-week program that provides Ph.D. students and postdocs with training in the areas of learning, memory, and plasticity in the brain. The program will take place between 1st and 17th July 2024 at IISER Pune, India. Deadline for application submission is April 23, 2024. Apply now at https://campiiser.com/.

CoNectome 2024

Registration for CoNectome 2024 (formerly NCEC) is now open! The event will be held Monday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 14 in Zillow Commons at the University of Washington.  The 2-day event will feature talks from invited speakers, local faculty, postdocs and students, as well as a poster session and ethics discussion/panel about current research in connectomics.

Registration is free and open now at: https://compneuro.washington.edu/news-and-events/conectome-2024/

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