on Deadlines and events for the Society for Neuroscience
on 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/.
on 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/
on The 47th Annual University of Washington Faculty Lecture will be given by Dr. Valerie Daggett (UW Department of Bioengineering). Dr. Daggett’s lecture is titled “Revolutionary: The Quest to Detect and Cure Alzheimer’s.”
Date: Monday, Apr 1, 2024, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Location: UW HUB North Ballroom
on Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) cohort! Applications will be accepted through 11 pm (PT) on April 18, 2024.
BRAINS is an NINDS-funded, national program dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion in neuroscience. BRAINS uses a unique cohort-based professional development approach to explicitly address the inclusion, retention, and advancement of early career neuroscientists from historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. The BRAINS experience positively impacts participants’ career trajectories, especially in academic neuroscience, and creates a perpetually empowering community.
BRAINS participants are early career (pre-tenure) Ph.D. scientists in neuroscience-related fields who are members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups or are individuals with disabilities. 2024 participants will join a community of around 180 neuroscientists who are thriving in their careers.
A 2022 participant described their BRAINS experience as follows: “Participating in BRAINS gave me a stronger identity as a neuroscientist… [BRAINS] prepared me for success in [my] transition, both in terms of professional development, but also in serving as a reminder that I do belong in academic neuroscience research.”
We look forward to welcoming the next cohort into the BRAINS community. Learn more about the BRAINS program and access our application by visiting our website (www.BRAINS.washington.edu). Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at brains@uw.edu.
Sincerely,
The BRAINS Team
Dr. Sheri Mizumori, BRAINS PI and Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
Dr. Joyce Yen, BRAINS co-Director and Director UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change
Dr. Claire Horner-Devine, BRAINS co-Director and Founder, Counterspace Consulting
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The Neuroscience Community Outreach Group (NCOG) is seeking volunteers for their Brain Awareness Open House event on April 2, 2024, 9am-1pm. The event will take place in the HUB South Ballroom at the University of Washington.
Volunteers may sign up here.
on Join a public discussion and reading by Jared Moore and Anton Arkhipov about their recently published novels, which both explore ideas about AI. The discussion will be followed by a reception– and book signing! Sponsored by the UW Computational Neuroscience Center.
Time/Date: 7:00pm, Thursday, February 29, 2024
Location: Foege Auditorium S060; 3720 15th Ave NE, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
on Brock Grill, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics at UW (Seattle Children’s Research Institute)
“Ubiquitin Ligase Signaling Hubs and the Adhesome in Nervous System Development and Disease”
Monday, February 26, 2024; 3:30 pm; Health Sciences Building Room T-639
Grill Lab’s overarching interest is in using in vivo proteomic and genetic approaches to understand how signaling influences development and function of the nervous system. Progress on these research directions is essential to understanding how the nervous system is built and modulated. Ultimately, we strive to identify new molecular targets for treating neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative disease and opioid addiction/withdrawal.
on The UW Computational Neuroscience Center will hold their annual symposium, CoNectome, on May 13-14, 2024. They are seeking nominations for trainee speaker and opening the call up to the full CNC community. Trainee talks are typically 15-20 minutes, and the majority will be on Monday, May 13. Any UW student or postdoc is eligible. Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged! In addition to talks, there will be a poster session on May 13.
To submit a nomination, please complete this form.
on Dr. Zachary Danziger is an Associate Professor at Emory University in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine – Division of Physical Therapy and the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. His primary research area is focused developing models and theory to understand how people learn to interact with and control high-dimensional systems such as systems that require many inputs, like brain-computer interfaces, and systems that have many controllable parts, like robot arms or hands. For more information, see his webpage.