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OMV-SfN |
Ohio
Miami Valley Chapter
Society for Neuroscience |
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This page lists upcoming
and past scientific meetings sponsored by OMV-SfN as well as other
neuroscience-related events of interest to chapter members. If you
want to list an event, send details to Mark
Willis.
2008 Neuroscience Day -- Friday, May 16
 OMV-SfN's 2008 Neuroscience Day will be held at Wright State University on Friday, May 16. Barry Connors Ph.D., professor and chair of neuroscience at Brown University, will be the keynote speaker. The title of his talk is “Eclectic Electric Synapses in the Brain.” Dr. Connors says of his research, "I study the largest part of the brain, the neocortex, which thinks, remembers and processes sensory information for us. The neocortex is made up of a vast network of interconnected neurons. The challenge is to understand why there are so many neurons, what's the function of each, how they're interconnected, and why they're interconnected in the way they are. In the lab, we search for this information by measuring electrical impulses from the neurons of rodent brains, which are striking in their similarity to ours. I'm very interested in the possibility that our research may have relevance to human problems, including epilepsy and psychiatric diseases such as depression and schizophrenia. What drives me is a desire to understand how the brain works - and in some cases why it doesn't work."
Neuroscience Day is free of charge for 2008 chapter members. Please join now.
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UC Neurofest Scheduled May 23-24
The University of Cincinnati's 10th Neurofest and 5th annual Cincinnati Translational Neuroscience Symposium (CTNS) is scheduled for Friday, May 23rd and Saturday, May 24. The theme focuses on “Environmental Factors in Neuron Health.” The symposium features recognized experts in this area who will update attendees on the latest discoveries and breakthroughs in their therapeutic strategies, improved patient care, and brain plasticity in health and disease.
Call for Abstracts: Present a poster of your research by submitting an abstract at www.CincyNeuro.com by April 25, 2008. Posters from previous meetings are encouraged and should be less than 4' by 8'. An award competition will be held for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral/resident authors in both clinical and basic neuroscience. Only one first author abstract submission allowed.
This event is free of charge but registration is required.
Registration deadline is May 19. To register visit: www.CincyNeuro.com. Questions? Email: info@CincyNeuro.com or call Deb Cummins at 513.558.1703.
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2008 Winter Meeting – Friday, Jan. 25
The Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience will hold its 2008 Winter Meeting at Wright State University on Friday, January 25, in the Gandhi Auditorium, 101 White Hall. The Winter Meeting includes a mini-symposium, beginning promptly at 1:30 p.m., with four scientific presentations. After a short break, the chapter's annual business meeting begins at 3:45 p.m. The agenda includes election of OMV-SfN officers for 2008 and a discussion of neuroscience outreach. See more program details and travel directions. The Winter Meeting is free of charge to OMV-SfN members.
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 2007
Neuroscience Day
-- Monday, April 30
OMV-SfN's 2007 Neuroscience Day will be held Monday, April
30, at the Vontz Center and adjacent Kingsgate
Marriot Conference Center at the University of Cincinnati.
Tomas Hökfelt, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neuroscience
at the Karolinska Institute
in Sweden will present the 2007 Grass Lecture, "Three
Decades with Three Swedish Neuropeptides: Focus on Pain and
Depression." Professor Hökfelt is an internationally
renowned neuroscientist and among the most highly
cited scientists in the world. He pioneered the fields
of both catecholamine and neuropeptide research in the nervous
system. During the past few years, his work has focused on
two "Swedish" neuropeptides, galanin and NPY, and
their role in pain and depression and relevance for possible
therapeutic strategies. Neuroscience Day is free to OMV-SfN
members. Please use the online registration
and poster
submission forms; the deadline for both is Friday,
April 20.
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NeuroStereology
Workshop at Woods Hole - April 14-19, 2007
The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, will
host a NeuroStereology Workshop from April 14 to April 19, 2007.
The goal of the workshop is to teach a small group of research scientists
how to design, supervise, and critically evaluate stereological
studies of the nervous system. For more information, see the workshop
website.
Cincinnati
Translational Neuroscience Symposium - March 10, 2007
The 4th Cincinnati Translational Neuroscience Symposium (CTNS) will
be held Saturday, March 10, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at the
Sabin Educational Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
Center. The symposium topic is "Quantifying Brain Function
& Functional Recovery: Clinical & Basic Science Perspectives."
CTNS includes a poster session (abstract proposal deadline is February
1, 2007). Posters from previous meetings are encouraged and should
be less than 4' x 8'. An award competition will be held for pre-doctoral
and postdoctoral/resident authors in both clinical and basic neuroscience.
See the Call for Posters and more symposium details at the CTNS
web site. Download a PDF of the CTNS
flyer.
OMV-SfN
2007 Winter Meeting - January 10
The OMV-SfN 2007 Winter Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January
10, at the University of Cincinnati's Genome Research Institute.
The meeting begins at 1:00 p.m. in the Building A Lecture Hall at
GRI. Free of charge, the Winter Meeting includes a mini-symposium
followed by the chapter's annual business meeting. Follow
the link for details
about symposium speakers and the business agenda.
For more information,
contact Kim Seroogy (513/558-7086; kim.seroogy@uc.edu).
OMV-SfN's 2006
Neuroscience Day
 OMV-SfN's
2006 Neuroscience Day was held Monday, May 8, at Miami University
in Oxford. Neuroscience Day featured a Grass Lecture by Chiara
Cirelli, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry
at the University of Wisconsin. The topic of her lecture was
"A Molecular Window on Sleep." The program included
student presentations and a poster
competition. See the program
for more details, and download an MS Word version of the complete
poster
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 Oliver
Sacks Speaks at Wright State March 9
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks will give the 2006 Presidential
Lecture at Wright state University on Thursday, March 9, at
7:00 p.m. in the Apollo Room of the Wright State Student Union.
His topic is "Creativity and the Brain." The lecture
is free and open to the public. No ticket is required. OMV-SfN
members who attended the 2005 Neuroscience Day at Wright State
will be familiar with the lecture location (it's the Multipurpose
Room where we held our poster session and reception).
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OMV-SfN
Business Meeting Rescheduled -- Jan. 4
The OMV-SfN annual business meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday,
January 4, at Miami University in Oxford. The meeting begins at 2:00
p.m. in Room 218 Pearson Hall on the Miami campus. The program features
scientific presentations by Lori Isaacson (Miami University), Kim
Seroogy (University of Cincinnati) and Tim Cope (Wright State University).
Chapter business includes election of officers and planning for the
2006 Neuroscience Day. The meeting is free of charge. Follow the link
above for travel directions and links to maps. For more information,
contact Phyllis Callahan (513/529-3147; Callahp@muohio.edu).
Spinal
Cord - 2005 Conference
The University
of Wisconsin-Madison will host a two-day symposium on "Mechanisms
of Network Function in the Spinal Cord-Brain Stem" on November
17-18, following the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is Monday, September
26. Follow this link for more information, including online abstract
submission and registration. The meeting organizer is Lea Ziskind-Conhaim (lconhaim@physiology.wisc.edu).
Annual
Schizophrenia Symposium - Oct. 18
There is still
time to register for the Annual Schizophrenia Symposium sponsored
by the WSU Department of Psychiatry and the Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience
Institute. The symposium will be held Tuesday, Oct. 18, from 8:00
a.m.-5:00 p.m., at the David H. Ponitz Center at Sinclair Community
College in Dayton. The symposium is free of charge, including lunch.
The program is certified for 6 hours of Category 1 C.M.E. credit.
Registration deadline is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 14. Follow this
link to see an MS Word file of the symposium brochure, which includes
speakers and topics, map, and registration form. For more information,
contact Edward Depp at 937.223.8840.
Computational
Neurosciences 2005 Annual Meeting
The 2005 annual meeting of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences
(CNS) will be held July 16-21 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Follow this link for a Call for Papers and more information about
the meeting. The meeting organizer is Amir Assadi (UW-M Department
of Mathematics and The Wisconsin Genome Center); ahassadi@wisc.edu;
(608) 262-3219.
 Earl
H. Morris Endowed Lecture - June 22
Salvador Moncada, M.D., Ph.D., will
present the 2005 Earl H. Morris Endowed Lecture at Wright State
University School of Medicine on Wednesday, June 22, at 3:00 p.m.
in room 171 Frederick White Health Center. Dr. Moncada is director
of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at the University
College of London. The title of his lecture is "Nitric Oxide,
Mitochondria and Cell Signalling." For more information, contact
the Department of
Pharmacology and Toxicology at (937)775-2168.
 OMV
Neuroscience Day
OMV-SfN's 2005 Neuroscience Day was held Tuesday, May 10, at
Wright State University. Neuroscience Day featured OMV-SfN's second
consecutive Grass Lecture presented by Pat
R. Levitt, Ph.D., professor and director of the Kennedy
Center for Research on Human Development at Vanderbilt University
in Nashville. The topic of his lecture was "Cortical Interneurons
and Neurodevelopmental Disorders." The
program also
included a poster session with 48 presenters.
Cincinnati
Neurofest - March 11-12, 2005
Cincinnati Neurofest & Cincinnati Translational Neuroscience
Symposium present "Neuroplasticity in Health and Disease: Strategies
for Recovery" on March 11-12, 2005 at the Kingsgate/Marriott
Conference Center on the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
campus. To present a poster of your research, please submit an abstract
to Nicole Bauer at bauernm@ucmail.uc.edu
by March 1, 2005. Presentations from previous meetings are encouraged.
Abstracts (300 words) may be submitted as plain text in the body
of your email or as a Microsoft Word document or PDF attachment.
Posters should be less than 4' by 6'. Please request permission
for posters of a larger size. An award competition will be held
for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral/resident authors in both clinical
and basic neuroscience. For more information, contact Deb Cummins
at the University of Cincinnati (deborah.cummins@uc.edu;
513-558-1703). See Call for Posters in Word
format.
OMV-SfN
Fall 2004 Meeting - December 3
The Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience hold
a mini-symposium in conjunction with the chapter's annual business
meeting on Friday. December 3, at the Frederick White Health Center
at Wright State University in Dayton. Follow this link for program
details.
 2004
Neuroscience Day
The 2004 Ohio Miami Valley Neuroscience Day was held in May at the
University of Cincinnati's Genome Research Institute (GRI). The
chapter received a Grass Lectureship from the Society for Neuroscience
to bring Bruce
S. McEwen, Ph.D., to Cincinnati for the event. He is Alfred
E. Mirsky Professor at The Rockefeller University in New York. The
title of his Grass Lecture was "Gonadal Hormone Effects
on the Brain: It Ain't Just Sex Anymore." Neuroscience
Day also featured a poster
session presenting current research by 53 investigators.
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