On behalf of the Neuroscience Steering Committee, you are cordially invited to the 27th ANNUAL NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS SYMPOSIUM on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, in The Dodd Center / Bousfield Building on the Storrs campus. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to register for attendance, poster presentations and short-format talks.
This annual event brings together the neuroscience community at UConn from across diverse departments and schools including the Departments of Physiology and Neurobiology, Psychological Sciences, Neuroscience (UCHC), Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The 27th Annual NEUROSCIENCE AT STORRS is packed with an inspiring keynote lecture, exciting short-format research talks, and a career panel to discuss diverse career paths in neuroscience.
All events are open to interested undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, staff and faculty from across UConn departments and schools and fellow Universities across the New England region.
Keynote Speaker: DAYU LIN, PhD, Professor, Depts of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Seminar Title: "The multi-phase plasticity underlying the winner effect."
Dr. Lin is an internationally recognized scholar and leader in the field of circuit neuroscience. She is a pioneer in the study of neural circuits underlying innate social behavior including mating, fighting, defense and predation. In 2001, Dr. Lin received a B.S. in biological sciences from Fudan University in China. In 2006, she received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Duke University, working with the late Dr. Larry Katz to investigate the neural representation of natural olfactory cues in the main olfactory bulb. She then joined Dr. David Anderson’s group at California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow, investigating the neural substrates essential for the generation of aggression. In 2010, she started her own lab in New York University Langone Medical Center. Her lab focuses on understanding the neural generation and plasticity of innate social behaviors, including aggression, parental behaviors and sexual behaviors using mice as an animal model.
https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/dayu-lin
In addition, on October 22nd, starting at 3:00 pm, we will be hosting a data blitz (short-format podium presentations from grad students and postdocs), a neuroscience career panel and a poster session (from grad students, postdocs, undergrads, staff and faculty). Students and postdoctoral fellows are enthusiastically encouraged to participate in the poster and data blitz presentations. Please sign up below.
Careers Pathways Panel: Professionals from a variety of neuroscience/biomedical science-related careers (including both the keynote speaker and UConn graduate alumni) will discuss their career trajectories and perspectives, and field questions from the audience. Panelists are listed below:
-Dayu Lin, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
-Laura Mickelsen, PhD
Senior Editor, Nature Communications
-Adrienne Betz, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Quinnipiac University
-Payam Andalib, MD PhD
Clinical Program Director, Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and Surgical Neurophysiology, University of Connecticut
-Joanna Hawryluk, PhD
Service Product Marketing Manager, Olympus Corporation of the Americas
-Fuyi Chen, PhD
Principal Scientist at Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
Data Blitz: Trainees from UConn and UConn Health will present their research in a concise manner to a diverse audience. Each talk is 3 minutes long and limited to 3-4 PowerPoint slides. The bell will be rung at the end of the 3 minutes. There will be 2 minutes for Q & A.
Posters & Reception: During the poster session, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers from across UConn will present their work in poster format. All attendees are welcome. Beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be provided during the poster session.
For general inquiries about the event, please contact Alexander Jackson, PhD (alexander.jackson@uconn.edu) in the Dept. of Physiology and Neurobiology.
Tentative Itinerary, October 22nd, 2024:
3:00-3:45 PM Student/Postdoc data blitz (Dodd)
3:45-4:30 PM Career Pathways Panel (Dodd)
4:30-4:50 PM Coffee break (Dodd)
5:00-6:00 PM Keynote Speaker, Dayu Lin, PhD (Dodd)
6:00-8:00 PM Poster Session and Reception (Bousfield)