Get ready for OMV-SfN’s 2012 Neuroscience Day on Friday, May 18, at Miami University in Oxford. Download the 2012 Neuroscience Day program (MS Word) and Map & parking directions (PDF). See you then!
2012 Neuroscience Day Program and Map
May 16, 2012
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Call for Posters: 2012 Neuroscience Day
April 18, 2012Graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty are invited to present posters related to recent findings in neuroscience and its related fields at OMV-SfN’s 2012 Neuroscience Day on Friday, May 18, at Miami University in Oxford. The deadline for submission is Friday, May 11. See the Call for Posters for online poster submission.
Leslie Tolbert, Ph.D. (left), of the University of Arizona will be the keynote speaker at Neuroscience Day. Dr. Tolbert is Regents Professor and Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology & Anatomy at Arizona, where she also is vice president for research, graduate studies, and economic development. Read more.
Registration for Neuroscience Day is free for 2012 OMV-SfN members. Please register by Friday May 11 so we can plan accordingly for the attendance. If you are not an OMV-SfN member for 2012, please join now!
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It’s Time to Renew Your Membership for 2012
February 13, 2012OMV-SfN’s 2012 online membership form is now ready for action. Please renew your membership, or join us if you are new to the chapter. You do not have to be a member of SfN to join the chapter and participate in its activities. Our 2012 Neuroscience Day will be free to all OMV-SfN members. For information about chapter membership, contact Secretary-Treasurer Kim Hagler. [The form and other member data functions continue to be hosted on the web server at WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine.]
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Robert Fyffe Appointed Wright State VP for Research
February 6, 2012
Robert E. W. Fyffe, Ph.D. (left), has been named Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Wright State University effective February 6, 2012. He was the 2005 president of OMV-SfN. He holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience, cell biology, and physiology at WSU.
He will replace Jack Bantle, Ph.D., who has retired.
“Dr. Fyffe has a proven record of administering programs that support research activities and will provide the leadership necessary to maintain our excellence in research, scholarship, and graduate programs,” said Provost Steven Angle. “He will also be a strong advocate for the diverse constituencies involved in the university’s research enterprise.”
Fyffe was appointed associate dean for Research Affairs at the Boonshoft School of Medicine in April 2001. He was responsible for overseeing programs that supported the medical school’s research activities in the basic and clinical sciences. Read more.
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Winter Business Meeting Scheduled Feb. 17
January 20, 2012The OMV-SfN Winter Business meeting will be held Friday, Feb. 17 at Miami University. The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. with 20-minute research presentations from the chapter’s participating institutions. The business meeting will follow. Joyce Fernandes, Ph.D., of Miami University will be inducted as the chapter’s 2012 president, and a new officer-at-large from Wright State University will be nominated. The meeting is expected to end no later than 3:30 p.m. Meeting details (room/map/agenda) to follow.
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2012 Neuroscience Day Is May 18
January 14, 2012
Leslie Tolbert, Ph.D. (left), of the University of Arizona will be the keynote speaker at OMV-SfN’s 2012 Neuroscience Day on Friday, May 18, at Miami University. Dr. Tolbert is Regents Professor and Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology & Anatomy at Arizona, where she also is vice president for research, graduate studies, and economic development.
Dr. Tolbert writes: “Research in my laboratory focuses on the development and functional organization of the olfactory system, studied in convenient model organisms, the moth Manduca sexta and, very recently, the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. Several different lines of investigation have led us to focus much of our attention on roles for glial cells in development and in mature function.” Read more.
Neuroscience Day is free of charge for current chapter members, so join or renew your membership now!
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Baccei Elected As OMV-SfN Officer
March 28, 2011Mark Baccei, Ph.D., was elected as the University of Cincinnati’s Officer-at-Large for 2011 using an email ballot. Dr. Baccei is a research assistant professor of anesthesiology at UC. According to his faculty web page:
My lab is currently characterizing the short- and long-term consequences of tissue injury during early life for the function of developing synaptic networks in the superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord, which serves as an important relay station in the pain pathway. Experimental approaches include in vitro electrophysiology in rodent spinal cord slices, immunohistochemistry, Western blotting, and behavioral measurements of pain sensitivity. It is our hope that by identifying age-specific changes in synaptic organization within central pain networks under pathological conditions, this work will yield new insight into the underlying basis for hyperalgesia during the early postnatal period and also help explain why neonatal tissue damage appears exclusively capable of altering pain perception throughout life.
Read more about his neuroscience research..
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Call for Posters at Neuroscience Day 2011
March 23, 2011OMV-SfN’s2011 Neuroscience Day will be held Friday, May 20 at Wright State University. Neuroscience Day will feature a poster session where OMV-SfN members can share their research in a stimulating, convivial setting!
Graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and faculty are invited to present posters on recent findings in neuroscience and its related fields. Posters presented at last fall’s SfN meeting and other conferences are welcome. The poster submission deadline is Monday May 9. Submit your poster information using our online form.
Registration for Neuroscience Day is free for 2011 OMV-SfN members. Please register in advance so we can plan accordingly for the attendance. If you are not an OMV-SfN member for 2011, please join now.
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Neuroscience Day Is May 20 – Save the Date!
February 15, 2011
Mary Dallman, Ph.D. (left), professor of neuroscience at the University of California-San Francisco, will be the keynote speaker at OMV-SfN’s 2011 Neuroscience Day on Friday, May 20, at Wright State University. Dr. Dallman’s research studies the effects of chronic stress on brain-pituitary-adrenal interrelationships.
“Chronic stress has a variety of effects on the organism, including changes in energy balance, behavior and responsivity to new stimuli,” she says. “These effects of chronic stress are probably mediated in large part by the central corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neuronal system and glucocorticoids secreted from the adrenal gland in response to drive from hypothalamic CRF. Moreover, all of these are affected strongly by circadian rhythms.” Read more.
Neuroscience Day is free of charge for current chapter members, so join or renew your membership now!
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It’s Time to Renew Your Membership for 2011
February 1, 2011OMV-SfN’s 2011 online membership form is now ready for action. Please renew your membership, or join us if you are new to the chapter. You do not have to be a member of SfN to join the chapter and participate in its activities. Our 2011 Neuroscience Day will be free to all OMV-SfN members. For information about chapter membership, contact Secretary-Treasurer Kim Hagler. [The form and other member data functions continue to be hosted on the web server at WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine.]
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