The 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.
Winter Business Meeting Scheduled Feb. 17
January 20, 2012
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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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News from the 2011 Winter Meeting
January 31, 2011
Michael Hennessy, Ph.D. (left; Wright State University) was installed as the 2011 President of the Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience at the chapter’s business meeting held January 28 in Dayton. He was elected as President-Elect in 2010.
Chapter members present at the meeting nominated and elected Joyce Fernandes, Ph.D. (Miami University) to be President-Elect and Kim Hagler (Wright State University) to be Secretary-Treasurer for 2011. Amit Singh, Ph.D., was elected Officer-at-Large for the University of Dayton. An Officer-at-Large for the University of Cincinnati will be nominated at a later date.
President Hennessy announced that this year’s Neuroscience Day will be held Friday, May 20, at Wright State University. Mary Dallman, Ph.D., of the University of California-San Francisco has been invited as keynote speaker. More details will follow. Save the date!
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2011 Winter Meeting Scheduled Jan. 28
January 4, 2011OMV-SfN’s 2011 Winter Meeting will be held Friday, Jan. 28, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in Room 101 White Hall (Gandhi Auditorium) at Wright State University in Dayton. The meeting will begin with 20-minute research presentations from faculty at OMV-SfN’s participating institutions:
- Zoe Hesp (Department of Zoology, Miami University)
“Reinnervation of peripheral targets following axotomy of the superior cervical ganglion” - Mark Baccei (Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati)
“Pacemaker neurons in newborn spinal pain circuits.” - James Lucot (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Wright State University)
“Development of a novel anti-emetic”
The chapter’s annual business meeting will follow the presentations, and WSU’s Michael Hennessy, Ph.D., will be installed as president for 2011.
Am agenda will be published before the meeting, along with travel directions and parking information. Please pass this message along to colleagues and students who might be interested in OMV-SfN.
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Final Preparations for Neuroscience Day on May 10
May 7, 2010OMV-SfN President -Jim Eliassen sent this message for all planning to attend the 2010 Neuroscience Day on Monday, May 10, at the University of Cincinnati:
Hi Neuroscience Day Attendees,
Everything looks to be ready for Neuroscience Day, Monday, May 10th!
I’ve attached several things to this last email announcement.
1. A detailed map of the UC Medical Campus/Academic Health Center (PDF). Relevant buildings are highlighted in yellow.
2. A Google map of the UC Environs (PDF) with the routes from 75 and 71 to the Eden Parking garage highlighted in pink.
3. The program (PDF), for your information. You will receive the official paper program when you arrive and register. Registration will beheld in the CARE/Crawley Building.
4. Dr. Sinha recommended a recent paper (PDF) and commentary as appropriate to the talk.
For attendees from Wright State, Miami and Dayton, please use the Eden parking garage (see detailed map). We will have parking passes for you to use when you exit the garage. Carpool if you can.
For attendees from UC, please park as you normally do when visiting or working at the East Campus Academic Health Center. If you need a parking pass for the Eden garage, please let us know, we should have some extras.
Regards,
-Jim Eliassen
President, Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Neuroscience Day is free of charge for current chapter members. If you didn’t register in advance, you can register at Neuroscience Day and pay 2010 chapter dues, if necessary. See you there!
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Register by Today for Neuroscience Day
May 5, 2010Please register by Wednesday, May 5, so we can plan for attendance at OMV-SfN’s 2010 Neuroscience Day. After May 5, attendees can register at Neuroscience Day and pay 2010 chapter dues, if necessary.
Neuroscience Day will feature student presentations and a poster competition. See the Call for Posters for online poster submission. The deadline was Monday, May 3. Late submissions will be accepted after that date, and will be listed as an addendum to the final program.
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D. (left), will be the keynote speaker at Neuroscience Day on Monday, May 10, at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Sinha is professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Stress Center at Yale University. Her research interests include “clinical neurobiology of stress and relaxation, emotion dysregulation, and their effects on desire and drug craving and addictive behaviors, such as, drinking, eating and drug use.” Read more.
Neuroscience Day is free of charge for current chapter members, so join or renew your membership now!
Download map & preliminary schedule (MS Word)
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