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!

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)

“Research in my laboratory focuses on understanding the manner in which the adult complement of muscles in the fruit-fly, Drosophila, are generated during the transition phase of metamorphosis. My research also examines the mechanisms that regulate branching of innervating motor neurons and their subsequent stabilization into synapses. These studies have broader implications for understanding developmental disorders in humans. Funding for my research comes from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Read more about her neuroscience research projects.

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 3.  Submit your poster information using our online form.

Neuroscience Day is free of charge for current chapter members, so join or renew your membership now!

Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.

Neuroscience Day also will feature student presentations and a poster competition. Look here for more details as plans are finalized.

Neuroscience Day is free of charge for current chapter members, so join or renew your membership now!

Chapter members present at the meeting nominated and elected Michael Hennessy, Ph.D. (Wright State University) to be President-Elect and Kim Hagler (Wright State University) to be Secretary-Treasurer for 2010.  Amit Singh, Ph.D., was elected Officer-at-Large for the University of Dayton. An Officer-at-Large for Miami University will be nominated at a later date.

President Eliassen announced that this year’s Neuroscience Day will be held Monday, May 10, at the University of Cincinnati. Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.,  has been invited as keynote speaker. Dr. Sinha is professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Stress Center at Yale University. More details will follow. Save the date!

The meeting will begin with four 20-minute research presentations, one from each of OMV-SfN’s four participating institutions. The business meeting will follow and James Eliassen, Ph.D., will be inducted as 2010 chapter president. Scientific presentations include:

• Gale Kleven, Ph.D. (Wright State University)
  MR Spectroscopy and Behavioral Epigenesis
• Jennifer J. Quinn, Ph.D. (Miami University)
  Neurobiological mechanisms of long-term memory consolidation and stabilization
• Yvonne Ulrich-Lai, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati)
  Stress-relieving properties of palatable foods

Download 2010 Winter Meeting Agenda (MS Word), which includes travel directions to the meeting site. For more information, contact Jim Eliassen (513/558-5863; james.eliassen@uc.edu).