UNMC will host the fifth annual Big Ten Neuroscience Meeting, bringing together students, trainees and faculty from across the conference and the Omaha biomedical community.
The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 16, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine St. The scientific program will run from 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The event will highlight the cutting-edge research across its member institutions. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for consideration as oral and poster presentations. Presenters are invited to participate from among faculty, staff and trainees at Big Ten universities and Omaha-area institutions outside the med center, including Children’s Nebraska, Creighton University and Boys Town National Research Hospital.
The deadline for abstract submissions is June 1; all presenters are required to attend and present in person. Register to attend and find more information at this link.
Keynote speakers will be:
- Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD, vice chair for research and professor, department of psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, presenting on “Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis.”
- Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, BJC investigator, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology, department of pathology and immunology, Washington University in St. Louis.
- John Jay Ngai, PhD, director, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, presenting on “The National Institutes of Health, Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN®) Initiative: Inventing the Future.”
The gathering will conclude with an optional networking reception and dinner.
This accredited continuing education activity is designed for faculty researchers and clinicians, postdoctoral trainees, graduate and undergraduate students and industry partners engaged in neuroscience and related fields.
A virtual livestream option is available, offering remote participants full access to the scientific program and continuing education credits.