Hold a presentation or product demonstration in the Product Theater*, the perfect venue for reaching hundreds of decision-makers and buyers in the Exhibit Hall. The theater is situated in a prime location on the exhibit floor, with seating for 150 people. Choose your ideal presentation time during the four days of exhibits and create a unique presentation capable of reaching a wide audience.

Hold a presentation or product demonstration in the Product Theater*, the perfect venue for reaching hundreds of decision-makers and buyers in the Exhibit Hall. The theater is situated in a prime location on the exhibit floor, with seating for 150 people. Choose your ideal presentation time during the four days of exhibits and create a unique presentation capable of reaching a wide audience.

Hold a presentation or product demonstration in the Product Theater*, the perfect venue for reaching hundreds of decision-makers and buyers in the Exhibit Hall. The theater is situated in a prime location on the exhibit floor, with seating for 150 people. Choose your ideal presentation time during the four days of exhibits and create a unique presentation capable of reaching a wide audience.

This workshop will instruct participants on how to effectively write research summaries for a variety of audiences including the public. The intended audience for the workshop is early and mid-career neuroscientists who would like to enhance their skillset by learning how to summarize their studies for funding opportunities, public programs, job applications, websites, and elsewhere. It will also assist attendees in writing about controversial/challenging topics. At the conclusion of the workshop, each participant will have drafted a summary of their own research area.

Autonomic reflexes are not as easy for the public to understand as, for example, the knee jerk. However, diseases associated with autonomic dysfunction have profound impact on the quality of life. We have developed an exhibit for educational purposes that links cardiovascular autonomic regulation with postural challenges experienced everyday and the function of the baroreceptor reflex. Although most people can feel light-headed after standing rapidly from a reclining position, they are not aware that the brain compensates for these changes in position through the baroreceptor reflex. Our exhibit incorporates several key techniques to attract an audience and give them a hands-on experience. First, the audience becomes the subject. Changes in body position (head up to head down) were accomplished by locking the subject’s ankles in a commercially available tilt table (Hang Ups, Teeters). Subjects were moved from head up to horizontal to head down positions. Second, the subjects could hear the changes in their...

Rett syndrome is a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1 in 10,000 girls in early childhood. After seemingly developing normally, girls in their second year of life begin to regress, losing learned skills like talking, using their hands, and other movements, and develop autistic behaviors. The disease varies widely among patients in its course and severity, but it can progress to severe intellectual and physical disabilities, sometimes including loss of controlled movement and epileptic seizures. After this initial decline, girls with Rett syndrome usually stabilize and live into adulthood. Although there is no cure for Rett syndrome, researchers have recently made major progress in understanding the genetic and molecular basis of this disease largely through work in animal models.

Graduate research in neuroscience at Lehigh includes study at subcellular, synaptic, and systems neurobiology and endocrinology to behavioral levels. The mission of the program is to create scientists who are broadly trained across the disciplines of neuroscience, from genes to cells to circuits to systems and behavior. Students admitted to the program should have a basic knowledge of biology, anatomy, physiology and/or systems neuroscience. Students begin by taking core courses that provide a broad foundation at the graduate level and will work toward a Ph.D. with a concentration in neuroscience. Students will develop an appreciation that all aspects of neurobiology, whether cellular, physiological, anatomical, behavior, environmental, or social, are inextricably linked and cannot be fully understood as separate, parallel systems of knowledge.

Below is a list and description of all speaker tasks. Not all tasks are applicable to each sessions. You will only be assigned the tasks relevant to your session. Tasks marked with an asterisk (*) are only assigned to certain presentation types. You will receive a personal link to complete these tasks through Cadmium, SfN’s virtual event vendor. If you have difficulty accessing Cadmium, please email program@sfn.org.

Neuroscience 2021 took place online November 8-11 with Preview Days on November 3-7. On-demand access ended on November 30. Thank you for participating!

While many neurobiological publications describe clear effects of enrichment on the animals’ physiology and behavior in an experimental context, large-dimensional implementation in rodent facilities often lacks a systematic analysis of respective refine...