WWU'S
Behavioral
Neuroscience
Program

Pacific Northwest Chapters Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

The Pacific Northwest Neuroscience Meeting is an international joint meeting of regional SFN chapters, including the Canadian British Columbia and US Pacific Cascades chapters. The event will be held on Saturday, October 3rd 2009 (9:00 am- 6:30 pm) in the Academic Instructional Center at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

The meeting highlights research presentations by trainees (undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) and keynote invited speakers from the US and Canada.

New features of this year's event include:

1) A mentor-mentee program. The mentoring program provides an opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to guide undergraduate students through the scientific meeting, facilitating a dialogue between current postdoctoral fellows and graduate students and the next generation of graduate students. Also included in this program is the option for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students to be assigned a mentor from either health care or industry. Mentor-mentee pairs will be assigned prior to the day of the meeting based on their research interests and career objectives. The goal is to establish connections that will enrich the career of both the mentors and the mentees.

2) A "life outside of academia" program. This program will include presentations by industry and healthcare representatives, including a keynote address by Elaine Jones, COO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

This event is sponsored by the UBC Brain Research Centre and Western Washington University.

Registration

Deadlines:

To give a talk - Friday, September 18th

To present a poster - Friday, September 18th

To attend (and not present a talk or poster) - Friday, September 18th

To register for the event, which is free of charge, please fill in all of the fields on the registration form and submit it electronically. Click here for the online registration form.

Please direct specific registration and event queries to the meeting organizers:
Jeff Grimm (jeff.grimm@wwu.edu), Janet Finlay (janet.finlay@wwu.edu), or Kelly Jantzen (kelly.jantzen@wwu.edu)

Tentative Conference Schedule

8:30 - 9:30 am Registration, poster mounting, mentor-mentee introductions
9:30 - 9:45 am Opening remarks - Dr. Janet M. Finlay - Director, WWU Behavioral Neuroscience Program
9:45 -11:00 am Trainee talks
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break, Susan Adler - Executive Director, NWABR "Strategies for Increasing Public Understanding & Support for Biomedical Research" & posters
11:30 - 12:30 Keynote speaker - Dr. Eberhard Fetz - Professor, Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington "The Adaptive Self and Recurrent Brain - Computer Interfaces"
12:30-1:15 pm Lunch, "Life Outside of Academia" panel discussion & tour of new neuroscience research labs in AIC
1:15 - 2:45 pm Trainee talks
2:45 - 3:15 pm Coffee break, Noldus demonstration & posters
3:15 - 4:15 pm Keynote speaker - Elaine Jones - COO, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences "Changing the World through Nonprofits"
4:15 - 6:30 pm Posters, social & awards for best talks and posters
7:00 pm Dinner

Event Parking and Directions to Western Washington University

Free parking is available on campus in parking lot 12A. Click here for a map of the campus. For specific directions to the campus or to your accommodations, please visit Google Maps or Mapquest and enter your start and end coordinates.

Accommodations

Off campus hotel rooms are available at the Lakeway Inn & Conference Center (714 Lakeway Dr., tel.360-671-1011, web site: www.thelakewayinn.com) at a rate of $99 for a double room. Please state that you are with the Pacific Northwest Society for Neuroscience Meeting at time of booking. Reservations should be made by September 18, 2009.

Tentative Program for October 3rd meeting