Conference: Inaugural South East Neuroscience Conference, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, FL.

University Of Florida, Gainesville FL

Investigators

Abstract

This award will support the inaugural meeting of the Southeast Neuroscience Consortium (SENC). This organization was created by the merger of the Southeast Nerve Net (SENN) (founded in 1983) and the Georgia South Carolina Neuroscience Consortium (GA/SC-NC) Since its inception, the focus of SENN meetings has been comparative neuroscience while that of the GASCNC has been systems neuroscience. Thus, meetings of the SENC will encompass the spectrum of modern neuroscience. The primary goals of meetings of the SENC will be to provide a forum for students and early postdocs to give talks in a supportive environment where they get exposure to a large audience and, at the same time, allow neuroscientists from across the South East to come together. The majority if not all oral sessions will be set aside for students, thereby providing them a rare opportunity to fine tune their speaking skills before encountering the more impersonal audiences they would likely encounter at large national (i.e. Society for Neuroscience) or international meetings. To facilitate student participation, a significant portion of the award will be assigned to cover the travel costs of student participants. A major effort will be made to attract students from two year colleges, where neuroscience is typically poorly represented, and Historically Black Colleges and other minority institutions. All told, we expect this meeting will enhance student training, enhance collabora