NRD 2021
Conference details
Neuroscience New Faculty Talks
Thursday, Feb. 18th @ 10 am
Emma G. Deurden, Ph.D.
Dr. Duerden is an Assistant Professor in Applied Psychology in the Faculty of Education and a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience & Learning Disorders. The Developing Brain Lab is a research program focused on the association of early life stress with brain development and cognitive outcomes in infants and children.
Taylor Schmitz, Ph.D.
Dr. Taylor Schmitz is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, as well as a Research Scientist at the Robarts Research, Lawson Health Sciences and Brain and Mind Institutes. He is the PI of the Integrative Neuroscience of Cognition & Aging Lab (INCAlab). The overarching goal of the INCAlab is to understand the role of the cholinergic system in brain function, dysfunction and disease.
Oral Presentations
Fellows and graduate students from all faculties are invited to submit an abstract for oral presentations.
There will be 2-6 oral presentation sessions.
There are 3 time slots for oral presentations (please see our schedule for details). Each time slot will have 2 oral presentation sessions happening at the same time.
Oral presentation sessions will be grouped as much as possible based on research theme and neuroscience field, as filled out in the abstract submission form.
Presentations will be 10 min + 5 min question period and must contain original, non-published data with results (cannot simply present methods / preliminary data). See detailed platform requirements here.
There will be a presentation prize for each presentation session. Winners will be determined by a panel of judges comprised of postdoctoral fellows, faculty or staff.
The conference program, including abstracts for each presentation, will be published to conference registrants only and will not be available publicly.
Cajal Creative Art
The goal of this event is to highlight the artistic aspects of neuroscience; this will help make research from neuroscience labs more tangible and allow scientists to evaluate their own work from a different perspective. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from any department may submit neuroscience themed art produced inside or outside the lab.
You are encouraged to present work, even if they are not interested in competing!
Why another research day?
Neuroscience is a research strength and priority at Western. Surprisingly, and despite the large number of world-renowned programs studying brain function, we lack a singular event that brings the community together. The absence of an integrative event means that we as a scientific community are missing out on vital opportunities to share resources and skills, and seed new collaborations. We are also missing out on opportunities to showcase the myriad ways that training in neuroscience can lead to fulfilling careers within society. NRD is a unique by-trainees-for-trainees conference that will address these gaps.
An explicit aim is to ensure that the event is open to anyone conducting neuroscience related research on campus, and hence the intended reach of the event is also much broader than that of a traditional departmental research day.
NRD2021 is sponsored by:
