Guidelines for Presenters/Artists 2022 — Society of Neuroscience Graduate Students

Presentations will be judged by a panel of postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff. The highest ranking presenters from each section will be awarded a cash prize.
The conference program, including abstracts for each presentation, will be published to conference registrants only and will not be available publicly.
Oral presentations are allotted 10 minutes for delivery and 5 minutes for a question period. In addition, a subset of successful applicants will be offered a ‘Spotlight Talk’ and will be allotted 20 minutes for delivery with 5 minutes for questions.
The presentation must be on your own research and must reflect the submitted abstract.
Please ensure you give credit where credit is due by identifying which parts of the project were previously completed by other individuals.
The Background, Hypothesis/Problem Identification, Methods, Results and Conclusion should be emphasized.
We strongly recommend you tailor your presentation so that it is delivered in language that is easily understood by an audience composed of general neuroscience researchers, not just for those within your area of expertise.

To be eligible to present at NRD 2021, those interested must submit an abstract by January 28th, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
Only graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are eligible to present at NRD 2022.
There is a limited number of slots for oral presentations. Most slots will be allocated to trainees from Western University, and the remaining will be open to presenters from outside Western University.
Abstracts will be judged for quality by the NRD planning committee, and top submissions will be offered an oral presentation slot.
Abstracts must be at most 1600 characters long (including spaces), and abstract titles must be at most 225 characters long (including spaces).
We welcome talks from any trainees doing neuroscience-related work (not just those in the Neuroscience Program) and encourage our colleagues in Psychology, Physiology & Pharmacology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Clinical Neurological Sciences, Computer Science, Health Science, Philosophy, & more to submit an abstract!

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 think of their work from a different perspective.
Faculty, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduate/graduate students from any department may submit neuroscience themed art produced inside the lab, outside the lab or in created in collaboration with other artists or neuroscientists.
Art of any type is welcome, but please keep in mind that it will be presented virtually. For those working with 3D mediums (e.g., canvas, clay), you can present your work as a digital image or video.
In addition to submitting a digital copy of your artwork, all artists will be asked to submit a 3 minute recorded presentation describing their art piece and the research project which inspired it. This will be used by the judges to determine winners of the NRD art exhibit. Note that the final art submissions (digital copy of artwork + recorded presentation) will be due on Feb 14th 2022.
On day 2 of NRD, we will have the live art exhibit, hosted online. During this time, presenters will be able to interact with other attendees and discuss their art project.

To be eligible to present neuroscience art at NRD 2022, those interested must submit an abstract describing the art piece by January 28th, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
Anyone is eligible to present neuroscience art at NRD 2022.
Abstracts must be at most 1600 characters long (including spaces), and abstract titles must be at most 225 characters long (including spaces).

Please download the document here for detailed instructions on recording and uploading the art presentation

NRD2022 is sponsored by: