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Annual Events:

CVCSN Poster Session with Speaker held in Fall, after the Society for Neuroscience Meeting.

Symposium featuring Nationally recognized speakers, vendors, breakfast, lunch, and reception - typically held during VCU Spring Break week in March.

Annual Business Meeting typically held in April, to decide on topics for the Symposium in the following year, as well as to nominate new CVCSN officers.

Nomination of Graduate Student and Postdoc for Travel Awards to the SFN meeting, typically in May.

 

 

Past Symposia:

2019:  From Cells and Circuits to Behavior

2018:  Translational Neuroscience in Central Virginia

2017:  Neurodegenerative Diseases: From basic science to therapeutic interventions

2016:  Brains in a Dish

2015:  Optogenetics, Chemogenetics, and Circuit Mapping of Brain Function

2014:  The Neuroscience of Aging and Age-Reversal

2013:  The Labile Brain: Neuroplasticity Across the Lifespan

2012:  Wiring the Nervous System:  Mechanisms of Synaptic Targeting and Synapse Formation

2011:  Neuroengineering:  Insights from Brain-Mind Interfaces

2010:  Mental Illness:  Role of Genetics and Neurobiology

2009:  The Vulnerability of the Developing Brain

2008:  Models of Synaptic Plasticity: Potential Roles in Development, Cognition and Disease

2007:  Aging and the Brain

2006:  Emerging Treatments in Neurological Disease: Genetics & Stem Cells

2005:  A New Look Inside the Brain:  Research and Clinical Imaging Techniques

OLDER Symposia:

2002: Genomic Approaches to Neuroscience:  Profiling Gene Expression with DNA Arrays

1990: Cognitive Neuroscience