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Neuroscience Research Day
Neuroscience Research Day Poster with Student and Faculty
Student presenting poster to faculty on Neuroscience Research Day 2019
Neuroscience Research Day, Alumni Panel
Neuroscience Research Day, Alumni Panel 2020
Student Presentation by Haritha Desu
Neuroscience Research Day, Student Presentation by Haritha Desu

Neuroscience Research Day is a one-day conference that showcases and promotes neuroscience in South Florida. It gives current and future neuroscientists an opportunity to share ideas and network.

If you would like to present a poster at the next event, email us at neuroscience@miami.edu.

Research Day Keynote Speakers:

2023 Sydney, Cash M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School		 Single Neurons and Networks in Human Cortical Activity
2022 

Robert Burgess, Ph.D. 
The Jackson Laboratory

Disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets for tRNA synthetase-associated peripheral neuropathies
2021

Ole Keihn, D.Sci
University of Copenhagen

 Brainstem Circuits that Control Locomotion in the Healthy and Diseased Brain
2020

Lorna Role, Ph.D.
NIH/NINDS

 Cholinergic Signaling in Making, Breaking, and Encoding of Emotional Memories
2019

Chris Doe, Ph.D.
University of Oregon

 The Role of Temporal Identity in Neural Circuit Assembly in Drosophila
2018 Dan Johnson, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin		 Dendritic Channelopathies
2017 Kelsey Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA		 Regulating Gene Expression During Long-Term Memory
2016 Catherine Dulac, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Harvard University		 Molecular and Neural Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse
2015 Lin Mei, Ph.D.
Georgia Regents University		 Synapses, Muscular Dystrophies and Brain Disorders
2014 Henry A. Lester, Ph.D.
CalTech		 Inside-Out Pharmacology of Nicotinic and (perhaps) Psychiatric Drugs
2013 Gail Mandel, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute		 Repressors and Glia: Life Support for Neurons
2012 John T. Povlishock, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University		 Traumatic Axonal Injury: How Focal Axolemmal Perturbation Triggers an Avalanche of Neuronal Somatic and Synaptic Alterations
2011 Yishi Jin, Ph.D.
New York University		 Common Themes and New Regulators in Axon Regeneration: Insights from C. Elegans Genetics
2010 Christine Holt, M.D.
Cambridge University, England		 Genetic Analysis of Neurodegeneration
2009 Jack McMahan, Ph.D.
Texas A&M		 What Electron Tomography is Telling Us About How Synaptic Active Zones Function
2005 Jenny Ting, Ph.D.
UNC Chapel Hill		 Neuroinflammation in Diseases: Friend or Foe
2004 Christine Holt, M.D.
Cambridge University, England		 How Axons Navigate from the Eye to the Brain
2003 Thomas Südhof, M.D.
University of Texas		 Molecular Mechanisms Governing Neurotransmitter Release
2002 Ron McKay, Ph.D.
NIH/NINDS		 From Stem Cells to Synapses in the Central Nervous System
2001 Nicholas Spitzer, Ph.D.
NIH/NINDS		 Breaking the Code: Neuronal Differentiation Regulated by Frequencies of Calcium Transients
2000 Mark Konishi, Ph.D.
CalTech		 Brain Mechanisms of Sound Localization
1998 Marcus E. Raichle, M.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
School of Medicine		 A Mysterious Medial Parietal Area
1997 Ursula Bellugi, Ed.D.
The Salk Institute		 Language, Cognition and Brain Organization

Best Graduate Student Poster

Year Recipient Mentor
2020 - Canceled due to COVID-19
2019 Iris Escobar Miguel Perez-Pinzon, Ph.D.