Application Process
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:
| 2025 | Tiago Branco, M.D., Ph.D. University College London |
Computation of Instinctive Escape Decisions |
| 2024 | Stephen A. Baccus, Ph.D. Stanford Medical School |
Retinal Processing of Natural Visual Scenes |
| 2023 | Sydney, Cash M.D., Ph.D. Harvard Medical School |
Single Neurons and Networks in Human Cortical Activity |
| 2022 |
Robert Burgess, Ph.D. |
Disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets for tRNA synthetase-associated peripheral neuropathies |
| 2021 |
Ole Keihn, D.Sci |
Brainstem Circuits that Control Locomotion in the Healthy and Diseased Brain |
| 2020 |
Lorna Role, Ph.D. |
Cholinergic Signaling in Making, Breaking, and Encoding of Emotional Memories |
| 2019 |
Chris Doe, Ph.D. |
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. |