nanosymposium - Society for Neuroscience

Monday Workshops, Meetings & Events
✍ Preregistration Required $ Course Fee � Professional Development ` Networking � Public Outreach
Monday, Nov. 14
Animals in Research Panel
Engaging the Public on Animal Research:
From the Classroom to the Airwaves
9 – 11 a.m.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center: 103
Organizer: Sharon Juliano, PhD
Panelists: Susan Adler; Colin Blakemore, PhD;
Elizabeth Burnett; Jon Hamilton
Contact: Paul Libus, plibus@sfn.org
Continued public support for animal research
requires educated citizens who understand science,
and how responsible and regulated animal
research contributes to scientific progress. Too
often, slick animal rights campaigns tell only
one side of the story. What do students and the
broader public hear about animal research, and
how are neuroscientists helping to enhance public
awareness? Join scientists, educators, and media
to discuss how to expand public knowledge about
animal research progress and promise.
Teaching Neuroscience �
9 a.m. – noon
Walter E. Washington Convention Center: 146C
Organizer: Richard Olivo, PhD
Panelists: Joseph Burdo, PhD; Robert
Calin-Jageman, PhD; Bob Rosenberg, PhD;
William Grisham, PhD; Monica Linden, PhD;
Jan Thornton, PhD; Laura Symonds, PhD
Contact: Erum Khan, ekhan@sfn.org
Announcing ERIN, “Educational Resources in
Neuroscience,” the Society’s new NSF-funded
project to create a Web site for listing, reviewing,
and rating teaching resources for higher
education. ERIN’s board of editors will present
highlights in each of their topic areas: Development,
Cellular (Excitability, Synapses, and Glia),
Disorders of the Nervous System, Sensory and
Motor Systems, Homeostatic and Neuroendocrine
Systems, and Cognition and Behavior.
The Art of Networking �
9 a.m. – noon
Walter E. Washington Convention Center: 146B
Organizers: Sherilynn Black, PhD;
Erich Jarvis, PhD
Panelists: Daniel Geschwind, PhD; Heather
Dean, PhD; Olivier Berton, PhD; Ian Maze,
PhD; Anne West, PhD
Contact: Erum Khan, ekhan@sfn.org
Networking can mean different things to each
of us. For some, it means cultivating meaningful
mentor and mentee relationships, while for
others it means learning to effectively foster
scientific collaborations. In a variety of cir-
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cumstances, networking can be used as a powerful
tool that can dramatically improve your
scientific career. At this workshop, hear how
learning the art of networking has impacted
the careers of several scientists from graduate
school through tenure-track/established positions.
Also hear different networking experiences
from both the male and female scientist
perspective and gain tips on how to maximize
your interactions with others. Finally, gain
valuable insight on how to apply these skills to
real-life events.
Beyond the Bench: Supporting the
Neuroscience Community Through
Leadership, Outreach, and
Accumulated Wisdom �
2 – 5 p.m.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center: 146B
Organizer: Floyd Bloom, MD
Panelists: Floyd Bloom, MD; Kjell Fuxe, MD;
Leslie Tolbert, PhD; Irwin Levitan, PhD;
Story Landis, PhD
Contact: Erum Khan, ekhan@sfn.org
The “silver seers” workshop panel brings
together senior members of the global neuroscience
community to discuss how other senior
members can use their accumulated wisdom
from research and administrative experiences to
strengthen the infrastructure of neuroscience.
These discussions include “science statesmanship”
— engaging in advocacy and public outreach;
building professional contributory skills
outside the laboratory, such as serving on editorial
boards, study sections, and other advisory
roles; contributing directly to SfN activities,
such as serving on committees and in mentoring
and professional development programs;
and successful strategies for transitioning into
and out of leadership roles and alternatives to
active research participation.
Negotiating a Senior Position �
2 – 5 p.m.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center: 146C
Organizer: Gina Poe, PhD
Panelists: Karyn Frick, PhD; Michael Lehman,
PhD; Mark R. Opp, PhD; Joanne E. Berger-
Sweeney, PhD
Contact: Erum Khan, ekhan@sfn.org
For the next steps in your career after your first
academic appointment, you will need to negotiate
beyond lab and office space, start-up funding,
teaching commitments, and faculty mentoring
programs. To ensure your next appointment will
be a success, you should be thinking of professional
development opportunities you can take
advantage of in your current appointment; how
to move an established lab with grants, graduate
students, postdoctorals, and staff; how to buyout
your lab equipment; how to negotiate promotions
contingent with your move (e.g., gaining
tenure or promotion to full professor); and sometimes
how to negotiate additional or supplanting
administrative duties (e.g., director, chair, dean)
and if so, whether and how to downsize your research
effort. Dual career issues become increasingly
complex with advancing career stages of
partners as well. This workshop addresses these
issues and more through the experiences and
wisdom of panelists who have successfully negotiated
spectacular next step and senior positions.
Hear from panelists, ask questions, and employ
their expertise in helping plan your next move up
the ladder in research/academia.
NIH Grant Workshop for Early
Career Investigators* �
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center: 103
Organizer: Nancy Pilotte, PhD
Contact: Nancy Pilotte, PhD, npilotte@nih.gov
Calling all predocs, postdocs, new faculty, and
junior faculty. Are you looking for funding for
research training, career development, or your
first research project grant? Do you need a
little advice on how to do that? Then this is the
workshop for you. Program and Review staff
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA), one of the NIH’s 27 Institutes and
Centers, is hosting this informational workshop
as an opportunity for early career investigators
to learn about NIH and the grants
process. Attendance at this workshop should
give you insight as to the most appropriate
funding opportunity for your career stage,
and how to apply for it. This workshop will
focus on mentored awards (F31, F32, K01, K08,
K23, K99) and independent research grants
(R01, R21, R03, DP1) and provide insight into
the review of these applications. Learn how to
contact the Institute and find a program official,
and understand peer review and the role
of Council. There will be brief presentations
and plenty of time to meet directly with NIDA
staff to ask those burning questions.