5th Annual Department of Neuroscience Research Day
Friday, May 2, 2025, 8am-5pm
Abstracts submissions: Closed
Registration without abstract: Friday, March 7th, 2025
Poster and Talks selected by April 4th, 2025
The Department of Neuroscience Research Day is an annual event held each spring and features posters from trainees and staff, faculty presentations, and a keynote address by a world-renowned researcher in the field of neuroscience. Faculty members judge poster presentations and travel awards are given to the highest-scoring trainees.
Research Day also presents an opportunity for colleagues to learn about the cutting-edge research occurring at Ohio State. Faculty judges review poster presentations and make the final selections for the awards. Research Day concludes with a late afternoon reception followed by a presentation of awards for outstanding research projects.
2025 Keynote Speaker
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Professor, Biological Sciences
Columbia University
The goal of the Yuste laboratory is to decipher the neural code, i.e., the relation between the activity of neurons and behavior or mental states, by understanding the function of the neural circuits. For over a century, the neuron doctrine — which states that the neuron is the structural and functional unit of the nervous system — has provided a conceptual foundation for neuroscience. This viewpoint reflects its origins in a time when the use of single-neuron anatomical and physiological techniques was prominent. However, recent multineuronal recording methods have revealed that groups of neurons, rather than individual cells, can form physiological units and may generate emergent properties and functional states. The focus on the emergent properties of neural networks is a new paradigm for neuroscience, and can incorporate knowledge acquired with single-neuron approaches and go beyond them, helping us understand how emergent functional states generate behavior, cognition and mental disease.
More details about Research Day
Registration and Abstract Submission
Be prepared to include the following information:
- Name
- Position (undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, staff, faculty)
- Title (For poster presenters only)
- Abstract (no more than 300 words)
Abstract Submission Guidelines
- Posters must be set up by 8am in BRT on May 2nd
- Abstract: no more than 300 words describing (a) Purpose of the study; (b) Research methods; (c) Results or predicted results; and (d) Implications
- Abstracts will be judged on the above categories as well as the quality of the experimental design.
- Top scoring abstracts will be selected for talks. Individuals selected for talks will also present a poster.
- Awards will be given to the top posters. No awards will be given for selected talks.
Judges Score Sheet for Poster Presentations
A scale of 1-7 will be used and the scoring range will be from lacks merit (1) to superior (7).Criteria
- Organization/Topic Development: Visuals and text are easy to follow and organized. Explains material, answers questions in concise and clear manner.
- Methods: Techniques are reasonable, appropriate, and clear.
- Results: Reasonable for techniques employed, logical, clear.
- Conclusions/Impact: Supported by results, logical, clear. Increases understanding.
- Delivery: Quality of overall presentation, effective use of visual aids.
Awards
Poster awards will be given to the top scoring undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and research staff.