Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Chapter of the
Society for
Neuroscience
(for previous meetings,
click here)
Monday, November 7, 2011
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Business Meeting and Presentation: Jackson T. Stephens Spine and
Neuroscience Institute 12th Floor Fred W. Smith Auditorium and
Poster Session Foyer 12th Floor of Stephens Spine Institute
9:00
- 10:00 a.m. Setup Posters
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Awards Committee meets with Graduate Student
Presenters to Evaluate Posters
11:30 a.m. Complimentary Box Lunch
11:40 - 12:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Tucker Patterson, Ph.D.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Research Seminar: “Brave New World: Toward a Cellular
Therapy for Epilepsy” by
John Greenfield, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Department of
Neurology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
Little Rock, Arkansas
1:00 – 1:45 p.m. Business Meeting::
1) Officers' Reports - Treasurer and Secretary,
2) Election Results,
3) Awards for Best Posters,
4) Old Business,
5) New Business
1:45 - 3:30 p.m. Poster Session
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Removal of Posters from Poster Boards
Announcements
- 2011 Central Arkansas Brain Bee (Thursday, February 17, 2011 at
4:30 PM)
To: Arkansas High School Science Teachers and Science Department Chairs
The Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
and the Central Arkansas Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society,
are sponsoring a Brain Bee as part of National Brain Awareness Week, March
14-20, 2011. The Brain Bee is a live question and answer competition testing the
neuroscience knowledge of high school students, grades 9-12. Last year, Mr.
Yazan Al-Fanek, a senior from Little Rock Mills University Studies High School,
won the Central Arkansas competition, and represented Arkansas in Baltimore,
Maryland at the U.S. National Brain Bee Championship. Yazan also had the
opportunity to tour the National Institutes of Health and Washington, D.C. The
winners of the local brain bees from around the world are invited to their
respective national brain bees and the winners of these national events will be
invited to the 2011 International Brain Bee Championship to be held August 4-7,
2011 in Washington, D.C.
The contest in Little Rock will use questions taken
from the information in the updated edition of “Brain Facts- a 74-page primer on
the brain and nervous system”, which can be downloaded for free from
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainFacts. More Brain Bee information
can be found at
http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=baw_brain_bee and
http://www.internationalbrainbee.com/. The contestants will answer questions
about how the brain relates to intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations,
stress, aging, anatomy, sleep, addictions, Alzheimer’s Disease, stroke, etc. All
participants will receive participation awards and the student winner and a
sponsor will receive prize money to help defray the costs of attending the 2011
U.S. National Brain Bee Championship in Baltimore, Maryland, March 18-20, 2011
as the Arkansas representative.
Our local competition will be held in conjunction with
the 2011 Annual Arkansans for Gifted & Talented Education Conference (AGATE) (http://www.agate-arkansas.org/conference.html)
and is limited to no more than three students per sponsoring high school.
2011 Central Arkansas Brain Bee
Thursday, February 17, 2011 (4:30 PM)
Manning Room at the Peabody Hotel
Three Statehouse Plaza (River Market District on Markham St.)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Please circulate this announcement to any interested
colleagues or post it in the teacher’s lounge. Any students who are
interested in participating should contact us via email by Monday, February 14,
2011, to indicate they plan to attend. Please include the student’s contact
information, grade, school and name of the sponsoring teacher.
Sincerely,
Tucker A. Patterson, Ph.D and John F. Bowyer, Ph.D.
Division of Neurotoxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research/Food & Drug Administration
3900 NCTR Drive
Jefferson, AR 72079
tucker.patterson@fda.hhs.gov
Phone: 870-543-7427 (Cell: 501-200-7870)
john.bowyer@fda.hhs.gov
Phone: 870-543-7194 (Cell: 501-837-9082)
