The Ninth Annual Rutgers Brain Health Institute Symposium

The Ninth Annual BHI Symposium will be held on Thursday, November 30, 2023 at the Douglass Student Center in New Brunswick, NJ. It will feature talks by Rutgers faculty presenting their cutting-edge research. The afternoon session includes student/post-doc poster presentations with cash awards to the top three best posters.

Early registration and poster abstract submission is now closed for the Ninth Annual BHI Symposium. On-site registration will be available on the day of the symposium (Nov 30, 2023)- $60 Faculty and $25 trainee/staff (cash only).

The keynote speaker for this year is Dr. Michael N Shadlen. He is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute and Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University Medical School. He is a member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute (ZI) and the Kavli Institute of Brain Science. Dr. Shadlen obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees at Brown University, his PhD at UC Berkeley with Ralph Freeman. He trained in clinical neurology at Stanford University, where he joined William T. Newsome’s lab, as a postdoctoral fellow. He then joined the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington, where he remained until 2012. His research focuses primarily on the neural mechanisms that underlie decision making. He is also a jazz guitarist and co-curates the Jazz Artist in Residence program at ZI. Honors include the Alden Spencer Prize, Golden Brain, Lashley Award, and elections to the AAAS, National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences.

The symposium begins at 8 AM with breakfast, lunch at 12.30 PM, reception and award ceremony at 4.30 PM.

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