The MBI’s Brain Awareness Week events concluded Friday, March 16 with the eighth annual North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Conference.
The conference included a poster competition, panel discussion, data blitz, a presentation by keynote speaker John H. Morrison, Ph.D., director of the California National Primate Research Center, and an honoring of Doug Anderson, Ph.D., who served as chair of the UF neuroscience department from 1996 to 2006 and as interim executive director of the MBI in 2004.
Keynote speaker Dr. John Morrison during his lecture at the eighth annual SfN North Central Florida Chapter Conference.
Hannah Holik won the first-place undergraduate poster award.
Dr. John Morrison with NCF SfN Chapter Conference officers.
Dr. Doug Anderson receives an award from Florida Sen. Bill Nelson during the eighth annual North Central Florida Chapter SfN Conference.
Emily Koller won the first-place graduate student poster award.
Sruti Rayaprolu, Ph.D., received an award for service as the 2016-17 NCF SfN Chapter President and for her first-place postdoctoral fellow poster.
