Join more than 300 of your colleagues to network and discuss the most pressing issues women in the field are facing at the Celebrating Women in Neuroscience (CWiN) Luncheon during Neuroscience 2015. Maria Neimark Geffen, assistant professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, will deliver the keynote speech.

In humans, several mutations in a particular calcium channel, the P/Q type, lead to neurological diseases, one of which manifests to ataxia. Ataxia is a disorder where an individual loses coordination or control of muscle movement. SCA6, or spinocerebellar ataxia type 6, is a movement disorder, which results in the loss of a special type of neuron in the cerebellum called Purkinje cells. These neurons process sensory information to coordinate movements. The disease has a late onset and develops in the second period of life. Patients are often wheelchair-bound, and no therapies are available.

Lorenz Studer, director at the Center for Stem Cell Biology, discusses using induced pluripotent stem cells to model human diseases and development at the 2013 Neurobiology of Disease workshop at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting.

The goal of science outreach is increasing public awareness about brain research. All you need to move your love of science out of the lab and into the public sphere is a desire to communicate your science and an outlet for doing so.

Make the most out of your time at Neuroscience 2015 by knowing what to expect and how to prepare. Here’s what former attendees suggest you do.

The aim of the 2013 Neurobiology of Disease workshop at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting was to help frame important unanswered research questions related to iPSC-based disease modeling, and to stimulate the interest and understanding of investigators new to the field. The Neurobiology of Disease Workshop provides students and early-career scientists with in-depth overviews of diseases of the nervous system.

As the knowledge base in neuroscience continues to expand, educators need timely resources to engage their students.

Thomas Utley, a licensing officer in the Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization at Vanderbilt University, describes how he uses skills developed in the research lab in his career.

How has the understanding of the mysterious tissue between our ears changed in the past 50 years? In her Totally Cerebral episodes on Transistor, neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki introduces the scientists who have uncovered some of the deepest secrets about how our brains make us who we are. Suzuki begins by talking with groundbreaking experimental psychologist Brenda Milner who, in the 1950s, completely changed our understanding of the parts of the brain important for forming new long-term memories. Through her observation and careful study of patients with profound amnesia, Milner wrote a paper in 1957 that broke with the accepted theories about memory, and blew open the entire field of neuroscience.

Neuroscience departments and programs and SfN chapters that are working to increase awareness of the issues facing women in academia, and implement effective strategies to improve hiring practices have a new tool: the Increasing Women in Neuroscience (IWiN) presentation, Candidate Recruitment and Evaluation, created by SfN’s Professional Development Committee.