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How to Organize a Nanosymposium for Neuroscience 2025

April 21, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

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Organizing a nanosymposium, or “nano,” is a fantastic opportunity to network and connect with others in your field. Don’t know how to organize a nanosymposium or find others to participate? This webinar will review how to select a topic, identify and recruit others to join the nano, and develop a strong nano proposal.

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Thiago Arzua, PhD

Thiago Arzua, PhD, is a neuroscientist at Columbia University who was born and raised in Brazil. His current work as a postdoctoral scientist in the Marlin Lab seeks to understand how traumatic experiences are represented in the brain through multiple generations. Outside the lab, Arzua tries his best at communicating science and engaging with science policy, being a co-founder of Black In Neuro, as well as a science policy ambassador for the Society for Neuroscience.

Rose Hill, PhD

Rose Hill, PhD, is an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University. Prior to that, Hill was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research. She earned her BS in biochemistry and cell biology from UC San Diego and her PhD in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley. The Hill Laboratory, founded in 2025, studies the sensory neurons that innervate the internal organs and their functions in regulating homeostasis and physiology.

Yalda Moayedi, PhD

Yalda Moayedi, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Pain Research Center, Department of Molecular Pathobiology at New York University College of Dentistry. Moayedi’s research focuses on understanding the biology of somatosensory neurons that innervate the oral cavity and upper airway, and how they contribute to orally-guided functions such as flavor perception, feeding mechanics, and speech. She received her BS in neurobiology from The University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine in the labs of Graeme Mardon and Andrew Groves. She completed her postdoctoral training at Columbia University with Ellen Lumpkin.

Alyssa Huff, PhD

Alyssa Huff, PhD, is a senior postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jan Marino “Nino” Ramirez at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Huff studies the interaction between and coordination of airway protective behaviors such as swallowing and laryngeal reflexes, with breathing. She is interested in how central medullary structures and peripheral mechanisms contribute to airway protection and how this is disrupted in rare diseases such as Leigh and Rett Syndrome. Huff received her BS in biology from Western Kentucky University and her PhD in physiology from the University of Louisville in the laboratory of Teresa Pitts.

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