Professional Development

How to Submit an Impactful Abstract for Neuroscience 2022

June 06, 2022

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Join the Program Committee chairs as they share how to submit an impactful abstract.

After watching the webinar, head to the Neuronline Community to review the questions answered by presenters.

Speakers

Stephanie Sandoval-Pistorius, PhD

Stephanie is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco working with Philip Starr, MD PhD and Simon Little, MBBS MRCP PhD. Stephanie’s research focuses on uncovering oscillatory biomarkers for changing brain states in individuals with Parkinson’s disease who receive therapeutic deep brain stimulation. Stephanie earned her BS and MS in neuroscience from Brigham Young University and her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Michigan.

Image of Sheena Josselyn holding a test tub wearing a lab coat.

Sheena Josselyn, PhD

Sheena Josselyn is a senior scientist in the neurosciences and mental health program at The Hospital for Sick Children and professor in psychology and physiology at the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Sheena’s current research focus studies how information is encoded stored and used in the brain, primarily using mouse models. She received her Bachelor’s Degree at Queen’s University at Kingston and her PhD at the University of Toronto which are both located in Canada. Her previous position being a Research Associate in the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA and prior to that she worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.

Ellen A. Lumpkin, PhD

Ellen A. Lumpkin is professor of cell & developmental biology and of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of molecular & cellular biology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. She is also co-director of the MBL Advanced Training Course in Neurobiology, and adjunct associate professor of physiology & cellular biophysics and co-director of the Thompson Family Foundation Initiative in CIPN & Sensory Neuroscience at Columbia University. Lumpkin’s group studies genes, cells and signals that mediate the sense of touch. She earned a BS in Animal Science from Texas Tech University, and performed PhD training in neuroscience with Dr. A. James Hudspeth at UT Southwestern and The Rockefeller University. Dr. Lumpkin started her own lab as an early independence Sandler Fellow at University of California, San Francisco.

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