Science Day - January 29, 2009

Online registration will open Tuesday, October 7. Deadline for submitting poster abstracts is Friday, November 7. Space is limited; apply early

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is a focal point for understanding the complexities of typical and atypical development. The Center brings together scientists and practitioners in behavior, education, genetics, and neuroscience to work together in unique ways to solve the mysteries of development and learning. Take part in Science Day and discover the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center in new ways.

Science Day goals:

• to promote “centeredness” by providing a scientific forum for VKC faculty, their graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows,
• to promote research collaboration, and
• to provide faculty and trainees with an opportunity to present significant research findings.

Attend Science Day

We invite VKC researchers and members of their research teams to attend and to submit research posters. Prizes will be awarded to trainees (students or fellows) for outstanding posters in three theme areas.

Science day highlights include a keynote presentation by a VKC researcher, research presentation by a VKC trainee, and oral presentations of a selected poster in each theme area.

Research Posters and Prizes

Prizes awarded to a graduate student and a postdoctoral fellow for best poster in each theme area:

• Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
• Clinical, Behavioral, and Intervention Research
• Systems Neuroscience

Prize awarded to best overall poster by an undergraduate student.

All poster presenters who are graduate students or postdocs become VKC Affiliates, and are eligible to compete for VKC Travel Awards to present at a professional conference

Posters presented at other scientific meetings are eligible