The annual “What’s New in Atlanta?” event hosted by the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience will be held at the Hatchery at Emory Point on Wednesday, November 12th from 6-8 pm. There will free parking (validation sticker provided at registration desk) and light bites for you to enjoy while you preview the best of Atlanta Neuroscience and connect with folks from our ATL peer institutions. Trainees at all levels (including undergraduates) are encouraged to sign up to present a poster, especially if they will be presenting at SfN, so they can get practice and important feedback before performing on the international stage, but we also welcome recycled posters from other events. 

To register to attend, please use this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/acsfn-whats-new-in-atlanta-neuroscience-tickets-1797583814579?aff=oddtdtcreator. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please register no later than Wednesday, November 5th (one week beforehand). Just be sure to select “General Admission with Poster Abstract Submission” rather than “General Admission” for your registration type, and fill out the information requested, including title and abstract for your poster (please note that the same boxes will show up for General Admission, but you can just ignore these if you aren’t submitting a poster).

 There is a great lineup of faculty speakers this year that will each give ~5 min. talks about their research:

•  Vanessa Brown, Emory, “Using neurocomputational learning theory to understand the role of uncertainty in anxiety”
• Sulagna Das, Emory, “RNA dynamics in neuronal health and diseases”
• Matthew Flavin, Georgia Tech, “Treating sensory impairments with epidermal virtual reality and neural interfaces”
• Ming-Fai Fong, Georgia Tech and Emory, “Promoting learning and plasticity in the visually-deprived brain”
• Anna Ivanova, Georgia Tech, “Dissociating language and thought in humans and in machines”
• Brielle James, Agnes Scott, “Cognitive control and biases in judgment and decision-making”
• Zachary Johnson, Emory, “Profiling the social brain at cellular resolution”
• Nathan McDonald, Georgia Tech, “Molecular control of synapse formation by biomolecular condensates”

Please email jbolton@gsu.edu with any questions.