Wright State to host Neuroscience Day

Wright State University is hosting Neuroscience Day Friday, May 20 at White Hall. The event is sponsored by the Ohio Miami Valley Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.

Mary Dallman, Ph.D., professor of physiology at the University of California-San Francisco, will present the keynote address entitled “Feeling Stressed and Feeding” from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in Gandhi Auditorium. Dallman’s research studies the effects of chronic stress on brain-pituitary-adrenal interrelationships.

Dallman is universally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the endocrinology and physiology of stress. Her early research was instrumental in establishing our current understanding of mechanisms underlying the regulation and control of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal hormone secretion. More recently, she has turned her attention to the role of stress and stress hormones in promoting obesity and the current epidemic of obesity-related disease.

Neuroscience Day will also feature student presentations and a poster session. Graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and faculty are invited to present posters on recent findings in neuroscience and its related fields.

The poster submission deadline is Monday May 9. Submit your poster information using an online form.

The lecture is free and open to the public.  For more information, visit http://omvsfn.org/neuroscience-day/2011-neuroscience-day-may-20/ or call Kim Hagler at 937.775.4496.