The forth annual meeting of the Upper Midwest Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience will take place on in October 25th, 2025 at the Dreyfus University Center on the campus of University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. The meeting will have research poster sessions, Nanosymposiums (Submissions welcome) Career Building Workshop (Science Communication and Social Media), a keynote speaker, and lunch.
Poster and/or symposiums are welcome even if they were presented at a national meeting.
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, September 26th, 2025
Registration is $10!! Registration Link coming soon
All times are posted in the central time zone.
7:00 - 9:00 pm: TBA
Location: Dreyfus University Center, 1015 Reserve St, Stevens Point, WI 54481 (for more information click here)
Tentative Program Schedule
8:30 - 9:30 am: Conference registration, Coffee, and Pastries; Poster Session 1 setup
9:30 - 9:40 am: Welcome and Introduction
9:40 - 10:45 am: Keynote Address (Dr. Herbert E. Covington III, SUNY - Empire State University)
Talk Title: Broken Breaks: Social Stress and Drug History Collide to Trigger Runaway Bingeing
10:45 - 11:30 am: Research Poster Session 1
11:30 - 12:15 pm: Graduate School Admission Workshop
Career Building Workshop - Science Communication and Social Media
12:15 - 1:15 pm: Lunch (Provided as part of registration) - Poster Session 2 setup
1:15 - 2:10 pm: Lightning Talk Competition (Students)
UMC SFN Business Meeting/MidBrains Business Meeting
2:15 - 3:15 pm: Nanosymposium Session (15 min nano seminars - 2 rooms)
3:15 - 4:00 pm: Research Poster Session 2
4:00 - 4:15 pm: UMC SfN Lightning Presentation Awards and Closing remarks
Poster and/or symposiums that were presented at a national meeting are WELCOME!
Research Poster presentations
Posters should be in landscape orientation and have a maximum of 4 feet wide by 3 feet tall. Posters presentations may also include work in progress research. Posters sessions are scheduled for 45 mins.
Lightning presentations
Lighting presentations are restricted to 5 minutes and provide a means of briefly highlighting a study's background, rationale, procedures, findings, and conclusions. The most effective presentations are polished and engaging and use slides with little text that make effective use of images and figures (one title slide, three study slides maximum). These presentations provide a great way for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to practice brevity and to convey science in an engaging way to an audience of non-specialists. Presentations are judged by the audience, with prizes given to the top three presentations.
Nanosymposium
We are accepting titles and abstracts for nanosymposium talks. These are research talks that should be approximately 12 mins to allow for 3 mins of questions. These talk are open to FACULTY, POSTDOCS, GRADUATE and UNDERGRADUATE student. If you are a student, please ask permission from your PI before submitting a nanosymposium talk.
You can email talk information to hillhout@uwgb.edu before registration or apply during registration.