2025 Big Ten Neuroscience Annual Meeting

The theme for this year's Big10 Annual Symposium is "We are Building Flourishing Brains"

Registration is open!

About the Symposium

The 2025 Big 10 Neuroscience Symposium will be the fourth annual meeting to be held by the neuroscience community in the Big 10 Academic Alliance. The Big 10 neuroscience community aims to showcase the diverse, cutting edge neuroscience research being conducted by researchers at Big 10 institutes and to facilitate an ongoing, supportive, diverse and intimate environment to promote neuroscience research for researchers within this community and at all career stages. The overarching theme for next year’s meeting will be “WE ARE Building Flourishing Brains” and the meeting will include presentations across five core topics (i.e., Psychopathology, Neurodevelopment & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Neurological Disorders & Diseases, Neuroscience Methods, Neuromodulation & Other Neuro-Informed Interventions) and that align with the notion of promoting a healthy nervous system, across the lifespan. The meeting will adopt a translational neuroscience perspective (bench-to-bedside) to understanding the normative and non-normative development of the nervous system and the application of this knowledge to the reduction of the burden of neurological disease and the promotion of healthy brain development at all stages of life.

Registration is open! Register for the Big10 Neuroscience Annual Meeting here.

please register by June 1 for the following rates:

Student (undergraduate, graduate, medical, or post-doctoral fellow): $50

Faculty: $150

Industry: $400

Abstract submission is open!

Abstract submission opened January 15th, 2025. Proposals will be accepted until April 15th, 2025

Abstracts can be submitted here

You may select to be considered for an oral presentation.



The Big 10 Neuroscience Symposium is the fourth annual symposium hosted by the neuroscience communities of the Big 10 Academic Alliance. The symposium will feature internationally-renowned keynote speakers, faculty and trainee research talks, poster sessions, and networking events. The goal of the Big 10 Neuroscience symposium is to showcase diverse neuroscience and brain research in health and disease. The event creates an ongoing, supportive, diverse, and intimate environment for neuroscience researchers at all career stages to connect. The Institute provides oversight and coordination for neuroscience-related activities in education, research, patient care, and outreach while promoting an intellectual environment that enhances the interdisciplinary neuroscience educational experience from the undergraduate to postdoctoral levels.

Co-Chairs:

Patrick Randall, PhD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, and Pharmacology

Emma Rose, PhD Assistant Teaching Professor, Psychology; Co-Director, Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center


Committee:

Janine Kwapis, PhD Director, Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders, Assistant Professor of Biology

Nina Lauharatanahirun, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biobehavioral Health

Anirban Paul, PhD Assistant Professor of Neural & Behavioral Sciences

Grayson Sipe, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology

Yang Yang, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Daniela Zarnescu, PhD Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology


Student and postdoctoral representatives:

G. Vinodh Kumar, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology; Sathian Lab

Laurel Seemiller, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology; Crowley Lab

Rachel Kang Graduate Student, Biomedical Sciences; Proctor Lab


Day 1

  • Registration & Breakfast (provided)
  • Poster Session #1
  • Opening Remarks
  • Session 1
  • Lunch (provided)
  • Session 2
  • Session 3
  • Reception

Day 2

  • Breakfast (provided)
  • Poster Session #2
  • Session 4
  • Lunch (provided)
  • Session 5
  • Awards and closing remarks
Photos of the keynote speakers

Travel Tips

The Symposium's main events will be on the Penn State University - University Park Campus at the Nittany Lion Inn. Attendees should plan on arriving Sunday, July 20th in order to attend two full days of events.


Rooms have been blocked at The Nittany Lion Inn

Reservation code: BTNR25A

$129+tax per night

200 W Park Ave, State College, PA 16803

814-863-5000

Booking Link: http://bookings.ihotelier.com/bookings.jsp?groupID=4485911&hotelID=9877652

Deadline: Reservations must be made by June 19, 2025.

Commonly, travelers opt to fly into University Park Airport (SCE) in State College. This airport directly connects to Chicago O'hare (ORD), Philadelphia International (PHL), and Newark Liberty (EWR).

Airports such as Harrisburg International (MDT), Pittsburgh International (PIT), and Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) are located 1-4 hours from State College by car.

In addition to staying at the Nittany Lion Inn, the following hotel options are within a short walk or drive. Parking is available near the conference site:


Thank you to our Symposium Sponsors

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Qiagen logo
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Penn State sponsors

  • The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Penn State College of Medicine
  • Social Sciences Research Institute
  • Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

Interested in sponsoring the symposium? Contact Nikki Crowley and Corinna Fisher to learn about opportunities