

Carthage neuroscience faculty attended Neuroscience 2009 Oct. 17-21 in Chicago. The Neuroscience 2009 conference, hosted by the Society for Neuroscience, included a presentation by the National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD. Carthage neuroscience students often attend this conference with faculty members.
Professor Daniel Miller traveled with two students to the annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society in Burlington, Vermont, Oct. 29-31. Students Jo Bartel and David Reis both presented research at the event.
The Chicago Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience will hold its annual meeting on March 25, 2010, at DePaul University. Students can participate in the Undergraduate Poster Competition and win cash prizes. Deadline for abstracts will be in either late January or early February. Students should contact either Dan Miller or Penny Seymoure for more information about the process.
Carthage is a member of the Mid States Math and Science Consortium. The consortium's Biological Sciences and Psychology Symposium was held Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Students were welcome to make research presentations on subjects including behavioral and cognitive science, pharmacology and neuroscience.
The photograph above is a choleratoxin-HRP labeled motorneuron.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Joe Steinmetz, Indiana University.

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