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Want to get involved with the 2024 Big Ten Neuroscience conference? View the Vendor Guide here!

Seminar Resources

Responsibilities for those leading seminars

  • Create your own marketing materials using this Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/98875081043.
  • Send out a flyer to the Big Ten community contact list and internal distribution lists of the host university at least one week in advance of your seminar.
  • Provide the seminar schedule and speaker information to Purdue for website integration at least one week in advance.

Seminar Information

  • All seminars will be posted on the Big Ten Neurosciences website.
  • Seminars are every third Friday from August to May, 1-2 p.m. eastern time. The complete schedule will be posted online.
  • If you want to add a session, let us know and we’ll extend the Zoom link for the additional session. Additional sessions are not required.
  • Each university will create its own advertisements and send them out to its own distribution lists via email, as well as sharing them with Purdue at cstober@purdue.edu to post on the Big Ten Neurosciences website and share to the Big Ten Neurosciences contact list.
  • The Big Ten Academic Alliance logo and marketing resources are available on this page for your use in promoting your seminar.
  • The seminar series will continue to focus on research presentations by trainees and/or junior faculty (typically 10-12 minute presentations with 3-5 minute Q&A) from underrepresented groups within Neurosciences with a potential networking opportunity or panel discussion after the presentations to complete an hour.
  • Topics of interest for the seminars, according to the survey sent out in 2022, are:
    • Molecular and cellular
    • Cognitive
    • Systems/circuits neuroscience
    • Translational neuroscience
    • Psychological and brain science
    • Neuroimaging
    • Genetics
    • Epigenetics

  • Networking or panel discussion suggestions, according to the survey sent out in 2022, are:
    • Networking and/or discussion opportunities between junior and senior faculty
    • Advance notice of topics of discussion (please include this in advertisements for your
    • seminar)
    • Focus topics, e.g. alternative careers, supporting URM trainees, women in neuroscience,
    • path to tenure, joint grant applications/similar goal-oriented projects
    • Invite written questions to panel ahead of discussion
    • Meaningful, directed topics