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Call for Abstracts - 4th Annual Research Symposium, UC Davis Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine

  • by Gabriela M Lee

We are excited to announce the 4th Annual Research Symposium organized by the Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine on Wednesday, May 7, 2025! 

The center’s annual symposium brings together researchers, physician-scientists, cognitive scientists, clinicians, students, postdocs, and other trainees from engineering, medicine, and neuroscience, to share research results and network with like-minded scientists.

We invite graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, junior specialists, and other trainees whose work is relevant to neuroengineering (including the research thrusts listed on the Center website here) to submit abstracts. A panel of faculty will review the submissions and invite presenters for oral presentations, and/or poster presentations. The abstract submission guidelines are available at this link. 

Please discuss with your PI and, if needed, submit an invention disclosure prior to publishing, presenting in a public forum, and/or discussing with colleagues outside UC Davis. To make sure your inventions are protected, the abstracts will be reviewed by technology transfer specialists from the Office of Research and UC Davis Health Ventures.  

Please forward to your students, postdocs, and other trainees at UC Davis who might be interested. 

Types of presentations

  1. Oral presentation: 12-minute followed by a 3-minute Q&A session.
  2. Poster: research poster presentation (in person).

As indicated in the abstract template, you’ll be asked to indicate your preference to be considered for: (1) everything (oral presentation, poster); or (2) poster only. If selected, the committee will specify the type of presentation. 

Fill out your information and upload your abstract HERE.

Prizes

To recognize the trainees’ work, the Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine will be awarding the following stipends based on assessments by a panel of judges:

  1. Best Oral Presentation: $1,000
  2. Best Poster Presentation: $750
  3. 2nd Best Oral Presentation: $500
  4. 2nd Place Poster Presentation: $250

Questions? Send them via email to: gmlee@ucdavis.edu 

Important dates

Abstract deadline: 3/14/2025 by 11:59pm 

Decision announcement: 4/2/2025

More information

Posters should be a maximum size of 3’x4’. You can get posters printed through Repro Graphics. 

Symposium Committee

  • Xiaomo Chen, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences; Center for Neuroscience
  • Gabriela Lee, MS, MBA, Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine; Engineering Research, College of Engineering
  • Jack Lin, MD, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine; UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program; Center for Mind and Brain
  • Jonathon Schofield, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Erkin Seker, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Yi Xue, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering