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Society for Neuroscience Conference!
November 12, 2022 - November 16, 2022
WHAT: Society for Neuroscience conference 2022
We did it!
2000+ miles there and back again with #brains #art #volunteers!
LEARN MORE:
Observing Art & Brains @ SfN
Brains Beyond SfN
WHERE: San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101
WHEN: November 12 – 16, 2022
From their website: “The Society for Neuroscience is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system.”
NW Noggin volunteers include neuroscience undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and artists, and both individually and collectively we present and attend local chapter meetings and international conferences for the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ Society for Neuroscience
We’re excited to return to San Diego this fall to present our poster and visit local institutes and public schools!
BRAIN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC OUTREACH
Saturday, November 12, 10:00am – noon (aim to arrive @ 9:45am)
We did it!
Observing Art & Brains @ SfN
The Brain Observatory, 725 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101
LEARN MORE: The Brain Observatory Open House
The Brain Observatory, founded in 2005 by Dr. Jacopo Annese, started as a research lab at The University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Today it is an independent institute bringing neuroscience knowledge and tools into the community. The Observatory is home to an exclusive neuroimaging data set relative to the most important brain in the history of neuroscience, that of the amnesic patient H.M.!
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW/PSU
3. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
4. Monique Smith, University of San Diego
5. Tonia Bautista, PSU
6. Dan Jang, PSU Neuroscience Club
7. Bee Conn, PSU Neuroscience Club
8. Savanah Gipson, PSU Neuroscience Club
9. Ben Bolen, PSU Neuroscience Club
10. Julia Johnson, University of San Diego
11. Cali Boustani, University of San Diego
12. Egemen Tangun, University of San Diego
13. Katarina Matic, University of San Diego
14. Erin Jones, University of San Diego
15. Christiana Torres, University of San Diego
16. Randall Olson, OHSU
There will be an evening social gathering with art and artists at The Brain Observatory too!
POSTER PRESENTATION
Saturday, November 12, 1:00pm – 5:00pm session
UP CLOSE: SFN San Diego poster 2022
BRAIN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN EVENT
Saturday, November 12, 2:30pm – 4:00pm session, Room SDCC 16
We did it!
JOIN US: We’re bringing the brains!
NIH BRAIN INITIATIVE EVENT
Sunday, November 13, 6:30 – 9:30pm, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 1 Park Blvd
Tools, Tech & Theory: A BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social
SCHOOL VISITS
NOTE: ALL VOLUNTEERS FULLY VAXXED, BOOSTED, WITH MASKS.
Monday, November 14, 9:00am – 2:30pm (aim to arrive @ 8:45am)
We did it!
Brains Beyond SfN
Webster Elementary, 4801 Elm Street, San Diego, CA 92102
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW/PSU
3. Savanah Gipson, PSU Neuroscience Club
4. Bradley Marxmiller, PSU/OHSU
5. Ben Bolen, PSU Neuroscience Club
6. Kim Engeln, OHSU
7. Leigh Wilson, Kings College London
8. Alfredo Zuniga, The College of Wooster (9 – 12)
9. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
10. Dan Jang, PSU Neuroscience Club
11. Bee Conn, PSU Neuroscience Club
12. Sandeep Kishore, NIH BRAIN Initiative (9 – 12)
Tuesday, November 15, 9:30am – noon (aim to arrive @ 9:15am)
We did it!
Freese Elementary, 8140 Greenlawn Dr, S.D., CA 92114
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW/PSU
3. Egemen Tangun, University of San Diego
4. Bradley Marxmiller, PSU/OHSU
5. Sophia Weber, OHSU
6. Ben Bolen, PSU Neuroscience Club
7. Sally Horton, Kings College London
8. Rachel Williams, Kings College London
9. Morgan Wirthlin, Allen Institute for Brain Science
10. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
11. Alex Henry, University of Minnesota
12. Anita Randolph, University of Minnesota
13. Yasmin Kloth, NIH BRAIN Initiative
See what we’ve done before with San Diego Public Schools!
Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!
Cortical Connections in San Diego Schools!
NW Noggin Poster Abstract
NOGGINFEST: A free public celebration of music, art, brains and neuroscience research
GRIESAR, W.S.* ** *** ****, LEAKE, J.* ** ***
* Department of Psychology, Portland State University; ** NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org); *** Department of University Studies, Portland State University; **** Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University
Science needs investment, and engaging the public communicates discoveries and builds support for education and research. Integrating the arts, including painting and music in STEM (STEAM) fosters interdisciplinary engagement, and draws in more people not currently overrepresented in the academic study of neuroscience.
Nonprofit NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes undergraduates and graduates to collaborate, build community networks and inspire people about neuroscience and art. We bring diverse students excited by research and their own arts-integrated study of the brain and behavior into K-12 public schools, correctional facilities, Congress, houseless youth centers, coffee shops and pubs to hear to what people already know and what they’d like to know, and to see where our stories and discoveries from labs and classrooms intersect. We’ve talked with over 55,000 people since 2012!
NW Noggin is volunteer and free. Many science organizations in the Northwest are paywalled, and require you to come to them, excluding many, and largely serving those with existing resources and privilege. Yet despite minimal budgets, we successfully raised funds to bring accomplished outreach participants to SfN conferences to present posters and visit K-12 students in Chicago, San Diego and Washington DC public schools.
In 2017, through the efforts of undergraduate members of the Portland State University Neuroscience Club, we presented our first NogginFest, a free public celebration of music, art, research and brains! We offered live bands, an art auction, brain specimens, art activities and research speakers at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland Oregon, and raised money to transport, house and feed 15 undergraduates at the SfN conference in Washington DC. Our students presented posters and met with 700 students in Turner Elementary School.
We presented NogginFest again in 2018 and 2019, with more live musicians, artists and neuroscience researchers, funding more student participation at SfN.
Noggin Fest 2018: The Beauty of the Brain
Noggins & Noodles @ SfN!
NOGGINFEST 2019!!!!
In 2020 we paused as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, but pivoted to a well-attended virtual NogginFest, supported by a brain awareness grant from the Dana Foundation in 2021.
NogginFest 2021: Threshold Potential!
In 2022, with support from the Dana Foundation, we returned to an in person NogginFest. The venue (Honey Latte Café) was donated, and the event brought out over 500 Portland residents who enjoyed music, held brains, asked questions, made art, heard about research and connected with each other from 2pm until midnight!
NogginFest 2022: A Mid-Pandemic Revival!
NogginFest is the largest student-run, free, all ages celebration of brains, art and music in the Pacific Northwest, enthusing and informing a diverse public about discoveries in neuroscience.
LEARN MORE: NOGGINFEST!
PSU Neuroscience Club Poster
POSTER: SfN22_Bolen_Ben_PDF
CLICK HERE: VIRTUAL POSTER
