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Noggin @ Society for Neuroscience!
October 5 - October 9
WHAT: Noggin/PSU Neuroscience Club @ Society for Neuroscience conference!
WHERE: McCormick Place, 2301 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60616
WHEN: Saturday, October 5 – Wednesday, October 9
Abstract Control Number: 1895
Abstract Title: Las neuronas son bacanes interdisciplinary neuroscience in Valparaíso Chile
*W. GRIESAR1, J. LEAKE2;
1Northwest Noggin/PSU/OHSU, Astoria, OR; 2Psychology, Northwest Noggin/Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
Session Title: Teaching of Neuroscience: College II
Session Day and Time: 10/5/2024 1:00:00 PM-10/5/2024 5:00:00 PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
12:30pm – 2:00pm
NOGGIN POSTER
Posterboard Number: X2
We’ll be at our Theme J poster from 12:30 – 2:00pm
Abstract Control Number: 1895; Session Number: TJP04
Abstract Title: Las neuronas son bacanes interdisciplinary neuroscience in Valparaíso Chile
*W. GRIESAR1, J. LEAKE2
2:30 – 4:00pm
NOGGIN POSTER
BRAIN AWARENESS SESSION, HALL A, PRODUCT THEATER
We’ll be at our second poster at the BRAIN AWARENESS SESSION!
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6
ALL DAY
SFN CONFERENCE!
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
OUTREACH
9:30am – 3:00pm
We are super-excited to meet with students, teachers and staff at the Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville! This innovative public school is close to McCormick Place, and the Chicago Public Schools Department of STEM will provide coffee, breakfast and lunch for Noggin volunteers! Plan to arrive at 9:30am, and stay through 3:00pm.
WHAT: Noggin visit with high school students at Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville
WHERE: Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville, 3519 S Giles Ave, Chicago, IL 60653
WHEN: Monday, October 7, 8:30am – 3:00pm (coffee/meals provided)
9:30am
Arrival at school and initial setup
10:00 – 10:30am
Tour of the school and museum!
10:30 – 11:00am
Set up in Freshman Drill Hall
11:00am – 12:20pm
SESSION ONE: 25 students
12:25 – 1:15pm
Lunch
1:21 – 3:01pm
SESSION TWO: 25 students (all from the Anatomy class)
From their website: “The purpose of the Bronzeville Project is to establish a world-class urban military academy in the historic Eighth Regiment Armory that would serve students from all areas of Chicago. The Academy is the site of National African-American Military Museum, which will display artifacts and memorabilia of the black commanded ‘Fighting Eighth’ Illinois National Guard Regiment and other honorable veterans.”
LEARN MORE: The History of Bronzeville
LEARN MORE: History of Bronzeville
COMMITTED OUTREACH VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Denesa Lockwood, NW Noggin, OHSU
4. Kadi Rae Smith, PSU Neuroscience Club
5. Cece Austin, PSU Neuroscience Club
6. Cassidy Fitzpatrick, PSU Neuroscience Club
7. Logan Tangredi, PSU Neuroscience Club
8. Marc Chenard, PSU Neuroscience Club
9. Amanda Jones, PSU/OHSU
10. Conner Corbett, PSU/OHSU/Noggin Glial Grant recipient
11. Hope Berns, Outreach Associate, Society for Neuroscience
12. Dan Jang, PSU Neuroscience Club
13. Leigh Wilson, Kings College London
14. Noah Milman, OHSU
15. Xander Hawkins, PSU
Some questions from students in CPS:
1. What strategies can you provide for learning the Body Systems, their functions, and their location?
2. How often do you study to prepare for an Anatomy & Physiology course?
3. How much reading is required for an Anatomy & Physiology course?
4. Why did you select to conduct your studies in the medical field?
5. What kind of impact has AI had on the medical field?
6. What impact has AI had on you as a professional?
7. Do any of you mentor at-risk youth? Why or why not?
8. What advice would you give to a student not interested in medicine but in becoming a social media personality?
9. How would you advise me to network as a high school student?
10. How have you leveraged social media for your professional and private life?
11. How do you get perseverance? How do you stick with something?
12. What about your habits? Stuff you don’t want to do? How do you change that?
13. How does a dog brain work? Is it similar to ours? Does it have different parts, or different connections?
14. What other careers are related to neuroscience?
15. Why is there electricity in the brain?
16. If your brain is more wrinkly, are you smarter?
17. How do you sleep better?
18. Why can I control my dreams but my friends can’t?
19. Where does the energy in our neurons come from?
20. Do we have an electromagnetic field? Does the electricity traveling on axons create an electromagnetic field inside our heads? Does it affect how I think, or feel?
21. Is research a good career for someone with social anxiety?
22. Does taking ashwagandha for anxiety good for you? Is it good for your brain?
6:15 – 9:00pm
BRAINFACTS LIVE: Alien Intelligences
Haymarket Pub & Brewery, 737 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60661
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8
ALL DAY
SFN CONFERENCE!
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.”
Northwest Noggin volunteers include neuroscience undergraduates (many from the Portland State University Neuroscience Club), 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 Chicago this fall to present our posters and visit local public schools!
THANK YOU PORTLAND ALCOHOL RESEARCH CENTER @ OHSU, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE AND THE MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR SUPPORTING ALL-VOLUNTEER INTERDISCIPLINARY NEUROSCIENCE OUTREACH!!! (The PSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences initially promised support for outreach supplies – but they’ve ghosted us 🤯).
LEARN MORE: Noggins in CHICAGO!
LEARN MORE: Reflections on Chicago
Check out our abstract!
NW NOGGIN ABSTRACT
Las neuronas son bacanes: interdisciplinary neuroscience in Valparaíso Chile
GRIESAR, W.S.124, LEAKE, J.123
1Department of Psychology, Portland State University; 2NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org); 3Department of University Studies, Portland State University; 4Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University
Nonprofit nwnoggin.org organizes collaboration around interdisciplinary neuroscience, going places to explore brains, hear stories, make art and see where research discoveries can contribute. Portland State University in Portland, OR offers a minor in interdisciplinary neuroscience, where Noggin co-founders Dr. Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake both teach. In 2023, we reached out to artists and STEM colleagues at the Universidad de Valparaíso Chile. Along with the PSU Education Abroad Office and Academic Programs International we created Cerebrarte, the first international, homestay-based STEAM program exploring the rich art and neuroscience traditions of the Valparaíso region. We brought 17 students and two faculty to Chile from July 27 – August 28, 2023. Through visits to labs and the historic complex at Montemar, we explored how research on the giant axons of Humboldt squid contributed to our understanding of the electrical signaling that links our perceptual and cognitive experiences to the world. We met Dr. Ramón LaTorre and Dr. Juan Saez (members of the National Academy of Sciences), Dr. David Naranjo, Dr. Jesús Olivares, Dr. John Ewer and Dr. Kate Whitlock, and graduate students and postdocs for discussions about olfaction, voltage-gated channels, spider neurons and potential therapeutic compounds in boldo tea. We welcomed Kings College London neuroscientist Dr. Richard Wingate, Editor of brainfacts.org, the outreach arm of Society for Neuroscience, who spoke about his 2023 book, “The Story of the Brain in 10 ½ Cells,” with the ½ Cell referencing the giant axon. Valpo is home to exceptional research, and is a celebrated center of public art. Street art was legalized in 1990, and eye-catching murales are everywhere. Students examined art with thiscatcallededdie, explored regional museums, created engravings (grabados), and sewed arpilleras, woven depictions of challenging and sometimes traumatic experiences that allow emotional expression and create durable memories of events with artist Cecilia Araneda. We explored the neuroscience of perception, stress and trauma as it relates to personal experience (including aspects of culture shock), research, art and the 50th year since El Golpe, the US-backed coup that violently overthrew democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1973. The program culminated in a visit to Ciencia al Tiro, a STEAM outreach nonprofit where we made pipe cleaner brain cells and took them to the streets to speak with residents of Playa Ancha sobre porque las neuronas son bacanes (why neurons are cool). Cerebrarte was an exciting, interdisciplinary, intercultural, international experience, and will occur again in 2025.
LEARN MORE: Las neuronas son bacánes!
JOIN US IN CHILE IN 2025: Valparaiso – Arte y Cerebros en Chile