NW NOGGIN: Neuroscience outreach group (growing in networks)

Noggin @ Skyridge Middle School
2016-11-01 09:15 - 14:00 UTC | Skyridge Middle School, 5220 NW Parker Street, Camas, WA, 98607, United States
Noggin is invited to present brains and art projects at Skyridge Middle School in Camas, Washington on November 1, 2 and 3rd, from 9:15am – 2:00pm…

We’ll visit several “Core” classes on Tuesday (11/1), Wednesday (11/2) and Thursday (11/3)…
Core 1 9:30-10:47
BREAK for Lunch 10:47-11:17
Core 2 11:19-12:36
Core 3 12:38-1:54

Three days offers us the chance to present students with a three session sequence, for example…
Day One: neurons
Day Two: synapses/networks
Day Three: specific networks (memory/language/drugs/decision making/etc)…
Interested volunteers should email both bgriesar@gmail.com and aspragus@yahoo.com
We’ll meet before heading to Skyridge to plan our classes…
PLAN FOR SKYRIDGE: Skyridge Plan November 1, 2, 3, 2016
Look forward to hearing from you & cheers!
Confirmed participants
Christina Williams, WSU
Carrie Ann Miyamoto
Matthew Carlisle, WSU
Joey Seuferling, WSU
Allie Clark, PSU
Jessica Patching-Bunch, PSU
Jesse Hamlin, PSU

Noggin @ Velo Cult: Patterns, fractals and drugs
2016-10-27 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
DREADD decisions: Patterns, fractals and drugs
Jordan Blacktop and Sara McCormick

DOWNLOAD: NW Noggin DREADD & Fractal poster
Jordan Blacktop, Ph.D. (a.k.a., “the DREADDpool Dude”), a postdoctoral neuroscience researcher at WSU Vancouver, introduces DREADDs, a powerful chemogenetic technique for switching brain areas on, or off, and altering how networks of brain areas function, with potential for treating disorders like Parkinson’s, and addiction.
LEARN MORE: DREADD: A Chemogenetic GPCR Signaling Platform
Sara McCormick, a Northwest print, textile and sculpture artist fascinated by fractals, discusses these compelling, evolving patterns in nature and design, and presents visually striking consequences of change to the underlying networks and algorithms that drive their developing form, and behavior…

LEARN MORE: Mathematical Art Galleries

SHOP: Sara McCormick on Etsy

NW Noggin Velo Cult events are always free, open to the public, child friendly, and feature access to amazing beer (scroll here for current tap list), wine, coffee, tea, sodas and sandwiches…☕️???

Noggin @ iTech Prep
2016-10-25 14:05 - 16:05 UTC | WSU Vancouver
Noggin presents brains and art projects to 9th through 12th graders at iTech Prep, a high school in the Vancouver Public School district located on the WSU Vancouver campus…

Tuesday, October 25 AND Tuesday, November 1: 2:05-4:05pm
Clark College Building rooms 122/124 (at WSU Vancouver)
Group 1: 60 students from 2:05-3:00
Group 2: 60 students from 3:05-4:00
Christina Williams, WSU
Matthew Carlisle, WSU
Joey Seuferling, WSU
Wendy McMakin, PSU
Andrew Stanley, PSU
Mary Nelson, WSU (Group 2 only)
Kim Engeln, WSU (Group 2 only)
Alexzander Isenhower, WSU (Group 2)
Come join us! Please RSVP to bgriesar@gmail.com, and aspragus@yahoo.com…

Francis Collins Mark Hatfield Lecture at OHSU
2016-10-24 17:45 - 20:00 UTC | OHSU Collaborative Life Sciences Building, 2730 SW Moody, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Collaborative Life Sciences Building
2730 S.W. Moody, Portland
Reception, 5:45 – 6:30pm,
Collaborative Life Sciences Building Atrium
Lecture, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Main lecture hall, room 1A001

From left: Sam Carpenter (OHSU/Noggin), Bill Griesar (PSU/WSU/OHSU/NW Noggin), Francis Collins (NIH), John Harkness (WSUV/NW Noggin) – and pipe cleaners!

Noggin @ White House Frontiers conference
2016-10-13 08:30 - 16:30 UTC | OR
Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake from NW Noggin were invited by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy to attend the Frontiers Conference on October 13th! We are deeply honored and extremely excited to be heading to Pittsburgh, thanks to support from Portland State University...
Learn more here: Noggin @ White House Frontiers

The Art and Neuroscience of Change!
2016-10-11 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Portland Art Museum
NW Noggin presents cutting edge research and art, from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and WSU Vancouver, concerning the neuroscience of behavioral change at the Portland Art Museum, as part of the Change Connect 4 conference for the Association of Change Management Professionals…

High school seniors from Fort Vancouver High School crafted some striking neurons from pipe cleaners to hang as a malleable network…

LEARN MORE: Ventricles in Vancouver!
Their brain cells will accompany a sculptural and video installation by artist Kindra Crick, with music by Katie Griesar, reflecting current research by Dr. John Harkness on restoring plasticity to synapses in our brains…

Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn about implicit bias research from the GRASP lab at Portland State University, and about adolescent brain development – a time of momentous brain and behavioral change – from the Fair lab and TRAC lab at OHSU…

WHAT: NW Noggin on “The Art & Neuroscience of Change”
WHEN: Tuesday, October 11th, 2:00 – 4:00pm
WHERE: Portland Art Museum, ACMP Change Connect 4 conference, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland OR 97205
LEARN MORE: Art and Neuroscience of Change

World Parkinson's Conference lecture!
2016-09-21 12:00 - 13:15 UTC | Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, 97232, United States
The following NW Noggin volunteers are invited to hear a lecture by Dr. John G. Nutt from OHSU, at the Oregon Convention Center on Wednesday, September 21 from noon – 1:15pm…
1. Christie Pizzimenti, OHSU
2. Christina Williams, WSU Vancouver
3. Ankita Guchait, PSU
4. Allie Clark, PSU
5. Gaile Parker, PSU
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
James Parkinson’s Special Lecture (12:15 – 1:15 PM)
Levodopa over the last 50 years, where we’ve come and where we are going
Introduction by: Stanley Fahn (USA)
Special Lecture by: John G. Nutt (USA)
Noggin guest passes at Special Registrations Counter

This is part of the annual World Parkinson Conference
EXPLORE MORE: NINDS Parkinson’s Disease Information Page

Brain cell building @ Fort Vancouver High
2016-09-16 07:15 - 14:05, 2016-09-14 07:15 - 14:05 UTC | Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
Make your own brain cells! (We can always use more ?)

Graduates and undergraduates: please join us to introduce neurons to seniors at Fort Vancouver High School later this month. We’ll make brain cells from colorful pipe cleaners that will hang in a display at the Portland Art Museum in October, for a discussion of the art and neuroscience of change!
High school students benefit when they learn about your background, interests, and what and where you study. And grad students who research specialized brain cells (hair cells, opiate interneurons, etc.) add tremendously to student understanding of the diversity of neuron structure and function…
We’ll bring along some real human brains too, for you to introduce and help explain…
We promise fun! Please RSVP to bgriesar@pacifier.com, and aspragus@yahoo.com…hope to see you at Fort & cheers!
Bill & Jeff
nwnoggin.org
WHAT: Introduction to brains, and brain cells – and pipe cleaner neuron making
WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School
Fort Vancouver HS

WHEN: TWO DAYS; Wednesday (9/14) and Friday (9/16)
TWO SESSIONS each day…
MORNING: 7:15am – 9:30am; AFTERNOON: 11:55am – 2:05pm

Art, Pain and Cannabinoids: Results from Research
2016-09-10 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | OR
Come join us for a Washington State Psychological Association Noggin workshop on marijuana, including its chemical complexity, history of use, role in visual culture, and what new research suggests about its therapeutic potential for treating pain…

More details available here…
Art, Pain & Cannabinoids: Results from Research

Register for the workshop (and additional WSPA workshops) here…
https://wapsych.site-ym.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=842005&group=
WHAT: “Art, Pain & Cannabinoids: Results from Research”
NW Noggin Workshop for the Washington State Psychological Association
WHEN: Saturday, September 10, 2016; 1 – 4pm
WHERE: North Seattle Community College; Old Cafeteria

Noggin @ Camas for Kids Health Fair!
2016-09-10 09:45 - 14:00 UTC | Doc Harris Stadium, 1125 NE 22nd Ave, Camas, WA, 98607, United States
Noggin Resource Council member Joey Seuferling, from WSU Vancouver Neuroscience, is looking for graduate and undergraduate volunteers to help introduce kids to brains at the annual Kids Health Fair in Camas, Washington..!

Please email Joey directly if you can assist: joseph.seuferling@wsu.edu
WHAT: Noggin @ Camas Healthy Kids Fair
WHEN: Saturday, September 10th, 9:45am – 2:00pm
WHERE: Doc Harris Stadium, 1125 NE 22nd Ave, Camas, WA 98607
For more details…
https://www.facebook.com/events/1210128389000231/

Noggin @ Franklin High (@ Marshall High School) 7/27!
2016-07-27 09:45 - 11:30 UTC | Franklin High School @ Marshall High School campus, 3905 SE 91st Ave, Portland , OR, 97266, United States
We have an outreach opportunity with Franklin high school students taking classes at Marshall High School in Portland Public Schools (Franklin High is being renovated so they are meeting at the Marshall High campus).
There are 70 students total, but we may be meeting with a smaller group of 20. We’ll introduce ourselves, answer questions, and hold some brains – they’ve apparently been learning a bit of neuroscience this year..! Jeff may follow up with some art project ideas (depending on time)…
WHAT: NW NOGGIN WITH FRANKLIN HIGH STUDENTS AT MARSHALL HIGH CAMPUS
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 9:45am – 11:30am
WHERE: MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL, 3905 SE 91st Ave, Portland, OR 97266; http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools/franklin/203.htm
Please email bgriesar@gmail.com and aspragus@yahoo.com if you’ll be there!

A Noggin/Velo Summer: Music & Beer!
2016-07-07 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
WHAT: “The Unpredictable Science of Drinking Too Much,” presented by Andrey Ryabinin (OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience) and Rob Oberdorfer & The Neutral Spirits (members of Ages and Ages)
WHEN: First Thursday, July 7th, 2016
WHERE: VELO CULT, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97213
*** FREE!! AND ALL AGES WELCOME ***

Noggin/SUN @ Floyd Light Middle School
2016-07-06 09:30 - 12:30 UTC | Floyd Light Middle School, 10800 SE Washington St, Portland, OR, 97216, United States
We have another exciting opportunity to present on the challenges that come with middle school and the changes that your brain goes through in adolescence on Wednesday, July 6th!
We’ll be partnering with Multnomah County SUN Community Schools at Portland Public School’s Floyd Light Middle School, from 9:30am – 12:30pm…
We’ll meet first with the 7th and 8th graders, and then with the 6th graders, in two 75 minute sessions. We’ll plan to present on adolescent brain development and engage in related art projects…
WHAT: NW NOGGIN @ FLOYD LIGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL; 10800 SE Washington St. Portland, OR 97216
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th; 9:30am – 12:30pm

Noggin @ Legacy Salmon Creek: Healthy Kids Fair!
2016-06-11 08:30 - 15:00 UTC | Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center, 2211 NE 139th St, Mount Vista, WA, 98686, United States
Please join us!
Healthy Kids Fair at Salmon Creek Medical Center on Saturday, June 11th
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center
2211 NE 139th St, Mount Vista WA 98686
We’ll have brains and brain art projects from 8:30am – 3:00pm…

artNOW
2016-06-10 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Portland Art Museum
About the exhibition:This January and February, twelve Portlanders attended the Museum’s artNOW program designed for individuals living with dementia and their care-partners. On four consecutive Monday afternoons, the group explored the idea of personal journeys through lively discussion of the art on view and created visual journals that will be exhibited in the Museum’s Object Stories gallery this summer (on view May 14-September 10,) along with recorded reflections from each pair. The journals beautifully depict each artist’s connection to the environment, cities, each other, and ultimately their idea of homeAbout the event:Please join us for an opening celebration on Friday, June 10th from 4:00-6:00 pm, which coincides with Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness month. Meet the artists, create connections, and learn how you can engage with the Museum! The artNOW program was designed in partnership with the Oregon Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. For more information and to learn how to register for the program, please visit http://portlandartmuseum.org/artnow/

Noggin @ Skyview High!
2016-05-27 07:30 - 14:45, 2016-05-26 07:30 - 14:45, 2016-05-25 07:30 - 14:45, 2016-05-24 07:30 - 14:35 UTC | Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St, Vancouver, WA, 98685, United States
We have five GEAR UP funded participants (Angela Gonzalez, Nathan Allen and Courtney Miskell from WSU Vancouver, Carrie Miyamoto from PNCA, and Gaile Parker from PSU), and two Portland Alcohol Research Center funded folks (Sam Carpenter and Binyam Nardos from OHSU).
They’ll work with 150 juniors at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington!
Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St, Vancouver, WA 98685
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The dates/times for the program are…
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 7:30am – 2:45pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 7:30am – 2:45pm
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 7:30am – 2:45pm
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 7:30am – 2:45pm
About 25 students at a time, for multiple periods throughout the school day.
Tuesday through Thursday we’ll introduce topics (e.g., neurons, networks, brain areas, imaging techniques, relation of brain to behavior..?), art projects, and get students involved in learning neuroscience.
On Friday we’ll split into three groups for field trips by bus: 50 students will head to the National Primate Research Center, 50 to the Yes! Program imaging labs at OHSU, and 50 to the Portland Art Museum!

Super School Challenge!
2016-05-19 12:00 - 19:00 UTC | OR
We are meeting at noon at Bill’s house to work on remaining grant app sections and prepare for the timed XQ Super School challenge. Please bring your laptop, and be ready to respond quickly and creatively..!

Also, check out what we’ve accomplished thus far…
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Skyview Outreach Planning @ Chapel Pub
2016-05-17 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Chapel Pub
We’ll head over to the Chapel Pub on N. Killingsworth Tuesday (5/17) at 6:00pm (we may get there a bit earlier for Happy Hour 🙂 to help set you up for further in person planning for Skyview High next week. Hopefully all the formal GEAR UP and PARC participants can make the meeting.
You’ll be introducing yourselves to Skyview juniors starting next Tuesday!

Super School Challenge!
2016-05-17 12:00 - 17:45 UTC | OR
We are meeting at noon at Bill’s house to work on remaining grant app sections and prepare for the timed XQ Super School challenge. Please bring your laptop, and be ready to respond quickly and creatively..!

SfN Chapter Meeting @ Edgefield!
2016-05-13 - 2016-05-14 | McMenamin’s Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey St., Troutdale, OR, 97060, United States
Society for Neuroscience Oregon Chapter Meeting 2016

May 13–14, 2016
McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Speakers
Janet Neisewander, Arizona State University School of Life Sciences
Macro effects of microRNAs on addiction-related gene expression
Erik Zornik, Reed College
Bottom-up signaling in a vertebrate vocal circuit: Motor neurons that mediate premotor rhythms
Sean Speese, Oregon Health & Science University
RNA granules – Nuclear export, intracellular transport, and localized gene expression
Dasa Zeithamova, University of Oregon
Retrieval-mediated learning and memory integration in the human hippocampus
Mini-Symposium on the Neuroscience of Addiction
Bonnie Nagel, Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU
Barbara Sorg, Washington State University, Vancouver
SCHEDULE: SFN_OR_schedule

Skyview Outreach Planning @ Chapel Pub
2016-05-12 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Chapel Pub
We’re meeting at the Chapel Pub after the Health Fair at Jefferson High School, to start planning outreach at Skyview High School later this month…

Health Fair @ Jefferson High School!
2016-05-12 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Jefferson High School
We’re expected Thursday morning (5/12) at 11:00am with brains and pipe cleaners at Jefferson High School in North Portland!
Jefferson High School, 5210 N Kerby | Portland, OR 97211
It’s for their annual health fair, and will be held in the school cafeteria. The event runs until 1pm.

Noggin Capitol Tour!
2016-04-29 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515, United States
Courtesy of Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s office!

Meet at Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s Congressional office in the Longworth House Office building (room #1111 on the ground floor) on the south side of the Capitol.

Noggins @ NIH: Cajal/Kamen exhibit tour
2016-04-29 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Medical Center Metro stop
Visit to NIH with Chris Thomas, NINDS‘ Science Writer and graduate of OHSU’s Neuroscience program. An opportunity to view original, century old prints by Spanish neuroanatomist Ramon y Cajal, along with recent work by Rebecca Kamen, a DC artist inspired by Cajal’s Golgi-stained depictions of human brain cells.
Friday, April 29, 10:00 – 11:30am
Meet at the Medical Center Metro stop at 9:45am. Go up the Metro escalator straight into NIH. Allow at least 45 minutes for a metro ride from DC…

Neuroscience Night @ The Phillips!
2016-04-28 16:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, 20009, United States
Phillips Collection for Neuroscience Night @ “Seeing Nature” exhibit (with beer from the Fort George Brewery in Astoria, OR, and wine from Burnt Bridge Cellars in Vancouver, WA). *** SOLD OUT!! ***
Thursday, April 28, 4:30 – 8:00pm
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20009

Research/outreach discussion @ White House OSTP
2016-04-28 11:30 - 12:15 (America/New_York) | Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Room 460, 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20502, United States
Grad/select undergrad student research/outreach discussion
Thursday, April 28, 11:30am; Arrive EARLY. When you arrive, please check in at the Security Entrance at 17th St. NW and State Place.
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Eisenhower Executive Office Building
Room 460, 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 20502

The EEOB is within a short walking distance of the following metro stops:
Farragut West – on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines. This is the metro stop closest to the EEOB.
McPherson Square – on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines.
Farragut North – on the Red line
