Emerging Scientists Symposium
REMIND co-chairs organize an annual symposium where predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees in neurodegenerative disease research at UCI have the opportunity to present their work to faculty, staff, and students. The event includes invited trainee presentations, poster competitions and awards, and distinguished speakers from across the country.
The 8th Annual Emerging Scientist Symposium on February 16, 2017, featured Marc Diamond, MD, Founding Director of the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern, who discussed the role of tau prion strains in neurodegeneration.
Previous speakers have included Rudy Tanzi, PhD from Harvard University, Rusty Gage, PhD from the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, Li-Huei-Tsai, PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clive Svendsen, PhD from Cedars-Sinai, Valina Dawson, PhD from Johns Hopkins, and Jeanne Loring, PhD from The Scripps Research Institute.
STEAM Outreach Council
REMIND is an active member of the UCI STEAM Outreach Council, an initiative led by the Beall Center for Art + Technology that aims to engage K-12 students from local under-resourced public schools in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. So far in 2017, REMIND trainees Sarah Royer, Freddie Marquez, Jessie Yaros, Stefania Forner, PhD, and Alessandra Martini, PhD, have led brain education workshops for over 100 middle and high school students in Orange County.
To learn more about upcoming REMIND activities and opportunities for involvement, email remind@uci.edu.
