Overview | Center for Neuroscience | West Virginia University

A biweekly summary of three recently published breakthroughs in neuroscience. The eight-minute presentations are delivered by a scientist, a clinician, and a trainee followed by a five-minute question/answer session. The Blitzes are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month in conference room 301 of the Erma Byrd Biomedical Building at 4:45 PM (hors d'oeuvres at 4:30 PM).

Seminars in Neuroscience

On a weekly basis, neuroscientists visit our campus primarily through participation in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy seminar series. Visiting neuroscientists hosted through other departmental series are listed in the weekly preview of CN events.

Check out of Calendar of Events for upcoming seminars!

Notable Neuroscientists Seminar Series

One to two times per semester, we invite a leader of neuroscience research to visit the Health Sciences Center. These guest lecturers are invited to give two presentations: the first, a science talk based on their research; the second, a more general, philosophical talk—"big picture" perspectives—on the current and future states of neuroscience.

The Notable Neuroscientists

Annual Retreat

An annual gathering of all faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at a regional resort to discuss research topics and strategies within the Center.

SURI

For ten weeks in the summer, the Center offers up to fifteen internships of research-intensive training for qualified undergraduate students from across the nation through its Summer Undergraduate Research Internship program (SURI). Interns are expected to complete a well-defined research project under the supervision of a Center faculty member. Trainees attend seminars, weekly lab meetings, and other events as announced.

SURI Program

WV COBRE INBRE Annual Conference

Each year participants from the West Virginia COBRE and INBRE award meet to share their program's progress and to determine ways to collaborate on research and share core facilities. The 4th Annual WV COBRE INBRE Conference was hosted by the Sensory Neuroscience Research Center at West Virginia University on October 26th and 27th, 2008.

2008 Conference

Message from the Director

The Center for Neuroscience (CN) mission is to advance knowledge in basic and translational neuroscience through team-based interdisciplinary research.

The CN functions to integrate all neuroscience research activities across a collaborative enterprise of 40 laboratories throughout the WVU campus. Our faculty members are highly interactive and participate with trainees in regular scientific and social events where we explore recent breakthroughs and discuss the major topics in neuroscience research.

Rather unique for research institutions, the WVU CN serves as the hub of activity across a broad array of neuroscience research topics to serve the entire state of West Virginia through translational research programs such as our new stroke initiative.

We are a research community with a common purpose, as evidenced by our strong junior faculty mentoring program and our emphasis on development and application of modern technologies to the research programs of faculty and trainees.

Please take a few minutes to explore our web site and contact us with questions or comments.

CN faculty are drawn from basic-science and clinical departments at the Health Sciences Center, from across the University, the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, and the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health.