Chicago Chapter - SfN

Congrats to Dr. Daniel McGehee on the Career Achievement Award! @UChicago

Great Afternoon Symposia. A new addition to this year’s schedule! Cellular stress signaling in neurodegeneration.

Great start to the afternoon with Dr. Kathryn Reissner's, Ph.D. Societal Impacts Symposium on "Glial mechanisms of drug seeking and relapse"!

If you have photos of yourself from today's poster session and would like to share, please post them below! We are so proud of all of our postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students who presented today!

Incredible Keynote speaker Dr. Teresa Wood, Ph.D., shared her lab's research, "Location Matters: Regional Variations in Glia and Myelin Across the CNS," a wonderful talk. We are so thankful to have her!

Wonderful start to the day with the Presidential Symposium! Chaired by Brian David, Ph.D. Sex-dependent roles for immune cells in recovery after spinal cord injury, with Dylan McCreedy, Ph.D. & Brainwide Electrical Networks of Stress Vulnerability with Rainbo Hultman, Ph.D.

⭐️ 🧠🚨T-minus two days until the annual CSfN meeting!🚨🧠⭐️ See you this Friday, February 27th, at UIC Dorin Forum (725 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL 60608). Here is the schedule of events. We are excited to hear about everyone's research and more!

Hello all! Registration is still open, as is the registration for non-competing abstracts. Submit your abstracts by 🚨TOMORROW, February 20th, at noon!🚨 Register here: chicagosfn.org/register/ See you all next Friday (February 27th) at UIC Dorin Forum!

Hello all! 🚨Reminder🚨 The deadline for poster competitions is THIS Wednesday, February 18th! Non-competing abstracts may be submitted by noon on February 20th. See everyone at the Annual Meeting on Friday, February 27th, 2026, at the UIC Dorin Forum. chicagosfn.org/annual-meeting…

🚨REMINDER🚨 The NeuroNOW and Neuro-Art competition submissions close tomorrow, Friday, February 13th! 🎨📹 We are excited to see the results at our annual meeting on February 27th, 2026, at UIC Dorin Forum. Register for the meeting using this link: chicagosfn.org/register

Nominations are open for the 2026 Career Achievement Award! The due date for submissions is Friday, Jan 30th. Instructions and submission form can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… If you have any questions, please contact Kevin Koster at kpkoster@uchicago.edu.

Registration and Abstract Submissions are now open! chicagosfn.org/register To receive lunch register by noon on Feb 16th. Submit by Feb 18th to participate in the poster competitions. Non-competing abstracts may be submitted by noon on Feb 20th. See you on Feb 27th at UIC!

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Hello all! Submissions for both the 2026 NeuroNow Video competition and Neuro-Art Competition are open until February 13th, 2026. Please take a look at the attached flyers for more information on how to participate.

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The esteemed graduate student symposium winners: 👏🏻

Let’s not forget our postdocs!

Graduate student poster winners!

Undergrad competition winners ! Such an excellent trainee conference 🤩

Congrats to neuroethics and neuroart competition winners! @_danafoundation