Monday 07/11

9:00-9:30 am           Breakfast

9:30-10:00 am        Welcome & Introduction

10:00-10:45 am     Topic: "Getting to know your brain"

Learning outcome: Identify different parts/regions of your brain and describe their function

Activity: Neuroanatomy Lab Brains

10:45-11:00 am     Break

11:00-12:30 pm    Career session 1: Learn about careers in brain science and get paired with your mentors

12:30-1:30 pm      Lunch with mentors

1:30-3:00 pm         Get a picture of my brain (CMRR)

3:00 pm         Day Adjourned

Tuesday 07/12

9:00-9:30 am          Breakfast

9:30-10:30 am       Topic: "How we learn & remember"

Learning outcome: Describe process of memory formation (short-term/long-term memory), describe brain plasticity, how we study memory in mice, and dementia (AD).

Activity: Goggles, MMSE?

10:30-11:00 am    Break

11:00-12:30 pm    Career session 2: Create your own CV 

12:30-1:30 pm       Lunch with mentors

1:30-3:00 pm          Research lab tours

3:00 pm Day Adjourned

Wednesday 07/13

9:00-9:30 am          Breakfast

9:30-10:30 am       Topic: "Balancing Act"

Learning outcome: Identify brain regions controlling movement and balance, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and deep brain stimulation.

Activity: TBD

10:30-11:00 am     Break    

11:00-12:30 pm     Career session 3: Applying for college and scholarships 

12:30-1:30 pm        Lunch with mentors

1:30-3:00 pm           Research shadowing of mentors (learn a simple technique)

3:00 pm           Day Adjourned          

Thursday 07/14

9:00-9:30 am         Breakfast

9:30-10:30 am      Topic: "Rewarding brain"

Learning outcome: Grit and identify brain regions involved in reward.

Activity: TBD   

10:30-11:00 am     Break

11:00-12:30 pm     Career session 4: Learn about future brain science summer opportunities, STEPup program, Brain Awareness week, mentor next year

12:30-1:30 pm       Lunch with mentors

1:30-3:00 pm         Research shadowing of mentors

3:00 pm Day Adjourned

Friday 07/15

9:00-9:30 am          Breakfast

9:30-10:30 am        LSURP research day

10:30-11:00 am     Break

11:00-12:30 pm     LSURP research day/poster session

12:30-1:30 pm        Lunch with mentors

1:30-3:00 pm   LSSURP research day 

3:00 pm   End of the brain science program