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 LSURP research day

3:00 pm End of the brain science program