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FAU’s Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (CCSBS) participate at The Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 41st Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 12-16, 2011.

Faculty, student and postdoctoral researchers at FAU’s Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences made a total of nineteen (19) presentations ranging from the neuroprotective effects of drugs to the neural mechanisms underlying memory consolidation and social interaction, in addition to computational modeling of cortical function. Much of the research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, The National Science Foundation, the US Office of Naval Research and other funding agencies.

Remarkably, graduate and postgraduate alumni of FAU’s PhD Program in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, contributed a total of seventy-four (74) posters and lectures describing new findings and methods in the areas of molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, cognitive, social and (particularly) computational neuroscience, which models the neural circuitry and functions of the brain.

The influence of FAU’s multidisciplinary PhD Program in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences on the field of neuroscience both nationally and internationally seems quite noticeable. CCSBS alumni participating at SFN 2011 occupy research and academic positions at a number of major US institutions, including Harvard Medical School, Brown University, Stanford University, The University of Michigan, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A & M, Emory University, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Maryland, Georgia State University, The University of Delaware, The University of Florida, The University of Pittsburgh, The Neurosciences Research Institute (La Jolla, CA) and the Intramural Research Programs of The National Institutes of Health (NIMH, NIDCD). In addition four of our alumni who attended SFN 2011 are leading researchers in prestigious institutions in Canada, Germany, France and Japan.