8th Annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Program

All abstracts are due Friday, Feb. 8th at 5:00 p.m.

Abstracts/Posters:

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellow are invited to present their research on Friday, March 15 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.at a poster session at President's House to compete fro four graduate student travel awards ($500 each) and two postdoctoral fellow travel awards ($250 each).

Award recipients will be announced at the 4:00 p.m. poster awards ceremony. Poster presenters are invited to join the keynot speakers and T32 mentors at a 1:00 p.m. President's House luncheon.

All presenters must submit an abstract to abstract-nmpt@phhp.ufl.edu no later than Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 at 5:00 p.m.

View the abstract template at http://pt.phhp.ufl.edu/files/2012/05/abstract-template-and-sample1.pdf.

Please contact Laurie Bialosky with any inquireies at lbialosk@phhp.ufl.edu.

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Schedule of events:

McKnight Brain Institute, DeWeese Auditorium:

08:45 a.m. - 09:00 a.m. Exercise and Parkinson's Disease Daniel M. Corcos, PhD Professor Kinesiology and Nutrition, Neurology, Psychology and Bioengineering Chair, Graduate Program in Neuroscience Director, Neural Control of Movement Laborator University of Illinois at Chicago 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Functional Regeneration Beyound the Glial Star Jerry Silver, PhD Professor Department of Neuroscience Case Western Reserve University

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Regulation of Muscle Regeneration by the Immune System James Tidball, PhD Professor Molecular, Cellular and Intergrative Physiology University of California, Los Angeles

President's House:

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Luncheon for Poster Presenters

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Poster Presentations

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Awards Ceremony