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2021 Brain School: Day 1 (Online)
Venue: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTC) presents the eighth annual Brain School featuring four speakers streamed on Zoom and YouTube on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 and Thursday, March 18, 2021 starting at 5:30 PM nightly.

Four brain scientists who recently joined the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC will share extraordinary insights and emerging concepts from research about the brain during the research institute’s eighth annual Brain School. Two researchers from the research institute will give presentations each night, exploring captivating themes in brain research from genetics and molecular biology to human behavior and brain development.

Tuesday Schedule:
• 5:30 PM: Introduction to Brain Awareness Week and Brain School presented by Executive Director Michael Friedlander.

• 5:35 PM: Healthy Moms, Healthy Infants: Maternal Influences on Brain Development
- Studies show that when expecting and new mothers are stressed, it can affect the baby’s development. Nutrition, feeding habits, sleep, and social interactions can also influence brain development during the first few months of life. Brittany Howell, assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research, will explore how environmental factors, nutrition, and mother-infant bonding influence early brain development.

• 6:00 PM: Fishing for Insights: What Zebrafish Tell Us About How The Brain Works
- Yuchin Albert Pan, associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, is a neurobiologist who studies the development and function of cellular circuits in the brain in one of nature’s most fascinating vertebrate species — the zebrafish. The transparency of the fish’s body, combined with the power of genetics and molecular tools to label cells, allows for unprecedented views into the living functioning nervous system in health and disease to study disorders of eye movement control and characteristics of autism.

Attend the virtual lectures by logging into Zoom at https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/88299837310. Advance registration is not required. Just log into the feed with your name and email. You can also watch the live feed via YouTube at: https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/events/live-webcast.html.

Members of the public are encouraged to submit questions via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/fralinbiomedical), Twitter (https://twitter.com/FralinBiomed) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/fralinbiomedical) for the neuroscientists to answer during Brain School.

The one-hour interactive programs are free and open to all ages.

For more information, visit: https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/events/annual-brain-school.html or https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/fralin-biomedical-research-institute-scientists-to-present-virtu.html or https://www.facebook.com/fralinbiomedical/.