The BioConference Live virtual neuroscience conference conducted on March 19-20, 2014, was an online event set to unite the neuroscience community via live video webcasts and real-time networking. Manuscriptedit participated in this high profile conference that saw the participation of President Barack Obama as well.
Researchers, post docs, lab directors, and other medical professionals learnt about recent investments and the scientific foci of the BRAIN Initiative through a panel discussion with key leaders from diverse scientific and funding regulatory agencies. The BRAIN Initiative was part of a new Presidential focus intended at reforming our understanding of the human brain.
The Neuroscience conference included topics from science journals like Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Epigenetic Regulation, Genetics of Neurologic Diseases, Molecular Mechanism, Neurologic Dysfunction from Human Diseases, and Nervous System Development. It also covered neurological diseases from lab to clinic, including Alzheimer’s, ALS, Epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
In addition to topics on diseases, the conference also covered emerging therapies, like combinatorial therapies, immunomodulation, myelin repair, non-coding RNA, neurorobotics, neuroengineering, stem cells, and imaging technologies – in vitro and in vivo.
The intense two-day conference covered original research data, teaching presentations, broad overview of new frontiers given by thought leaders in the field and discussion forums. Attendees learnt new concepts, tools and techniques that they can apply to research and diagnosis.