“NeuroTRACT’s 2020 Updates” is an online event designed to explore the current trends in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry for junior researchers. This event is designed hoping to ease the difficulties of defining an appropriate research question in the early days of becoming a researcher. After numerous brainstormings and negotiations at NeuroTRACT, we managed to provide interested students in the field of Neuroscience with an event that can help them develop their research ideas informatively, since this has always been the major challenge for our junior researchers. which is seemed to be one of the biggest barriers in front of all junior researchers.
The program will be held in six weeks. December 25th, January 1st and January 8th are dedicated to diverse neuroscience based talks to help the audience develop their research ideas and also get advise from remarkable senior researchers from top universities across the world! On each day of the seminars, 6 talks will be held by an experts in one neuroscience-related field, starting from 9 am to 4 pm (one hour is left free for lunchtime). Each session consists of a 45 minutes online talk on the current feasible research trends for junior researchers and 15 minutes is dedicated to interactive questions and answers with the audience.
At the end of the seminar the participants will be invited to submit their developed research proposals that they have composed throughout the event to compete with the other participants. All are welcome to get scientific advises from the NeuroTRACT scientific committee. After the final evaluation, the highest ranks will respectively receive 2000000, 1000000, and 500000 Tomans as a reward to help in following their research.
Although we do not press background restrictions, the school initially targets students with some level of research skills. Everyone is welcomed to register.
| DAY 1 25 December 2020 5 Dey 1399 | DAY 2 1 January 2021 12 Dey 1399 | DAY 3 8 January 2021 19 Dey 1399 | |
| 9-10 AM | Dr Eftekhar Eftekharpour | Dr Abtin Doroudinia | Dr Ashkan Mowla |
| 10-11 AM | Dr Takayu Sasaki | Dr Abbas Tafakhori | Dr Jose Francis de Oliveira |
| 11-12 AM | Dr Ehsan Negin | Dr Mohsen Parto | Dr Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani |
| 12-1 PM | Lunch Time | Lunch Time | Lunch Time |
| 1-2 PM | Dr Mohsen Rostami | Dr Mostafa Almasi | Dr Tim Silk |
| 2-3 PM | Dr Alireza Valizadeh | Dr Hamid Nili | Dr Mohammad Shahdloo |
| 3-4 PM | Dr Mehdi Farokhnia | Dr Reza Rajimehr | Dr Peter Kalivas |
| 4-5 PM | Dr Asma Salek | Dr Abed Khorasani | Dr Christelle Baunez |
Professor Peter W. Kalivas
Professor of Neuroscience
Medical University of South Carolina, US
Dr. Eftekhar Eftekharpour
Associate Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology
University of Manitoba, Canada
Dr. Tim Silk
Associate Professor of Psychology
Deakin University, Australia
Dr. Ashkan Mowla
Dr. Abbas Tafakhori
Associate Professor of Neurology
Tehran University of Medical Tehran (TUMS), Iran
Dr. Abtin Doroudinia
PET-CT Fellowship from University of Southern California
Assistant Professor at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Iran
Dr. Mohsen Rostami
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran
Dr. Mehdi Farokhnia
Staff Scientist
National Institute of Health (NIH), USA
Dr. Reza Rajimehr
Post-Doctoral
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Dr. Mohammad Shahdloo
Ph.D Post-Doctoral Researcher
Oxford Center for f-MRI, UK
Dr. Jose Francis de Oliveira
Ph.D in Human Physiology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Hamid Nili
Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher
University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Mostafa Almasi
Assistant Professor
Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Dr. Ehsan Negin
Ph.D Candidate in Audiology
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran
Dr. Abed Khorasani
Biomedical Engineering
Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Dr. Asma Salek
Ph.D Neuroscience
Indianapolis University, USA
Dr. Mohsen Parto
Ph.D Neuroscience
IPM, Iran
Dr. Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Cambridge University, UK
Dr. Alireza Valizadeh
Researcher
IPM, Iran
Dr. Christelle Baunez
Ph.D, HDR
French National Center for Scientific Research, France
Dr. Takuya Sasaki
Associate Professor
The University of Tokyo, Japan
| Rank #1 Investigating the seeding-competent alpha-synuclein in the CSF as a Potential Biomarker for early Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and progression |
| Rank #2 Investigation of clinical and imaging findings associated with prodromal Parkinson’s disease in patients with late onset depression |
| Rank #3 Evaluation of Sortilin-realated receptor 1 gene mutation types and their effect on atrophy of different brain areas using MRI analysis of patients suffering Alzheimer’s disease |
| Rank #4 Investigating the relationship between diet-related Ghrelin secretion and the tendency to use addictive substances in addicted people during rehabilitation |
| Rank #5 The effect of Auranofin in reducing neural degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease treatment in rats using fMRI |
| Rank #6 Investigation of the anti-inflammatory effect of Limonene in reducing the symptoms of Bell’s palsy in rat |