The Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN), in collaboration with the Center for Paralysis Research (CPR), will hold a series of workshops designed to create interdisciplinary research teams focused on tackling major problems in central nervous system (CNS) trauma in November and December of 2019.  

The CNS Trauma Workshop Series is designed to identify major challenges in the brain and spinal cord injury that would best be addressed by an interdisciplinary approach and to create teams of Purdue faculty members equipped to solve these problems. Selected teams will receive funding as part of this PIIN-CPR joint initiative.

The workshop times and details are:

Dec. 5, 2019, 3-5 p.m., Drug Lobby: New teams will form to solve major problems in neurotrauma. Each team will develop a research plan describing how to solve these problems and how the team’s expertise could be applied to achieve the intended research goals. The outcome of the workshop will be the development of research plans to be considered for internal funding.

Speakers:

• Gaurav Chopra, Assistant professor, Chemistry- "How do microglia loose its function in the brain?"
• Tiffany Lyle, Assistant professor, Comparative Pathobiology- "Unraveling Blood-Brain Barrier Pathology in Traumatic Brain Injury"
• Edward Bartlett, Professor, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering- "Collaborative approaches to acoustic neurotrauma"

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS: Challenges in Neurotrauma will be announced on December 12, 2019. Proposals are due by January 29, 2020.

Projects will begin on April 1, 2020. 

* Networking and refreshments will follow each meeting.