Awards

Conferences:           "Experimental Psychology of TMS: The next 40 years" summer workshop 2025

British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Festival of Neuroscience 2025

Dates and Location:   23rd to 25th April, 2025 at Birmingham 

                          28th to 31st April, 2025 at Liverpool, UK

I participated in "The experimental psychology of TMS: The next 40 years" - a three-day workshop, held during 23rd - 25th April 2025 at the University of Birmingham. The workshop has a practical training session for ECRs on how to conduct a TMS experiment. Apart from this the workshop requires ECRs to take a leading role in discussion sessions during the event. The main outcome of this hackathon style event is a consensus publication about how to conduct and analyze TMS experiments. 

British neuroscience association (BNA) holds a prestigious international conference every second year attended by many researchers from across the UK and Europe. I presented one of my postdoc projects as a poster titled “Dynamics of Auditory Working Memory". The opportunity to network with senior researchers from different institutes nation-wide would definitely help me in finding opportunities as well as collaborators in future. I sincerely thank NeuroModPlus for awarding me a travel grant that has subsidised the trip costs and has been instrumental in realizing my attendance at both these events. My participation at these meetings will help me in my future career.

Conferences:           Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting 2019

Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) 2019 meeting

Dates:                 16th October, 2019 to 24th October, 2019

Location:            Chicago, IL, USA

Society for neuroscience (SfN) holds a prestigious international conference every year attended by many researchers from across the world. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN) meeting is held as a satellite conference to the main SfN conference and is a specialist conference for auditory neuroscientists across the world. As an early career researcher working in auditory neuroscience, these conferences provided me an immense opportunity to discuss my research with the relevant subject matter experts in person.

I presented one of my PhD projects as a poster titled “Species differences in the cortical analysis of auditory time windows in primates” at both these conferences. In this work, I aimed to understand how the brain organises the processing of sound that require time-windows of different duration and compare this anatomical organization of time-window processing in humans with other primates. I find a difference in sensitivity between humans and monkeys which is surprising given their phylogenetic proximity. My study highlights the brain mechanisms that might be unique to humans, possibly an outcome of divergent evolution alongside the development of speech.

My discussions with researchers working in the same domain was very useful to communicate my latest findings to other research groups. The formative inputs from researchers working on related questions has aided me in planning further experiments. My interactions with researchers working on related topics has helped me appreciate the wider implications and relevance of my work.

On the remaining days of the conference, I visited posters on diverse topics ranging from auditory perception and cognition as well as on schizophrenia: animal models, drug development, genetic studies, transcriptomic and genomic analysis, clinical biomarkers, risk factor modelling. These provided me the breadth of research that I could only gain by attending such a large meeting.

I could interact with my collaborators from University of Iowa during this meeting. Further, the opportunity to network with senior researchers from different institutes world-wide would definitely help me in finding opportunities as well as collaborators in future. I sincerely thank Newcastle University’s Faculty of Medical Sciences Graduate School for awarding me a travel grant that has subsidised the trip costs and has been instrumental in realizing my attendance at these prestigious international conferences. My participation at these meetings will help me in my future career.

Report: Society for neuroscience (SfN) holds a prestigious conference every year attended by many researchers from across the world. As a PhD student this platform provided me an immense opportunity to discuss my research entitled "Receptor pharmacology of gamma oscillations in the avian hippocampal formation in vitro" with the relevant subject matter experts in person. 

My interactions with world leading experts in the field of poultry neuroscience, and their group members were very useful. Their formative inputs has aided me in planning further experiments. This strategy could potentially address any concerns that reviewers of my article might raise later on. My discussions with researchers from diverse backgrounds has helped me appreciate the wider implications and relevance of my project. 

Further, the opportunity to network with senior researchers from different institutes world-wide would definitely help me in finding opportunities as well as collaborators in future. I thank British Poultry Science journal for providing me with a travel grant that has been instrumental in realizing my attendance at this prestigious conference. 

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