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2025 Annual Research Day

The School of Graduate Studies will hold the centerwide Annual Research Day on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025.

The day will consist of poster sessions, a platform session for graduate students and the Annual Research Day Dinner.

The 2025 annual Graduate Day lecture, entitled "From a demand-based to a supply-limited view of brain development, function and evolution." will be held on March 19th at 4pm in the Alumni Auditorium. The speaker will be Suzana Herculano-Houzel, biologist, neuroscientist, researcher, writer, columnist at brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo and Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. She is also the first female editor-in-chief of The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Participation in Annual Research is mandatory for all students in the School of Graduate Studies in SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University past their second year. Graduate students in year 1 or 2 are encouraged to participate.

Only students in the School of Graduate Studies are eligible to compete for awards or present at the platform session, but other entities on the campus may use the Research Day mechanisms present their research findings, and to score and award prizes to their students or employees at the poster sessions.

Participation is encouraged for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine students, Public Health students, College of Nursing students, School of Health Professions students, post-doctoral fellows, graduate medical fellows, residents and undergraduates who are associated with SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University faculty members. Chairs or heads of departments should contact the School of Graduate Studies to identify their participants and who will be receiving the data.
 
For the poster sessions, the size of the posters is not larger than 60" wide x 40" top to bottom, and the applicant is responsible for producing their own poster
 
Annual Research Day provides an excellent occasion for the entire Downstate community to share the results of their research efforts. A link to application and instructions is here, which will be live from February 11th to February 27th 2025. The full text of the application is here.  
 
The preliminary schedule for 2025 is below, and more information will be added as it is finalized:
Time Event Area
9:30am – 11:25am  Poster session A PHAB A, B, C & D
11:30am – 1:25pm Poster session B PHAB A, B, C & D
10:00am – 12:30pm concurrent with Poster Sessions A/B Graduate Student Oral Platform Presentations  PHAB 2C
2:00pm – 3:55pm Graduate School Poster Session PHAB A, B, C & D
4:00pm – 5:30pm Annual Graduate Day Lecture Alumni Auditorium, EB
6:00 pm  Annual Research Day
Dinner Reservation Form
Taci’s Beyti Turkish Restaurant, 1953 Coney Island Avenue.

To add the complete ARD 2025 agenda to your calendar , click link and open downloaded .ics file.

We look forward to all presentations of Downstate's science.

Poster Printing at Downstate

If you opt to print your poster in-house with the SUNY Downstate Office of New Media Services for the 2025 Annual Research Day, you will need to submit your poster by 5:00pm EST on March 5th 2025. Unfortunately, late submissions cannot be accommodated.

 

 

 

 

 

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