Rehabilitation Roundup for Winter 2024

Happy New Year and spring semester!!


We are excited to start the spring semester, with a great line up of events!


CARE Research Day will be held on March 21st, and registration is now open. Theresa Hayes Cruz, Director of NCMRR, will be our keynote speaker.


Also we will be hosting Jennifer Dulin from Texas A&M as our February seminar speaker, and Leo Cohen from NIH as our April speaker. Students and post-docs - be sure to sign up to have lunch with our speakers!


Be sure to scroll below for more information and mark your calendars!


Best,

Deanna (Dee) Wallace Donovan, Linda Noble and José del R. Millán

UT CARE Co-Directors

CARE News

Undergraduates!!

Do you want to get paid while gaining valuable research experience?


We are announcing an exciting opportunity for a paid undergraduate student fellowship, working in the lab of a CARE Faculty Member.


Call for proposals will open February 8th and close on March 8th.


See here for more details.

UT CARE Initiative

Founding Director,

James Sulzer,

recently published on his professional and personal experience in rehabilitation research.


You can check out the article here.

CARE Events

UT CARE Spring Seminar Series

Jennifer Dulin

Dr. Jennifer Dulin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

Texas A&M University

TIRR Foundation Fellow


"Neural progenitor cell transplantation for spinal cord injury: where are we headed?"


Friday, February 23rd, 2024

EER 3.646

11:45AM-1PM

Hosted by UT CARE Initiative Co-Director, Linda Noble-Haeusslein

Students and Post-docs: Sign up to join Dr. Dulin for lunch here

10th Annual CARE Research Day


Thursday, March 21st, 2024

12-5:30PM

EER Mulva Auditorium



Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Theresa Hayes Cruz, Ph.D.

Director, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research


Posters, presentations, prizes!!

Register to attend and / or present your work here

SAVE THE DATE


UT CARE Initiative Spring Seminar Speaker

Dr. Leon Cohen, M.D.

Principal Investigator

NIH - NINDS

Human Cortical Physiology and Neurorehabilitation




April 12th, 2024

NHB 1.720, 1-2:30PM

Upcoming Related Events

Where Applied Biophysics Meets Tissue Engineering & Cellular Therapies

Learn More and Register Here

Neuroscience Seminars

Alice Ting, Ph.D., Stanford University

Departments of Biology & Genetics

Engineering proteins to map and manipulate living cells and neurons

Monday, February 19, 2024 3:00 PM 

Hosted by Dr. Kristen Harris

Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD

Duke University School of Medicine

Department of Neurobiology

Monday, March 24, 2024  3:00PM

 Hosted by Dr. Bob Messing

Learn More Here

Other Seminar Series and Events


February Startup Coffee Connect

Herb Kelleher Entrepreneurship Center

Graduate Entrepreneurship Society

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 9:30-11:00am

Robert B. Rowling Hall (RRH), 2.238

Click here for more information


Oskar Fischer Lecture Series:

Unravelling What We Don’t Know About Tau

Karen Duff, Ph.D.; AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center

Thursday, February 8, 2024; 12–1 p.m.

Click here for more information


Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds

Extracellular Vesicles as Biomarkers & Cellular Communicators Key to Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D.; HDB 1.208

Tuesday, February 27, 2024; 12–1:30 p.m.

Click here here for more information


Research Nuts & Bolts: Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask a PI But Never Had a Chance To

Alex Haynes, M.D., MPH; William Matsui, M.D.; Matt Wilkinson, M.D., MPH; & Alison Cahill, M.D., MSCI

Zoom; Thursday, February 29, 2024; 10–11 a.m.

Click here for more information


Graduate Student Writing Retreat

Saturday, February 24, 2024,

Drop in anytime 10am-5pm;

The Writing Center, PCL 2.330

Click here for more information


Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

NICHD Notices and Funding Opportunities


NIH Notices and Funding Opportunities

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