We are pleased to announce the 29th Annual meeting of the CSBBCS

June 7th to 9th 2019!

This year's Conference will be held at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo Ontario

All sessions will take place on campus at University of Waterloo in Federation Hall (FED) and the Science Teaching Complex (STC).

Schedule of Talks and Posters

Click Full Program for the schedule

A condensed "At-a-Glance" schedule is also available here

New Tool! Sort Abstracts by Semantic Similarity:

All CSBBCS abstracts have been entered into a database that allows attendees to search abstracts to find semantically similar ones. Check it out to find related presentations! 

https://crumplab.shinyapps.io/CSBBCS2019/ 

Tool Creators: Matt Crump (Brooklyn College), Harinder Aujla (U of Winnipeg), & Randy Jamieson (U of Manitoba)

Symposia: Nine symposia are included in the program. These consist of 3 to 4 talks related to a single topic, within a 1-hour, or 1 hour 15 minute, session.

Talks and Posters:  Talks will be 15 minutes (12 minutes + 3 minutes for questions per speaker). Maximum poster size is 4' X 4'. 

Registration

To register, please click on "Register for Conference" in the "Quick Links" box in the upper right-hand corner of this page. If you are not seeing this box, please click here to renew your membership first.

A current, dues-paid membership in CSBBCS is required to be able to Register for the conference.  Please click here to purchase/renew your membership.

Registration fees:

Student: $140

Faculty: $180 

Pre-Conference Workshop:  $40

Registration includes:  Opening night reception on Friday, breakfast, coffee breaks, & lunch on Saturday, conference banquet dinner on Saturday, breakfast, coffee breaks & lunch on Sunday, plus an ice-cream social on Sunday afternoon!  

Pre-Conference Workshop: 

On Friday June 7th from 8:30am-2pm we will host a hands-on workshop on campus. 

Topic: Introduction to Brain Modeling with the Neural Engineering Framework (NENGO)

This workshop will introduce the NENGO brain simulation software, a graphical and scripting environment for building spiking neuron-level models of cognitive and non-cognitive behaviour. The workshop is hands-on and will guide participants through building a variety of models. Please bring a laptop with NENGO installed. Installation instructions can be Downloaded at https://www.nengo.ai/overview.html

Women in Cognitive Science session (open to everyone):

Join us Friday June 7th from 1:30pm-3:30pm for a presentation and panel discussion

Topic: Demystifying Skill Development

It often seems difficult and intimidating to try to branch out and learn new research skills, however, it is becoming increasingly more important for young researchers to build a repertoire of foundational research skills for careers in both academia and industry. In this session our goal is to demystify the apparent challenges of acquiring new skills by speaking with a panel of researchers who have successfully learned and implemented novel techniques (such as brain imaging, use of special populations, and new statistical analyses) into their existing research programs. They will also discuss any gender-specific challenges they encountered. The panel discussion will be followed by a speed mentoring event which provides the opportunity for students interested in developing specific skills to speak with researchers who have successfully obtained those skills.