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Speaker Information

Guidelines for presenting at Neuroscience 2021 are available to help you prepare to participate. You will receive a personal link to complete tasks for the virtual presentation through Cadmium, SfN’s virtual event vendor.

Walkthrough Guides:

  • Using the NS21 Video Chat
  • The Recording Task
  • The Closed Captions Task
  • Joining Video Chats
  • Contacting Other Attendees
  • Answering Attendee Questions on Your Poster

Watch the playlist of virtual walkthrough guides that demonstrate to presenters and speakers how to record their presentations and understand their assigned tasks with ease. 

Featured and Special Lectures

Presenter resources for Presidential Special Lectures, Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture, Peter and Patricia Gruber lecture, David Kopf Neuroethics Lecture, Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society, History of Neuroscience Lecture, and Special Lectures can be found here.

  • Virtual Meeting Tasks

    You will receive a personal link to complete these tasks through Cadmium, SfN’s virtual event vendor. If you have difficulty accessing Cadmium, please email program@sfn.org.

    Review Task Descriptions

  • Recorded Lectures Requirements

    Your session presentation will be prerecorded. There are three parts to prepare for your session; a technical check, the session recording, and the live broadcast. Please follow the link to review the details of each.

    Review Recording Requirements

  • Session Formats

    Presidential Special Lecture | 60 minutes total | 5-minute intro, 40-minute lecture, 15-minute Q&A
    Dialogues | 60 minutes total | 5-minute intro, 40-minute lecture, 15-minute Q&A
    Grass, History, Neuroethics, and Special Lectures | 45 minutes total | 5-minute intro, 40-minute lecture

  • Abbreviated Timeline

    Please see additional details about each step in the Requirements. 

    Review Timeline

Featured Panel Sessions

Resources for speakers in the Celebration of Women in Neuroscience, Dual Perspectives, Storytelling Session, and Then and Now Sessions.

  • Featured Panel Session Types

    Featured Panel Sessions will include a video broadcast with a simultaneous text chat and Q&A. Most sessions will prerecord the video presentation, while a few will have a live video broadcast.

    Recorded Panel Sessions:
    Celebration of Women in Neuroscience, Storytelling Session, Then and Now: What Makes a Model Nervous System?

    Live Panel Sessions:
    Dual Perspectives, Then and Now: A Conversation About 40 Years on Different Routes to the Same Destination

  • Virtual Meeting Tasks

    You will receive a personal link to complete these tasks through Cadmium, SfN’s virtual event vendor. If you have difficulty accessing Cadmium, please email program@sfn.org.

    Virtual Meeting Tasks

  • Recorded Featured Panel Requirements

    Celebration of Women in Neuroscience, Then and Now: What Makes a Model Nervous System?, and the Storytelling Session presentations will be prerecorded. 

    There are three parts to prepare your session; a technical check, the session recording, and the live broadcast. Follow the link to review the details of each. 

    Review Recording Requirements

  • Live Virtual Featured Panels Requirements

    Dual Perspectives and Then and Now: A Conversation About 40 Years on Different Routes to the Same Destination sessions will be presented live.

    There are two parts to prepare your session; the session rehearsal & technical check, and the live broadcast. Follow the link to review the details of each. 

    Review Live Virtual Presentation Requirements

  • Abbreviated Timeline

    Please see additional details about each step in the Requirements sections.

    Review Timeline of Requirements

Symposia and Minisymposia Presenters

Access information about virtual presentations for all symposia and minisymposia chairs, co-chairs, and presenters.

  • Symposia and Minisymposia Sessions

    To present in your session, you must be registered for the annual meeting by Friday, October 29. As a participant in a symposium or minisymposium, you receive half-price registration for the annual meeting. Presentations will be withdrawn from the annual meeting if the speaker is not registered by October 29. If you have any questions, contact program@sfn.org.

  • Presentation Format

    Recorded Video | Each of the presenters in the session will record and upload their video, which will be available for viewing by registered attendees during the meeting’s preview days November 3-7, 2021. Presenters will receive instruction on how to upload their presentations later this fall.

    Virtual Panel Discussion |
    Each presenter in a session will provide a 3-minute or less single slide recap of their recorded presentation, followed by a panel discussion among the session participants and a live Q&A with the audience.

     

  • Symposium and Minisymposium Chair Instructions

    Review these instructions for symposium and minisymposium chairs. 

    Review Instructions

  • Abbreviated Timeline

    Please see additional details about each step in the Requirements sections. 

    Review Timeline

  • Virtual Meeting Tasks

    You will receive a personal link to complete these tasks through Cadmium, SfN’s virtual event vendor. If you have difficulty accessing Cadmium, please email program@sfn.org.

    Review Tasks and Descriptions

  • Recording and Live Virtual Presentation Requirements

    You will record your presentation and upload materials to the Cadmium Education Harvester by October 25. Your panel discussion will be presented live. A text chat will also appear next to the presentation window during the live presentation.

    Review Presentation Requirements

Poster Sessions

All abstracts are required to be presented as reimagined virtual posters.

Review these instructions on how to prepare and upload virtual presentations.

  • Presentation Format

    Virtual poster presentations will consist of three components: PDF virtual poster, 5-minute recorded presentation, and a one-hour group discussion and collaboration session. Learn more about preparing your virtual poster presentation. 

    Poster materials were due on Tuesday, November 2, 11:59 p.m. EDT.

    Learn More

  • Abbreviated Timeline

    Please see additional details about each step in the Tasks section.

    Review Poster Session Timeline

  • Virtual Meeting Tasks

    You will receive a personal link to complete these tasks through Cadmium, SfN’s virtual event vendor. If you have difficulty accessing Cadmium, please email program@sfn.org.

    Virtual Meeting Tasks

  • Virtual Poster Session Discussions

    Review these guidelines to prepare for your virtual poster session discussion. 

    Review Guidelines

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