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USA Brain Bee Chapters
USA Brain Bee chapters are located across the country. Chapters host competitions from November through March. The winner of each local chapter advances to represent their chapter in the USA National Championship in April.
Each chapter competition is unique. Please contact the Brain Bee chapter coordinator in your chapter to learn more.
Neuroscientists looking to start a new chapter should contact USA Brain Bee co-director Dr. Manuella Oliveira Yassa and complete a new chapter application here.
| Brain Bee Chapter Name | Sponsoring Institution | State | Coordinator |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW Brain Bee | TX | Katie Croft | |
| Minnesota Brain Bee | University of Minnesota | MN | John Paton |
| Irvine Brain Bee | University of California, Irvine | CA | Manuella Yassa |
| Boston University Brain Bee | Boston University | MA | Prerna Shankar |
| Central Massachusetts Brain Bee | Umass Chan Medical School | MA | David Weaver |
| Rochester Brain Bee | SfN Rochester NY Chapter & University of Rochester | NY | Paige Nicklas |
| Los Angeles | UCLA/USC | CA | Joseph Quintero |
| Central PA Brain Bee | Penn State College of Medicine | PA | Jennifer Nyland |
| Long Island Brain Bee | Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell | NY | Vanessa Reddin |
| Southern Maryland Brain Bee | St. Mary's College of Maryland | MD | Elizabeth Leininger |
| Pennsylvania Brain Bee | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Jacqueline Fowlkes |
| Albany Regional Brain Bee | Albany Medical College | NY | Ellinor Grinde |
| Iowa Brain Bee | University of Iowa | IA | Lyndsay Harshman |
| Triangle Brain Bee | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Sikoya Ashburn |
| Brown Brain Bee | Brown University | RI | Jane Hwang |
| Michigan Brain Bee | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | MI | Isabella Plati |
| New Mexico Brain Bee | University of New Mexico School of Medicine | NM | Russell Morton |
| JMU Brain Bee | James Madison University | VA | George Vidal |
| San Diego Chapter | UC San Diego | CA | Adrienne Dubin |
| Salt Lake City Brain Bee | University of Utah | UT | Pearl Cummins |
| Newark New Jersey | Rutgers Brain Health Institute | NJ | Steven Levison |
| Creighton University Brain Bee | Creighton University | NE | Gwen King |
| Jacksonville Brain Bee | Mayo Clinic | FL | Gabriella Fiorino |
| St. Louis Area Brain Bee | Washington University in St. Louis | MO | Erik Herzog |
| AZ Regional Brain Bee | Midwestern University | AZ | Kimberly Beaudion |
| Alaska Regional Brain Bee | University of Alaska Anchorage | AK | Gwen Lupfer |
| Baltimore Brain Bee | Stevenson University and Morgan State University | MD | Ingrid Tulloch |
| NEPA Brain Bee | University of Scranton Neuroscience Program | PA | Robert Waldeck |
| Kentucky Brain Bee | Morehead State University | LA | Ilsun White |
| Arkansas Brain Bee | Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience | AR | George James |
| Indianapolis Brain Bee | Indiana University - Indianapolis | IN | Bethany Neal-Beliveau |
| Brain Bee at MSU | Michigan State University | MI | Casey Henley |
| Rutgers-Central NJ Regional Brain Bee | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | NJ | Michael Matise |
| Colorado Brain Bee | CO | Jyotshna Gunturu | |
| Atlanta Regional Brain Bee | Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience | GA | Jennifer Walcott |
| WNY Brain Bee | Canisius College | NY | Elizabeth Hogan |
| Northern Nevada Brain Bee | University of Nevada, Reno | NV | Amy Altick |
| Kansas City Brain Bee | The University of Kansas Medical Center | KS | Olivia Veatch |
| Trinity College Brain Bee | Trinity College | CT | Sarah Raskin |
| Central Michigan Brain Bee | Central Michigan University | MI | Julien Rossingol |
| Tidewater Brain Bee | VA | Sikoya Ashburn | |
| Pittsburgh Brain Bee | University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience | PA | Zachary Wills |
| Bay Area Brain Bee | California State University East Bay | CA | James Murray |
| North Central Florida Brain Bee | University of Florida | FL | Reese Chadwick |
| Princeton Brain Bee | Princeton University | NJ | Allen Nieva |
| Michiana Brain Bee | University of Notre Dame and Self-Healing Communities of Michiana | IN | Velshonna Luckey |
| Westchester Brain Bee | Burke Rehabilitation | NY | Sally Mitchell |
| Chicago Brain Bee | DePaul University | IL | Okunola Jeyifous |
| North Florida Brain Bee | Florida State University | FL | Austin Werner |
| Houston Brain Bee | Rice University | TX | Jonathan Flynn |
| South Florida Brain Bee | The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (at University of Miami) | FL | Maria Chagoyen |
| Michigan Brain Bee | University of Michigan | MI | Isabella Plati |