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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 director Dr. Manuella Oliveira Yassa and complete a new chapter application here.
| Brain Bee Chapter Name | Sponsoring Institution | State | Coordinator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Regional Brain Bee | University of Alaska Anchorage | AK | Gwen Lupfer |
| Arkansas Brain Bee | Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience | AR | George James |
| AZ Regional Brain Bee | Midwestern University | AZ | Kimberly Beaudion |
| Irvine Brain Bee | University of California, Irvine | CA | Manuella Yassa |
| Los Angeles | UCLA/USC | CA | Joseph Quintero |
| San Diego Chapter | UC San Diego | CA | Adrienne Dubin |
| DFW Brain Bee | TX | Katie Croft | |
| Minnesota Brain Bee | University of Minnesota | MN | John Paton |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Cici Chen |
| St. Louis Area Brain Bee | Washington University in St. Louis | MO | Erik Herzog |
| Bay Area Brain Bee | California State University East Bay | CA | James Murray |
| 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 |
| 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 | Corey Walker |
| 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 | Christopher Newport University | VA | Sikoya Ashburn |
| Pittsburgh Brain Bee | University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience | PA | Zachary Wills |
| North Central Florida Brain Bee | University of Florida | FL | Ariana Burga |
| 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 |
| Baltimore City Brain Bee | Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland | MD | Srijan Velamuri |
| Louisiana Brain Bee | Louisiana State University | LA | Adegbenro Fakoya |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Brain Bee | University of Texas Medical Branch | TX | Laura Sanchez |
| Upper Valley Brain Bee | Dartmouth College | NH | Aine Scholand |
| Olympia Brain Bee | Virginia Mason Franciscan Health System | WA | Anuradha Kolluru |
| Tennessee Brain Bee | University of Tennessee Health Science Center | TN | Elizabeth Gaudio |
| University of South Carolina Brain Bee | University of South Carolina | SC | Jacob Watson |
| Oregon Brain Bee | Oregon Health & Sciences University | OR | Meridee Lefner |
| Alabama Brain Bee | University of Alabama at Birmingham | AL | Andrew Foshee |
| Syracuse Brain Bee | Technology Alliance of Central New York | NY | Maddy Lee |
| Richmond Brain Bee | University of Richmond | VA | Kitty Hartvigsen |