Omer Ashmaig is a sophomore majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology . He is an Undergraduate Research Associate in the Gross Translational Biomedical Neuroengineering Lab and a Peer Mentor in the Research Partners Program . I recently had the opportunity to attend a scientific conference, COSYNE, with my graduate student mentor, Mark Connolly, and another undergraduate from my lab, Syed Ali Zaidi. COSYNE is a computational and systems neuroscience conference. I had the pleasure of being awarded a travel grant to attend the conference through the conference organization itself . The travel grant covered the cost of the conference itself, flights, hotels, food, transportation, and any other expenses directly related to the conference. The program also matched me with a post-doc who served as my mentor during the conference. I spent four days in Salt Lake City, where I was able to listen to many amazing talks and ground-breaking research from aroun...