Important Announcement about the 2024 ERP Boot Camp

We are disappointed to announce that we will not be holding a regular 10-day ERP Boot Camp this summer.

We have held Boot Camps nearly every summer since 2007, supported by a series of generous grants from NIMH that allowed us to provide scholarships for all attendees. Unfortunately, although our recent renewal proposal received extremely positive reviews and scores, we were recently given the surprising and disappointing news that the renewal will not be funded this year. We believe that the ERP Boot Camp provides essential training to the field, and we will continue to pursue financial support to continue holding 10-day ERP Boot Camps in the future.

In the meantime, we have partial funding that will allow us to hold a 5-day ERP Boot Camp this summer from July 8-12, 2024 in Davis, California. The workshop will include 5-days of lectures and activities on EEG and ERP measures, including practical and theoretical issues.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide scholarships to pay for travel and lodging costs, and we must charge a registration fee. We are very sorry if this causes a hardship.

We are no longer taking applications through our application portal. Instead of a competitive application process, we will simply accept the first 30 people who complete the registration process and pay the registration fee. This provides an opportunity to attend for individuals who might otherwise not make it through our ordinary application process, which is highly competitive.

The registration fee will be $1000 (or $900 for people who register by April 15). The registration fee will cover 6 nights in a single occupancy hotel room (arriving July 7 and departing July 13), daily breakfast at the hotel, a catered lunch for each day of the workshop, and a group dinner. Hotel parking is not included. You must pay the registration fee with a credit card when you register. There are no exceptions to the registration fee policy.

Registration is now open at https://na.eventscloud.com/793175.

Given that we will accept the first 30 registrants, we encourage you to register as soon as possible. Registration will close on May 20, but we anticipate that the workshop will be filled up long before then.

You must pay for your own transportation to Davis. Davis is approximately 20 minutes away from the Sacramento Airport (SMF). You can take the Davis Airporter shuttle service or a rideshare service from SMF to Davis. If you are coming from outside North America, you may want to fly into the San Francisco airport (SFO), which is 135 km (84 miles) from Davis. We recommend taking the Davis Airporter from SFO to Davis.

Only 30 participants can be accepted each year, and we usually impose a limit of one participant from a given laboratory per year. Successful applicants are typically graduate students, medical students, postdocs, medical residents/fellows, PhD-level research scientists, or faculty. We do not ordinarily accept individuals who have not yet started or completed a doctoral program (e.g., undergraduates and research assistants). We are committed to providing opportunities to individuals from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups. Click the button at the bottom of this page to apply (once the application portal opens in early January).

Our primary criterion in selecting participants is the likelihood that an individual will go on to conduct and publish important research with the ERP technique. We therefore consider factors such as your prior publication record (relative to your career stage), your previous training, the nature of the questions you plan to address with ERPs, and whether you have easy access to an ERP recording system.  We also place strong emphasis on the diversity of the participants, and we try to achieve a balance of basic and clinical/translational research interests.

The UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp provides a deep exploration of ERPs, not a superficial overview.  We therefore expect that pre-faculty participants (e.g., graduate students, postdocs) have accumulated at least 1 year of intensive experience with ERPs or related techniques prior to applying. We are more flexible about the level of experience for faculty participants.

The application consists of:

  • Online demographic information questionnaire

  • Curriculum Vitae

  • 1-2 page statement of background and interests

  • Letter of Recommendation (required for students, postdocs, and anyone else who is not an independent researcher)

 All materials should be submitted in PDF format.

Cost and Scholarship Information

Our NIH funding allows us to provide scholarships that cover most or all of the costs (including travel, housing, and a small food allowance). There is no separate application form for scholarships.  Everyone who is accepted into the boot camp automatically receives a scholarship. We typically accept 25-27 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, along with 3-5 international participants. 

The application portal for the 2024 ERP Boot Camp is NOT open. Applications are ordinarily due by March 15, 2024 and admissions decisions will be sent out approximately one month later. Click the button below to apply. If you have questions, please contact erpbootcamp@gmail.com.