March 26, 2015
Neuroscience Majors Dominate at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
Nearly 50 neuroscience students presented their research at the university-wide Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Of these fantastic students, a number received recognition for the quality of their presentation and research:
| Category: | Health Professions- Laboratory/Cellular |
| Place: | 1st |
| Presenter(s): | Lindsay Milich |
| Title: | E6020 as an alternative form of TLR4 activation in the naïve rat spinal cord |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Dana McTigue |
| Category: | Social & Behavioral Sciences |
| Place: | 1st |
| Presenter(s): | Alison Butler |
| Title: | Quick to be selfish or quick to cooperate? A meta-analysis of response time asymmetries in social decision-making |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Ian Krajbich |
| Category: | Health Professions- Laboratory/Cellular |
| Place: | 2nd |
| Presenter(s): | Brian Upton |
| Title: | Positive allosteric modulation of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor interacts with mesolimbic stimulation of prefrontal glutamate release |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. John P. Bruno |
| Category: | Health Professions- Laboratory/Cellular |
| Place: | 2nd |
| Presenter(s): | Molly O'Shea |
| Title: | Spinal cord injury: neuropathology well away from the lesion contributes to dysfunction |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Michele Basso |
| Category: | Social & Behavioral Sciences |
| Place: | 3rd |
| Presenter(s): | Morgan Sherer |
| Title: | Gestational stress alters maternal motivation and induces anhedonia, role of dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens shell |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Benedetta Leuner |
| Category: | Biological Sciences |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | Wnt-signaling and the formation of Muller glia-derived progenitors in the chick retina |
| Title: | Isabella Palazzo |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Andy Fischer |
| Category: | Health Professions- Clinical |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | P. Josh Hamer |
| Title: | Mapping motor outcome to the subthalamic nucleus to improve deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Per Sederberg & Dr. Ali Rezai |
| Category: | Health Professions- Laboratory/Cellular |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | Jeremy Maylath |
| Title: | Characterizing the macrophage secretome and its effect on neuronal growth |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Phillip Popovich |
| Category: | Health Professions- Laboratory/Cellular |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | Alanna Dyko, Nicholas Queen |
| Title: | The effects of light at night on immune organ clock gene expression in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Randy Nelson |
| Category: | Psychology |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | Kelsey Ryan |
| Title: | Sex differences in depressive- and anxiety-like behavior in young adult Npas4 heterozygous mice and effects on GABAergic and serotonergic transmission |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Laurence Coutellier |
| Category: | Psychology |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | Shirley Dong |
| Title: | The anxiolytic effect of oxytocin is specific to oxytocin receptors in the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Benedetta Leuner |
| Category: | Social & Behavioral Sciences |
| Place: | 4th |
| Presenter(s): | Emily Mills |
| Title: | Postpartum administration of Citalopram reverses gestational stress-induced depressive-like behavior and structural modifications in the reward pathway |
| Advisor(s): | Dr. Benedetta Leuner |
