Held on March 25th, the Undergraduate Research Colloquium in Neuroscience featured 29 posters presented by undergraduates engaged in diverse and high-level neuroscience research at OSU. Undergraduate research has become part of the culture here at Ohio State and nowhere is it better represented than in the Neuroscience Program!

The Neuroscience Undergraduate Advising Office is pleased to announce the winners:

Best Thesis Research: Joseph Pochiro

Advisor: Dr. Derick Lindquist

"Two-process account of aversive classical conditioning: amygdala modulation of cerebellar-dependent eyeblink conditioning"

Best Research: Alexander Roszman

Advisor: Dr. Phillip Popovich & Dr. Jodie Hall

"Interleukin-4Rα modulation in the spinal cord and periphery following traumatic spinal cord injury"

Best Proposed Research: Amanda Kaczmarek

Advisor: Dr. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther

"Investigation of the link between the magnocellular pathway and deontological moral judgements"

Research Distinction: James Stieger

Advisor: Dr. David Terman

"Communication in the pre-Botzinger complex"

Research Distinction: Brian Upton

Advisor: Dr. John P. Bruno

"α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation in the mesolimbic- stimulation of prefrontal glutamate release"

All participants did an amazing job- in our eyes, you are all winners!