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 Professional - 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. Michelle 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): Isabella Palazzo
Title: Wnt-signalling and the formation of Muller glia-derived progenitors in the chick retina
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
Adivsor(s): Dr. Philip Popovich
Category: Health Professions - Laboratory/Cellular
Place: 4th
Presenter(s): Alanna Dkyo, 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
