Neuroscience Student Forum
All Neuroscience Student Forums are held on Thursdays, at 3:00 PM, in room 301 Erma Byrd BMRC (Biomedical Research Center).
Spring 2020 Schedule
Rachel Hostetler
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Ariel Agmon
Thursday, January 16, 2020
"Distinguising between layer-1 and layer-4 targeting somatostatin interneurons with fast blue dye"
Emily Burrage
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Paul Chantler
Thursday, January 16, 2020
"Cerebrovascular dysfunction with chronic stress"
Jacob Boos
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Werner Geldenhuys
Thursday, February 20, 2020
"The Role of mitoNEET During Paraquat-induced Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration"
Divine Nwafor
Neuroscience, M.D./Ph.D.
Mentor: Dr. Candice Brown
Thursday, February 27, 2020
"A novel role for tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) in brain microvascular endothelial cells"
Sree Motipally
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Saravanan Kolandaivelu
Thursday, March 12, 2020
"PRCD and its role in the maintenance of photoreceptor outer segment structure and function"
Mason McCollum
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Charles Anderson Neuroscience
Thursday, April 9, 2020
"Cortical zinc supports acoustic context in corticocollicular neurons in the auditory cortex"
Tyler McGaughey
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Victor Finomore, Jr.
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Allison White
Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Mentor: Dr. Vincent Setola
Thursday, April 23, 2020
James Scripter
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Eric Tucker
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Kaylynn Coates
Biology
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Dacks
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Fall 2019 Schedule
Dominic Quintana
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. James W. Simpkins
Thursday, September 5, 2019
"Cerebrovascular Pathology in Aging and Disease"
Dr. Omid Dehzangi
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Dr. Rudolph Castellani
Professor, Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine; Professor, Neuroscience;
Rockefeller Neuroscience institute
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Raymond Anderson
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. David M. Smith
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Russell Hardesty
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Valeriya Gritsenko
Thursday, October 10, 2019
"Neuromechanical tuning during voluntary reaching tasks"
Dr. Zachery Weil
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
Thursday, October 17, 2019
"Post-traumatic vulnerability to cerebral ischemia"
Dakota Jackson
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. George Spirou
Thursday, October 24, 2019
"Invaginating structures in mammalian calyx of held nerve terminals"
Jessica Cunningham
Neuroscience, M.D./Ph.D.
Mentor: Dr. Eric Tucker
Thursday, October 31, 2019
"A novel requirement for JNK signaling in axon pathfinding"
Deidre O'Dell
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Bernard Schreurs
Thursday, November 7, 2019
"Manipulating the perineuronal net in anterior interpositus nucleus: Altering the net, altering eyeblink?!"
Catherine Smoot
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Eric Tucker
Thursday, November 21, 2019
"Map3k12 binding inhibitory protein (Mbip) function establishes the appropriate number of cortical interneurons"
Ariel Thomas
Neuroscience
Mentor: Dr. Valeriya Gritsenko
Thursday, December 5, 2019
"Improving post-stroke motor performance through biomechanically-derived postural support"
Skye Smith
Biochemistry
Mentor: Dr. Eric Tucker
Thursday, December 12, 2019
"JNK signaling regulates nucleokinesis, leading process branching, and organelle dynamics in migrating cortical interneurons"