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Graduate Student Travel Awards

2008 Society for Neuroscience Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

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Timothy Allen
Connecticut Chapter

 


Trevor Balena
Southern Ontario Chapter


 


LoriBeth Bennett Philadelphia Chapter

Simultaneous single-unit recordings from rat perirhinal cortex and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex during trace fear conditioning

 

Calcium dynamics during the induction of inhibitory synaptic plasticity

 

Studies of circumentricular organs: potential sites for adult neural stem cells in the brain


Amin Boroujerdi 
UC Irvine Chapter

 


Robyn Brown
Melbourne, Australia Chapter

 


Katie Bullinger Ohio Miami Valley Chapter

Ca2+ channel a2d-1 & thrombospondin-4 proteins in spinal synaptogenesis: a novel mechanism of neuropathic pain?

 

Decreased morphine reward but not morphine-seeking in adenosine A2A receptor knockout mice

 

Oxaliplatin chemotheraphy alters encoding behavior of proprioceptive afferents


Corrie Camalier
Middle Tennessee Chapter

 


Adrian Carter
Brisbane, Australia Chapter

 


Tara Ann Cartwright
East Carolina Chapter

Modulation rate tuning of LFPs in macaque auditory cortex: comparison to single unit data

 

Can addicts consent to research that administers their drug of addiction?

 

Activity of a critical neuronal K+ channel is regulated by atypical N-glycans


Mohati Desai
Bluegrass Chapter

 


Holly Swain Ewald
Louisville Chapter

 


John Frampton Hudson Berkshire Chapter

 

Roles of the sodium calcium exchanger (NCX), the plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase (PMCA) and the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) in synaptic transmission at the crayfish and Drosophila neuromuscular junctions

  MK-801 disrupts zebrafish shoaling: a model for decreased social behavior in schizophrenia?  

Effects of glial cells on electrode imedance recorded from neural prosthetic devices in vitro


Michael Galic
Calgary Chapter

 


David Gire
Rocky Mountain Chapter

 


John Graef
Western North Carolina Chapter

Postnatal inflammation increases seizure susceptibility in adult rats

 

Mechanisms by which the glomerular microcircuit determines the output of olfactory bulb glomeruli

 

Functional upregulation of the CaV3.2 (T-type) calcium channel during alcohol withdrawal


Vivek Gautam
Midlands Chapter

 


Diego Gutnisky
Houston Chapter

 


Madeleine Hackney
St. Louis Chapter

Direct physical coupling of the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor subunit Nr2d with post-synaptic adapter protein Homer

 

Adaptive coding of visual information in neural populations

 

The effects of American Ballroom and Argentine Tango Dance on motor control and locomotion in those with Parkinson Disease


Rebecca Hakvoort Schwerdtfeger Kingston Chapter

 


Kate Harms
New Mexico Chapter

 


D. Sesath Hewapathirane British Columbia Chapter

Using fMRI to examine the neural correlates of executive functions in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

 

Neural stem/progenitor cells display a glycolytic phenotype under aerobic conditions and are resistant to mitochondrial inhibition

 

Seizures inhibit dendritic growth: in vivo imaging of the intact brain in a novel developmental seizure model


Sloka Iyengar
South Carolina Chapter

 


Brian Jarecki
Indianapolis Chapter

 


Hope Johnson
UCLA Chapter

Breakdown of neuregulin/ErbB mediated regulation of synaptic plasticity following status epilepticus

 

Nav1.7 exon 5A splice variants moderately increase ramp current elicited for PEPD mutant channel (I1461T) compared to the 5N form

 

Pattern completion and network plasticity in cortical networks in vitro


Patty Kandalepas
Central Illinois Chapter

 


Hope Elizabeth Karnes Nicely
Kansas City Chapter

 


Teh-Sheng Ma
UT Austin Chapter

Glutamate-induced actin reorganization and transcriptional regulation of the clock genes Per 1 and Per 2 in the SCN

 

Differential gene expression in chick cochlear nucleus neurons following deafferentation

 

Female mate selection: Dopamine-deficient male rat ultrasonic mating calls are less attractive


Kurt Marsden
Mainland New York Chapter

 

 


Terina Martinez
Dallas Chapter


 


Andrew Maurer
Tucson Chapter

Redistribution of CaMKII to inhibitory synapses following NMDA receptor activation

 

Adipose derived adult stromal cell transplants repair rat spinal cord contusion injury by modulating extra cellular matrix proteins

 

Temporal compression in precessing neuronal ensembles increases with running speed


Meredith Noetzel Minnesota Voyagers Chapter

 


Andrea Peterson Miami Chapter

 


Shweta Puntambekar
Riverside/Inland Empire Chapter

Effects of long-term exposure of M3 muscarinic receptors to xanomeline on receptor activation

 

Novel compounds that overcome inhibition of CNS regeneration

 

Age-related changes in microglial phenotype and CNS inflammatory responses: implications for susceptibility and treatment of chronic neuroinflammation


Kristen Rahn
Central Pennsylvania Chapter


 


Shilpa Ramaswamy
Chicago Chapter


 


Reno Reyes
Birmingham Chapter

Low dose naltrexone (LDN) and opioid growth factor (OGF) prevent or delay experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE)  

AAV-Neurturin gene therapy (Cere-120) in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease - pre-symptomatic, post-symptomatic and survival studies

 

The mitochondria modulate Ca2+-dependent glutamate release from rat cortical astrocytes


Marcos Santibañez
Chile Chapter


 


Jesse Schank
Atlanta Chapter


 


Kathryn Seely
Arkansas Chapter

Desipramine prevents both bed nucleus of the stria terminalis neuronal atrophy and enhanced anxiety-like behavior induced by repeated immobilization stress

 

Disulfiram inhibits cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats

 

The polyphenols curcumin, ASC-J9 and resveratrol bind CB1 cannabinoid receptors with nanomolar affinities and function as antagonists/inverse antagonists


Katharine Seip New Jersey Chapter

 


Nicholas Simon
Texas A&M Chapter

 


Kathleen Spears
Central Missouri Chapter

Reflecting on the Science Communication Consortium - how and why should neuroscientists care about communication?

 

A rat model of risky decision-making: the role of dopamine in balancing risk and reward

 

Regulatory T-cells and neuralized embryonic stem cells as a combinatorial transplant therapy for neurodegenerative diseases


Laura Stenton Madison Chapter

 


Kimberly Thompson
Appalachian Chapter

 


Sharmila Venugopal
Central Ohio Chapter

Fast-spiking interneurons in the dentate gyrus are tuned to specific frequencies of perforant path input

 

Dopamine D2 receptor priming enhances locomotor activation and dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core in response to amphetamine

 

Role for Ih and IA in altering the post-inhibitory responses in a lick/gape pattern generator


Patrice Voss
Montréal Chapter

 


Kathryn Waimey
UC Davis Chapter

 


Bryan White
Pacific Cascade Chapter

The caudate nucleus and spatial navigation in the blind

 

The role of small GTPases in semaphorin-mediated axon guidance

  Wnt/ß-catenin signaling is increased in glial progenitors and reactive astrocytes following traumatic brain injury in the adult mouse


Ning Wu
New Orleans Chapter

 


Yone Jung Yoon
Vermont Chapter

 
Fei Zheng
Michigan Chapter
Rapid glucocotricoid modulation of the A-type potassium current in hypothalamic magnocellular neurons following chronic dehydration  

Age-dependent changes in motoneuron survival and dendritic outgrowth caused by pharmacological blockade of synaptic activity in the chick spinal cord

  Regulation of BDNF-mediated transcription of immediate early genes by calcium and calmodulin