Society for Neuroscience - Graduate Student Travel Awards


2007 Society for Neuroscience Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award Winners

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Adam Bachstetter
Tampa Bay Area Chapter

 


Linda Barter
University of California, Davis Chapter


 


Brenda Bingham
British Columbia Chapter

Intravenous injection of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Cells in aged Rats Increased Proliferation of the Endogenous Hippocampal Progenitor Cells

 

Anesthetic effects on spinal projection neurons

 

Neonatal aromatase inhibition and androgen receptor blockade attenuates HPA habituation to repeated restraint exposure in adult male rats


Leigh Botly 
Southern Ontario Chapter

 


Seth Bouvier
UCLA Chapter

 


Jonathan Brouillette
Montreal Chapter

Acetylcholine, attention, and feature binding: A cross-species investigation

 

Attentional enhancement of neural activity in early visual cortex is delayed


 

Role of transthyretin in the expression of the Alzheimer’s phenotype in TgCRND8 mouse model


William Bullock
New Mexico Chapter

 


Gonzalo Cancino
Chile Chapter

 


Christopher Ciarleglio
Middle Tennessee Chapter

Altered levels of cerebellar GABAergic markers, neuromodulators, and NMDA receptor subunits indicate a defective Golgi-granule cell circuit in patients with schizophrenia

 

STI571 Administration Prevents Neuronal Apoptosis, Tau Phosphorylation and Learning Impairments Induce by Aß Fibrils

 

Seasonal encoding in mouse (Mus Musculus) SCN


Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari
Miami Chapter

 


Victoria Fry
British, London Chapter

 


Jacob Garza
San Antonio Chapter

 

Spinal cord injury activates the NALP1 inflammasome in neurons, and ASC neurtralization improves histopathological and functional outcomes

  The highs and lows of microglial glutathione  

RNAi-mediated silencing of the melanocortin-4 receptor in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus increases food intake and body weight


Amanda George
Central Virginia Chapter

 


Nicholas Graziane
Buffalo Chapter

 


Alexander Harris
New York Mainland Chapter

Response to metabotropic glutamate receptor ligands is altered in malformed epileptogenic cortex

 

Intracellular Mechanisms Underlying the Regulation of GABAA Receptors by Dopamine D4 Receptors

 

The Role of Extrasynaptic NMDA Receptors in Plasticity


Ashley Hood
Houston Area Chapter

 


Michael Jutras
Atlanta Chapter

 


Christina Karns
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Exogenous Covert Orienting of Attention in Parkinson’s Disease

 

Recognition Memory Signals in the Primate Hippocampus

 

Electrophysiological evidence that intermodal auditory, visual, and tactile attention modulates early stages of neural processing


Stephen Kemp
Calgary Chapter

 


Cynthia Kenmuir
Bowling Green Toledo Chapter

 


Euiseok Kim
Dallas Area Chapter

Collagen Nerve Guide Conduits Promote Enhanced Axonal Regeneration, Schwann Cell Association, and Neovascularization Superior to Silicone tubes in Both Short and Long Gap Models of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

 

Evidence for the involvement of ephrins and Ephs in the guidance of peripheral somatosensory system

 

Adult neural progenitors defined by Ascl1 become permanent mature neurons and glia in vivo


Mary Beth Klinger
Vermont Chapter

 


Benedict Kolber
Central Missouri Chapter

 


Yudan Liu
Newfoundland Chapter

p75NTR expression and function in urinary bladder afferent pathways in female rats and plasticity with cyclophosphamide (CYP)-induced cystitis

 

Amygdalar glucocoticoid receptor disruption attenuates emotional learning

 

Role of protein kinase C in mediating AMPA- NMDA- and carbachol-induced excitation of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area


Christopher Liverman
Kansas City Chapter

 


Jorge Lopez
Mississippi Chapter

 


Mary Jo Maciejewski
Milwaukee Chapter

Estrogen increases orofacial pain through ERK activation in the trigeminal ganglion: evidence for a peripheral mechanism of secondary hyperalgesia

 

Rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) is an endogenous source of activity contributing to hippocampal neural circuit formation and stabilization

 

Validity of fMRI as an Indicator of Visual Cortex Function


Kristy McClellan
Front Range Chapter

 

 


Caitlin McOmish
Melbourne, Australia Chapter


 


James Monaghan
Bluegrass Chapter

Possible role for GABA in the development of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

 

Phospholipase C-ß1 knockout mice exhibit behavioral and cellular endophenotypes modeling schizophrenia which are rescued by environmental enrichment

 

Microarray analysis of nerve-dependency during limb regeneration in the Mexican axolotl


Anna Moore
Connecticut Chapter

 


Duncan Mortimer
Brisbane, Australia Chapter

 


Todd Nolan
Eastern Carolina Chapter

Electrical Excitability of Young Neurons in the Human Fetal Cerebral Cortex

 

A Bayesian model of growth cone gradient detection

 

Supraspinal protein kinase C (PKC) protein expression is altered in rats with post-spinal cord injury pain behaviors


Andrea Nolen
Riverside/Inland Empire Chapter


 


John Panos
Michigan Chapter


 


Suzan Parhizgar
West Texas Chapter

Anatomical correlates for rapid physiological plasticity in adult rat S1: intra- versus inter-representational thalamocortical axon terminations  

Effects of amphetamine on locomotor activity and nucleus accumbens dopamine levels following chronic dietary lead exposure in Fisher 344 rats

 

Inhibition of iNOS expression through HO-1 in indomethacin treated C6 glioma cells


Courtney Pinard
South Carolina Chapter


 


Sandra Saavedra
Oregon Chapter


 


Lorena Saavedra Rodriguez
Puerto Rico Chapter

Dopaminergic innervation of interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala

 

Eye hand interactions in typically developing children and children with cerebral palsy

 

Molecular Profiling of Memory Consolidation of Conditioned Taste Aversion: DNA Recombination Pathways


Kelly Shen
Kingston Chapter

 


Max Sizemore
Pacific Cascade Chapter

 


Avery Soderman
Philadelphia Chapter

Effects of image composition on parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in superior colliculus

 

Noradrenergic and GABAB receptors modulate intrinsic excitatory and inhibitory synapses in nucleus RA in zebra finches

 

MU OPIOID receptors in the nucleus accumbens but not the ventral tegmental area are necessary for cocaine-induced conditioned reward


Prabakaran Soundararajan
Halifax Chapter

 


Jessica Stanis
Central Illinois Chapter

 


Georgette Suidan
Ohio Miami Valley Chapter

Embryonic stem (ES) cell derived epaxial motoneurons require fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) activation for target innervation

 

Repeated amphetamine exposure alters the function of medial prefrontal cortex neurons and delay-discounting behavior

 

Rapid induction of VEGF by CD8 T cells precedes CNS vascular permeability


Kereshmeh Taravosh-Lahn
University of Texas, Austin Chapter

 


John Thompson
North Florida Chapter

 


Srinivasan Venkatachalan
Wisconsin Chapter

The role of the serotonergic system on the development of agnostic behavior in golden hamsters

 

Auditory-dependent song recovery in adult male zebra finches is facilitated by lesion of a basal-ganglia forebrain vocal circuit

  Disruption of ß2 K102-T110, a region that links the GABA-A receptor’s agonist binding site to the inner ß-sheet domain, impairs channel activation


Zachary Weil
Central Ohio

 


Christopher Whitaker
Louisville Chapter

 
Junping Xin
Chicago Chapter
Circadian variation in global ischemia outcomes  

Identification of exchange protein directly activated by cAMP within the adult rat retina

  Impact of facial nerve axotomy on BDNF and GDNF production by CD 4+ T cells

Julia Zhu
Midlands Chapter
       

T Cells Increases Synaptogenesis Through Astroglial Activation


       

 



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