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NEUROLUNCH SCHEDULE

                                                        Academic Year Fall ‘08/Spring ’09

 SEMINARS ARE FROM NOON until 1PM  on
 WEDNESDAYS in NE401 Med/Dent
EXCEPT WHERE NOTED!

  Click month to see the schedule for:
  OctoberNovember, December, January, February, March, April, May

*The first scheduled presentations in each semester will be given by new students just  starting in the program.  They will present techniques learned or data generated in their rotations.  Each talk will be approximately 10-12 minutes with a 5 minute question and answer period.  For information regarding the structure of these talks, click here.

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Friday
September 5th
IPN Retreat
Prince William Forest




 

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  Sheeva Azma                                   Rotation talks
Michael Ortiz
Patty Washington
TJ Krafnick
Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser
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Sonya Dumanis                                Rotation talks
Rachel Wurzman
Lauren Orefice
Nancy Cowdin
Mark Niedringhaus
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Saturday
September 6th
IPN Retreat
Prince William Forest

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Monika Mellem                            Rotation posters
Brandon Martin
many others


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Sept 10th   Ana Pocivavsek, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"ApoE Modulation of CNS Inflammation"
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Sept 17th   Amber Leaver, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Cortical representation of auditory "objects""
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Sept 24th   Elizabeth Lacey, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "Maintenance of New Learning in Aphasia Rehabilitation"
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Oct 1st   Angela Holmes, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "The control of non-human primate motor behavior"
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Oct 8th   Tom Naumann, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
 
“Responses of the Amygdala to Social Calls: Auditory
Cues for Adaptive Behavior”
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Oct 15th   Laura Cocas, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
 
"Cellular and Molecular Interactions at the Telencephalic Cortico-Striatal Border During Embryonic Development"
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Oct 22nd   Ericka Ruiz, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
  "Understanding what captures the ADHD brain's attention"
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Oct 29th   Hilary North, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
 
"Eph-ephrin Signaling and Progenitor Cell
Proliferation during Cortical Development"
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Nov 5th   Melissa Herman, Graduate Student, Thesis

 
 
"Mu-opioid signaling in the NTS influences gastric function by altering local GABA activity"
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Nov 12th   Filip Vanevski, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Regulation of Local BDNF Synthesis in Dendrites"
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Nov 19th   NO SEMINAR - Society for Neuroscience Meeting
     
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Nov 26   NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving
     
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Dec 3rd   Danielle Evers, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Serum inducible kinase (SNK/Plk2) binding to NSF promotes decreased surface AMPA receptors"
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Dec 10th   Stephanie Maxfield Panker, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Enhancing the beneficial effects of upper extremity visuomotor training with tDCS"
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Dec 17th   - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY   (time to get experiments done)
Dec 24th   - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY   (time to get experiments done)
Dec 30   - NEW YEARS HOLIDAY   (time to get experiments done)
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* Jan 7th


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  Sheeva Azma                                   Rotation talks
TJ Krafnick
Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser
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* Jan 14th
 

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  Sonya Dumanis                                Rotation talks
Rachel Wurzman
Lauren Orefice
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* Jan 21st


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  Patty Washington                            Rotation talks
Nancy Cowdin
Mark Niedringhaus
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Jan 28th   Mary Adedoyin, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"The role of N-acetylaspartyl glutamate (NAAG) in inflammatory pain"
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Feb 4th   Mark Chevillet, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Categorization in the Human Auditory System"
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Feb 11th   Sakura Minami, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"The role of Fyn in the pathogenic processes of Alzheimer's disease"
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Feb 18th   Jeremy Purcell, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"The Neural Substrates Underlying Both Reading and Spelling"
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Feb 25th   Emily Waterhouse, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Obesity susceptibility: how dendritically synthesized BDNF controls energy balance"
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Mar 4th   Scott Paluszkiewicz, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Dysfunctional Inhibitory Circuits in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome"
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Mar 11th    
     
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Mar 18th   Iain DeWitt, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Of sonorants and fricatives: investigating segmental speech processing"
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Mar 25th   Meredith Clifford, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Stage Specific Eph/ephrin Interactions in Neuronal Maturation"
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Apr 1st   Elizabeth West, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Corticolimbic circuitry involved in evaluating reward"
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Apr 8th   Li Feng, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"The role of gene and environment interaction in Parkinson's Disease"
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Apr 15th    
     
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Apr 22nd   Patrick Forcelli, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Anticonvulsants and Seizures in the Basal Ganglia and Limbic System"
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Apr 29th   Evan Gordon, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Effect of COMT polymorphism on functional organization during working memory"
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May 6th   Michael Ortiz, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Categorical structure of natural sounds in response patterns of neuronal populations in rhesus monkey auditory cortex"
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May 13th   Leah Lozier, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Emotional face processing in children with autism spectrum disorders using real-world stimuli"
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May 20th   Brandon Martin, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Rescue of Inhibitory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Fragile-X Syndrome"
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May 27th   Dawn Joseph, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Investigating the effects of novel sodium channel inhibitors in a rat model of neuropathic pain"
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Jun 3rd   Monika Mellem, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Brain oscillatory dynamics in lexical-semantic processing"
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Jun 10th   Tanya Gerner, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"The Development of Numerical Representation"
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Jun 16th   Clara Scholl, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
TUESDAY  
"Investigating the dynamics, plasticity and automaticity of human object recognition"
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June 17th   Brian Wolff, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
   
"Modulating In Vitro Sleep Spindles Using Applied Electric Fields"
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June 23th   Lauren Ullrich, Graduate Student, Thesis
TUESDAY  
"Recognition memory in mild cognitive impairment"
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June 24th   Drew Emery, Graduate Student, Thesis
   
"Neuroprotective Signaling Through Metabotropic
  Glutamate Receptor 1"
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