Neurolunch

NEUROLUNCH SCHEDULE

Academic Year Fall ‘09/Spring ’10

SEMINARS ARE FROM NOON until 1PM on
WEDNESDAYS in NE401 Med/Dent

Click month to see the schedule for:
October, November, 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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Sept 2nd		Filip Vanevski, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Regulation of Local BDNF Synthesis in Dendrites"
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Sept 9th		Angela Holmes, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The control of non-human primate motor behavior"
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Friday September 11th IPN Retreat Prince William Forest ___________________		Teal Connor Rotation talks Ghazaul Dezfuli Brannon Green Jessica Ihne Justyna Mach _________________ Lauren Pepe Rotation talks Bridget Queenan Gustavo Rodriguez Misha Smirnov Lauren Stamps _________________
Saturday September 12th IPN Retreat Prince William Forest ___________________		Rotation posters ____________________________________________


Sept 16th		Jeremy Purcell, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The Neural Substrates Underlying Both Reading and Spelling"
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Sept 23rd		Hilary North Scheler, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The role of EphA4 in development of the peripheral trigeminal somatosensory system"
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Sept 30th		Sakura Minami, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The role of Fyn in the pathogenic processes of Alzheimer's disease"
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Oct 7th		Stephanie Maxfield Panker, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Enhancing the beneficial effects of upper extremity visuomotor training with tDCS"
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Oct 14th		Mary Adedoyin, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The role of N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG) in the Amygdala"
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Oct 21st		NO SEMINAR - Society for Neuroscience Meeting

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Nov 4th		Elizabeth West, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Corticolimbic circuitry involved in evaluating reward"
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Nov 11th		Iain DeWitt, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Estimating pattern speciﬁc receptive ﬁelds of intermediate complexity from the probabilities of the linguistic environment"
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Nov 18th		Lauren Ullrich, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Recognition memory in mild cognitive impairment"
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Nov 25		NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving

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Dec 2nd		Scott Paluszkiewicz, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Dysfunctional Inhibitory Circuits in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome"
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Dec 9th		Meredith Clifford, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Stage Specific Eph/ephrin Interactions in Neuronal Maturation"
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Dec 17th		Laurie Glezer, Graduate Student, Thesis
WED 10:00 am Pharm Lib		Thesis Defense Seminar ""
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Dec 16th		Tom Naumann, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Responses of the Amygdala to Social Calls: Auditory Cues for Adaptive Behavior"
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Dec 16th		- CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (time to get experiments done)
Dec 23th		- CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (time to get experiments done)
Dec 30th		- NEW YEARS HOLIDAY (time to get experiments done)
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Jan 6th		Mark Chevillet, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Sound Categorization in Human Auditory Cortex"
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* Jan 13th ____________		Lauren Stamps Rotation talks Misha Smirnov Gustavo Rodriguez __________________________________
* Jan 20th ____________		Bridget Queenan Rotation talks Lauren Pepe Justyna Mach __________________________________
* Jan 27th ____________		Jessica Ihne Rotation talks Brannon Green Ghazaul Dezfuli Teal Connor __________________________________
Feb 3rd		Patrick Forcelli, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Anticonvulsants and Seizures in the Basal Ganglia and Limbic System"
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Feb 10th		Rebekah Feng, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The role of gene and environment interaction in Parkinson's Disease"
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Feb 17th		Emily Waterhouse, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Obesity susceptibility: how dendritically synthesized BDNF controls energy balance"
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Feb 24th		Brian Wolff, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Modulating In Vitro Sleep Spindles Using Applied Electric Fields"
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Mar 3rd		Clara Scholl, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
		"Investigating the dynamics, plasticity and automaticity of human object recognition"
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Mar 10th		Monika Mellem, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Brain oscillatory dynamics in lexical-semantic processing"
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Mar 17th		Brandon Martin, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Rescue of Inhibitory Deficits in a Mouse Model of Fragile-X Syndrome"
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Mar 24th		Leah Lozier, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Emotional face processing in children with autism spectrum disorders using real-world stimuli"
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Mar 31st		Dawn Joseph, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Investigating the effects of novel sodium channel inhibitors in a rat model of neuropathic pain"
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Apr 7th		Evan Gordon, Graduate Student, Thesis

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Apr 14th		Tanya Gerner, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"The Development of Numerical Representation"
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Apr 21st		Drew Emery, Graduate Student, Thesis
		"Neuroprotective Signaling Through Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1"
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Apr 28th		Rachel Wurzman, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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May 5th		Patty Washington, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis
		"Alzheimer's Disease and Traumatic Brain Injury"
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May 12th		Lauren Orefice, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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May 19th		Mark Niedringhaus, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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May 26th		Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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Jun 2nd		Sonya Dumanis, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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Jun 9th		Nancy Cowdin, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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June 16th		Sheeva Azma, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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June 23rd		TJ Krafnick, Graduate Student, Pre-Thesis

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