ENCORE Seminar Series

ENCORE (Emory Neuroscience Candidates' Ongoing REsearch)

Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule - Scroll down for the Spring 2012 Schedule

* Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are at 4:00 pm in Whitehead Room 300
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm.

September 6, 2011 (Will be held in Whitehead Room 600):
Kalynda Gonzales (Advisor: Yoland Smith and Thomas Wichmann)
"GABAergic Microcircuitry of Cholinergic Interneurons in the Monkey Striatum"

Alisha Epps (Advisor: David Weinshenker)
"Epileptogenesis in a Rodent Model of Depression and Epilepsy Co-morbidity: A Behavioral Analysis"

October 11, 2011
Santiago Archila (Advisor: Astrid Prinz)
"Long-term Tracking of Activity-Dependent Dynamics in an Identified Central Pattern Generator Synapse"

Brittany Howell (Advisor: Mar Sanchez)
"Effects of Adverse Early Care on the Brain and Behavior"

November 8, 2011
Charity Duran (Advisor: Criss Hartzell)
"The Role of Chloride Channels in BVMD"

Amanda Caster (Advisor: Rick Kahn)
"Adaptors and Sorting Motifs Involved in Amyloid Precursor Protein Export from the Golgi"

December 13, 2011
Erin Hecht (Advisor: Lisa Parr)
"Neural Adaptations for Social Learning: Connectivity and Responsivity of the Mirror System in Macaques, Chimpanzees, and Humans"

Teresa Madsen (Advisor: Donald Rainnie)
"Neural Oscillations Underlying Fear Memory"

Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

February 14, 2012
Lucy Guillory (Advisors: Charles Nemeroff and Becky Kinkead)
"The Role of Neurotensin in the Maintenance of Cortical and Striatal Dopaminergic Tone: Implications for Sensorimotor Gating"

Sara Freeman (Advisor: Larry Young)
"Characterization of Oxytocin Receptors in the Primate Brain"

March 13, 2012
Rachael Allen (Advisors: Don Stein and Machelle Pardue)
"Visual Consequences of Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Rats"

Chris Makinson (Advisor: Andrew Escayg)
"Understanding the Role of the Voltage Gated Sodium Channel Scn8a in Epilepsy and Behavior"

April 10, 2012
Monica Chau (Advisor: Ling Wei)
"iPS Cell Transplantation as a Treatment for Ischemic Stroke"

Debra Cooper (Advisors: Leonard Howell and David Weinshenker)
"Effects of Dopamine Beta-Hydroxylase (DBH) Inhibition on Cocaine-Induced Reinstatement"

May 8, 2012
Jeanne McKeon (Advisor: Lian Li)
"Regulation of Parkinson's Disease Linked UCH-L1 Protein by Ubiquitination"

Nikki Sawyer (Advisor: Andrew Escayg)
"Stress and Epilepsy: How a Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel (Scn8a) Mutation Affects the Stress Response and Seizure Outcome"

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