ENCORE Seminar Series

ENCORE (Emory Neuroscience Candidates' Ongoing REsearch)

Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule

February 5, 2013

Room: Whitehead 500
Time: 4:30 PM, refreshments at 4:15
James Burkett: "The neurobiology of consoling behavior in prarie voles"
Leila Myrick: "Pathogenesis of novel FMR1 variants in Fragile X Syndrome"

March 5, 2013

Room: Whitehead 500
Time: 4:30 PM, refreshments at 4:15
Damon Lamb: "Leeches? We don't need no stinking leeches; modeling motor neurons"
T.C. Deveau: "Induced pluripotent stem cell therapy for ischemic stroke"

April 2, 2013

Room: Whitehead 500
Time: 4:30 PM, refreshments at 4:15
Ming-fai Fong: "Spikes vs. Squirts: Triggers for homeostatic synaptic plasticity"
Mallory Bowers: "Interactions between the endocannabinoid and cholecystokinin systems mediating extinction of cued fear"

May 7, 2013

Room: Whitehead 500
Time: 4:30 PM, refreshments at 4:15
Karen Murray: "Variations in behavioral effects due to the absence of escitalopram's putative allosteric site on the serotonin transporter in a transgenic mouse model"
Ariana Mullin: "BLOC-1 regulation of synaptic activity"

Fall 2012 Seminar Schedule

October 2, 2012

David Ehrlich
Lani King

November 6, 2012

Becky Meyer: "GPR37 and GPR37L1: New mechanisms for neuroprotection"
Abraham Mathai: "Corticosubthalamic pathway in normal versus parkinsonian non-human primates"

December 4, 2012

Steve Ryan: "Synchronized inhibition and membrane potential oscillations in the basolateral amygdala"
Callie McGrath: "FDG-PET predictors of antidepressant response"

Faculty Research Interests: Behavioral NS Computational NS Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental NS Neuropharmacology Neurological & Psychiatric Diseases Motor Control & Movement Science Systems NS

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S. Potter Lab - A stimulation headstage (circuit) designed by Neuroscience student John Rolston (now an alumni)

S. Sanyal Lab - Single neuromuscular synapse formed by two motor neurons stained for synaptotagmin (red) and expressing GFP in one motor neuron (green)

L. Young Lab - Monogamous prairie vole family

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