Chicago Chapter 2011 Annual Meeting

We thank our keynote speaker Dr. James Herman, University of Cincinati for his presentation on the “Orchestrating the Stress Response: A Symphone in B (or F)”.



The Presidential Symposium on “Consequences of Stress on the CNS” was chaired by Dr. Evan Stubbs Jr. and Dr. Toni Pak, with presentations from Dr. Randall Sakai, The University of Cincinnati , Dr. Tanja Jovanovic, Emory University School of Medicine, and Dr. Cara Wellman, University of Indiana University. We greatly appreciate their participation.

 


During the afternoon two concurrent symposia were organized by Dr. Konrad Kording and Dr. Joanna Bakowska on “Systems and Computational Neuroscience” and Dr. Beth Stutzmann
and Dr. Robert Marr on “Molecular Advancements in Alzheimer’s Disease”.

 

We thank all the excellent speakers of these three sessions:
Dr. Jay Gottfried, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University
Dr. David Freeman, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago
Dr. Nelson Spruston, , Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University
Dr. Gopal Thinakaran, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago
Dr. Orly Lazarov, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Yoshitaka Ishii, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Congratulations to the winners of the Graduate Student Poster Competition:

 

First Place ($200 plus nomination for travel award to 2010 SfN)
Michael Alpert, S. T. Alford
The Impact of NMDAR-induced calcium signals in locomotion
University of Illinois at Chicago

Second Place ($100)
Randy Leitermann, M.R. DeJoesph, and J.H. Urban
Indentification of Extrinsic sources of Neruopeptide Y (NPY) input to the rat basolateral amygdaloid complex (BLA) and regulation by conditioned contestual fear
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Third Place ($50)
Vivian Wai Chong Wong, Nicole E. Tucci, Kerstin A. Ford, James E. McCutcheon, Michela Marinelli
Adolescent rats are more vulnerable to cocaine self administration that adults
Rosalind Franklin Universtiy of Medicine and Science

Congratulations to the winners of the Postdoc Poster Competition:

 

First Place ($200 plus nomination for travel award to 2010 SfN)
Eric Norstrom C. Zhang, R. Tanzi, S.S. Sisodia
Identification of NEEP21 as a ß-amyloid precursor protein-interacting protein in vivo that modulates amyloidogenic processing in vitro3
University of Chicago

Second Place ($100)
James McCutcheon, X. Wang, K.Y. Tseng, M.E. Wolf, M. Marinelli
Calciu-Permeable AMPA receptors are present in nucleus accumbens synapses after long withdrawal from cocaine self-administration but not experimenter-administered cocaine
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Third Place ($50)
Kevin Corcoran, Natalie Tronson, Yomayra Guzman, Can Gao, Anita L. Guedea, Jelena Radulovic
Retraspenial cortex is necessary for retrieval of recent and remote contextual fear memory.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

 

Congratulations to the winners of the Undergrad Poster Competition:

First Place ($200)
Steven Lance, L. Ferguson, Kevin McDonough, Aleksandr Pevtsov, Dorothy Kozlowski, Theresa A. Jones
Rehabilitation regimen Influences Behaviroal Recovery and Neuroprotection Following a Controlled Cortical Impact (CCI)
DePaul University


Second Place ($100)
Madhavi Senagolage, Jaime Perez, Alexandra Ayala, Shubhik DebBurman
Genetic Support for Endocytosis as Degradation routhe for A-Synuclein, the Parkinson’s Disease Protein
Lake Forest College


Third Place ($50)
Tim Lazicki, Jeffrey David Lewine, John Ebersole
Former long term smokers show decreased auditory sensory gating as recorded by MEG: implications on auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia
Dominican Uniersity and the Alexian Brothers MEG Center

Aleksandr Pevtsov, Lindsay Ferguson, Steven Lance, Kevin McDonough, Theresa A. Jones, Dorothy A. Kozlowski
Forelimb constraint, exercise and motor rehabilitation training decreases deficits in manual dexterity in a rodent model of traumatic brain injury
DePaul University

Congratulations to the winners of the Graduate Symposium Competition:

 

 

First Place ($200)
Steven Graves, Xiu-Ti Hu, T. Celeste Napier
Serotonin 2C Receptor INverse Agonism Enhances Excitability
Rush University Medical Center

 

Second Place ($100)
Jason Jacoby, S. Alford, H. Qian, M. Kreitzer, R.P. Malchow
Testing the H+ Hypothesis of feedback inhibition from horizontal cells to bertebrate photoreceptors: A tale of two techniques
Univeristy of Illinois, Chicago

 

Third Place ($50)
Shreaya Chakroborty, Grace Stutsmann
Early neuronal calcium dysregulation in AD: setting the stage for synaptic dysfunction
Rosaline Franklin University of Medicine and Science

 

 

Many thanks to Dr. Irina Calin-Jageman, Dr. Scott Counts, Dr. Shubhik DebBurman and Dr. Leslie Matuszewich for organizing these competitions.
The organization committee is very grateful for the on-site help of many students and post-docs during this meeting. Without your help the resounding success of our 2011 Annual Meeting would not have been possible!

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