Our invited speaker, Dennis Tsang, MD, a 3rd year resident at Huntington Hospital, CA will be presenting an interesting clinical case: "Not a simple case of deep neck infection--a case of Langerhans's cell histiocytosis". See Dr. Tsang's Linkedin profile here.
Yuka Miura, a 3rd year PhD student in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her second level exam: "Second Doc Exam prep: Circuit-Specific Mechanisms of Stress Adaptation in the Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis".
Kimberly Page, an 8th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting some newly collected data: "Data analysis feedback: Microglia morphological characterization within dorsomedial hippocampal subregions following mold exposure". Kimberly is looking for data analysis feedback.
Jasmine Pathan, a 2nd year PhD student in the Neuroscience PhD program, will be presenting a research proposal: "Mechanisms of interneuronal viability post spinal cord injury". Jasmine is looking for proposal feedback.
Sapir Soker-Elimaliah, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Developmental Psychology program, will be presenting her recently published first-author paper: "Autistic traits moderate relations between cardiac autonomic activity, interoceptive accuracy, and emotion processing in college students". Huge congrats to Sapir for her first-author publication! Check out Sapir's paper here.
Our invited speaker, Jake Jordan, PhD, is our Neuroscience program alumnus. Jake is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and will be presenting his current research: "Lateralization of Hippocampal Spatial Coding". Check out more of Dr. Jordan's work here.
Sapir Soker-Elimaliah, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Developmental Psychology program, will be presenting her paper currently under review: "Visual Attention and Heart Rate Response to Emotional Faces in Relation to Emotion Recognition in Adults". Sapir is looking for publication feedback.
Jessica Buthmann, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research project: “Prenatal exposure to Superstorm Sandy & child neural development”.
Kurt Masiello, a 2nd year MS student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting his Master's thesis project: "Electrophysiological Markers of Discourse Coherence and Semantic Integration".
Atanas Stankov, a 3rd year PhD student in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting his research project: “Presaccadic visual stimulus affects postsaccadic neural activity during realistic detection task".
Our invited speaker, Chris Guevara, a 3rd year PhD student in neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine will be presenting his research in progress: "Parkinson's disease gene mutation that affects behavioral and synaptic adaptations to acute stress". See Chris's Twitter profile here.
Our invited speaker, Appy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate in Molecular and Cellular Biology at SUNY Downstate will be presenting her research in progress: "Engineering and characterization of protein based theranostic agents for improving chemotherapeutic drug delivery and cancer diagnosis by MRI". See Appy's Linkedin profile here.
