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First Level Exam Practice

Demetri Neophytou, a 1st year PhD student in the Neuroscience program, will be practicing for his first level exam.

First Level Exam Practice

Rhonda Kolaric, a 1st year student in the Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her first level exam.

Dissertation Defense Practice

Regis Shanley, a 5th year student in the Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her dissertation defense: "Estrogen Modulation of VTA Dopamine Neuron Physiology and Behavioral Responsivity to Variable Social Stressors".

Second Level Exam Practice

Nora Awadallah, a 4th year PhD student in the Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her second level exam: "Characterization of Gbg activation on SERT dynamics in the brain and gastrointestinal tract".

Research in Progress

Emily Birnbaum, a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Repurposing the LANCL2 pathway to treat Alzheimer's Disease".

Research in Progress

Allison Meyers, a 6th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Environmental Regulation of Silent Synapses in the Dorsolateral Striatum".

Research in Progress

Devry Mourra, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting his research in progress: "Satiety’s regulation of striatal signaling".

Research in Progress

Atanas Stankov, a 4th year PhD student in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting his research in progress: "Sources of submillisecond structured temporal synchrony in the rat hippocampus".

Master’s Defense Preparation

Emily Birnbaum, a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her Master's defense: "Targeting LANCL2 to Treat Alzheimer's disease".

BrainE Hour Goals & Ground Rules

BrainE Hour Organizers Jasmine Pathan and Aria Walls will be going over goals and ground rules for BrainE hour in 2023.

Thesis Defense Preparation

Yuka Miura, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her Thesis defense: "Cell-type specific stress adaptation in BNST-VTA circuit".

SciComm Workshop with Denise Croote

BrainE Hour brings together graduate students conducting STEM research at CUNY to develop science communication skills through informal and formal science communication events.   To prepare for BrainE Blitz lightning talks in May, we will have an invited speaker, Denise Croote, PhD, a science communicator and post-doc at the Icahn …