BrainE Hour Holiday Party!
Join us on December 17th, 2020 for our Holiday Party! We will have a raffle for students in the BrainE community to have a chance to win $50 gift cards for food delivery services and groceries.
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Science Communication
Regis Shanley, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting some tips for talks and science communication.
Research in Progress
Jasmine Pathan, a 2nd year PhD student in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Mechanisms of interneuronal viability post spinal cord injury".
Research in Progress
Regis Shanley, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Estrogen and estrous cycle modulation of the ventral tegmental area".
Journal Club
Atanas Stankov, a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience Program, will be presenting a journal club article: "A diversity of interneurons and Hebbian plasticity facilitate rapid compressible learning in the hippocampus". Paper: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/70274/2/Nicola19.pdf
Dissertation Defense Preparation
Chelsea Reichert, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her dissertation defense: "Examining the Transient Neural Dynamics Underlying Working Memory Maintenance for Complex Visual Stimuli".
Research in Progress
Emily Birnbaum, a 2nd year PhD student in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Repurposing BT-11 for Alzheimer's disease".
Dissertation Defense Preparation
Jessica Buthmann, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her dissertation defense: "Stress in Pregnancy--How Superstorm Sandy has affected the health and mental well being of mothers and their children".
Second Level Exam Practice
Claudia Jou, a 3rd year PhD student in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be practicing for her second level exam: "A critical test of the Synaptic Plasticity and Memory hypothesis".
Research in Progress
Yuka Miura, a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Circuit-Specific Mechanisms of Stress Adaptation in the Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis".
Issues with Student Paychecks
Regis Shanley, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting data on issues with student paychecks and gaps in funding.
Research in Progress
Katie Anderson, a 2nd year PhD student in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting her research in progress: "Examining Neural Circuits Involved in Songbird Vocal Learning".