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.
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.
Regis Shanley, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting some tips for talks and science communication.
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".
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".
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
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".
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".
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".
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".
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".
Regis Shanley, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting data on issues with student paychecks and gaps in funding.
