Research in Progress
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”.
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Research in Progress
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".
Research in Progress
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".
Invited Speaker
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.
Invited Speaker
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.
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.
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".