Lua Koenig, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be practicing her dissertation defense: "The neural mechanisms of unconscious and illusory touch perception".

The Neuroscience PhD program will be hosting a (virtual) meet and greet for the incoming 2020 Neuroscience PhD students. Graduate Center Dean of Science, Dr. Joshua Brumberg, and the Neuroscience program liaison, Dr. Hysell Oviedo, will be attending briefly to address any questions and concerns. The rest of the event …

Sapir Soker-Elimaliah, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Developmental Psychology program, will be presenting her research project: "The Relationship Between Autonomic Activity, Sensory Reactivity, and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder".

Daniel Brennan, a 2nd year PhD student in the Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be presenting his Master's Thesis: "Morphometrical brain markers of sex difference". Daniel's thesis was recently published as a first-author pre-print. Check it out here.

Nora Awadallah, a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Neuroscience program, will be presenting a journal club article: "Journal Club: NOD2 Modulates Serotonin Transporter and Interacts with TLR2 and TLR4 in Intestinal Epithelial Cells". Reading the paper beforehand is NOT required. Link to paper here.

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.