Kimberly Page, and 8th year PhD candidate in the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience program, will be discussing a chapter from her thesis: "Ectopic hippocampal adult neurogenesis following mold exposure".

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.