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.