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Research and Poster Symposium 2013

 
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Symposium Agenda      

For the 6th year, the annual Neuroscience Research and Poster Symposium was held at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in Newark, Delaware. The day was kicked off by a Welcome from the 2012 Delaware Neuroscientist of the Year, Jeff Rosen, and remarks and welcome were provided by Leonard Davis, President of the Delaware Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience; Alton Thompson, Provost at Delaware State University; Doug Doren, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at UD; and Kelvin Lee, Director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.   New for the symposium this year was a series of three talks by prominent neuroscientists.  The talks, related to the theme of brain development and plasticity, presented new findings on the neurobiology of autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and mental retardation.   Samuel Wang, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, was the keynote speaker.  His talk on the “Cerebellum, Sensitive Periods, and Autism” led off the day.  He was followed by David M. Diamond, Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, who spoke about “A Novel Perspective on the Involvement of the Hippocampus in Flashbulb & Traumatic Memories."   Michele Jacob, Professor of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine, finished off the first session of the symposium with her talk on “APC protein is essential in forebrain neurons for normal learning and behavior."

The Delaware Chapter for the Society for Neuroscience made their annual pick for the Delaware Neuroscientist of the Year.   Dr. Robert Akins, Director of the Center for Pediatric Clinical Research & Development at Nemours - Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, was named Neuroscientist of the Year for 2013.  Dr. Akins was not able to attend the symposium, but accepting the award for him here two members of his research group, Karyn Robinson and Stephanie Yeager.

In the afternoon graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Delaware and Delaware State University presented posters over research that they had done at UD, DSU and the A. I. DuPont Children’s Hospital/Nemours Foundation. The posters were judged in graduate and undergraduate categories. The winners are listed below.

On the right - Karyn Robinson and Stephanie Yeager with Dr. Melissa Harrington, Director of the Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research.  Karyn and Stephanie accepted the award for Dr. Robert Akins, who was named the 2013 Delaware Neuroscientist of the Year.

Karyn Robinson, Stephanie Yeager, Melissa Harrington

 

 

Graduate Division - First Place
Patrese Robinson-Drummer
Behavioral Neuroscience PhD Program
University of Delaware
"Using the context pre-exposure facilitation effect to study the ontogeny of long-term memory."

Prize: $100 Visa gift card

 

Patrese Robinson-Drummer

Graduate Division - Second Place
Jennifer Niemczyk
Engineering PhD Program
University of Delaware
"Reducing cost to evaluate medicine for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other brain disease"
Prize: $50 Visa gift card

Jennifer Niemczyk

Graduate Division - Third Place (Tie)
Jennifer Blaze
Behavioral Neuroscience PhD program
University to Delaware
"Regulators of epigenetic modifications are altered by early life adversity in the medial prefrontal cortex throughout the lifespan"
Prize: $25 Visa gift card

Jennifer Blaze

Graduate Division - Third Place (Tie)
Carol Lazzara
Biology MS program
Delaware State University
"The potential mechanism at lithium to reducing abnormal involuntary movements to MPTP-lesioned mice; relevance for Parkinson's disease therapy"
Prize $25 Visa gift card

Carol Lazzara

Undergraduate division - First Place
Sean Mack
Senior Engineering Major
University of Delaware
"Modeling the cAAMP Pathway for SMA Treatment”
Prize: $100 Visa gift card

Sean Mack

Undergraduate Division - Second Place
Adam Ramsaran
Junior Psychology Major
University of Delaware
"Ontogeny of Object-in-Context Learning in the Rat"
Prize: $50 Visa gift card

Adam Ramsaran


We gratefully acknowledge the support of sponsors for this event:


• The NIH-Funded Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research (P20-GM103653)
• The Delaware Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
• The Delaware Biotechnology Institute

 

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