John Richard Bartlett (1936-1978) was born in Ovid, Michigan. Graduating in 1959 from University of Michigan, he entered studies in Psychology, first with Abraham Black, and then with Woodburne Heron at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. In his PhD thesis work he was seeking clues to the neural basis of a fundamental visual perception, which is maintained despite gross and definable changes in retinal input. He spent a brief period with Mortimer Mishkin and Edward Evarts at the NIMH, and then received an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue work on the visual system at the Center for Brain Research at the University of Rochester. He became an Assistant Professor in the Center for Brain Research in 1974, and was a particularly imaginative, well-organized and dedicated teacher. The final work of his life was with microstimulation of striate cortex. He died unexpectedly at the age of 42. As I wrote shortly thereafter: his subtle humor, inventive kindnesses, unmitigated honesty, and superlative originality pass rarely in such measure through this world - his genius was unique.

R. W. Doty, Ph.D.

2009 Featured Posters

1. IMIPRAMINE TREATMENT CONTRIBUTES TO ROCOVERY OF COGNITIVE BUT NOT MOTOR FUNCTION FOLLOWING CONTROLLED CORTICAL IMPACT INJURY IN MICE Xiaodi Han, Jing Tong, Arash Farahvar, Jason Huang
2. Age at tic remission in patients with Tourette syndrome Lindsay A Rubenstein, MS, David R Shprecher, DO, Samuel A Frank, MD, and Roger M Kurlan, MD
3. Distributed neural sex differences modify C. elegans locomotory behaviors
   

   2nd place

   William Mowrey, Douglas Portman
4. Effects of Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation on Motor Disability and Cognition in Parkinson’s Disease
   

   1st place

   Katie Selzler, Mark Mapstone, Fred Marshall, Carol Zimmerman, Jason Schwalb
5. Requirement for Isl1 in the development of mouse vestibular cochlear ganglion Min Deng, Ling Pan, Xiaoling Xie and Lin Gan
6. Using functional behavioral endpoints in genetically modified mice Dena Carbonari, Troy Zarcone, Deborah Cory-Slechta
7. Math1-Cre knock-in mouse line: a useful tool for Math1 lineage and function study Hua , YangXiaoling Xie, Min Deng, Lin Gan
8. Changes in Extracellular Matrix Composition during Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Developing Visual Cortex Emily Kelly, Ania Majewska
9. Encoding of correct and incorrect responses by ventral prefrontal cortex neurons in an audio-visual discrimination task. Jaewon Hwang, Mark D. Diltz, Lizabeth M. Romanski
10. Deep Brain stimulation for Psychiatric disorders: what are we stimulating? Julia Lehman, Justin Brucker, Suzanne Haber
11. Barrel response sensitivity depends on both network interactions and the response properties of individual barrel neurons Michael J. Pesavento, David J Pinto
12. Cisplatin negatively affects progenitor cells in the central nervous system Ana Nunes, Mark Noble
13. Rescuing Temporal Processing With a Novel Augmented Acoustic Environment in an Animal Model of Congenital SNHL Adam C. Dziorny, Anne E. Luebke, Joseph P. Walton
14. Influence of Age and Memory on Head-Free Localization of Auditory and Visual Targets Marina S. Dobreva, Babak Razavi, William E. O'Neill, Gary D. Paige
15. Power-law adaptation in the IHC-AN synapse model can explain neural adaptation to sound-level statistics Muhammad Zilany, Laurel Carney
16. Isolation, oligodendrocytic differentiation, and differential gene expression of PDGFaR-defined human fetal glial progenitor cells C.R. McClain, F. J. SIM, T. L. PROTACK, S. A. GOLDMAN
17. Interferon-gamma protects oligodendrocytes from cell death Daniel C Tanner, Margot Mayer-Pröschel
18. In vitro and in vivo characterization of amyloid beta-specific single chain fragment variable antibodies Deborah Ryan, M.A. Sullivan, H.J. Federoff, and W.J. Bowers
19. Task-dependent variation in stimulus selectivity in prefrontal cortex depends on cell class. Cory Hussar, Tatiana Pasternak.
20. fs5: A Mutant that Disrupts Development of the Ray Sensory Neurons in C. elegans Margaret Casazza, Douglas Portman
21. Ultrastructural relationships between microglia and synapses in the mouse binocular visual cortex during development and learning Marie-Ève Tremblay, Ania K. Majewska
22. Sexual modification of a single sensory neuron pair gives rise to sex differences in C. elegans olfaction KyungHwa Lee, Douglas Portman