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NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Task Modulation of Optic Flow Analysis: Neural and Neuronal Mechanisms

Colin Lockwood

Dec 11, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Understanding CHOP-10's Role in the Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells & Tracing vCA1 Feedback Projections Mice

Katherine Andersh & Sam Abbott - Ph.D. Candidates

Dec 04, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Post-SFN Poster Session

Please Register NOW with Tori D'Agostino - Hosted by - Rochester SFN Chapter

Nov 30, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | LeChase Assembly Room G-9576

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Effect of norepinephrine signaling on microglia morphology & Characterization of Ramipril's Effects on Memory and Neurogenesis Following Irradiation in Mice

Berke Karaahmet & Anjali Sinha - Ph.D. Candidates

Nov 27, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Role of P2Y12 and C1q in developmental plasticity in the lateral geniculate & Tracing vCA1 Feedback Projections

Allison Murphy & Samantha Abbott

Nov 20, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC Thesis Proposal: The Interaction Between 16p11.2 Deletion and Gestational Iron Deficiency in the Development of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Garrick Salois
Advisor: Margot Mayer-Proschel - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Proposal

Nov 16, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

NSC Thesis Proposal: Arterial Hypertension and its Effect on Fluid Homeostasis and Amyloid Clearance in the Brain: Perivascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

Humberto Mestre
Advisor: Maiken Nedergaard - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Proposal

Nov 15, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m.

Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

Beyond Hubel & Wiesel: Implications of a sampling-based probabilistic approach to visual perception, learning and development

Jozsef Fiser - Associate Professor
Department of Cognitive Science
Central European University

Nov 09, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Regulation of microglial activation by the transcription factor Mafb

Patrick Miller-Rhodes

Nov 06, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC Thesis Defense: Notch and BMP Signaling Ligands in Ocular Development: An Analysis of Altered Spatiotemporal Expression and Gene Dosage

Rebecca Rausch
Advisors: Richard Libby & Amy Kiernan - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Nov 03, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Mechanistic Discovery of Cognitive Training for Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease

Feng Vankee Lin, Ph.D., RN
School of Nursing
University of Rochester

Oct 31, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Investigating the effects of HHV-6A latency gene U94A on oligodendrocyte precursor cells

Jessie Hogestyn - Ph.D. Candidate

Oct 30, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Cranial irradiation causes dendritic spine loss that is microglial complement receptor 3-dependent and associated with cognitive impairment

Josh Hinkle

Oct 23, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: TBA

Jessie Hogestyn

Oct 16, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: The Dynamic Role of SOX2 in Inner Ear Development

Aleta Steevens

Oct 09, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC Thesis Proposal: Ameliorating Alzheimer’s Disease tau pathology through immunomodulation: A novel role for interleukin 4 and glatiramer acetate

Dawling Dionisio-Santos
Advisors: Kerry O'Banion & John Olschowka - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Proposal

Oct 04, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6424 Whipple Auditorium

NSC Thesis Defense: Targeting Neuronal Function to Restore Motor Control Following Contusion Spinal Cord Injury

Heather Natola
Advisor: Chris Proschel - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Oct 03, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

NSC Thesis Proposal: An Investigation into the Genetic Mechanism Behind FOXO3's Role in Outer Hair Cell Preservation and Cochlear Recovery After Noise Exposure

Holly Beaulac
Advisor: Patricia White - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Proposal

Sep 28, 2017 @ 10:00 a.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: TBA

Rianne Stowell

Sep 25, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC Thesis Proposal: The Role of Purinergic Signalling in Mediating the Dynamics of Microglia Repopulation Following Depletion in the Adult Cortex in vivo

Monique Mendes
Advisor: Ania Majewska - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Proposal

Sep 21, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-7534

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar

Sep 18, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Introduction

Jesse Schallek & Farran Briggs

Sep 11, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC Thesis Defense: Extracellular Ions and Volume Regulation in Brain States

John O'Donnell
Advisor: Maiken Nedergaard - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Jul 17, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC Thesis Defense: Mechanisms and Limitations of Visual Recovery in Cortical Blindness

Matthew Cavanaugh
Advisor: Krystel Huxlin - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Jul 17, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

NSC Thesis Defense: Extracellular Ions and Volume Regulations in Brain States

John O'Donnell
Advisor: Maiken Nedergaard - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Jul 10, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6409)

2017 Neuroscience Retreat

Keynote: Eve Marder, PhD

May 26, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

Memorial Art Gallery |

Host: Neuroscience Graduate Program

Neural mechanisms that support and constrain working memory

Clayton Curtis, Ph.D. - Asst. Prof. Psychology & Neural Science
New York University

May 11, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes

Leah Krubitzer, PhD - Prof. Psychology, Lab of Evolutionary Neurobiology, Univ. Cal. Davis

May 04, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: CSF tonicity manipulations influence the glympathic influx

Yunpeng Pang & Neal Shah - Ph.D. Candidate

May 01, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Diffusion tensor imaging in HIV+ women with a history of cocaine dependence

Kathryn-Mary Wakim & Emily Warner - Ph.D. Candidates

Apr 24, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Portico-Amygdala Paths to Specific Regions of the Basal Nucleus

Alexandra McHale - Ph.D. Candidate

Apr 17, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

NSC Thesis Defense: Studies of Na+-K+-2Cl-- cotransporter1 function in central nerves system in health and disease

Xiaowei Wang
Advisor: Maiken Nedergaard - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Apr 17, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6409)

Functional Modules: How do we get them and what good are they?

Margaret Livingstone, PhD - Harvard Medical School

Doty Lecture

Apr 13, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Tatiana Pasternak, PhD

NSC Thesis Defense: Developmental Changes in Astrocytic Calcium Signaling and Microcirculatory Failure in the Setting of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Role for Potassium

Evan McConnell
Advisor: Maiken Nedergaard - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Apr 12, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Microglia dynamics and repopulation following pharmacological depletion

Monique Mendes & Humberto Mestre - Ph.D. Candidate

Apr 10, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC Thesis Defense: Lung-Brain Immunological Coupling Mediates Neutrophil De-Priming and Neuroprotection Following Cerebral Ischemia-Reperfusion

Nguyen Mai
Advisor: Marc Halterman - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Apr 10, 2017 @ 9:00 a.m.

Medical Center | 2-6424 Whipple Auditorium

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Pupil fluctuations reflect economic decision-making strategy and predict choice

Tyler Cash-Padgett & Gavin Jenkins - Ph.D. Candidate

Apr 03, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

Seeds for Collaboration: Faculty Mixer

David Auerbach, Ph.D., Danielle Benoit, and Eric Phizicky

Mar 28, 2017 @ 4:30 p.m.

Medical Center | LeChase Assembly Room G-9576

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Modeling neurodevelopmental iron deficiency in vitro

Garrick Salois & Shraddha Shah - Ph.D. Candidate

Mar 27, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC Thesis Defense: The molecular signaling pathways controlling apoptotic retinal ganglion cell death after axonal injury

Stephanie Syc-Mazurek - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Mar 27, 2017 @ 10:30 a.m.

Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Localization of SOD3 in the arterial serum of SOD3 Tg mice

Kathleen Gates & Patrick Miller-Rhodes - Ph.D. Candidate

Mar 20, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC Thesis Defense: Assessment of the Involvement of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Cell Death Pathways in Retinal Ganglion Cell Death after Excitotoxic Injury

Berkeley Fahrenthold - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Mar 20, 2017 @ 1:15 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Electrical Disturbances in Both the Brain & Heart: A Dangerous Combination

David Auerbach, Ph.D. - Senior Instructor - Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute

Mar 09, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: John Foxe

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Investigating the Genetic Mechanism Behind FOXO3’s Regulatory Function Post-Noise Exposure

Holly Beaulac & Dawling Dionisio-Santos - Ph.D. Candidate

Mar 06, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Noradrenergic modulation of microglia dynamics and synaptic plasticity

Patrick Miller-Rhodes & Rianne Stowell - Ph.D. Candidate

Feb 27, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Cranial irradiation causes dendritic spine loss that is microglial complement receptor 3-dependent and associated with cognitive impairment

Joshua Hinkle & Jessie Hogestyn - Ph.D. Candidate

Feb 20, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Optic cup neuroepithelium-derived BMP4 is dispensable for ocular morphogenesis

Rebecca Rausch - Ph.D. Candidate

Feb 13, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: The dynamic role of SOX2 in inner ear development

Aleta Steevens - Ph.D. Candidate

Feb 06, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

The Search for Biomarkers in Schizophrenia - Phelps Colloquium Series

John Foxe, Ph.D. - Professor & Chair Neuroscience, Director Del Monte Neuroscience Institute

Feb 01, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Meliora Hall | Grand Ballroom

Host: Phelps Colloquium Series

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: 4-aminopyridine promotes long term recovery after spinal cord injury

Heather Natola - Ph.D. Candidate

Jan 30, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Single dose cranial irradiation persistently impairs proliferating populations in the adult brain

Elizabeth Belcher - Ph.D. Candidate

Jan 23, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

NSC Thesis Defense: The Genetic Sex of the Sensory Neuron ADF Confers Pheromone Attraction in C. elegans

Kelli Fagan - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Jan 23, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-9576 Case Method Room

NSC Thesis Defense: The Role of Astrocytic Transglutaminase 2 in mediating Cellular Viability Processes

Julianne Feola - Ph.D. Candidate

NSC Thesis Defense

Jan 17, 2017 @ 9:00 a.m.

Medical Center | K-207 (2-6409)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Establishing a hiPSC-derived model of Batten disease to investigate the role of CLN3 in the retina

Henry Choi & Emily Warner - Ph.D. Candidate

Jan 16, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

NSC Student Seminar: Regulatory Science Certificate

Scott Steele

Jan 09, 2017 @ 4:40 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

NSC 503, NSC Student Seminar: Attentional manipulations improve visual recovery in cortical blindness

Matthew Cavanaugh - Ph.D. Candidate

Jan 09, 2017 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)