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2023 Annual Neuroscience Retreat

Friday, April 14th

Keynote Speaker is Kristina Nielson, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University

Program of Events

Time Event
8:30am Continental Breakfast
Parlor
9:00am Welcome Krishnan Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
Auditorium
9:10am Postdoctoral Fellow Featured Speaker: Bartosz Kula, PhD
Smith Lab
"D-β-hydroxybutyrate improves
hippocampal network stability during 
acute insulin resistance
"
Auditorium
9:45am Poster Session I / Coffee Break
Ballroom
10:45am SfN Chapter Presentation Chris Holt, Ph.D.
Auditorium
10:55am State of Neuroscience Graduate Program Chris Holt, Ph.D.
Auditorium
11:10pm

Award Presentations - Shrager Award and Doty Award
Auditorium

11:30pm Overview of the Neuroscience Department John Foxe, Ph.D.
Auditorium
11:45pm Lunch Break
Ballroom
1:00pm Group Photograph
Pavilion
1:15pm Featured Graduate Student Speaker: Farangis Zakusilo, PhD
Neuroscience Graduate Program,
Medical Scientist Training program
Gorbunova & Seluanov Labs
Department of Biology
"Hyaluronan in Alzheimer Disease: 
Friend or Foe?
"

Auditorium
1:55pm Faculty Featured Speaker: Assistant Professor Julian Meeks, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Chemosensation and Social Learning Lab
Department of Neuroscience
"Chemosensation and Social Learning"

Auditorium
2:30pm Poster Session II / Coffee Break
Ballroom
3:30pm Keynote Lecture: Kristina Nielsen, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
The Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brain Institute
Johns Hopkins University
"The shape of the world - representation of 

3D versus 2D shapes in visual area V 4"
Auditorium

4:30pm Poster Award Presentation
Auditorium
4:45pm Cocktail Reception
Parlor