Postdoctoral Travel Awards

2008 Society for Neuroscience Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award Winners

To view winning abstracts, click on the link below each recipient's image.


Brian Allman
Central Virginia Chapter

 


Noopur Amin
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter


 


Guy Barry
Brisbane, Australia Chapter

Massive crossmodal reorganization of auditory cortex in ferrets deafened as young adults

 

Selectivity for natural sounds in the songbird auditory forebrain is strongly shaped by the acoustic environment

 

Nuclear factor one (NFI) genes regulate hippocampal morphogenesis and radial glial development


Cory Blaiss
Dallas Chapter

 


Fan Cheng
Central Pennsylvania Chapter

 


Dennis Clarence Choi Atlanta Chapter

Neuroligin 3R451C point mutation, but not NL3 deletion, leads to autism-relevant behavioral abnormalities, suggesting that the R451C mutation acts through a gain of function

 

Dependence of nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of the opioid growth factor receptor (OGFr) for regulation of cell proliferation

 

Cortical brain derived neurotrophic factor modulates expression of appetitive and aversive learning in mice


Eugene Civillico
New Jersey Chapter

 


Diana Coomes Peterson
Northeast Ohio Chapter

 


Gabrielle Curinga Bluegrass Chapter

Spatial and temporal clustering requirements for local summation of excitatory input to Purkinje cell dendrites

 

Single-unit auditory responses in the amygdala

 

Engineering chondroitinase to enhance axon regeneration


Arne Ekstrom UCLA Chapter

 


William Graves
Milwaukee Chapter

 


Benjamin Greenwood
Rocky Mountain Chapter

 

Correlation between navigational performance and place cell recruitment in the human hippocampal area

  A multiparametric approach to reading aloud  

Anxiety-like behaviors produced by acute fluoxetine: prevention by wheel running and 5-HT2C receptor blockade


Paola Haeger Chile Chapter

 


Maziar Hashemi-Nezhad
UC Irvine Chapter

 


Etienne Hugues
Buffalo Chapter

Increased Ryanodine receptor (RyR) and Iron transporter (DMT1) expression in rat hippocampus after spatial memory training

 

Center-surround suppression of V1 pinwheel neurons is broadly orientation tuned

 

A unified and quantitative network model to describe spatial attention in area V4


Michael Lane
North Florida Chapter

 


Young Il Lee
UT Austin Chapter

 


Snezana Levic
UC Davis Chapter

Characterization of spinal and supraspinal input to phrenic motor circuit in the normal and injured spinal cord of adult rat

 

Abnormal muscle development in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy

 

Activation of SK current in developing hair cells is coupled to intracellular ryanodine signaling


Lalitha Madhavan
Ohio Miami Valley Chapter

 


Jeffrey Mock
New Orleans Chapter

 


Stan Nakanishi
Calgary Chapter

Transplantation of subventricular zone neural precursors promotes a host endogenous neural precursor cell response in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

 

The influence of speech-motor programming on auditory cortical responses

 

Effects of muscle paralysis on the diversification of motoneuron electrical properties during postnatal development in mice


Michelle Olsen
Birmingham Chapter

 


Jacqueline Rose
British Columbia Chapter

 


17ß-estradiol modulates astrocytic kir4.1 following in vitro spinal cord injury

 

Locally-induced propagating synaptic (L-IPS) translocation of calcium/calmodulin kinase 11