Education / Graduate Education / PhD Programs / Neuroscience Graduate Program / Retreat / Poster Presentation / 2015 Poster Presenters 2015 Poster Presenters Poster Presenters * Poster Teasers Zach Adham, BS. (Opanashuk/O’Banion/Olschowka Labs) Elucidating a Mechanism for the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor's regulation of Medulloblastoma Cell Growth Habiba Azab, BS. (Hayden Lab) Surprise signals in the dACC: differences between population and single-unit responses Antoine Barbot, PhD. (Huxlin Lab / Yoon Lab) Visual recovery in cortical blindness: insights from fMRI Adam Bosen, MS. (Paige Lab / O’Neill Lab) Comparison of Forced-Choice and Auditory Localization Tasks For Assessing Spatial Audio-Visual Integration Paivi Jordan, PhD. (URSMD Shared Resources) University of Rochester resources for light microscopy: the confocal and laser capture microscopy resource and the multiphoton imaging resource * Andrew Campbell, PhD. (Mayer-Pröschel Lab) Herpes Virus 6 Inhibits Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Function Meghan Castagno, BS. (Hayden Lab) Unique role of orbitofrontal cortex to early and late phases of cognitive set reconfiguration Matt Cavanaugh, MS. (Huxlin Lab) Quantification of training induced visual field improvements in cortical blindness Adrianne Chesser, MS. (Johnson Lab) Selectively Enhancing Clearance of Pathological Tau Through the Use of Phytochemical Compounds Eun-Young Choi, PhD. (Haber Lab) The striatum is anatomically linked to a large-scale cortical network Christy Cloninger, MS. (Paige Lab) Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements of Auditory Targets Suggest Motion-Specific Processing Adam Danz, MS. (DeAngelis Lab) Compensation of heading tuning for eye rotations in macaque area MSTd: roles of visual and extra-retinal signals Luisa Caetano-Davies, PhD. (Pröschel Lab) iPS-Derived Astrocytes: A Role for Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease? * Ryan Dawes, MS. (Brown Lab) Psychosocial stress suppresses tumor progression in a murine model of spontaneous, metastatic breast cancer Kelli Fagan, MS. (Portman Lab) The genetic sex of a single C. elegans sensory neuron determines the behavioral response to sex pheromones Berkeley Fahrenthold, MS. (Libby Lab) The Injury Response Factor JUN is Not Required for Excitotoxic Retinal Ganglion Cell Death * Julianne Feola, MS. (Johnson Lab) The Role of Astrocytic Transglutaminase 2 in Mediating Ischemic Stroke Damage Justin Fleming, BS. (Paige Lab) Head-Free Gaze Pursuit of Auditory Targets Resembles Head-Fixed Ocular Smooth Pursuit * Frank Garcea, BS. (Mahon Lab) Pantomiming object use decouples functional connectivity between temporal and parietal tool-selective areas Jennetta Hammond, PhD. (Gelbard Lab) Platelet Activating Factor Enhances Presynaptic Vesicle Release Sarah Heilbronner, PhD. (Haber Lab) Using connectivity to study homology of orbitofrontal and cingulate cortices between primate and rat Kenneth Henry, PhD. (Carney Lab) Neural mechanisms underlying detection of amplitude modulation * Molly Jaynes, MS. (Mink Lab) Explicit Knowledge in a Motor Sequence Depends on Strategy Nguyen Mai, BS. (Halterman Lab) Neutrophil activation as a marker for systemic inflammation and CNS disease burden in a novel model of post-cardiac arrest syndrome