Congratulations to our 2011 Travel Award Winners!

Priscilla Barba Escobedo  sponsor-Georgianna Gould  Social preference and social novelty behavior in zebrafish

Victoria Breen  sponsor-Joseph Burdo  Protection against glutamate toxicity in HT22 neurons by a novel phosphodiesterase inhibitor

Matthew DeNiear  sponsor-Julio Ramirez  Heterosynaptic interaction of the sprouted crossed entorhinal and septal inputs to the hippocampus following unilateral entorhinal cortex lesion in rats

Katherine Gumps  sponsor-Chris Korey  Mutations in palmitoyl protein-thioesterase 1 alter exocytosis and endocytosis at synapses in Drosophila larvae.

Zoe Hesp  sponsor-Lori Isaacson  Immunofluorescence restaining of previously processed experimental tissues reveals preservation of antigenicity

Patricia Lee  sponsor-Shelly Flagel  Selectively bred highresponder and lowresponder rats differ in “affective” responsiveness to a novelty seeking test

Joe Luchsinger  sponsor-Andy Mickley  Latent inhibition of a conditioned taste aversion (CTA) in fetal rats is age-dependent

Cecila McKee  sponsor-Kathleen Raley-Susman  Subcellular localization and protein interactions of PTL-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans

Rabia Nasir  sponsor-Joseph A. Schroeder  The Effects of Nicotine on Egocentric Spatial Navigation in Zebrafish Sinauer

Alexa Orticelli  sponsor-Cassie Mitchell  Pathological axonal transport II: binding cooperativity, ATP, and tau

Jenna Parrish  sponsor-Ana Hutton Kehrberg  Neonatal Alcohol Exposure via Intraperitoneal Injections Affects Ultrasonic Vocalizations and Activity Levels in Rats

Katrina Placek   sponsor-Anne Marie Brady  Relationships between behavioral abnormalities and set-shifting impairments in the neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion model of schizophrenia.

Andrew Ross  sponsor-Jennifer Bonner  Ethanol induced axon pathfinding defects in the zebrafish, Danio rerio.

Madhavi Senagolage  sponsor-Shubhik DebBurman  Complex Regulation of α-Synuclein Properties in Yeasts by Endocytosis Pathway Genes

Emily Sharpe  sponsor-Michelle Mynlieff  Cav1.3 but not Cav1.2 L-type calcium channels co-localize with GABAB receptors in neonatal rat hippocampus

Caitlin Vander Weele  sponsor-Brandon Aragona  Rapid dopamine signaling in response to a short-acting opiate, remifentanil

Gabrielle Van Patten  sponsor-Ron Harris-Warrick Quantification of serotonergic receptors and calcium channels in the sublesional mouse spinal cord after spinal cord injury

Ryan Williamson  sponsor-Jeff Edwards  Expression of endocannabinoid biosynthesizing enzymes in hippocampal CA1 neurons

Tizita Zeleke  sponsor-Annemarie Bettica  The neuroprotective efficacies of various botanical extracts, Rue chalpanesis, Hibiscus sabdariffa, and Panax Ginseng species against neurotoxic-induced Parkinson's disease in neuroblastoma cells in vitro

 

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