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Neuro Research Day


Friday, March 31, 2023
In-Person 2231 Weiskotten Hall


 
A day of Neuroscience at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY
Sponsored by the Department of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience Graduate Program
 

Morning Guest Speakers:

Jayeeta Basu, PhD
Jayeeta Basu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology and Psychiatry

"Dynamic Interactions of Circuits for Memory and Sensory Processing"

 

 

Oliver Bracko, PhD
Oliver Bracko, PhD,

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology University of Miami

"The contribution of VEGF signaling to brain blood flow reductions a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease"

 

 

Afternoon Guest Speaker:

Peng Jiang, PhD
Peng Jiang, PhD,

Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience Rutgers University

"Modeling Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease Using Human iPSCs"

 

Schedule of the day's events

Time Speaker
8:00 am Light Breakfast
8:25 am Welcome, Opening Remarks - Daniel Ts'o
8:30 am

Student Presentations: Hanish Polavarapu, Jason Rafael Grullon, YeonSoo Kelly
Kim, Jian Harvard Li

9:00 am

Alexander Braley, MD (Neurosurgery) - Focused Ultrasound: Past, Present,
and Future

9:15 am

Robert Beach, MD, PhD (Neurology) - Stem cell implants for Epilepsy

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

Satish Krishnamurthy, MD (Neurosurgery) - Quantifying drug delivery from
intraventricular infusion to brain tumor using MRI in an animal model

10:00 am

Daniel Tso, PhD (Neurosurgery) - Short-term monocular deprivation: Mechanisms
revealed by 7T fMRI

10:15 am

Harish Babu, MD/PhD (Neurosurgery) - Single neuron correlates of working
memory in humans

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

Jayeeta Basu, New York University - Dynamic Interactions of Circuits for
Memory and Sensory Processing

11:45 am

Break

11:55 am

Oliver Bracko, University of Miami - The contribution of VEGF signaling to
brain blood flow reductions a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease

12:55 pm

Lunch Break

1:55 pm

Aya Kobeissi (student, Yao Lab, Neuroscience/Psychiatry) - Neural mechanisms
of lost inhibitory control in a mouse model of behavioral variant frontotemporal
dementia

2:10 pm

Joshua Enck (student, Olson Lab, Neuroscience/Physiology) - Primitive neuronal
communication guides neuronal maturation in early cortical development

2:25 pm

Jacqueline Thompson (student, Lin Lab, Neuroscience/Psychiatry) - Predicting the
activity status of single nuclei

2:40 pm

Break

2:55 pm

Peng Jiang, Rutgers University - Modeling Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's
Disease Using Human iPSCs

3:55 pm

Closing Remarks

Speaker Abstracts


We thank the Jacobsen Family for helping make this event possible.

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