CNC Online Retreat
Friday May 14, 2021
8:00 – 8:30am Welcome and State of the Center – Dr. Adrienne Lahti, CNC Director
“What can the CNC do for you?”
Session I: Substance Use Disorders Pillar, Drs. Jeremy Day & Aurelio Galli
8:30 – 8:35am Session introduction, Pillar leaders
8:35 – 8:47am Sam Mabry (GBS Neuroscience, Galli lab), Microbial Regulation of Psychostimulant Abuse.
8:47 – 9:00am Jennifer Tuscher, PhD (Neurobiology, Day lab), Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing reveals cell-type specific transcriptional responses to cocaine and dopamine.
Session II: Circadian Rhythm and Sleep Pillar, Drs. Karen Gamble, Patricia Patrician, Courtney Peterson, & Amy Amara
9:00 – 9:05am Session introduction, Pillar leaders
9:05 – 9:17am Lacy Goode (GBS Neuroscience, Gamble lab), Diurnal variation of inhibitory synaptic transmission in hippocampal CA1.
9:17 – 9:30am Adeel Memon, MD (Neuroengineering PhD program, McMahon and Amara labs) Effects of exercise on frontal delta oscillation during slow-wave sleep.
Session III: Epilepsy and Related Disorders Pillar, Drs. Larry Ver Hoef & Farah Lubin
9:30 – 9:35am Session introduction, Pillar leaders
9:35 – 9:47am Ayushe Sharma (Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience, Szaflarski lab), Everyone has a Fire Inside, but Some Have One in Their Brains.
9:47 – 10:00am Anandh Ramaniharan, PhD (Neurology, Ver Hoef lab), Next generation quantification of hippocampal dentation.
10:00 – 10:10am BREAK
Session IV: Glial Biology and Pathology Pillar, Drs. Michelle Gray & Anita Hjelmeland
10:10 – 10:15am Session introduction, Pillar leaders
10:15 – 10:27am Deepayan Kar (Vision Science, Dr. Curcio lab) Connectomics of the human retina: Morphology and abundance of two distinct Müller glia types identified in the adult fovea.
10:27 – 10:39am Ken Matoba, PhD (Psychiatry Behavioral Neurobiology, Kano lab) Thalamic microglia activation, cognitive decline, and aging.
Session V: Mental Health and Disorders Pillar, Drs. Yogesh Dwivedi & Nina Kraguljac
10:40 – 10:45am Session introduction, Pillar leaders
10:45 – 10:57am Lindsay Stager (Medical/Clinical Psychology, Fobian lab) Sleep as a Novel Moderator Between BMI and Working Memory.
10:57 – 11:10am Kongpyung Kim, PhD (Psychiatry Behavioral Neurobiology, Niwa lab) A novel cortico- cortical pathway underlying social isolation-induced social behavioral deficits in the postpartum period.
Session VI: Neuroimaging Pillar, Drs. Kristina Visscher & Junghee Lee
11:10 – 11:15am Session introduction, Pillar leaders
11:15 – 11:27am Sara Sims (Medical/Clinical Psychology, Visscher lab), Functional Network Segregation is associated with executive functioning in the Healthy Oldest Old: Findings from the McKnight Brain Aging Registry.
11:27 – 11:40am Juliann Purcell (Medical/Clinical Psychology, Knight/Mrug labs), Stress-elicited neural activity in young adults varies with childhood sexual abuse.
11:40 – 12:05pm 2020 CNC Pilot Awardee, Dr. Andrew Hardaway (Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, SOM), "Process of Illumination: Real-time Dopamine Signaling Measurement using a Genetically-Encoded Biosensor".
12:05 – 1:05pm LUNCH and Pillar Breakout Rooms – finalize voting for best trainee presentation.
1:05 – 1:25pm 2020 CNC Pilot Awardee, Dr. Ashley Harms (CNET, Neurology, SOM) “The role of T cells in alpha-synuclein models of Parkinson disease”.
1:25 – 2:00pm Award Announcements and Closing Remarks