First Annual UMass Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Conference
Schedule
Date: Wednesday, May 2nd 2018
Symposium
Location: Integrated Sciences Building, Room 135 (Auditorium)
- 12:00 - 12:45 Registration
- 12:45 - 1:00 Introductions
- Paul Katz, Director of Neurosciences at UMass
- Steve Goodwin, Deputy Chancellor and Chief Planning Officer, UMass
- 1:00 - 1:50 Alumni Speaker: Graeme Davis, UCSF,
- "The Stable Brain: Homeostatic control of neural function in health and disease"
- 1:50 - 2:05 Coffee Break
- 2:05 - 2:15 Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy
- 2:15 - 2:40 Jacquie Kurland, Department of Communication Disorders, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
- "Methods of Examining Treatment-Induced Neuroplasticity in Post-Stroke Aphasia "
- 2:40 - 3:05 Abigail Jensen, Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences,
- "Identifying mechanisms regulating the renewal of photoreceptor outer segments"
- 3:05 - 3:30 Joe Pater, Department of Linguistics, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
- “How is language learned in the lab? Insights from ERPs”
- 3:30 - 3:55 Jianhua (Joshua) Yang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
- “Bio-inspired Computing”
- 3:55 - 4:10 Refreshment Break
- 4:15 - 5:15 Keynote speaker, Wolfram Schultz, University of Cambridge,
- "How my brain is getting me the best reward"
- Introduction by Peter Sterling, University of Pennsylvania.
Poster Session and Reception (Marriott Room, Hotel UMass)
1. GABA Receptor Control of Hyperactive Behavior in Developing Zebrafish
Dorman H.; Barnaby W.; Frolov D.; Trapani J.; Downes G.
UMass Amherst
2. Efficacy of transient RNAi against the largest gene in Drosophila, the titin analog sallimus (a giant sarcomere associated protein)
Dansereau, KT; Bonacker, KL; Kinney, SR; Krans, JK
Western New England University
3. [PIN+]ning down [PSI+] inducibility
Brechtel, T. M., Villali, J., Davis, J., Pei, F., Sindi, S., and Serio, T. R.
University of Arizona
4. Circadian Rhythms of Locomotor Activity in Berghia stephanieae
Bui T.N., Saimire Y., Quinlan P.D., Katz P.S.
UMass Amherst
5. Differential effects of dorsal and ventral mPFC inactivation are driven by reward availability
Caballero, Jessica; Scarpa, Garrett; Remage-Healey, Luke; & Moorman, D. E.
Neuroscience and Behavior
6. Longitudinal Assesment of Cognition, Motor Function, and Stressful Activity in Aging Marmosets
Healey, B; Carlotto, A; Le, A; Workman, K; Lacreuse, A
UMass Amherst
7. How Target/Distractor Disciminability Affects Search Guidance Strategy
Chang, J.; Cave K. R.; Menneer, T.; Kaplan, E. ; Donnelly, N
UMass Amherst
8. Precise control of presynaptic Ca2+ signal is required to maintain phase-locking at the hair cell ribbon synapses
Cuadra A.E., Burt L., Chobany A., Edmonds W. and Li G.-L.
UMass Amherst
9. Effects of mTOR Signaling on Synaptic Remodeling in the Hypothalamus
Cutia C,; Cyr N.
Stonehill College
10. The Interaction Between Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and mTORC1 in the Hypothalamus During Obesity
Daisy C; Cyr N
Stonehill College
11. Single Bubble Cavitation Within Brain Tissue
Dougan C, Galarza S, Kazemi A, Barney C, Meeran H, Peyton S, Lee J, Crosby A
UMass Amherst
12. Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of Memory Formation
T-Ocampo AP; Dziedzic N; Sloutsky R; O'Connell R; Agnello E; Weeks J; Camacho D; West M, Stratton M.
UMass Amherst
13. A Study of the Longterm Effects of Chronic Alcohol Abuse and Stress on the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Fedorchak, S.; Moorman, D.; Vazey, E.
UMass Amherst
14. Neural dynamics of serial dependence in numerosity perception
Fornaciai M; Park J.
UMass Amherst
15. Thermodynamic Conditions for Physical Intelligence
Natesh Ganesh
UMass Amherst
16. The Role of Norandrenergic Systems in Anxiogenesis following Chronic Stress and Ethanol Exposure
Grampetro M, Moorman D, den Hartog C, Vazey E
UMass Amherst
17. Selective effects of chemogenetic inhibition of orbitofrontal cortex in operant ethanol seeking
Hernandez, J., Binette, A., and Moorman, D.
UMass Amherst
18. Neural habituation, novelty detection, and the visual perception of words: an ERP study
Jacob H, Mehta A, Huber D
UMass Amherst
19. Sleep optimizes reconsolidation of human visuospatial memories
Jones BJ; Simoncini L; Spencer RMC
UMass Amherst
20. Age-related changes in sleep-dependent procedural learning consolidation
Kainec, K; Fitzroy A.B; Spencer, R.M.C
UMass Amherst
21. A direct comparison of passive aversive and passive appetitive conditioning and extinction in the prelimbic and infralimbic cortices of the mPFC
Kaminska-Kordowska, B; Moorman, D
UMass Amherst
22. Firing Patterns of the Locus Coeruleus in Rats during a Two-Alternative Forced Choice Task
Kelberman M; den Hartog C; Baltayan N; Rodberg E; Vazey E
UMass Amherst
23. The effect of Palmitic Acid on PC2 In N43-5 Neuronal Cells
Khalil M; Cyr N
Stonehill College
24. Clock Function is Necessary at Multiple Nodes of a Hypothalamic Neuroendocrine Circuit for an Appropriately Timed Preovulatory LH Surge.
Kumar A; Bittman EL
UMass Amherst
25. The Role of Visual Cortex in Memory: Does Object Recognition Depend upon Brain Regions Housing Conjunction Representations?
Leger K. R.; Blauch N.; Wilson D.M.; Cowell R. A.;
UMass Amherst
26. Neural networks with memristor array
Li C; Belkin, D; Li Y; Yan P; Jiang H; Lin P; Wang Z; Song W; Yang J; Xia Q
UMass Amherst
27. Impaired auditory learning in a novel behavioral task during aromatase inhibition
Macedo-Lima M; Remage-Healey L
UMass Amherst
28. Sonic Hedgehog Drives Proliferation in the Post-Embryonic Hypothalamus
Loring, M; Male, Ira, M; Karlstrom, R.
UMass Amherst
29. DIFFUSIVE MEMRISTORS FOR COMPUTING
MIDYA, RIVU; WANG, ZHONGRUI; JOSHI, SAUMIL; RAO, MINGYI; LI, YUNNING; XIA, QIANGFEI; YANG, J.JOSHUA
UMass Amherst
30. Distal Speech Rate Influences Early Perception of Ambiguous Function Words
Munoz, M., Dilley, L., Viswanathan, N., & Sanders, L.
UMass Amherst
31. Effects of traffic related particulate matter on behavior, inflammation, and neuronal tract integrity in a developmental rodent model
Nephew, B., Nemeth, A., Poirier, G., Durant, J., Hudda, N., Brugge, D.
Tufts University / UMass Medical School
32. Target-specific effects of orexin neuron activation on seeking-taking behavior in the rat.
Perk, C. G; Moorman, D. E
UMass Amherst
33. New drivable and open-source electrode arrays for awake behaving electrophysiology in the auditory cortex of zebra finches.
Daniel Pollak, Daniel M. Vahaba, Matheus Macedo-Lima, Luke Remage-Healey
UMass Amherst
34. Genomics Resource Lab, UMass Amherst
Ravi Ranjan
UMass
35. The Effect of the Octopaminergic Pathway on Tau Toxicity and Phosphorylation in a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Tauopathy
Nangia, V; Reppert, C; Colodner, K
Mount Holyoke College
36. Noradrenergic modulation of premotor cortex during decision execution
Rodberg EM; den Hartog CR; Kelberman MA; Vazey EM
UMass Amherst
37. A hierarchical Bayesian model for inferring neural subpopulation tuning functions from fMRI data
Huber, DE; Sadil, P; Cowell, RA
UMass Amherst
38. Corticospinal drive to ankle muscles during split-belt treadmill walking
Sato S., Choi JT.
UMass Amherst
39. Mapping neural circuits important for alcohol reward memories in Drosophila
Scaplen KM; Talay, M; Chieffallo, GV; Barnea G; Kaun KR
Brown University
40. FAST, NEUROMODULATORY EFFECTS OF ESTRADIOL ON NETWORK AND INTRINSIC PROPERTIES IN SONGBIRD CORTEX
Scarpa, G.B.; Starrett, J.R.; Li, G.L.; Remage-Healey, L
UMass Amherst
41. Myelination of axons corresponds with faster transmission speed in the prefrontal cortex of developing male rats
Silva-Gotay A; McDougall S; Vargas WM; Tavares ER; Harpalani D; Li G-L; Richardson HN
UMass Amherst
42. Variation in Brain Size is Associated with Spatial Reasoning Ability in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
Smith ML; Bleakley BH
Stonehill College
43. Development of song preferences in female sparrows: is there a female song template?
Strauss, A.V.H.; Podos, J.
UMass Amherst
44. Mathematical Modeling of Neuron-Astrocyte Interactions in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Natthapong Sueviriyapan, Chak Foon Tso, Erik D. Herzog and Michael A. Henson
UMass Amherst
45. Fluctuations in estrogen receptor alpha expression in microglia across the estrous cycle in female rats
Tavares E; Lin A; Silva-Gotay A; Richardson H.N.
UMass Amherst
46. Measurement of Titin Elasticity Changes in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
Tierney P; Krans J
Western New England University
47. Vocal Communication During Early Mother-Infant Interaction: Studies Using the Wistar-Kyoto Rat Model of Depression
Tuncali, I; Sorial, N; Pereira, M
UMass Amherst
48. Shifts in auditory processing across development and in response to neuromodulatory estrogens in juvenile male songbirds.
Vahaba D, Macedo-Lima, M, Remage-Healey, L
UMass Amherst
49. Recognition Memory Shielded from Semantic but not Perceptual Interference in Normal Aging
Wilson, D. M.; Potter, K.; Cowell, R. A.
UMass Amherst
50. RNAseq analysis reveals significant transcriptome changes in the mPOA of Wistar-Kyoto rat mothers demonstrating depressive phenotype
Winokur SB; Pereira M
UMass Amherst
51. Modeling Neural Plate Development In Vitro Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Tianfa Xie, Yubing Sun
UMass Amherst
52. Gene expression in the primary visual cortex differs amongst phenotypically distinct primates
ZINTEL, T.M., SHERWOOD, C.C., KAMILAR, J.M., BAUERNFEIND, A.L., BABBITT, C.C.
UMass Amherst
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