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Doubletree Hotel Collinsville

1000 Eastport Plaza Drive

Collinsville, IL 62234

September 10 (Friday)
4:00–6:30          Check-In/Registration

6:00–8:00          Reception Buffet

7:00–9:00          Poster Viewing* (see below for titles)

September 11 (Saturday)  

7:00–8:00          Breakfast

8:15–8:35          Welcome Opening Remarks
                                 John Koropchak, Ph.D.
                                 Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Dean, SIU Carbondale

8:35–9:35          Session 1:  Development

The Role of forkhead transcription factors in pituitary development and disease

Buffy Ellsworth, PhD

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

The Development of an In Vitro-Based Electroporation Assay to Alter Gene Expression in the Embryonic Hindbrain

Rebecca Landsberg, PhD

Dept. of Biology, University of Illinois Springfield

Optogenetic approaches for understanding sensorimotor development in chick

Andrew Sharp, PhD

Dept. of Anatomy, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

9:50–11:00        Session 2:  Brain Injury

Recovery of function after stroke

Joe Cheatwood, PhD

Dept. of  Anatomy, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

The Evaluation of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following traumatic brain injury in the rat

Michael Hoane, PhD

Dept. of Psychology, SIU Carbondale

Cognitive training in a middle-aged model of traumatic brain injury

Alicia Swan

Dept. of Psychology, SIU Carbondale

Data Blitz:

The Effect of continuous nicotinamide administration on recovery from traumatic brain injury in rats

Cole Vonder Haar

Dept. of Psychology, SIU Carbondale

11:15–12:25      Session 3:  Disease, Models and Treatment

Recent challenges to CNS translational research

Jeffrey Bennett, MD

Dept. of Psychiatry, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

Novel Strategies for treating hearing loss

Vickram Ramkumar, PhD

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

Quetiapine protects against the white matter alterations and behavioral changes of mice exposed to cuprizone

Haiyun Xu, PhD

Dept. of Anatomy, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Data Blitz:

Neuropsychological consequences of head and neck cancer

Sheryl Reminger, PhD

Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois Springfield

12:25–1:25        Lunch

1:25–2:45          Session 4:  Physiology and Plasticity

Activity response of patterned hippocampal network cultures to chronic stimulation and astroglial addition

Michael Boehler, MS

Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

Synchronous gating of ryanodine receptor channels in muscle

Julio Copello, PhD

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

Awakening of cultured hippocampal networks in the context of EEG frequency bands

Stathis Leondopulos, PhD

Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

Functional alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons

Victor Uteshev-Gaard, PhD

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

3:00–4:00          Session 5:  Cognitive Processing

Improving spatial working memory through intermittent visual feedback: behavioral and neuroimaging evidence

Matthew Schlesinger, PhD

Dept. of Psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Evaluation of impulsive behavior using a video game

Michael Young, PhD

Dept. of Psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Data blitz:

Genotype and brain activity relate to children’s behaviors

Lisabeth DiLalla, PhD

Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Data blitz:

Neural processing of emotional faces under restricted and unrestricted viewing conditions

Karen Pressley, PhD

Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois Springfield

4:15–5:35          Session 6:  Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

I. Enhanced neuronal networks
II. Aging brain bioenergetics and epigenetics

Gregory Brewer, PhD

Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

Decline of autophagy in aging non-transgenic and 3xTg-AD mice

Kelsey Levault

Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

The aging hippocampus: inhibition and glucose

Peter Patrylo, PhD

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Visual function and Alzheimer’s pathology

Robert Struble, PhD

Center for Alzheimer Disease, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

5:35                     Poster Viewing

6:45                     Dinner

7:45                     Special Lecture
                             Rhanor Gillette, Ph.D.
                             Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8:45                     Closing Remarks

POSTERS

Neuroanatomy of a potential mouse model for hemispatial neglect

Josiah An

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Possible role of TRPA1 in migraine headache

Xiangying Cheng, PhD

Dept. of Neurology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield 

Increased hippocampal acetate incorporation is associated with the preservation of cognitive status in aged Fischer 344 rats

Jeremy Ebersole

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Plasticity in the pathway from amygdala to periaqueductal gray (PAG) is an important mechanism of epileptogenesis in audiogenic kindling

Carl Faingold, PhD

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

FOX01 expression in human pituitary adenomas

Corrie Farris

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Activated caspase-3, substance P and CGRP expression in embryonic chick DRG neurons after pyridoxine administration

Yuri Fedorovich

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

An Oxidative threshold in glutathione and NADH elevates ROS in AD mouse model neurons

Debolina Ghosh

Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield

The Forkhead Transcription Factor, FOXP3, Is Essential for Normal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis Function

Deborah Jung

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Aging dependent alteration in CA3 network excitability during 5 Hz mossy fiber stimulation in hippocampal slices from aged Fischer 344 rats

Dan Kanak

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Targeting cochlear inflammation in the treatment of cisplatin ototoxicity

Tejbeer Kaur

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield 

Impaired glucose tolerance precedes neuroanatomical identification of A-beta and hyperphosphorylated tau accumulation in the 3xTg model of Alzheimer’s disease

Lauren Macklin

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Role of the forkhead transcription factor, FOX01, in pituitary gland development

Sreeparna Majumdar

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Study of sensory control of embryonic chick motility through kinematic and force measurements

Joanna Floria Pakiraih

Dept. of Anatomy, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

FOXM1 is expressed in actively proliferating cells during pituitary gland development

Adam Ploegman

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Post-ictal analgesia in genetically epilepsy-prone rats is induced by audiogenic seizures and involves cannabinoid receptors in the periaqueductal gray

Vijay Samineni

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield 

Serum withdrawal disrupts cell shape in cultured cells expressing TRPV-1

Sandeep Sheth

Dept. of Pharmacology, SIU School of Medicine, Springfield 

Nogo-A mRNA expression by astrocytes after stroke in the rat

Jessica Stout

Dept. of Physiology, SIU School of Medicine, Carbondale

Fees

Registration fee includes housing for Friday and Saturday nights, meals and banquet.
    * Faculty – Private Room: $125.00
    * Faculty – Shared Room: $100.00
    * Staff/Postdoctoral Fellow/Resident – Private Room: $110.00
    * Staff/Postdoctoral Fellow/Resident – Shared Room: $80.00
    * Student – Private Room: $75.00
    * Student – Shared Room: $60.00

Meals for additional guests attending with a registrant: $65.00