Abstracts have been submitted for the 2019 Annual Retreat in the Study Areas below. Prizes will be awarded for students and fellows with the best poster presentations.
Behavior and Cognition Abstracts
- Loss of Neuregulin 3 in dopaminergic neurons leads to dysregulated dopamine transients and cognitive deficits
- CUL3 deficiency causes social deficits and anxiety-like behaviors by impairing excitation-inhibition balance via promoting Cap-dependent translation
- Brain to toe therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) bench-to-clinic-to-community systems approaches to climacteric
- DGCR2, a schizophrenia risk gene, regulates synaptic transmission, anxiety and hippocampal-prefrontal synchrony
- Tourism, Pathogens, Captive Environments and Disease Transmission
- The hippocampal-prefrontal pathway in modulation of sleep and wakefulness
- ErbB4 labels a novel group of excitatory interneurons in dorsal spinal cord and mediates thermal pain sensation
- Wising-up: designing a course for the future –Cog Science 301/401
- Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Applying science to clinical practice
Cerebrovascular and Trauma Abstracts
- Astrocytic neogenin regulating netrin-1, a pathway critical for astrocyte tiling and blood vessel maturation in mouse cortical brain
- Brief treatment with P7C3-A20 in chronic blast-mediated traumatic brain injury, one year after blast exposure, improves cognition, restores the blood-brain barrier, and reduces neurodegeneration.
Computational Neuroscience, Devices, & Imaging Abstracts
- Proteomic alterations after chronic treatment of the TgF344-AD rat model of Alzheimer’s disease with the neuroprotective compound P7C3- S321
- The first-ever CNV analysis in Latin American Parkinson's disease patients
- ErbB4 functioning in fear memory within the main part of intercalated cells
Development Abstracts
- LRP4 is critical for muscle spindle development
- A Nail Patella Syndrome-causing human Lmx1b variant disrupts mouse serotonin neuron development
- GRP78 is essential for NMJ formation and maintenance
- ErbB4 Can Promote Inhibitory Synapse Formation by Cell Adhesion, Independent of Its Kinase Activity
- Response to Patching in Amblyopic Patients with and without Fusion Maldevelopment Nystagmus
- Enhancement of spontaneous glutamate release by group I mGluRs in the Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body
- Asparagine 88 to lysine (N88K), a prevalent congenital myasthenic syndrome mutation of rapsyn, impairs neuromuscular junction by disrupting agrin signaling
- Regulation of chromatin accessibility and Pet1/FEV binding during serotonergic (5-HT) neuron development
Neurodegeneration Abstracts
- Zinc-finger CCHC-domain containing protein 6 (Zcchc6) is translocated to mitochondria and modulates neuronal cells survival
- Transgenic Overexpression of GPNMB Protects Against MPTP-Induced Neurodegeneration
- Study of AR-DNA association in Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
- Evaluation of CNS Blockade of AMYR on Pramlintide function in Alzheimer’s Disease
- Reversible loss of neuronal function in a mouse model of demyelination/remyelination
- Effects of variable beta-amyloid (Ab1-42) fragment size on expression of pro-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, and autophagy genes in human microglia cells.
- Role of macrophage phenotype and macrophage/DRG site-specific interactions on neurite outgrowth in adult DRG neurons in vitro
- Selective deletion of AMPA receptors on oligodendrocytes prevents demyelination and axonal injury in autoimmune demyelination
- A role of lamin A/C in preventing neuromuscular junction decline in aged mice
- Optimizing dance interventions to improve motor function in people with Parkinson’s disease and older adults
- Using linkage analysis to identify novel gene-gene interactions in Alzheimer’s disease
- The Role of 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH) in neurodegeneration
- ADCYAP1/PACAP and its potential regulatory long non-coding RNA may be implicated in the neurodegenerative process of MS patients
- Pathogenic CLP1 p.R140H mutation alters mRNA processing in human motor neurons
- Protective genetic variants in the mid-western Amish
- Neuroimmune axis: ADAR-mediated RNA editing plays a role in molecular evolution of West Nile Virus
- Consequential timeline of optic nerve and retinal changes compared with functional imaging assessments in autoimmune demyelination
- Oncomodulin is required for the conditioning lesion response in dorsal root ganglion neurons in vivo
- Vps35 D620N knock-in mice display increased susceptibility to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-mediated neurotoxicity
- APP promotes osteoblast survival and bone formation by regulating mitochondrial function and preventing oxidative stress
- Dynamin‐like protein 1 cleavage by calpain in Alzheimer’s disease
- Heterogeneity of the Regenerative Response of Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons to a Conditioning Lesion
- Young Adults with Down Syndrome have Increased Levels of Soluble TREM2 and Inflammatory Markers
- Ependymal VPS35 promotes ependymal cell differentiation, suppresses microglial activation, and prevents neonatal hydrocephalus
- LRP4 Deficiency in Astrocytes Exacerbates Alzheimer’s-Associated Pathology and Cognitive Dysfunction