Tufts Neuro Network Open House – Fall 2018

 

  • Poster session with Tufts faculty, post-docs and grad students on current research
  • Tours of the SEC labs
  • Networking within the Tufts neuroscience community

 

  • Keynote speaker: 

Anthony P. Monaco, MD, PhD

President, Tufts University

 

 

 

 

Poster Presentations:

 

3D bioengineered neural tissue to mitigate acute cerebral inflammation after brain transplantation in rats
Volha Liaudanskaya

 

3D in vitro blood-brain barrier tissue model
Yu-Ting Dingle

 

A new murine model for aggressive motivation: extrahypothalamic CRF and persistent escalation by alcohol
Herb Covington

 

Changes in macrophage metabolism in response to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory stimuli
Isabel Smokelin

 

Corticotropin releasing factor invigorates cocaine-seeking via CRF-R2 in the nucleus accumbens core
Michael Leonard

 

Deconstructing the motivational components of natural reinforcers in mice: critical role for CRF in anticipatory arousal
Herb Covington

 

Do organisms require brains to display intelligence? Clues from primitive ameboid organisms
Nirosha Murugan

 

Escalation of I.V. cocaine self-administration in a subset of C57BL/6J mice after social defeat stress
Danielle Arena

 

Exploring the role of delta-GABAa receptors in the anxiolytic and anxiogenic effects of alcohol
Alyssa DiLeo

 

How do fish swim?
Jerry Mekdara

 

Investigating the role of innervation in breast cancer metastasis
Will Le

 

Mapping the proteome of the synaptic cleft through proximity labeling reveals new cleft proteins
Tony Cijsouw

 

Neuroegineering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) model and mitigating secondary damage with bioelectric compounds
Nicolas Rouleau

 

Neurological predictors of treatment response in post-traumatic stress disorder
Cecilia Hinojosa

 

Non-invasive, label-free imaging illustrates heterogeneity in glioblastoma subpopulations
Craig Mizzoni

 

Persistent female social defeat stress and escalated alcohol intake in female C57BL/6J mice
Emily Newman

 

Sculpting neural stem cell identity with the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Camila Barrios Camacho

 
 

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