Conference organized by

• The UCONN Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
• Program Steering Committee

with the support from

• The UCONN OVPR Scholarship Facilitation Fund
• Psychological Sciences
• Biomedical Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Physiology and Neurobiology
• The Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

For info visit

https://neuroscience.uconn.edu/

https://neuroscienceatstorrs.eventbrite.com

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Itinerary

DATA BLITZ

(Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center Building)

2:30-3:30pm: Data Blitz

KEYNOTE LECTURE

(Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center Building)

4:00-5:00pm: Kay Tye, Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT

RECEPTION and POSTER SESSION

(Atrium, Bousfield Building)

5:30-7:00pm: Hosted by Psychological Sciences

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KEYNOTE LECTURE

Kay Tye, Associate Professor

Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT

Title, “Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Valence Processing”

Abstract:

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS

1. The novel atypical dopamine uptake inhibitor S-CE-123 partially reverses the effort-related effects of the dopamine depleting agent tetrabenazine

Rotolo, RA, Schwartz, R, Dragacevic, V, Kalaba, P, Urban, E, Zehl, M, Wackerlig, J, Langer, T, Presby, RE, Yang, JH, Correa, M, Lubec, G, Salamone, JD

2. Epigenetic readers regulate transcriptional and behavioral responses to cocaine

Sartor, G.C.

3. Pharmacological and genetic studies of effort-related decision making using mouse touchscreen procedures: Effects of dopamine antagonism and humanized catechol-o-methyltransferase variants.

Yang, J. H., Presby, R. E., Jarvie, A. A., Rotolo, R. A., Fitch, R. H., Correa, M., & Salamone, J. D.

4. "Enhancing categorical sound perception with envelope timing cues"

SATONICK, PJ, CODY, CR, Nolan Jr., TP, Read, HL

5. The Biomechanics of Distal Colon and Rectal Wall and Its Implication in Visceral Sensation and Hypersensitivity

Siri, S, Maier, F, Pierce, DM, Feng, B

6. The effects of performance-based incentives on executive functions during early childhood.

Bryant, L. J., Barratt, S. M., Pinnock, N. S., Liyanage, D. T., & Cuevas, K.

7. Effective Removal of Electrical Stimulus Artifacts in Multi-channel Electrophysiological Recordings

Chen, L, Escabi, M, Feng, B

8. Model-based detection of putative synaptic connections from multi-electrode spike recordings

Ren, N, Ito, S, Hafizi, H, Beggs, J, Stevenson, I

9. Bace-1 regulate amyloid Beta- induced neuroinflamamtion by modulating microglial function.

Singh, N, Hu, Y, Yan, R

10. Comic Timing: A Novel Approach to Representations of Time

Gregg, MA

11. Spatial Arrangement of HFOs Correlates with Interictal Spikes on Scalp EEG in Pediatric Epilepsy

Sumsky, S, Somma,T, Santaniello, S, Schomer, M

12. Modeling dispersion improves decoding of population neural responses

Ghanbari, A

13. A Computational Model of the Cortico-Cerebello-Thalamo-Cortical Pathway under Essential Tremor and Cerebellar Neuromodulation

Zhang, Xu, Santaniello, Sabato

14. Change of Gene Expression Due to a CB1 Allosteric Modulator

Tang, Y, Kendall, DA

15. Neural resonance theory: Investigating beat-perception using missing pulse rhythms

Wasserman, C.S., Wei, Y., Kim, J., Skoe, E., Read, H.L., & Large, E.W.

16. Age-related hearing loss - how a monoallelic single point mutation impairs auditory processing

Burghard, A, Morel, N; Oliver, DL

17. Altered VGLUT2-positive Nerve Endings in the Colorectum Following Intracolonic TNBS Treatment

Shah, D, Maier, F, Guo, T, Patel, S, Feng, B

18. Observational learning of a changing goal location in rats

Troha, R., Dong, D., Markus, E.

19. Observational learning in rats - A comparison of two strains

Troha, R., Hernandez ,N, Dong, D, Shao, T.

20. Spatial memory processing of dorsal and ventral place cells in response to novelty

Lee, SL, Katz, M, Pietruszewski, T, Anam, A, Citrin, K, Mathew, N, Troha, R, Markus, EJ

21. Bin Feng; Tiantian Guo; Kyle Trocki; Zichao Bian; Longtu Chen; Guoan Zheng

Guo, T, Trocki, K, Bian, Z, Chen, L, Zheng, G, Feng, B

22. Bin Feng; Tiantian Guo; Kyle Trocki; Zichao Bian; Longtu Chen; Guoan Zheng

Guo, T, Trocki, K, Bian, Z, Chen, L, Zheng, G, Feng, B

23. In vitro single-unit recordings reveal increased peripheral nerve conduction velocity by focused pulsed ultrasound

Ilham, SJ, Chen, L, Guo, T, Emadi, S, Hoshino, K, Feng, B

24. Fabricating a novel microelectrode array for simultaneous single-unit recordings from multiple peripheral nerve axons

Guo, TT

25. The Temporal Pattern of High Frequency Oscillations Discriminates the Seizure Onset Zone in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Sumsky, S, Santaniello, S

26. Assembly of compact printed circuit board for neural stimulation and recording in neuroprosthetic applications

Johnson, A, Ersoz, A, Han, M

27. 3D visualization of the foreign body response to MicroProbes/NeuroNexus/Blackrock "hybrid" arrays in cat cortex

Nolta NF, Nambiar, A, Han, M

28. Microfabrication and use of multi-shank silicon probes for stimulation and recording in cochlear nucleus

Ghelich, P, Nolta, NF, McCreery, DB, Han, M

29. Cell-specific transgenic manipulation of GABAA receptor synaptic clustering in hippocampal neurons

George, S, De Blas, AL

30. THE CONSTITUTION OF DYSTROPHIC NEURITES IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE MOUSE MODEL BRAIN AND THEIR 3D STRUCTURES

Sharoar, MG, Hu, X, Yan, R

31. Decoding sound texture identity via statistics of neuron ensembles

Zhai, X, Sadeghi, M, Khatami, F, Read, HL, Stevenson, IH, Escabi, MA

32. A Neural Ensemble Correlation Code for Sound Category Identification

Sadeghi, M, Zhai, X, Stevenson, IH, Escabi, MA

33. DeepListener: A computational model of human speech recognition that works with real speech and develops distributed phonological codes

You, H., Nam, H, Allopenna, PD, Brown, K & Magnuson, JS

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