The Volen Center for Complex Systems Poster Session

The Volen Retreat offers the opportunity for all Volen-affiliated faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students to present a poster detailing their research. This is an opportunity for other members of the community to engage with their fellow scientists and exchange ideas. The face-to-face format of a poster session allows for direct and detailed discussion of data and techniques. This year 32 postdoctoral fellows and students presented posters at the Volen Retreat. The presenters and titles are below.

Presenter Poster Title
Rabia Anjum “Endogenous role for Rem2 inhibition of CaMKII in neuronal synaptic development and plasticity”
Mingxin Ding “Functions of hippocampal theta-entrained mPFC spiking activity”
Ryan Kirk “Identifying the Targets of HLF and TEF Mediating the Homeostatic Response to Activity Deprivation”
Krystal Leger “Cross cultural differences in recognition memory”
Kathleen Maigler “Future directions in lateral hypothalamus palatability coding”
Christina Quasney “The Molecular Mechanism of Long-term Memory”
Ema José Rivera-Rodríguez “microRNA 190 acts in the pupal nervous system to affect sleep in Drosophila melanogaster”
Hillary Rodgers “Investigating the temperature dependence of circuit robustness to ionic current block”
Travis Rogers “Molecular and neuronal mechanisms underlying early experience-dependent chemosensory plasticity in C. elegans”
Justin Shin “Ontogeny of coordinated representations in the hippocampal- prefrontal network during spatial learning”
Susannah Slepian “Dissecting the roles of semaphorin receptors Plexin-B1 and Plexin-B2 in synapse formation in the early postnatal hippocampus”
Bradly Stone “LiCl-Sickness Diminishes Taste-Evoked Phase Modulation in the Gustatory Cortex”
Daniel Svedberg “Millisecond-Resolution Bayesian Decoding of Neural Taste Responses in Gustatory Cortex”
Mercedes Villalonga “Keep your finger on the pulse: Vibrotactile and visual temporal sensitivity”
Derek Wise “Epileptic activity results from homeostatic plasticity in organotypic culture of mouse cortex”
Ryan Young “Toward understanding egocentric coding of goals in an interregional system”
Mohamed Adel “Artificial Sensory Stimulus Reroutes Dopamine Effects on the Associative Learning Circuit”
Benjamin Ballintyn “Decision dynamics during a continuous-time foraging task: a reinforcement learning approach”
Juliet Bottorff “Cholinergic Modulation of Wake-Gated Firing Rate Homeostasis”
Jordan Breffle “Small neural networks have multiple memory states in parameter regions not predicted by analysis of infinitely large networks”
Aly Fassett-Carman “Perceived uncontrollability of life stress is associated with gray matter morphometry in youth”
Andrea Guerrero “Shank3 Phosphorylation Regulates Synaptic Scaling”
Tyler Hill “Uncovering the molecular mechanisms of thermosensation”
Katie Kimbrell “Rem2 Regulates Social Transmission of Food Preference”
Aishwarya Krishnamoorthy “Understanding the neuronal functions of circMbl in Drosophila melanogaster”
Jasmine Le “The circadian clock regulates sleep via novel neuropeptide proctolin”
Chenghao Liu “Molecular and cellular mechanisms of conditioned taste aversion”
Abuzar Mahmood “Variability in neural correlates of taste processing in the gustatory cortex”
Mara Rue “Rapid adaptation of pyloric neurons of the crab, Cancer borealis, to elevated extracellular potassium concentrations”
Amy Scalera “Neuronal periactive zone membrane remodeling machinery regulates the traffic of extracellular vesicle cargoes at Drosophila synapses”
Michael Schneider “Changes in chromatin accessibility and gene expression in layer IV neurons during postnatal development”
Claire Symanski “Beta rhythms and task-related spiking in the hippocampal- prefrontal network underlie the recall of odor-place associative memories”