Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience
thanks the following organizations
for their continued sponsorship toward the annual
Student Travel Awards and Equipment Loan Program
Sina uer Assoc ia tes, Inc. Pub lishers
Sund erla nd , Ma ssa c husetts
Deanna Acs, St. Mary‘s College of MD
Sponsor: Kinder Scientific
We would like to acknowledge
Jennifer Marsh for her assistance
with surgeries, animal husbandry,
and histology and Amy Maenner
and Sam Hirsh for their assistance
with histology
FUN Travel Award Winner
Rastko Ciric, Pomona College
Sponsor: DSI
Special thanks to Profs. Ajay Satpute and Karen Parfitt
and the Pomona College Department of Neuroscience
FUN Travel Award Winner
Abigail Dove, Swarthmore College
Sponsor: Wellesley College
FUN Travel Award Winner
Ernesto Hernandez
University of Arizona
Sponsor: Nu Rho Psi
http://www.yourgenome.org/stories/fruit-flies-in-the-laboratory
FUN Travel Award Winner
Laura Keller, Bowdoin College
Sponsors:
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Peptide
Sequence
Net Charge
Level of
Permeation of
STG Sheath
Level of
Permeation of
CG Sheath
RPCH
pQLNFSPGWamide
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High
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Proctolin
RYLPT
+1
Medium
High
CabTRP Ia
ASPGLFGMRamide
+1
Medium-low
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CLDH
GLDLGLGRGFSGSQAAKHLM
GLAAANFAGGPamide
+2
Low
High
GYS
GYSDRNYLRFamide
+3
Low
High
Special thanks to Professors Patsy Dickinson and Andy Christie!
FUN Travel Award Winner
Dan Lowes, Oberlin College
Mentors
Tracie Paine, PhD
Steven Siegelbaum, PhD
Arjun Masurkar, MD/PhD
FUN Travel Award Winner
Sarah Hamilton, Davidson College
David H. Hubel Memorial Fund
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FUN Travel Award Winner
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With special thanks to
Ramirez Lab members
Nick Upright, Emma
Krause, Sophie
Claudel, Karen
Monuszko, and Jenni
Isaac for their
invaluable help in
bringing this project to
fruition!
Taylor Hendershott, College of the Holy Cross
Sponsor:
Project: Effects of Environmental
Enrichment in Mice
Acknowledgments
Adviser: Alo C. Basu, Ph.D
Example of environmentally
enriched (EE) housing
Stephanie Langella
Patrick McGuinness
EE males swam a shorter
distance to reach the
hidden platform in a
Morris Water Maze task
as compared to standard
housed (SE) males.
Angelo DeNofrio, Marie Cronin, Cat Teves
FUN Travel Award Winner
Jordan Reasor, University of Florida
Sponsor: San Diego Instruments
I would like to thank everyone associated with the Burke
lab at the University of Florida who welcomed me into
an incredibly innovative and supportive environment
where opportunities to become involved exist at every
corner. The following people share their passion for
research everyday and have helped me discover my own
love of research, and for that I am extremely grateful.
Thank you to Dr. Sara Burke, Dr. Drew Maurer, Dr. Sarah
Johnson, Abbi Rosen, Sean Turner, Tricia Sacks, Leslie
Gaynor, Nick Topper, Rodney Ndum and many others.
FUN Travel Award Winner
Nathaniel Elia, UC Davis
Sponsor: ADInstruments
FUN Travel Award Winner
Austin Ferro, Skidmore College
Sponsor: Faculty for Undergraduate
Neuroscience Research
Collaborators
Jenny Zhang
Emily Carbone
Asher Siegel
Monica Villegas
Emily Leathley
Kimberly Frederick
Stephen Ives
Thomas Reynolds
Harry Orr
Sarita Lagalwar
FUN Travel Award Winner
Matthew Davenport,
University of Cincinnati
Sponsor: Leica Microsystems
A big thanks to Dr. Tori Schaefer,
Dr. Craig Erickson, and everyone at
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center
FUN Travel Award Winner
Kimberly Meerschaert, Saginaw Valley
State University
Sponsor: San Diego Instruments
FUN Travel Award Winner
Molly Larson, Concordia College
Sponsor: Campden Instruments
Fujita, T. 2002, 2: 346-353
Lab Members:
Emily Luckhardt
Lacey Shiue, BA
Charissa Horner, BA
Krys Strand, PhD
FUN Travel Award Winner
Molly Larson, Concordia College
Sponsor: Lafayette Instrument
Fujita, T. 2002, 2: 346-353
Lab Members:
Emily Luckhardt
Lacey Shiue, BA
Charissa Horner, BA
Krys Strand, PhD
FUN Travel Award Winner
Monica Murray, Regis University
Sponsor: The Grass Foundation
Exercise partially protected against METHinduced striatal dopaminergic neurotoxicity
http://www2.hendrix.edu/biology/dearolf/treadmill.gif
Thank you to Katherine Varley, Zoe Vlastos, and Dr. Ashley Fricks-Gleason.
FUN Travel Award Winner
Jillian Faustino-Gallagher
Bay Path University
Sponsor: Neuroscience Program at Bay Path
University
Collaborators
Dr. Quadros-Mennella &
Diana Lalitsasivimol
FUN Travel Award Winner
Kathleen Luckett, Ithaca College
Sponsor: Faculty for Undergraduate
Neuroscience
20
Control
Con NE
Con NPY
Con NE + NPY
8
Number of Action Potentials
Number of Action Potentials
10
6
4
2
0
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
Stimulus Intensity (nA)
FUN Travel Award Winner
MI
MI NE
MI NPY
MI NE + NPY
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
Stimulus Intensity (nA)
0.6
0.7
Trevor Towner, California State
University San Marcos
Sponsor:
FUN Travel Award Winner
Audrey Torrest, UC Davis
Sponsor: Faculty for Undergraduate
Neuroscience
Relative mtDNA Lesion
Frequency
0.6
Mitochondrial DNA Damage
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Control
Reactive Oxygen Species in
Healthy Cells
HD Passage 10
HD Passage 18
Reactive Oxygen Species in
Huntington’s disease cells
FUN Travel Award Winner
Ellen Lesser, Wesleyan University
Sponsor: Med Associates, Inc
’Liking’ and ‘Wanting’ for a Sweet Reward in Rodents
Maintained on a Prenatal and Lifetime Junk Food Diet
Ellen N. Lesser, Sarah J. Mi, Aime Arroyo-Ramirez, Mike J.F. Robinson
FUN Travel Award Winner
Nate Bohm-Levine, Oberlin College
Sponsor: Nu Rho Psi
Special thanks to:
• Jan Thornton
• Emilia Varrone
• Elie Goldberg
• Oberlin College
• Nu Rho Psi
• Faculty for
Undergraduate
Research
FUN Travel Award Winner
Thomas Voigt, Skidmore College
Sponsor: Nu Rho Psi
Thank you Reba
Howard, Dan Manson,
Alex Mola, Travers
Ruel, Heather Braun,,
and all other Howard
lab members for your
valuable support and
guidance!
FUN Travel Award Winner
Therese Kenny, Memorial University
of Newfoundland (MUN)
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Malsbury, MUN
Special thanks to Mark Hebert, Katelyn Fallon, Katherine Smith, Phillip MacCallum
Jesse Whiteman, Gerard Martin, Malcolm Grant and Jacqueline Blundell.
FUN Travel Award Winner
Weelic Chong, Oberlin College
Sponsor: Nu Rho Psi, Sigma Xi, Oberlin College
Mentor and PI: Prof Gunnar Kwakye
Thanks to all lab members, especially
Gifty Dominah, Jessica Jimenez, Edmund Korley & Mina Huerta
FUN Travel Award Winner