Event Details

Science Day 2013

Date: January 15, 2013

Time: 11:00AM to 3:30PM

Location: Student Life Center

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Science Day - January 15th, 2013

A Tradition With Innovation

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center supports basic/molecular, applied, and clinical research and training. The VKC has over 300 faculty researchers, staff, and affiliate members working together across disciplines to create basic and clinical scientific discoveries, to translate research into best practices, and to train the next generation of researchers and practitioners. The ultimate goal is to make positive differences in the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.

Posters

125 posters will be presented by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research faculty and research staff conducting research in labs or research programs of VKC members and investigators. Posters are within three theme areas:

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Clinical, Behavioral, and Intervention Research
Systems Neuroscience

Poster abstracts will be available as pdfs here soon.

Agenda

10:00 a.m. Registration and poster hanging open

11:00 a.m. Welcome Jennifer Blackford, VKC Science Day Chair

11:05 a.m. Data Blitz

11:10 Beth Malow (Neurology)-Sleep education for parents of children with autism: What works best?
11:15 Sachin Patel (Psychiatry)-Endocannabionoid modulaton of central amygdala neurocircuitry: Implications for the pathophysiology of PTSD
11:20 Blythe Corbett (Psychiatry)-Physiological stress across different environments in autism spectrum disorders
11:25 Tricia Thornton-Wells (Molecular Physiology & Biophysics)-Imaging genetics of Alzheimer disease risk in Down syndrome
11:30 Kevin Ess (Neurology)-mTOR inhibition: Lost in translation?
11:35 Rene Gifford (Hearing & Speech Sciences)-Availability of binaural cues for pediatric bilateral cochlear implant recipients
11:40 Corrie Camalier (Neurosurgery)-Highly emotional stimuli selectively suppress single-unit activity in the subthalamic nucleus of the human basal ganglia
11:45 Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele (Psychiatry)-Can mice be used to judge atypical mouse social behavior?
11:50 Paul Yoder (Special Education)-Is daily communication therapy better than weekly? If so, for whom?