Poster Award Recipients (Left to right)
A. J. Baucum, Saul Siller, Dhananjay Sakrikar, Juliane Krueger Fister, Claire Borgschulte. Not shown: Emily Fyfe, Jutta Mayer, Yuliya Yoncheva.

Congratulations to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Science Day 2011 Poster Award Winners

Updated on 2/21/2011 3:19:17 PM.

Source: Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

More than 100 graduate students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty presented posters in Clinical, Behavioral, and Intervention Research; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; and Systems Neuroscience at the fourth Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Science Day, held February 15. More than 200 people attended the day-long event.

Welcome by Melissa Parisi, M.D., Ph.D.

Click here to read the welcome and opening remarks by Melissa Parisi.

Keynote Address

• Ronald Emeson, Ph.D., Joel G. Hardman Professor of Pharmacology; Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics and Psychiatry; Deputy Director of the Center for Molecular Neuroscience
  Prader-Willi Syndrome and the Tyranny of Evidence

Junior Faculty Presentation

• Sarika Peters, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  Trajectories of Autism Spectrum Features in Angelman and Rett Syndromes

VKC Science Day Research Poster Awards

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

• Undergraduate Student—Saul Siller
  Mentor—Kendal Broadie, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences
  Minocycline Allieviates Neural Circuit Defects in the Drosophila Fragile X Model via a Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloprotease-Dependent Pathway

• Predoctoral Trainee—Dhananjay Sakrikar
  Mentor—Randy Blakely, Ph.D., Neuroscience Graduate Program
  Disrupted Trafficking and Catalytic Modulation of a Novel ADHD-Associated Dopamine Transporter Coding Variant

• Postdoctoral Trainee—A. J. Baucum
  Mentor—Roger Colbran, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
  Age-Dependent Changes in Striatal Signaling Protein Complexes

Clinical, Behavioral, and Intervention Research

• Undergraduate Student—Claire Borgschulte
  Mentor—Judy Garber, Ph.D., Department of Psychology & Human Development
  Children of Depressed Parents Are at Increased Risk for Depression

• Predoctoral Trainee—Emily Fyfe
  Mentor—Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Human Development
  Benefits of Concreteness Fading for Children with Low Knowledge of Mathematical Equivalence

• Postdoctoral Trainee—Jutta Mayer
  Mentor—Sohee Park, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
  The Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Frontal Activity During Working Memory in Parkinson’s Disease: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

Systems Neuroscience

• Predoctoral Trainee—Juliane Krueger Fister
  Mentor—Mark Wallace, Ph.D., Neuroscience Graduate Program
  Anatomical Connectivity Patterns of the Anterior Ectosylvian Sulcus: Implications for Multisensory Processes

• Postdoctoral Trainee—Yuliya Yoncheva
  Mentor—Bruce McCandliss, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Human Development
  Effects of Preference and Strategy on Learning an Artificial Script