Research Exchange 2025
Short Presentations - Session 1 | ||
11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. | ||
Start time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
11:00 a.m. | Joseph Bedont, PhD 91ֿ | “Sugar-snap: a critical period for developmental sleep to program adult sugar preference in fruit flies" |
11:15 a.m. | Sally Farah, MSc 91ֿ | “Neural Correlates of Emotion Processing During Social Stress: A Comparative Study of Hormonal Contraceptive Users and Non-Users” |
11:30 a.m. | Helen Piontkivska, PhD 91ֿ | “Patterns of ADAR editing as neuropsychiatric biomarkers” |
11:45 a.m. | Usman Sabir, PhD Northeast Ohio Medical University | “Mitochondrial protein turnover, dynamics, and biogenesis in tauopathy” |
Short Presentations – Session 2 | ||
2:30-3:30 P.M. | ||
Start time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
2:30 p.m. | Anna Crites 91ֿ | “Evaluating How Mouse Reversal Learning is Affected by Acute Stress Across Biological Sex” |
2:45 p.m. | Phaedra Norrell 91ֿ/Northeast Ohio Medical University | “Mighty Morphin' Microglia: Neonatal Estradiol Exposure Induces Sex-Specific Changes to Microglia in 5xFAD Mice” |
3:00 p.m. | Rachel Tinkey 91ֿ | “BATF2-Mediated Control of Astrocyte Proliferation” |
3:15 p.m. | Vidya Indra Kumar Case Western Reserve University | “Endothelial Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) depletion impairs neurovascular function and accelerates age-related cognitive decline" |
Short Presentations – Session 3 | ||
3:45-4:45 P.M. | ||
Start time | Presenter | Presentation Title |
3:45 p.m. | Takhar Kasumov, PhD Northeast Ohio Medical University | “Non-genetic Risks for Alzheimer’s: Diabetes and Heavy Alcohol Use” |
4:00 p.m. | Nafees Mahmood 91ֿ | “Haptic Resistive Feedback Reduces Tremors in Parkinson’s Disease: A Training Impact Study” |
4:15 p.m. | Rocio Aguila Rodriguez Case Western Reserve University | “Investigating the Effects of Acetylated Tau Mimics on Microtubule Binding, Tau Stability, and Neuronal Function” |
4:30 p.m. | Julia Huyck, PhD 91ֿ | "Factors affecting performance on an auditory temporal interval discrimination task during adolescence and young adulthood" |