BHRI 10th Annual Neuroscience Symposium Program

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - Kiva Auditorium

Welcome remarks

5:15PM

Keynote Address

Co-sponsored by the Anti-Racism and Equity Institute

"The biology of trauma: Understanding risk and resilience"

Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D.

Anschutz Foundation Endowed Chair in Women's Integrated Mental and Physical Health Research at the Ludeman Center and Professor and Director for InterGenerational Stress and Health and the Director for Sex Differences Research in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

(Introduced by Dr. Mike Lehman)

Reception and Poster Session in the Integrated Sciences Building Atrium and Mainstreet

Friday, October 28, 2022 - Student Center Ballroom and Balcony

Check-in and breakfast

Welcome Remarks and Brain Health Research Institute Overview

9:15AM

"Obesity, sympathetic activation, hypertension and glucose regulation: role of leptin and brain melanocortin system"

John E. Hall, '68, Ph.D.

Arthur C. Guyton Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, Founding Director of the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, and Director of the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC)

(Introduced by Dr. Lique Coolen)

10:00AM

"In Search of Super Soldiers: Military Research on the Frontlines"

Allison Brager, '11, Ph.D.

Deputy Chief Science Officer, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School

(Introduced by Dr. Rachael Blasiman)

Break

11:00AM

"From primate anatomy to human neuroimaging: insights into the circuits underlying behavioral flexibility, psychiatric disease and neuromodulation"

Suzanne N. Haber, '68, Ph.D.

Dean's Professor and Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester

(Introduced by Dr. Jennifer McDonough)

Introduction of Career Development Session Leaders by Ms. Chloe Edmonds

12:00-1:00PM

Lunch · Career Development Sessions · BHRI Tours

Career Development Sessions:

"Pursuing a Career in Higher Education"

Ashley D. Nemes-Baran, '16, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University

"Pursuing a Career as a Clinical Trials Researcher"

Meenakshi Rozenstrauch, '11, M.S.

Consultant, Yuzu Labs

"Preparing for and Applying to Graduate School"

Ya’el C. Courtney, '19, B.S.

Fourth year Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard University

"Applying for Post-Doc, Transitioning to Independence and Setting Up a Research Lab"

Lique Coolen, Ph.D.

Assistant to the Provost for Special Projects, Office of Postdoctoral Studies Director, Program Lead Choose Ohio First at Kent State University in the Division of Academic Affairs, Assistant Director of the Brain Health Research Institute and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State University

John E. Hall, '68, Ph.D.

Arthur C. Guyton Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, Founding Director of the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, and Director of the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC)

Angela Ridgel, Ph.D., ACSM-EP, FACSM

Professor in the School of Health Sciences and Associate Director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State University

"How to Incorporate Rigor, Reproducibility and Data Sharing in your Work"

Mike Lehman, Ph.D.

Director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State University, Professor of Biological Sciences

1:00PM

"Factors that regulate neuronal properties in the developing avian auditory brainstem"

Jason Tait Sanchez, '06, Ph.D., CCC-A, FAAA

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University

(Introduced by Dr. Jeff Wenstrup)

1:45PM

"There and back again: Lessons learned from the pursuit of academic medicine and the science of spine surgical care"

Andrew J. Schoenfeld, '99, M.D., MSc

Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Division of Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

(Introduced by Dr. Jessica Williams)

Break

2:45PM

"Cognition is Rhythm"

Earl K. Miller, '85, Ph.D.

Picower Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Introduced by Dr. Angela Ridgel)

Poster awards, wrap up and farewell

Additional BHRI tours