Excellence in Neuroscience Award
Each year, the Neuroscience Awards Committee recognizes two graduating seniors who have performed outstandingly in the lab with the Excellence in Neuroscience Research Award.
Award Recipients
2012
Shoshana Korman
Thesis: Paradox of Dynamic Stability: Neurogenesis Contributes to a Stereotyped Behavior in Songbirds
Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Pytte
Kobi Wasner
Thesis: Aberrant Song-Related Feedback Alters Lateralized Pattern of Adult Neurogenesis
in Zebra Finch Auditory Region Caudomedial Nidopallium
Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Pytte
2011
John Kalambogias
Thesis: Microglial Development and Response to Sensory Deprivation in Mouse Barrel Cortex
Mentor: Dr. Joshua C. Brumberg
Erica Rodriguez
Thesis: Experience-dependent Neuron Survival in Adult Zebra Finches
Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Pytte
2010
Adesh A. Bajnath
Thesis: The Effect of Sensory Deprivation on Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology
in the Rodent Somatosensory Cortex
Mentor: Dr. Joshua Brumberg
Carole Parent
Thesis: The Relationship Between Neurogenesis and Cell Death
Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Pytte
2009
Jason Abramowitz
Thesis: The Organization of Myelin in the Mouse Somatosensory Barrel Cortex
and the Effects of Sensory Deprivation on its Development
Mentor: Dr. Joshua Brumberg
Chantal Bruno
Thesis: Synergism of BDNF and Sympathetic Neuron Dysfunction
in the Etiology of Perivascular Inflammation
Mentor: Dr. Susan Croll
2008
Yana Abayev
Thesis: Expression of Fructose-Conditioned Flavor Preferences: Opioid Antagonism
in the Amygdala and in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Core Regions
Mentor: Dr. Richard Bodnar
Michelle G. Bubnik
Thesis: Cluster Analysis of Preschoolers Using Objective Measures of Inattention,
Impulsivity, and Activity Level and Predictive Utility
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Halperin
2007
Karen Kest
Thesis: NMDA Antagonism in the Ventral Tegmental Area Impairs Acquisition,
But Not Expression, of Operant Responding
Mentor: Dr. Robert Ranaldi
Samira Zaman
Mentor: Dr. William Farrell
