Please join us for the Spring 2025 Fozdar Symposium!

The Spring 2025 Fozdar Symposium is scheduled for April 30th, in Chemistry Building 217 from 10:30am-4:30pm.

If you can attend, please complete the RSVP form at your earliest convenience. This will help us plan for catering. If you are a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or faculty member who would like to help judge the student presentations, there is a section of the RSVP form where you can indicate that as well.

The schedule includes:

• 10:30am-12:00pm: We’ll start with three talks from some of our highly successful PhD students:

• • Heather Barber: Sarah Kucenas lab: Radial astroglia cooperate with microglia to clear neuronal cell bodies during zebrafish optic tectum development.
  • Katherine Canada: Kevin Pelphrey lab. Functional Protein Clustering Predicts Differential Gene Expression in Autism
  • Addison Webster: John Campbell lab: Unraveling the Neural Circuitry of Energy Balance with Molecular Connectomics

• 12:00pm-1:00pm: Catered Lunch (please RSVP here)
• 1:00pm-4:00pm Fozdar Symposium Talks, presented by undergraduate NESC DMP students

• • Gianna Latorre: Hungry & Stressed: Understanding Metabolic State Effects on Autonomic and Psychological Stress Responses in Humans
  • Faye Berry: Characterizing the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: A Neural Hub Coordinating Breathing With Locomotion
  • Pritika Modhukuru: Cellular Garbage Pile-Up: Effects of Reduced Efferocytosis in Multiple Sclerosis
  • Rachel Johnston: Development of a Tissue-Engineered Model of the Blood-Brain Barrier
  • John Lee: Sarm1-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming of Schwann Cells Following Nerve Injury
  • Campbell Coleman: Estimated Axonal Latency Predicts Differences in N170 Latency in Autistic and Neurotypical Cohorts

• 2:30-2:45 - 15 min break

• • Christopher Turner: Characterization of Cortico-Tectal Input Across Species: An Evolutionary Comparative Analysis
  • Charlotte Burgess: Seeking Synthetic Lethal Treatment for Myc-driven Medulloblastoma
  • Kate Meyer: Effect of Apoptotic Genes on Aberrant Glial Infiltration in Drosophila
  • Shrinidhi Kittur: Vasoactive intestinal peptide-expressing interneurons are impaired in SCN8A epileptic encephalopathy
  • Sydney Holton: Characterizing the Morphology and Connectivity of Geniculate Relay Cell Dendrites and Synaptic Inputs in P14 Mice

• ~4:15pm: Fozdar Symposium Award Presentations

Visit the Fozdar Symposium Home Page for more information.