The Sixth Annual Virtual BHI Symposium continues on Friday, Nov 20 with additional Faculty speakers, Keynote Lecture and Student & Post-doc Presentations.
The virtual symposium will be hosted via Zoom. Separate Zoom links will be used for Thursday and Friday. Please mute your microphones during the talks and unmute only if you have questions to ask during the 5 minute Q&A period after each talk. If your internet connectivity & bandwidth is good we encourage everyone to turn on the camera on your devices.
Friday Nov 20, 2020 Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92822180849?pwd=MnBJbGtJRXRqYiswOUs2akY1OGoxQT09
Friday Nov 20, 2020 Zoom Meeting ID: 928 2218 0849; Passcode: bhi2020
For printable program (PDF), click here.
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title of Talk (Click for Abstracts) |
| Fri, Nov 20 (9.00 AM – 9.20 AM) | David H. Zald, PhD Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS, RBHS, Director CAHBIR, Henry Rutgers Term Chair, BHI Core Faculty | Neuroimaging Networks for Translational Neuroscience |
| Fri, Nov 20 (9.25 AM – 9.45 AM) | Mauricio Delgado, PhD Professor and Chair of Psychology SASN, Rutgers-Newark | Reward Processing in the Human Brain |
| Fri, Nov 20 (9.50 AM – 10.10 AM) | Laleh Najafizadeh, PhD Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering SOE, Rutgers-New Brunswick | Data-Driven Methods for Understanding the Dynamics of Brain Function |
| Fri, Nov 20 (10.15 AM – 10.35 AM) | Rafiq Huda, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, SAS, Rutgers-New Brunswick | Coupling Of Prefrontal Cortical Activity To Arousal Predicts Alcohol Consumption |
| Fri, Nov 20 (10.40 AM – 11.00 AM) | Zoom Break | Zoom Break |
| Fri, Nov 20 (11.05 AM – 11.25 AM) | Vanessa Routh, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, NJMS, RBHS | Hypothalamic Glucose Sensing Neurons: Multiple Functions, One Goal |
| Fri, Nov 20 (11.30 AM – 11.50 AM) | Ying-Xian Pan, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology, NJMS, RBHS BHI Core Faculty | Biased Signaling At Multiple Mu Opioid Receptors Generated By Alternative Splicing Of OPRM1 Gene |
Fri, Nov 20 (12 Noon – 1.00 PM) Keynote Speaker | Stan B. Floresco, PhD Professor of Psychology and Director of Neural Circuits and Cognition Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. | Prefrontal-Subcortical Circuits Underlying Risk/Reward Decision Making |
| Fri, Nov 20 (2.00 PM – 2.20 PM) | Radek Dobrowolski, PhD Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, SASN, Rutgers-Newark | Impaired Nuclear Calcium Signaling Attenuates CREB-Mediated Neuronal Clearance in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Fri, Nov 20 (2.25 PM – 2.45 PM) | Hyung Jin Ahn, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, NJMS, RBHS, BHI Core Faculty | Fibrinogen As A Key Player For Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Associated Vascular Pathology |
| Fri, Nov 20 (2.50 PM – 3.10 PM) | Max Tischfield, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS, Rutgers-New Brunswick and CHINJ | Brain Drain: Development Of Meningeal Lymphatic Networks And The Glymphatic System In Craniofacial Disorders |
| Fri, Nov 20 (3.15 PM – 3.35 PM) | Stella Elkabes, PhD Professor of Neurosurgery, NJMS, RBHS | Modulation Of Immune And Non-Immune Functions Of Astrocytes Following Spinal Cord Injury: Role Of Toll-Like Receptor 9 |