This eight-week summer program enables undergraduates to jumpstart their Graduation with Distinction senior theses by working one-on-one with faculty mentors. The full program is open only to rising juniors and seniors who are declared Neuroscience majors. Students work on individual projects with their mentors to gather more information for research independent study (RIS) projects that will be done throughout the fall and spring semesters. The Summer Neuroscience Program is part of the Bass Connections Brain & Society theme.

2021 Projects

• Amanda Andriessen, STING signaling in peripheral sensory neurons confers protective immunity against Listeria monocytogenes infection
• Ainsley Buck, Resting-state functional connectivity of the ventral attention network and non-clinical anxiety in early childhood
• Lauren Burgett, The effects of cross-fostering on the dopamine system and the gut following air pollution and prenatal stress exposure
• Soren Christensen, Intraoperative pre-burst suppression as a predictor of postoperative cognitive function
• Michael Greenstein, AIE effects on hippocampal-hypothalamic circuits that mediate anxiety-like behavior
• Mia Grossman, Oxytocin and vasopressin receptor distributions in female-dominant versus Egalitarian eulemur
• Elmira Hezarkhani, Behavioral characterization of humanized mice: a platform to understand chronic graft-versus host disease-associated pain?
• Serena Lim-Strutt, Exploring the relationship between psychedelics and personality traits in humans
• Akash Meesa, Assessing cognitive rejuvenation in aged mice with youthful circulation
• Gene Moon, Determining the effect of botox on the expression of TRPV4 channels on trigeminal neurons
• Melissa Pish, Resilience and psychological functioning in the context of infertility
• Megan Rabe, Mapping cholinergic input to the dorsal hippocampus from the MSDB: a possible mechanism for impaired memory following adolescent binge drinking
• Vincent Sinfuego, Can brain waves predict perceptual awareness? A meta-analysis of prestimulus alpha oscillations and conscious visual perception
• Krishna Sinha, Validating epigenome editing tools to regulate Arc expression
• Evelyn Sturrock, Quantifying and comparing auditory cortical afferents in hearing versus deaf mice
• Marytha Tan, Big picture tells the whole story: 3D imaging to reveal key cellular players in Drosophilia spastin mutants
• Ying Yu, Temporal structures in tonal and atonal music: an online behavioral study