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The Informant Issue10v2 The Friedman Brain Institute is proud to present the 10th issue of the FBI Informant. The Informant is a triennial newsletter highlighting announcements and events for basic and clinical neuroscience at Mount Sinai. The purpose of riedman rain nstitute the Informant is to keep everyone abreast of all that is going on in and out of the F B I labs and clinics that comprise the Friedman Brain Institute, as well as acknowledge those individuals responsible for its success. In addition to sharing the information, our hope is that the Informant can be used as a tool to inspire, informant congratulate, and support one another. Announcements 5th Annual Neuroscience Retreat While exciting science and the exchange of information form the centerpiece of the Friedman Brain Institute’s Annual Neuroscience Retreat, it is the participation and social interactions of the various departments that make these retreats so effective and enjoyable. This year’s retreat took place on Friday, April 26th, 2013 at the New York Academy of Medicine. The morning session included a April 26, 2013 New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue Dr. Daniela Schiller Geoffrey W. Smith Lauren Friedman stirring talk from Eric Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Keynote Speaker Guest Speaker Guest Speaker Assistant!Professor of Director, President, Psychiatry and Center for Technology, Sinai Neuroscience Neuroscience Innovation and Outreach Program “SNOP” Institute and chair of Neuroscience Department. Dr. Nestler Entrepreneurship highlighted the successes of the Friedman Brain Institute and the 5th Annual Neuroscience Retreat presented ideas for the path forward. Friedman Brain Institute and the Neuroscience Training Area Keynote speaker Daniela Schiller gave a thought-provoking lecture about her group’s work aimed at understanding how the brain handles social interaction tasks. A series of presentations selected from submitted abstracts illuminated work going on in a variety of participating departments. Retreat attendees enjoyed a wide range of interesting talks and posters, which were contributed by scientists from all participating departments including Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Neurology, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Pathology, Pharmacology & System Therapeutics, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry and Radiology. A lively afternoon poster session was made all the more enjoyable with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. This was followed by an awards ceremony, which included prizes for best poster and best oral presentation. Awards were chosen by the faculty, and went to Georgia Hodes for her talk entitled “Individual to register, please visit: differences in peripheral inflammatory signaling functionally http://neuroscience.mssm.edu/retreat/ contribute to social defeat stress” and to Michael Demars for his poster entitled “Differential Expression of the Lynx Family in Visual Mike Michaelides for information contact: Marie Kopp at Cortex: Implications for Critical Period Plasticity”. [email protected] or 212-659-5913 photo by The organizing committee was comprised of faculty members Matthew Shapiro and Andrew Chess along with the administrative staff: Marie Kopp, Celeste Reyes, Jenny Rivera, and Veronica Szarejko. The 5th Annual Neuroscience Retreat exceeded our expectations. With the success of this year’s retreat, plans are already underway for the 6th Annual Retreat. We look forward to seeing you all there, as well as, to seeing others who could not attend this year. To view the retreat pamphlet, please visit: http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/institutes/brain-institute/events/annual-retreat To view images from the event, please visit: http://verje6.wix.com/fbi-gallery 1 Psychiatry Match Results We’re excited to share with you our great news from the match. Having received a record 1450 applications this year, we selected the top 11% for interviews and successfully matched with an extraordinarily accomplished group of 14 future psychiatrists. Our entering class of 6 women and 8 men is particularly diverse and brings with them demonstrated successes in academia, clinical and basic science research, and clinical care, as well as fluency in languages, music, the arts, and philanthropic, political, and financial organizations. We’re additionally thrilled that 3 Mount Sinai students are staying with us for their Psychiatry training (2 for general adult and 1 in the Triple Board Program); this represents half of all Mount Sinai students matching in psychiatry. For our Physician-Scientist Research Track, we’re pleased to have matched with our top-ranked MD/PhD candidate. Our other incoming residents are from Wash U, Baylor, Duke, Georgetown, GW, MUSC, Downstate, UConn, Upstate, and Wright State. We hope you will join us in enthusiastically welcoming this new group into our Department of Psychiatry. And, special thanks to the faculty who spent time interviewing applicants, our essential team (especially Ron Asher, Michelle Melendez, and Hiwot Woldu), the child/adolescent and triple board faculty (John O’Brien, Alex Kolevzon, and Jen Liu), and our other current residents and faculty who participated in this year’s highly successful selection and recruitment. Finally, thank you to Eric Nestler, Pamela Sklar, Schahram Akbarian, Barbara Coffey, Dan Iosifescu, James Murrough, and the other faculty who spent additional time interviewing research applicants. Thank you all, and congratulations once again, Wayne Brain Awareness Week: March 11-17, 2013 Sinai Neuroscience Outreach Program (SNOP) Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign created to promote public awareness of brain research. The Sinai Neuroscience Outreach Program (SNOP) hosted its first annual Brain Awareness Fair, as part of a city-wide week of events, for elementary, middle, and high school students and their parents. Attendees participated in a wide array of educational activities run by FBI students, postdocs and research associates, including an animal brains booth, “Build a Brain” where participants constructed pipe cleaner neurons and made their own brain hats, and “Decoding your brain” which included optical illusions and a skin conductance test. Mount Sinai faculty members, Yasmin Hurd, Miguel Gama Sosa, Mark Baxter, and Ting Wang, and representatives from the Alzheimer’s Association and Brain Injury Association of NY were on hand to answer questions and dispel myths about disease, addiction, and memory and cognition. Visit Shekhar Patil’s blog to learn more about the Brain Awareness Fair: http://blog.mountsinai.org/blog/brain-awareness-fair/ Visit SNOP's website to learn more about SNOP: http://sinaineurooutreach.wordpress.com Icahn School of Medicine’s blog: In conjunction with the Brain Awareness Fair, Drs. Hurd, Buxbaum, Russo and Han posted blogs on the Icahn School of Medicine’s blog page. See below for the links to their post. Dr. Hurd: Is Marijuana Harmless? http://blog.mountsinai.org/blog/marijuana/ 2 Brain Awareness Week continued... Dr. Buxbaum: Breaking Through Autism http://blog.mountsinai.org/blog/seaver-autism-center/ Dr. Russo Treating Depression More Rapidly & Effectively http://blog.mountsinai.org/blog/treating-depression/ Dr. Han Rapid Treatment for the Depressed Brain http://blog.mountsinai.org/blog/rapid-treatment-for-the-depressed-brain/ Paisán-Ruiz Lab (Neurology) Congratulations Dr. Paisán-Ruiz on her Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award. This award is designed to support Jr. faculty (first five years of tenure track assistant professor appointment) in either basic science or clinical research. 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Developmental Differences in Diffusion-Tensor Imaging Parameters in Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, in press Pam Kennedy (Postdoctroral Fellow, Neuroscience) Beginning this fall Pam Kennedy will be joining the Behavioral Neuroscience area of the UCLA Department of Psychology as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations Dr. Kennedy! Recent Publications: • Kennedy PJ, Feng J, Robison AJ, Maze I, Badimon A, Mouzon E, Chaudhury D, Damez-Werno DM, Haggarty SJ, Han MH, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN, Nestler EJ. (2013) Class I HDAC inhibition blocks cocaine-induced plasticity by targeted changes in histone methylation. Nat Neurosci. Apr; 16(4):434-40 3 11 Filizola Lab (Structural and Chemical Biology) Dr. Yi Shang (PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology; Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA) joins the Filizola Lab as a new Postdoctoral Associate. Honors/Awards: • Congratulations to Dr. Filizola on her awarded Tenure. • The Filizola Lab's work on opioid receptors and GPCRs appears as a ‘Feature Story’ at the Texas Advanced Computing
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