Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts Boca Raton, Florida, USA June 27-July 2, 2018 Abstracts of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Volume 27, June 2018 Contents PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME ................................................................................................ 3 OFFICERS.......................................................................................................................... 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS ......................................................................................................... 4 AWARDS .......................................................................................................................... 5 TRAVEL AWARDS ............................................................................................................. 6 SPONSORS/EXHIBITORS ................................................................................................... 7 PROGRAM ........................................................................................................................ 9 Wednesday, June 27 ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Thursday, June 28 ................................................................................................................................................. 9 Friday, June 29 ................................................................................................................................................... 15 Saturday, June 30 ............................................................................................................................................... 23 Sunday, July 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 ABSTRACTS .................................................................................................................... 36 Thursday, June 28 ............................................................................................................................................... 36 Friday, June 29 ................................................................................................................................................... 62 Saturday, June 30 ............................................................................................................................................. 106 Sunday, July 1 ................................................................................................................................................... 152 IBNS CENTRAL OFFICE Marianne Van Wagner, Executive Director (830) 796-9393 tel. Eve Van Wagner, Business and Events Coordinator (830) 796-9394 fax International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (866) 377-4416 (toll-free from within the US) 1123 Comanche Path [email protected] Bandera, Texas 78003-4212 USA http://www.ibnsconnect.org Connect with IBNS! 2 PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME F. Scott Hall, PhD IBNS President Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Toledo, Ohio, USA Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am delighted to welcome you to the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS). As you are no doubt aware, the meeting had been originally planned for Puerto Rico, which continues to recover from the devastating consequences of Hurricane Maria. Even now, so long after the event, the Island is struggling to recover, and estimates of the full toll of the disaster continue to climb. We continue to ask all our members to reach out to colleagues in Puerto Rico, and to the community at large, and to help where you can. We were very fortunate to have support from Plexon and Thorlabs, who made contributions allowing 5 deserving students from Puerto Rico to attend the IBNS meeting this year. We thank them very much for their generosity that has benefited these deserving students. After it became clear that we would have to move the location of the meeting, we were quite lucky to be able to hold the meeting in beautiful Boca Raton, Florida, but not without herculean efforts on the part of the IBNS staff, the IBNS Executive Director Marianne Van Wagner and our Business and Event Manager, Eve Van Wagner. This meeting could not have happened, and indeed our Society would not have continued to exist, without their steadfast loyalty and long- standing contributions to the Society. I extend to them our deepest thanks. I would also like to thank our plenary speakers for being so helpful and accommodating with the change in venue. Much effort had originally gone into plans for Puerto Rico, so I would like to thank the original local organizing committee (LOC) from Puerto Rico (Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar, Arlene Martinez, Yancy Ferrer-Acosta, Carlos, Bolanos and Dinah Ramos- Ortolaza) for their hard work. I would especially like to thank a late addition to the LOC from Florida, Marcelo Febo, for his help and advice after the meeting had been moved to Florida. Putting on a meeting like this requires a great deal of work from many people. The program this year has been enlarged and enriched, with 3 simultaneous symposia, and more presentations than at any previous IBNS meeting. This could not have happened without tremendous (and time-consuming) efforts from the Program Committee and its Chair, Elena Choleris, and Co-Chair, Farida Sohrabji. This year IBNS also gave away more student and post-doctoral travel awards than ever before, to a very impressive group of young scientists. We are appreciative of their work and efforts and will show- case their work, as always, in the Travel Award Blitz. Choosing the award winners from among the accomplished applicants was the very difficult work of the Education and Training Committee, and its Chair, Stacey Sukoff Rizzo, and Co-Chair, Corina Bondi. We thank them all for their diligence, time and hard work. Lastly, I wish to acknowledge our student representative, Cindy Barha, for her numerous contributions to the meeting. IBNS is also exceedingly thankful for the support of its sponsors. First and foremost among this group is the long-standing and continuing support of Elsevier Science, the publisher of our official journals, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, who will once again hold a lunchtime seminar on scientific publishing. We would also like to recognize our major sponsors Plexon, Thorlabs, Stoelting, Harvard Bioscience, and Noldus for their support of the meeting. Noldus has also helped to organize and sponsor, with Past-President Robert Gerlai, a lunchtime workshop on Zebrafish methods, and we are very appreciative of their efforts. We are thankful to all our sponsors and exhibitors and encourage you to visit their booths during the breaks at the conference to discuss your research needs. I am looking forward to another outstanding meeting in Boca Raton, Florida. Best wishes, F. Scott Hall President, IBNS 3 OFFICERS President ............................................................................................................................ F. Scott Hall Past-President ............................................................................................................ Mikhail Pletnikov Secretary .......................................................................................................................... Corina Bondi Treasurer .................................................................................................................... Mikhail Pletnikov Past Presidents Stephen Kent ....................................................................................................................... 2013-2014 D. Caroline Blanchard ........................................................................................................... 2011-2012 Kelly Lambert ...................................................................................................................... 2009-2010 Robert Gerlai ...................................................................................................................... 2007-2008 Joseph Huston .............................................................................................................................. 2006 Robert Adamec ............................................................................................................................. 2005 C. Sue Carter................................................................................................................................. 2004 Robert J. Blanchard ....................................................................................................................... 2003 Mark A. Geyer ............................................................................................................................... 2002 John P. Bruno ............................................................................................................................... 2001 Jacqueline N. Crawley .................................................................................................................. 2000 László Lénárd ............................................................................................................................... 1999 Robert L. Isaacson .......................................................................................................................