THE 2013 Friedman Brain Institute and the NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING AREA Michael Michaelides photo by FIFTH ANNUAL NEUROSCIENCE RETREAT NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 1216 Fifth Avenue Friedman Brain Institute Leadership Team Director: Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, Department of Neuroscience Chairs Joshua Bederson, MD, Department of Neurosurgery Wayne Goodman, MD, Department of Psychiatry John Morrison, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Biological Sciences Kristjan Ragnarsson, MD, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Stuart Sealfon, MD, Department of Neurology Ravi Iyengar, PhD, Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA, Department of Ophthalmology Centers of Excellence and Research Divisions Joseph Buxbaum, MSc, PhD Chief, Center of Excellence on Neurodevelopment Disorders Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD Chief, Center of Excellence on Myelin Disorders: Mechanisms & Repair Samuel Gandy, MD, PhD Chief, Center of Excellence on Neurodegeneration Patrick Hof, MD Chief, Center of Excellence on Brain Aging Yasmin Hurd, PhD and Paul Slesinger, PhD Chiefs, Center of Excellence on Mood, Motivation & Addiction Ehud Kaplan, PhD Chief, Center of Excellence on Computational & Systems Neuroscience Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD Chief, Center of Excellence on Novel Neurodiagnostics & Neurotherapeutics Matthew Shapiro, PhD and Mark Baxter , PhD Chiefs, Center of Excellence on Cognition & Neural Plasticity Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Psychiatric Genomics Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Neuroepigenomics 5th Annual Neuroscience Retreat Committee Retreat Organizers: Matthew Shapiro, PhD (Neuroscience) and Andrew Chess, PhD (Developmental & Regenerative Biology) Retreat Administrators: Marie Kopp, Celeste Reyes, Jenny Rivera and Veronica Szarejko Page 2 FRIEDMAN BRAIN INSTITUTE 5th Annual Neuroscience Retreat NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 1216 Fifth Avenue (corner of 103rd Street) CONTENTS Neuroscience Retreat Schedule ......................................................................... 5 Abstracts (Presenters and Posters) ................................................................. 6-63 Heather Berlin and Noreen Bukhari ...................................................................... 6 Georgia Hodes and Chiara Mariottini .................................................................... 7 Michael Michaelides and Jeremy Olson ................................................................ 8 Christian Williams and Melanie von Schimmelmann ............................................ 9 Azeb Tadesse Argaw and Linnea Asp .................................................................. 10 Mafalda Barbosa and Kristin Beaumont ............................................................. 11 Michael Beaumont and Cesar Berrios-Otero ....................................................... 12 Hannah Brautigam and Andrew Browne ............................................................. 13 Philip Browning and Benjamin Chadwick ............................................................ 14 Kate Collins and Paula Croxson ........................................................................... 15 Diane Damez-Werno and Nikolaos Daskalakis .................................................... 16 Michael Demars and Bryan Denny ...................................................................... 17 Valentina Dilda ..................................................................................................... 18 Aslihan Dincer and Philip Feinberg ...................................................................... 19 Elodie Drapeau and Gabor Egervari ..................................................................... 20 Benjamin Ely ........................................................................................................ 21 Sarah Evans and Samira Fargali ........................................................................ 22 Lazar Fleysher and Daniel Freire .......................................................................... 23 Allyson Friedman and Lauren Friedman ............................................................... 24 Mar Gacias and Oscar Gomez Vidaurre ............................................................... 25 Bing Gong and Yael Grossman ............................................................................ 26 Elizabeth Guerrero-Berroa and Kevin Guise ........................................................ 27 Jeffery Haines and James Hanks ........................................................................ 28 Hala Harony-Nicolas and Desmond Heath .......................................................... 29 Elizabeth Heller and Marylens Hernandez .......................................................... 30 Lap Ho and Jimmy Huynh .................................................................................. 31 Daisuke Ibi and Karim Ibrahim ............................................................................ 32 Carlo Iomini and Michelle Jacobs ....................................................................... 33 Laura Jonkman and Barbara Juarez ................................................................... 34 Yuji Kajiwara and Soong Ho Kim .......................................................................... 35 Elysse Knight and Anna Konova ......................................................................... 36 Yan Kou and Catharine Krebs .............................................................................. 37 Audrey Le and Denis Lebedev ............................................................................. 38 Page 3 FRIEDMAN BRAIN INSTITUTE 5th Annual Neuroscience Retreat NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 1216 Fifth Avenue (corner of 103rd Street) CONTENTS continued.. Abstracts (Posters) Cara Levitch and Jialiang Liang ........................................................................... 39 Wei-Jye Lin and Jiahong lu .................................................................................. 40 Elizabeth Lucas and Laura Magri ......................................................................... 41 Nicole McKnight and Michael Miller .................................................................... 42 Amanda Mitchell and Scott Moeller ..................................................................... 43 Cesar Moreno and Jose Moreno .......................................................................... 44 Claudia Morris and Alexandra Muratore .............................................................. 45 Roya Nazarian and Eric Nelson ........................................................................... 46 Maitane Ortiz Virumbrales and Muhammad Parvas ............................................. 47 Cyril Peter and Katherine Price .............................................................................48 Marianne Reddan and Justin Riceberg ............................................................... 49 Maria De Las Mercedes Perez Rodriguez and Marta Ruiz .................................. 50 Manuela Russo and Elizabeth Schwartz .............................................................. 51 Kimberly Scobie and Bryan Sepulveda ............................................................... 52 Ning-Yi Shao and Erica Shen ............................................................................... 53 Mustafa Siddiq and Stephanie Sillivan ................................................................ 54 HaoSheng Sun and Rita Tavares ......................................................................... 55 Roxana Teodorescu .............................................................................................. 56 Aaron Topol and Neha Uppal .............................................................................. 57 Merina Varghese and Jessica Walsh ................................................................... 58 Jonathan Wardman and Corey Watson ............................................................... 59 Rebecca West and Jamie Wong .......................................................................... 60 Jiang Yan and Hongxing Zhang ........................................................................... 61 Wanming Zhao and Wei Zhao ............................................................................. 62 Upcoming Events and Graduate Program information .................................. 63 Page 4 FRIEDMAN BRAIN INSTITUTE Neuroscience Retreat Schedule April 26, 2013 9:00am.................................................... Breakfast (President’s Hall, 1st fl.) OPENING REMARKS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS (HOSACK HALL): 9:30am.....................................................Andrew Chess (Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Neuroscience) 9:35am.....................................................Eric Nestler (Neuroscience) 10:05am...................................................Stephen Salton / George Huntley (Neuroscience) 10:15am...................................................Lauren Friedman (President, Sinai Neuroscience Outreach Program “SNOP”) 10:20am...................................................Keynote Address: Dr. Daniela Schiller (Psychiatry) "A map for social navigation in the human brain" SESSION 1 11:00am................................................... Roger Clem (Neuroscience) Chair I 11:15am................................................... Heather Berlin (Psychiatry) "Neuroimaging of Olfaction in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" 11:30am..................................................