National Neurotrauma Society

Thank you to all the authors who submitted abstracts for this years' Symposium. We received over 350 submissions which tops our number of submissions for the past 4 years!

will be displayed for the duration of the Symposium in a featured location.*

All accepted posters will be displayed onsite at the conference according to the schedule listed above. Please be sure to set up and remove your posters during the times indicated on the Scientific Program. Posters left remaining after the session removal period will be removed and discarded. NNS is not responsible for lost or discarded posters.

Posters must be no larger than 4'0”h x 6'0”w (120cm height x 180cm width) and should be brought in person by the submitting author(s) or a colleague who is attending the conference. Posters sent via mail will not be displayed. Ideally a poster should be self-explanatory, clear and specific, and should present the material logically and legibly.

Please include the poster number, title of the abstract and the names of the presenting authors in the upper left hand corner of your poster.

For your convenience, a limited number of push pins will be provided for your use in displaying your poster, however please do not mount or laminate your poster, as you may experience difficulty in attaching it to the display board . If you will be rolling up your poster for travel, we recommend you reverse roll it upon your arrival to avoid the tendency it may have to curl and thereby "pop" off the poster board.

The Abstract Committee has reviewed and assigned a grade to each abstract submitted for the student competition. A blind grading process was used to ensure anonymity and equality.

The Top 16 student abstracts will be displayed onsite in a featured location for the duration of the symposium. These sixteen abstracts will receive a final judging onsite at the conference, after which the scores will be tabulated and combines with the preliminary scores to determine the winners of the competition. All sixteen poster finalists will receive a certificate and be recognized onstage at the Awards Ceremony on July 30th.

The top five (5) highest scoring abstracts will also be recognized during the Awards Ceremony and will receive a trophy, $500 in books from Elsevier Science and a monetary prize of $500 from the National Neurotrauma Symposium. The top three (3) highest scoring abstracts will also receive a one year subscription to the Developmental Neuroscience journal published by Karger.

Sixteen top student abstracts have been selected by the Abstract Committee for a special 15 minute oral presentation during the Open Communication Sessions at the symposium. Please refer to the Schedule of Events page for timings.

Poster#	OPEN COMM	Title	First name	Last name	Institution
21	SESSION 2B	FUNCTIONAL REGENERATION OF SENSORY AXONS INTO TOPOGRAPHICALLY CORRECT AREAS OF THE SPINAL CORD WITH NEUROTROPHIN TREATMENT IN A MODEL OF BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY	Pamela	Harvey	Tufts University School of Medicine
83	SESSION 2B	IN VIVO TRACKING OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN THE INJURED MOUSE SPINAL CORD.	Laura	Gonzalez-Lara	Robarts Research Institute
86	SESSION 6A	THREE-DIMENSIONAL CORTICAL CHANGES IN TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY	Teddy	Youn	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
96	SESSION 2A	A LINK BETWEEN A NEPRILYSIN GENE POLYMORPHISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMYLOID-ß PLAQUES FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN HUMANS	Victoria	Johnson	University of Pennsylvania
138	SESSION 6A	OUTCOME IN BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA PATIENTS WITH GLASGOW COMA SCORE OF THREE ON PRESENTATION	Roukoz	Chamoun	Baylor College of Medicine
147	SESSION 6A	Treatment of trauma-induced AMPA receptor modification by perturbing PDZ protein:protein binding	Joshua	Bell	Toronto University of
153	SESSION 6B	THE lys-EGFP-ki MOUSE MODEL REVEALS PREVIOUSLY UNIDENTIFIED POPULATIONS OF HEMATOGENOUS AND MICROGLIAL MACROPHAGES FOLLOWING SPINAL CORD INJURY	Sakina G.	Thawer	The University of Western Ontario
176	SESSION 6B	MECHANISMS OF THE EFFECT OF HYPERTONIC SALINE VERSUS MANNITOL ON LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE AND CELL SURVIVAL AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN VITRO	Donna	Watson	University of Miami School of Medicine
191	SESSION 2A	BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOME FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND SOLUBLE NOGO-66 RECEPTOR THERAPY IN MICE	Anders	Hanell	Sweden : Yale
206	SESSION 2A	DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL OF PRIMARY BLAST BRAIN INJURY: SHOCKWAVES AS A DIRECT CAUSE OF BRAIN INJURY.	Eugene	Park	Toronto: St. Michael''s Hospital
226	SESSION 6B	TEMPORAL PROFILE OF MITOCHONDRIAL SUPEROXIDE GENERATION AND APOPTOSIS AFTER MECHANICAL STRETCH IN CORTICAL NEURONS	Minke	Tang	Penn/Pitt
232	SESSION 6A	RESTORATION OF IMPAIRED EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY BY ENHANCING NMDA RECEPTOR MEDIATED SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION AFTER DEVELOPMENTAL TBI	Naomi	Santa Maria	UCLA
272	SESSION 2A	PARP-1 POLYMORPHISMS IN HUMANS AFTER SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY	Ajit	Sarnaik	University of Pittsburgh
290	SESSION 2B	LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF SPINAL CORD CONTUSION INJURY USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING	Laura	Sundberg	University of Texas Medical School - Houston
296	SESSION 6B	EXAMINATION OF THE EARLY EFFECTS OF NEURAL PRECURSOR CELL TRANSPLANTATION ON THE PERI-LESIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE INJURED SPINAL CORD.	Gregory	Hawryluk	University of Toronto
312	SESSION 2B	BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF HYALURONIC ACID IN GLIAL SCAR FORMATION AFTER SCI	Zin	Khaing	University of Texas at Austin

NNS is pleased to offer a limited number of travel grants for postdoctoral fellows and graduate students presenting their exciting results. Funding provided by an NIH grant allows for 20 student travel grants in the amount of $500.00 each. Grant awards are given based on financial need and merit.

A limited number of travel grants are also available to neurosurgical residents who submit an abstract to the meeting. These are on a first submitted, first awarded basis, in the amount of $500.00 each and are made possible through support provided by Synthes CMF.