ABSTRACTS

NOTICE: REGARDING ONLINE PUBLISHING OF ABSTRACTS

Abstracts presented at the Second Joint Symposium of the International and National Neurotrauma Societies are available online in the Journal of Neurotrauma Volume 26, Issue 8. Citation information is available on the website of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE INTS 2010

STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION

AWARD WINNERS

 

MICHAEL GOLDBERGER AWARD

JOSHUA BELL

MURRAY GOLDSTEIN AWARD

JOHN GREER

ALAN FADEN AWARD

LAMIN HAN MBYE

WOMEN IN NEUROTRAUMA RESEARCH (WiNTR) AWARD

BRIDGETTE SEMPLE

NATIONAL NEUROTRAUMA SOCIETY AWARD

YEVGENIYA MIRONOVA

 

 

We have negotiated a special discount on poster printing through FedEx Office for our INTS attendees.  To have your poster printed at the local Santa Barbara Kinko's and delivered to your hotel, please email your file to usa0374@fedex.com with any printing or laminating notes and instructions on where and when to deliver your poster.  Once your email is received, they will reply with a quote for your order. 

Be sure to enter the INTS FedEx Discount Card# 04773076800001 to receive an additional discount off your print order.  This code is valid for one year, so be sure to keep it on file!

 

QUICK LINKS FOR ABSTRACT INFORMATION
 
ABSTRACT REFERENCE INDICES

 

Phase II of the Abstract Submission System is now ONLINE!

This year, we will be providing online access to Powerpoint slide versions of your POSTER in advance of the meeting.  To participate, you will need to create a single Powerpoint slide of your POSTER then proceed through the online system to upload your file. 

YOU WILL STILL NEED TO PRINT YOUR POSTER FOR YOUR SESSION. INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED SOON FOR THE KINKO'S IN SANTA BARBARA AND THE DISCOUNT THEY WILL BE OFFERING FOR ALL ATTENDEES.

Please see the guidelines below for information on how to upload a Powerpoint slide of your poster presentation:

1.   You may submit ONE slide only.  Authors submitting more than one slide will have their slides automatically deleted.  Remember, onsite posters must be sized to fit in a 4'0" x 4'0" space.

2. New uploads and changes will be accepted until Sept.1.  After the deadline, no changes will be allowed, no exceptions. You may still make changes to your onsite poster, however.

3.  Changes to any other data in the system will NOT be updated. For example, if you try to upload a revised abstract file, it will not be updated in the Journal, as the abstracts have already gone to press.

4.  Your upload file must be titled as follows: Last Name, First initial, Poster number (i.e., John Smith's poster (P#555) file should be titled: SmithJ555.ppt

To submit your PPT file now, please LOG IN now

If you have any questions, please Email Us

or call the Abstract Hotline at 305-668-5023

If you need to make changes to your published abstract, please contact

Liebert Publishing for edits to online abstract listings only.

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION TIMELINE

MAY 1          ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

MAY 15        ABSTRACT COMMITTEE REVIEW / SCORES RECEIVED

MAY 16        EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS SENT RE: POSTER ACCEPTANCES

MAY 22        EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS SENT TO TOP STUDENT ABSTRACTS (see below)

MAY 29        OPEN COMMUNICATIONS & TRAVEL GRANT NOTIFICATIONS SENT (see below)

JUNE 1         ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED TO JOURNAL FOR PUBLICATION;

                   ABSTRACTS POSTED ON CONFERENCE WEBSITE FOR ATTENDEE REVIEW

JUNE 30       LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW ABSTRACTS

JULY 15      FINAL DEADLINE FOR HOUSING RESERVATION REQUEST FORMS

STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION FINALISTS

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 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 to determine the winners of the competition. The top five (5) abstracts will be recognized during the Awards Ceremony and will receive a certificate and a cash award of $500.00. 

This years' Top Student Abstract selections are:

FINAL
POSTER# 		Serial No. Title First name Last name
1
0338
IMPROVED CLINICAL CORRELATION OF CERVICAL SPINAL CORD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING WITH MOTOR AND SENSORY DEFICITS UTILIZING DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING AND TRACTOGRAPHY Fahad Alkherayf
18
0271
MASSIVE FLUX OF THE GLIOTRANSMITTER ATP INTO THE EXTRACELLULAR SPACE FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN THE RAT. Nobuhrio Moro
20
0368
Endogenous SVZ neural stem and progenitor cells are stimulated to divide and generate new cortical cells following traumatic brain injury.  Gretchen Miller
41
0046
MCP-1 KNOCKOUT MICE EXHIBIT IMPROVED NEUROLOGICAL OUTCOME, ALTERED CYTOKINE PRODUCTION, REDUCED MACROPHAGE INFILTRATION AND REDUCED LESION VOLUME FOLLOWING FOCAL TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Bridgette Semple
54
0341
CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COLUMN AND CORD STRAINS IN TENSION-EXTENSION INJURIES Shannon Kroeker
104
0380
Angiopoietin-1 Reduces Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Permeability and Lesion Volume in the Acute Phase of Spinal Cord Injury: MRI and Histological Studies Chirag Patel
109
0018
A NOVEL APPROACH FOR THE TREATMENT OF SECONDARY EXCITOTOXICITY AFTER BRAIN TRAUMA BY CORRECTING DYSFUNCTIONAL AMPA RECEPTOR TRAFFICKING Joshua Bell
116
0185
DELAYED INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR -1 OVEREXPRESSION PROVIDES REGIONAL NEUROPROTECTION DEPENDENT ON INJURY SEVERITY Sindhu Kizhakke Madathil
117
0305
CREATING GROWTH SUPPORTIVE PATHWAYS TO ENHANCE DOPAMINERGIC AXON GROWTH Chen Zhang
145
0024
BCL-2 GENOTYPES AND FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES AFTER SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Nicole Hoh
159
0312
Increased NR2A Subunit Expression within Amygdalar NMDA Receptors in Rats Exhibiting Enhanced Fear Conditioning Following Diffuse Brain Injury Maxine Reger
163
0190
ESTROGEN PROTECTS SCHWANN CELLS AGAINST H2O2 INDUCED CYTOTOXICITY AND INCREASES TRANSPLANTED SCHWANN CELL SURVIVAL IN A CERVICAL HEMICONTUSION SPINAL CORD INJURY Akkradate Siriphorn
166
0237
REDUCTION IN GROWTH-INHIBITORY CSPGs ENHANCES CORTICAL PERICONTUSIONAL SPROUTING BUT DOES NOT CONFER ANY BEHAVIORAL IMPROVEMENT AFTER CCI BRAIN INJURY.  Yevgenia Miranova
237
0263
COGNITIVE AND SENSORIMOTOR RECOVERY AFTER FLUID-PERCUSSION BRAIN INJURY MODIFIED BY EARLY INTERMITTENT STIMULATION FOR ONE WEEK IN THE RAT'S DORSAL OR MEDIAN RAPHE. Melissa Carballosa-Gonzalez
300
0324
POSTINJURY MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITION TARGETING THE ONSET OF SYNAPTOGENESIS ENHANCES SYNAPTIC EFFICACY AND PROMOTES LONG-TERM SYNAPSE STABILIZATION Kelly Warren
301
0181
A TRANSGENIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY John Greer
362
0106
POLOXAMER P188 ATTENUATES CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY, AND IMPROVES HISTOPATHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN MICE Lamin HAN Mbye

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT AWARDEES


We are pleased to offer a limited number of travel grants for postdoctoral fellows and graduate students presenting their exciting results. Grant awards are given based on financial need and merit.  This year, we are pleased to announce that there will be a minimum of 40 travel grants:  funding from the NIH provides for 20 grants for domestic attendees ($500 each) and additional funding from the International Neurotrauma Society provides for 20 grants for international attendees ($1000 each).  Travel grant applications are included as part of the abstract submission process.  You must submit an abstract and register to attend in order to qualify for a travel grant.

 

NOTE: Travel grant winners must register and attend the Symposium in order to receive their award.

 

This years' travel grant awardees are:

First name Last name Institution
Joshua Bell University of Toronto
Talin Babikian UCLA
James W. Bales University of Pittsburgh
Melissa Carballosa-Gonzalez The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Jennifer Callaway University of Melbourne
John Campbell Virginia Commonwealth University
John Greer Virginia Commonwealth University
Ayelet Cohen-Yeshurun Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jennifer Dulin UT-Houston Medical School
Junfeng Feng UC Davis
Jason Hinzman University of Kentucky
Emily Hoschouer Ohio State University
Jing Ji Univ. of Pittsburgh
Claire Jones University of British Columbia
Catherine Kang University of Toronto
Shannon Kroeker University of Washington
Lamin HAN Mbye Harvard Medical School
Melissa Laird Medical College of Georgia
Stefania Mondello Banyan Biomarkers & University of Florida
Jorge MotaAndrade DePaul University
Rowena Newcombe The University of Adelaide
Virginia Newcombe The University of Cambridge
Ahdeah Pajoohesh-Ganji Georgetown University
Samirkumar Patel University of Kentucky
Chirag Patel University of Texas Medical School
Shibu Pillai Baylor College of Medicine
Naomi Santa Maria UCLA
Maithili Sashindranath Monash University - Faculty of Medicine
Christian Schmidt Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg
Kathleen Schoch University of Kentucky
Bridgette Semple National Trauma Research Institute
Akkradate Siriphorn University of Alabama at Birmingham
Carolyn Sparrey University of California, San Francisco
Jerome Staal Menzies Research Institution
Theresa Thomas University of Kentucky
Hien Tran Washington University in St Louis
Michael Ulrich University Medical Center of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz
Elisa Zanier Mario Negri
Chen Zhang University of Kentucky
Christian Zweifel University of Cambridge

 

OPEN COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS

Several top scoring abstracts have been selected by the Abstract Committee for a special 15 minute oral presentation during the Open Communication Sessions at the symposium.   

This year's abstracts selected for oral presentation are:

POSTER SESSION
P#
OPEN COMM. SESS.
First name
Last name
Institution
A
1
A
Fahad
Alkherayf
University of Ottawa, OHRI
A
109
A
Joshua
Bell
University of Toronto
B
237
C
Melissa
Carballosa-Gonzalez
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
C
301
A
John
Greer
Virginia Commonwealth University
B
145
C
Nicole
Hoh
University of Pittsburgh
A
116
B
Sindhu
Kizhakke Madathil
University of Kentucky
A
54
B
Shannon
Kroeker
University of Washington
C
362
A
Lamin Han
Mbye
Harvard Medical School
A
20
C
Gretchen
Miller
UCLA
A
18
B
Nobuhrio
Moro
UCLA
A
104
B
Chirag
Patel
University of Texas Medical School
A
41
B
Bridgette
Semple
National Trauma Research Institute
B
163
C
Akkradate
Siriphorn
University of Alabama at Birmingham
C
300
A
Kelly
Warren
Virginia Commonwealth University
A
117
C
Chen
Zhang
University of Kentucky

POSTER PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

TOP STUDENT COMPETITION ABSTRACTS will be displayed for the entire length of the conference.*

PLEASE NOTE:

ALL PRESENTING AUTHORS MUST REGISTER AND ATTEND THE CONFERENCE.  POSTER SESSION ASSIGNMENTS ARE BASED ON TYPE OF ABSTRACT, ASPECTS STUDIED AND CATEGORIES, AND CAN THEREFORE NOT BE PRE-DETERMINED.  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMMITTEE RE-ASSIGN YOUR POSTER TO A DIFFERENT SESSION DUE TO A PERSONAL CONFLICT.  IT IS EXPECTED THAT AS AN AUTHOR YOU WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE FOR ALL 5 DAYS.

All accepted posters will be displayed onsite at the conference. 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 4'0”w (120cm height x 120cm 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, push pins (3/8” shaft) 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.

 

 
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