The top 22 of the highest-scoring student/trainee abstract submissions will be featured as the finalists in the Trainee Competition and displayed for the duration of the conference. The Trainee Competition finalists will receive their final judging onsite at the conference during the Poster Session on Monday afternoon. Scores will be tabulated to determine the winners of the competition. In the event of a tie, judges will refer to the original scores for the tiebreaker. All judges decisions are final. All poster finalists will receive a certificate and recognition onstage as part of the Student Competition Awards Ceremony.
The Student Competition Finalists for Neurotrauma 2016 are:
P# | Presenting Author | Affiliation | Abstract Title |
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T01-06 | Rania Abutarboush | Naval Medical Research Center/ Henry Jackson Foundation |
Exposure to Blast Overpressure alters cerebrovascular reactivity in rats |
T01-09 | Miriam Aceves | Texas A&M Health Science Center | Morphine undermines recovery following SCI: Opioid-immune interactions |
T01-17 | Christopher Ahuja | University of Toronto | Chondroitinase ABC and neural stem cells synergistically promote recovery after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury |
T01-19 | Ahmed Alshareef | University of Virginia | Stress Concentrations Around Vasculature - The Mechanics of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? |
T01-18 | Anna Badner | University of Toronto | Early intravenous delivery of human stromal cells modulates systemic inflammation & leads to vasoprotection in spinal cord injury |
T01-20 | Elizabeth Bishop | UTMB Galveston | Persistent epigenetic changes in hippocampal neural stem cells following traumatic brain injury. |
T01-13 | Justin Burrell | University of Pennsylvania | Transplantable Micro-Tissue Engineered Neural Networks for Neuronal and Axonal Tract Reconstruction Following Brain Injury |
T01-15 | Shaun Carlson | University of Pittsburgh | Lithium increases synaptic vesicular proteins, improves neurotransmission and promotes recovery of cognitive function after CCI |
T01-22 | Mihika Gangolli | Washington University of St. Louis | Development of Methods to Perform Radiological-Pathological Correlations in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy |
T01-16 | Allan Martin | University of Toronto | Microstructural Cervical Spinal Cord MRI Quantifies Tract-Specific Injury And Correlates with Global and Focal Deficits |
T01-14 | Miranda Munoz | Carnegie Mellon University | Cerebral Spinal Fluid Cortisol Mediates Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Effects on Mortality Prediction after TBI |
T01-02 | Matthew Recker | Drexel University | The role of mTOR in exercise dependent axon regeneration through a peripheral nerve graft following spinal cord injury |
T01-04 | Beatriz Rodriguez-Grande | INCIA-Universite de Bordeaux | Early neurovascular changes precede long-lasting behavioral deficits after juvenile mild traumatic brain injury |
T01-01 | Rachel Rowe | Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital | Aging with Traumatic Brain Injury:Age-at-injury effects on behavioral outcome following diffuse brain injury in rats |
T01-05 | Nathan Skinner | Medical College of Wisconsin | Double Diffusion Encoding for Rapid In Vivo Evaluation of Rat Spinal Cord Injury |
T01-11 | Bridgette Semple | University of Melbourne | Sex-dependent social behavior deficits and neuronal morphology after pediatric brain injury |
T01-03 | Michelle Umali | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Epigenetic, Transcriptomic, and Sleep Alterations Following Penetrating Ballistic Brain Injury (PBBI) |
T01-10 | Jenna VanRooyen | University of Kentucky | Transplanted Mitochondria Significantly Maintain Cellular Respiration After Acute Contusion Spinal Cord Injury |
T01-21 | Michal Vascak | Virginia Commonwealth University | Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) alters neocortical GABAergic interneuron structure and function via axonal injury |
T01-08 | Amanda White | Pennsylvania State University | Oxidative status and reduced colonic giant migratory contractions following experimental spinal cord injury |
T01-12 | Nicole Wilson | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine | Phosphodiesterase 4B Inhibition as an Anti-Inflammatory Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury |
T01-07 | Kristina Witcher | Ohio State University | Rod microglia induced by traumatic brain injury are resident cells that align with blood vessels adjacent to damaged neurons |