Neuropharmacology Division Mixer at SFN, San Diego

Neuropharmacology Division Mixer at EB2007, Washington DC

EB 2008 Best Abstract Award Winners:

Students:

FIRST PLACE: Jana Shirey, Dept. Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery. An allosteric potentiator suggests a role for M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) in modulating excitatory hippocampal synaptic transmission.

SECOND PLACE: Venkata Bhogaraju, Dept. Pharmacology and Toxicology, Univ. Arkansas for Med Sciences. Biochemical Characterization of G93A Mutant human Cu, Zn Superoxide Dismutase Purified from Transgenic Rat Spinal Cord.

THIRD PLACE: Joju George, Dept. Pharmacology, Creighton Univ. School of Medicine. Brevetoxin sensitizes immature cerebrocortical neurons to NMDA

Fellows:

FIRST PLACE: Yahong Zhang, Dept. Mol Pharm and Biological Chem, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Comparison of dopamine transporter regulation in rat dorsal striatum versus nucleus accumbens

SECOND PLACE (tie): Debra Bangasser, Div. Stress Neurobiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Sex differences in the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor and its regulation by stress

SECOND PLACE (tie): Toni Richards, Dept. Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. Rapid substrate-induced down-regulation of rat dopamine transporter function in vitro: dorsal striatum vs. nucleus accumbens.

THIRD PLACE: Tara Bender, Dept. Pharmacology & Toxicology, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Role of NOS-NO signaling in clonidine-ethanol evoked synergistic behavioral impairment.