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Neuroscience Quarterly Updates

Neuroscience Quarterly Updates

The Department of Neuroscience would like to recognize the accomplishments of our faculty and graduate students over the past quarter. We are so proud of all the hard work and dedication they display!

Graduate student accomplishments include:

  • Paul Holcomb

    • Authored “Adding New Dimensions to Neuroscience”

      • Holcomb PS. "Adding new dimension to neuroscience." J Neurosci Res. 2018 Jul;96(7):1123-1124. doi: 10.1002/jnr.24238. Epub 2018 Mar 23.
    • Co-authored “Glial Cell Expansion Coincides with Neural Circuit Formation in the Developing Auditory Brainstem”
      • Brandebura AN, Morehead M, Holcomb PS, Heller DT, Kolson DR, Jones G, Mathers PH, Spirou GA. “Glial cell expansion coincides with neural circuit formation in the developing auditory brainstem.” Dev Neurobiol., accepted 24 July 2018, in press.
  • Divine Nwafor
    • Poster Presentation at the American Physician Scientist Association Conference
    • Poster Presentation at the WVCTSI Conference
    • Poster Presentation at the Gordon Research Conference/Seminar
    • Poster Presentation at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
  • Adam Schroer
    • Successful defense of dissertation, “Development of Full Sweet, Umami, and Bitter Taste Responsiveness Requires Regulator of G protein Signaling-21 (RGS21)”
      • Development of Full Sweet, Umami, and Bitter Taste Responsiveness Requires Regulator of G protein Signaling-21 (RGS21). Schroer AB, Gross JD, Kaski SW, Wix K, Siderovski DP, Vandenbeuch A, Setola V. Chem Senses. 2018 May 23;43(5):367-378. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjy024. PMID: 29701767
  • Catherine Smith
    • Poster Presentation at the Pharmaceutical Sciences Regional Symposium (PSRS)
  • Ariel Thomas
    • Poster Presentation at the NENGO Summer Course
    • Poster Presentation at the Appalachian Translational Research Network Summit
    • Poster Presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference
    • Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Trainee Travel Award
    • Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Doctoral Student Travel Award

Faculty accomplishments include:

  • Dr. Nicholas Brandmeir

    • Co-authored “The Leg Wound of King Philip II of Macedonia”

      • The Leg Wound of King Philip II of Macedonia; Nicholas Brandmeir, Russell Payne, Elias Rizk, Shane Tubbs, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Antonis Bartsiokas Cureus; 10(4)
    • Presentation at the AANS Scientific Meeting
    • Presentation at the Penn State Health 25th Annual Neuroscience Conference
  • Dr. Valeriya Gritsenko
    • $60,000 FAPESP/WVU grant award
    • Pster presentations (5) at the Society for Neuroscience Conference
  • Dr. Marc Haut
    • Co-authored “Abnormally Reduced Primary Motor Cortex Output is Related to Impaired Hand Function in Chronic Stroke”
      • Buetefisch, C.M., Revill, K.P, Haut, M.W., Kowalski, G., Wischnewski, M., Pifer, M. Belagaje S., Nahab, F., Cobia D., Hu, X., Drake D., & Hobbs, G. (2018). Abnormally reduced primary motor cortex output is related to impaired hand function in chronic stroke. Journal of Neurophysiology.  doi:10.1152/jn.00715.2017
  • Dr. Paul Lockman
    • Co-authored “Investigational Chemotherapy and Novel Pharmacokinetic Mechanisms for the Treatment of Breast Cancer Brain Metastases”
      • Shah N, Mohammad AS, Saralkar P, Sprowls SA, Vickers SD, John D, Tallman RM, Lucke-Wold BP, Jarrell KE, Pinti MV, Nolan RL, Lockman PR.  Investigational chemotherapy and novel pharmacokinetic mechanisms for the treatment of breast cancer brain metastases. Pharmacol Res. Accepted 27 Mar 2018. 
    • Poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting
    • Presentation at the Gordon Research Conference
    • Presentation at the 50th Annual Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Research Meeting
    • Presentation at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
  • Dr. James Mahoney III
    • West Virginia Clinical and Translatin Science Institute, Research Scholar Award funding
    • WV DHHR-BHHF-Office of Behavioral Health Services funding
    • Young Alumnus Award - Bridgewater College
  • Dr. Mark Miller
    • Authored “A Two-Tiered Strategy for Preventing Complications of Bereavement in the First Thirteen Months Post-Loss: A Pilot Study”
      • “ A Two-Tiered Strategy for Preventing Complications of Bereavement in the First Thirteen Months Post-Loss: A Pilot study  Am J Geriatric Psychiatry 26-3, March 2018
    • Presented a two-day interpersnal psychotherapy course at the second China-America Xiaoxiang Summit on Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology in Changsha, China
    • Presented a two-day interpersnal psychotherapy course at The Seventh People's Hospital in Hangzhou, China
    • Prduced a promotional video for IPT training in Beijing, China
  • Dr. Edwin Wan
    • Poster presentation at New Frontiers in Neuroinflammation: What Happens When CNS and Periphery Meet?
  • Dr. Erin Winstanley
    • Co-authored “Statewide Crss-Sectional Survey of Emergency Departments’ Adoption and Implementation of the Ohio Opioid Prescribing Guidelines and Opioid Prescribing Practices”
      • Penm J, MacKinnon NJ, Mashni R*, Lyons M, Hooker E, Winstanley E, Carlton-Ford S, Connelly C, Tolle E, Boone J, Koechlin K, Defiore-Hyrmer J. Statewide cross-sectional survey of emergency departments’ adoption and implementation of the Ohio opioid prescribing guidelines and opioid prescribing practices. BMJ Open 2018 (in press).
    • Co-authored “Mandatry Review of a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and Impact on Opioid and Benzodiazepine Dispensing”
      • Winstanley EL, Zhang Y, Mashni R, Schnee S, Penm J, Boone J, McNamee C, MacKinnon NJ. Mandatory review of a prescription drug monitoring program and impact on opioid and benzodiazepine dispensing. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2018, 188(1): 169-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.03.036
    • Presentations (2) at the Cllege on the Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Conference
    • Presentation at the Addictin Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network Meeting