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Tenzin Tehshar, '17 - Effects of optogenetic activation of PDF neurons on sleep and
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Benjamin Juneau, '18 - Optogenetic Stimulation of sNPF Neurons Promotes Sleep in
Drosophila melanogaster
Brianne Cook, '18 - Elucidating the Mechanism Behind Post-Copulatory Sleep
Reduction in Female
Drosophila Melanogaster
Morgan Lavoie 17 - The Effect of Adolescent Social Isolation & Oxytocin on Adult
Social Behavior & Anxiety
Agnieszka Brojakowska 17 - 4D Confocal Analysis of Axonal Velocity in Ethanol
Exposed Zebrafish Embryos
Delon Campbell 17, Sarah Wilensky 18, Jonathan Stricker 17 - Endocannabinoid
Expression in the Zebrafish Embryonic Nervous System
Eliza Burr 17- Investigating propagation of ataxin-1 aggregates along tunneling
nanotubes.
Donna Nguyen 18 - Using Python to analyze cerebellar Purkinje neurons
Lisa Leung 17 - Characterizing ataxin-1 aggregates as oligomeric species
Jessilyn Hartman 17 and Kailen Polley 17 - Behavioral paradigms for assessing ataxia
in mice
Emma Brand 17 - Biochemical extraction of ataxin-1 aggregates from cerebellar tissue
2. Psychology Senior Thesis Projects and Independent Research Experiences
Tisch 1
st
Floor Hallway
Faculty Sponsor: Hassan Lopez, Psychology
Presenters: Zoe Berman, 17, Paul Deutchman, 17, Rachel Goodkind, 17, Julia
Iannucci, 17, Reina Kiefer, 17, Kengthsagn Louis, 17, Elizabeth Oehrlein, 17, Kristin
Schiavo, 17, Katherine Williams, 17
Seniors psychology majors conducting an honor thesis or other form of advanced
independent research will present the results of their projects in this lively poster session.
Zoe Berman 17: The Effect of Attachment Style, Mortality Salience, and
Psychologically Relevant Music on Death-Thought Accessibility
Paul Deutchman 17: The Role of Framing Effects, the Dark Triad, and Empathy in
Predicting Behavior in a One-shot Prisoner Dilemma