Student Research & Presentations

Students in my lab have presented their research at several local and national conferences.

Three Ithaca College students presented research findings at the annual Society for Neuroscience meetings in Washington DC. The students are all currently doing research with Jean Hardwick in the Biology department. Dr. Hardwick and her students attended the Neuroscience meetings in Washington, which is the preeminent gathering of neuroscientists from around the world. Attendance at this years meetings was approximately 31,000 individuals.

• Caitlin Baran ('08, Biochemistry) presented a poster at the main meeting entitled "Regulation of neuronal excitability and NOS expression in the guinea pig intrinsic cardiac plexus by chronic cardiac stressors". Caitlin received a competitive travel award from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience to support her attendance at the meeting.
• Lauren Houdek ('09, Biology) and Allison Girasole ('10, Biology) also presented a poster at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience poster session, a venue specifically for undergraduate research, entitled "Characterization of guinea pig intracardiac neurons: A phenotypic and electrophysiological analysis". Lauren and Allison received support from the Bernard Fund to support their travel to the meeting.

Student research opportunties in my lab are here.

Some Examples of Lab Alumni:

• Linda Schoenfeld ('99) - slide presentation at the Eastern Colleges Science Conference (ECSC) in April of 1998; poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Los Angeles, CA in November of 1998; slide presentation at the National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in April of 1999. Linda received her masters degree in Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and is currently in veterinary school in Ohio.
  
• Seth DePuy ('99) - slide presentation at the Eastern Colleges Science Conference in April of 1999. Seth
  is currently a graduate student in pharmacology at the University of Virginia.
  
• Melanie Powers Fraites ('01) - slide presentation at the Binghamton Science Conference in Binghamton, NY in
  October of 2000; slide presentation at NCUR in Missoula, MT in April of 2000; poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, LA in November of 2000. Melanie received her Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Florida in 2006 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the EPA, studying reproductive toxicology.
  
• Kristen Sager Cincotta ('02) - poster presentation at ECSC in April of 2000, poster presentation at the
  conference of Honors programs in Washington D.C. in fall of 2000, oral presentation at the Rochester Academy of Sciences in the fall of 2001, and an oral presentation at NCUR in Widewater, WI in the spring of 2002. Kristen is currently a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta GA.
  
• Kim Stallone Vogelsang ('02) - oral presentation at ECSC in Niagara Falls in the spring of 2002. Kim is currently completing a residency in pediatric medicine at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse NY.
  
• Jeremy Dobson ('03) - oral presentation at ECSC in Niagara Falls in the spring of 2002. Jeremy is currently a high school science teacher in Florida
  
• Danielle Federico ('04) and Jessica Peacock ('04) - poster presentation at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience meetings, held in conjunction with the Annual Society for Neuroscience meetings in New Orleans in the fall of 2003. Danielle is currently in medical school at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. Jessica is currently living in Seattle, WA.

• Nancy Andersen ('07) and Megan McManus ('06) - poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience meetings in Atlanta GA in the fall of 2006. Nancy is currently at senior at IC and Megan graduated in December of 2006. Megan is currently a laboratory technician at Boston University.

• Caitlin Baran ('08) - poster presentation at the Experimental Biology meetings in San Diego, CA in the spring of 2008. Caitlin is completing her senior year at IC and expects to graduate in Dec of 2008. She will be spending the summer or 2008 in Ireland as part of summer research internship program.