Oral Session #1:
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Great Hall

O1-1: Top-down control of human motor thalamic neuronal activity during the auditory oddball task
Frhan I. Alanazi, Suneil K. Kalia, Mojgan Hodaie, Adriana Lopez Rios, Andrés M. Lozano, Luka Milosevic, William D. Hutchison

O1-2: Argon inhalation rescues sepsis-related organ inflammation through the liver-gut axis
Felicia Balsamo

O1-3: Sphingolipid alteration in small extracellular vesicles of placental origin from gestational diabetes pregnancies impairs maternal endothelial homeostasis
Tik Tsun (Ivan Cheng), Isabella Caniggia

O1-4: Exploring GABAA receptor-mediated signalling in the antidepressant effect of nitrous oxide
Connor T A Brenna, Dian-Shi Wang, MeiFeng Yu, Lilia Kaustov, Beverley A Orser

Oral Session #2:
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: Great Hall

O2-1: Repopulating decellularized mouse kidney scaffolds with human stem cells to generate a functional vasculature ex vivo
Anupama Bhadwal, Jorge Castillo-Prado, Ian Rogers

O2-2: Sex- and species-dependent roles of the Tau protein in synaptic plasticity
Liam T. Ralph, Eric W. Salter, Meinusha Govindarajan, Patrick Tidball, Brian Park, Lijia Zhang, Ashish Kadia, Fuzi Jin, Mengdi Wei, Gerold-Schmitt-Ulms, Thomas Kislinger, Lauryl Nutter, Marina Gertsenstein, John Georgiou, Graham L. Collingridge

O2-3: Using cystic fibrosis patient-derived iPSCs to study the effects of CFTR mutations on islet differentiation and cystic fibrosis related diabetes pathogenesis
Alex Cho, Paraish Misra, Christine Bear, Maria Cristina Nostro

O2-4: Investigating αT-Catenin phosphorylation and characterizing its downstream effects in cardiomyocytes
Daniel Davoudpour, Cristine J. Reitz, Uros Kuzmanov, Anthony O. Gramolini

O2-5: Elucidating the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on motor seizures in mice
BS Rabinovitch, W. Hu; H Moradi Chameh, T Valiante1, PL Carlen

Oral Session #3:
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Location: Great Hall

O3-1: Serotonin in the prefrontal cortex: acute impact and consequences of chronic perturbation
Saige K Power, Derya Sargin, Evelyn K Lambe

O3-2: Renal disease modelling in an ex-vivo perfusion system of murine organs
Jorge Castillo-Prado, Anupama Bhadwal, Ian Rogers

O3-3: Elucidating NINJ1 protein interactions and post translation modifications
Suhel Patel, Allen Volchuk, Benjamin Steinberg, Neil Goldenberg

O3-4: Molecular mechanisms driving maternal cardiac hypertrophy in pregnancy
Zi Qi Lin and Brian Cox

O3-5: Regulation of neuronal development by a two-pore potassium channel
Neeraja Ramakrishnan, Jun Meng, Ben Mulcahy, Wesley Hung, Mei Zhen