Genes, Brain and Behavior 2022
Virtual Posters

 

P10 Interactions between neuronal sex determination and Hox gene specification drive the segmental specialization of neural circuits along the anterior-posterior brain axis in Drosophila
Nicole Leitner, Yehuda Ben-Shahar Washington University in St. Louis

P11 Modelling seizure-induced and extinction learning-dependent neuronal activation in pediatric epilepsy
Christina Hansen1, Khalil Abed Rabbo2, Kathryn Laprade2, Amanda Hernan PhD2, James Stafford PhD2
1Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont;
2Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Vermont

P21 Gene expression profiles in HS-CC founder strains
JQ Anderson1, P Darakjian1, TJ Phillips1, RJ Hitzemann1, AR Ozburn1
1Portland Alcohol Research Center, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, and VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, 97239, USA Funding Support: Supported by the NIH grants (AA013519, AA010760, AA07468, AA13484); US Department of Veterans Affairs Grant (BX004699), and a gift from the John R. Andrews Family.
Zoom Justin Anderson

P23 Measuring negative affective withdrawal in CFW mice: Implications for GWAS
Riley Marchin1, Emma White1, Abed Abbas1, Miko Dai3, Jay-Ho Chung1, Sonya Farrell1,Levi Gavette1, Pranav Kumar1, Connor Montgomery2, Samuel Pelletier2, JT Titmus1, Olivia Peterson1, Anna Spiro1, JT Titmus1, Abraham Palmer4, Clarissa C Parker1, 2
1 Program in Neuroscience, Middlebury College; 2 Department of Psychology, Middlebury College; 3 Program in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Middlebury College; 4 Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego

P26 A Drosophila model for the role of Williams Syndrome-related factor eIF4H in neural development and behavior
Erik Nolan, Iris Chin, Cassondra Vernier, Yehuda Ben-Shahar Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biology

P30 A forward genetic screen of ENU-mutagenised zebrafish identifies a mutation co-segregating with impulsivity
Saeedeh Hosseinian, William Havelange, Adele Leggieri, Munise Merteroglu, Aleksandra Mech, Sofia Angianni, Ian Sealy, Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich, Caroline Brennan School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS
Zoom Saeedeh Hosseinian

P31 Investigating the role of Methylglyoxal as a GABAA Agonist through Glyoxalase 1 Manipulation
E Alcantara 1, C Ortez 1, A Ilustrisimo 1, A.M. Barkley-Levenson 1, AA Palmer 1
1Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, U.S. Funding Support: NIAAA R01AA026281
Elizabeth Alcantara Zoom  Meeting ID: 950 2613 5211

P35 Effects of cocaine on brain and behavior: an evaluation of the fragile X mental retardation protein in dopamine D1 receptor-expressing cells of the striatum
J.L. Huebschman1,2, E. Chow1, E. Harrison1, H. Gangal1,2, Y. Guo1, J. Wang1,2, L.N. Smith1,2
1Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA, 2Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA Funding Support: NIH NIDA (DA051727) and Texas A&M University internal funding
Zoom Laura Smith 

P45 Selecting mice for high cognitive abilities
Perepelkina O.V., Poletaeva I.I. Moscow State University, Biology department

P46 Cocaine withdrawal in the CC/DO founder mouse strains: Interstrain variation and heritability of negative affective withdrawal.
LW Gavette1, Riley Marchin1, Emma White1, Abed Abbas1, Miko Dai2, Jay-Ho Chung1, Sonya Farrell1, Pranav Kumar1, Connor Montgomery3, Samuel Pelletier3, JT Titmus1, Olivia Peterson1, Anna Spiro1, JTTitmus1, VM Philip4, EJ Chesler5, Abraham Palmer6, CC Parker1,21Middlebury College Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, 2Middlebury College Department of Biochemistry, 3Middlebury College Department of Psychology, 4Center for Computational Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine,USA, 5Center for Mammalian Genetics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, 6Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San DiegoFunding Support: P50DA039841, Middlebury College Senior Research Project Supplement

P49 Predicting genotype of fruit flies from locomotive trajectories using supervised Machine Learning
Minh Nguyen1, Gregg Roman2, Benjamin Soibam1, * 1 Department of computer science and engineering technology, University of HoustonDowntown 2 Department of Biomolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi 3 Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown

P50 Genetic screen and proteomic analysis: complementary approaches for studying methamphetamine-induced behaviors in D. melanogaster
Franka Rigo1, Ana Filošević Vujnović1, Rozi Andretić Waldowski1
1Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia Funding Support: Croatian Science Foundation (#2794)