Several UMass faculty, students, and post-docs will be presenting their research at the Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, which will be held in San Diego Nov 3- 7. Here is the complete listing.  Also, the Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program will have a booth this year at the Graduate Program fair at SfN.

November 3, 2018, Afternoon

004.03. Shining light on an amygdala-brainstem pathway important for prepulse inhibition
K. Fenelon;
Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Session: Minisymposium: 004 – Neuronal Mechanisms for Prepulse Inhibition: Comparative Approaches From Sensory to Cognition

November 4, 2018, Morning

152.17. Behavioral characterization of Berghia stephanieae: A novel laboratory species for neuroethological research
*P. D. QUINLAN1,2, T. N. BUI1, Y. SAIMIRE1, M. D. RAMIREZ1, B. DRESCHER1, P. S. KATZ1,2;
1Dept. of Biol., 2Neurosci. and Behavior Program, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 152 – Neuroethology: Sensory and Motor Systems

163.15. Do medial prefrontal neurons encode predicted value of a cue or the action elicited by a cue during classical conditioning?
*B. KAMINSKA1, D. E. MOORMAN2;
1Neurosci. and Behavior, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 2Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 163 – Animal Cognition and Behavior: Executive Function: Learning and Memory I

November 4, 2018, Afternoon

242.13. Influence of medial prefrontal subregion inactivation on action control using a variable ratio go/no-go task
*J. P. CABALLERO1, D. E. MOORMAN2;
1Neurosci. and Behavior, 2Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 242 – Animal Cognition and Behavior: Executive Function: Inhibitory Control

238.20. Sexual dimorphism in noradrenergic regulation of attention
*E. DAUSTER, E. VAZEY;
Biol., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 238 – Mechanisms of Attention

178.03. Visual recollection: Episodic memory-like retrieval of visual information outside of hippocampus
R. A. Cowell;
Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.Session: Minisymposium: 178 – High-Level Cognition in Low-Level Brain Regions

November 5, 2018, Afternoon

409.08. Recurring circadian disruption alters circadian clock sensitivity to resetting
*M. E. HARRINGTON1, T. L. LEISE3, A. GOLDBERG3, J. MICHAEL3, G. MONTOYA3, S. SOLOW3, P. MOLYNEUX2, C. B. SAPER4, R. VETRIVELAN5;
1Neurosci Prog, 2Smith Col., Northampton, MA; 3Amherst Col., Amherst, MA; 4James Jackson Putnam Prof, Harvard Med. Sch. Dept. of Neurol., Boston, MA; 5Dept. of Neurol., Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr., Boston, MA
Session: Poster: 409 – Biological Rhythms and Sleep: Entrainment and Phase Shifts

406.16. Distribution and physiology of dopamine D1 receptors in the songbird secondary auditory cortex
*M. MACEDO-LIMA1,2, H. BOYD1, A. MCGRATH1, L. REMAGE-HEALEY1;
1Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; 2CAPES/Brazil, Brasília, Brazil
Session: Poster: 406 – Advances in the Neural Basis of Birdsong

409.03. Social jet lag evokes Drosophila circadian neural network desynchrony
*C. E. NAVE1, L. ROBERTS2, J. D. ESTRELLA2, N. PERVOLARAKIS3, P. J. SHAW4, T. L. LEISE5, T. C. HOLMES2;
2Physiol. and Biophysics, 3Biol. Chem., 1Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; 4Anat. and Neurobio., Washington Univ. St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; 5Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst Col., Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 409 – Biological Rhythms and Sleep: Entrainment and Phase Shifts

347.05. Dynamic representation of sensory cues for social behavior
J. Bergan;
Psychological and Brain Sciences, U Mass Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Session: Minisymposium: 347 – Social Motivation Across the Lifespan

November 6, 2018, Morning

482.11. Adaptation of spontaneous and evoked activity in the Zebrafish lateral line
*D. FROLOV1,2, E. ISKO2, S. A. SHORT2, T. F. SOMMERS2, J. G. TRAPANI2;
1Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; 2Amherst Col., Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 482 – Auditory and Vestibular Systems: Hair Cells and the Periphery

500.16. From bowel to brain: Gut microbiota diversity and chronic HPA axis activity across development in rhesus monkeys
*A. M. DETTMER1, J. ALLEN2, V. A. VARALJAY2, R. M. JAGGERS2, S. J. SUOMI3, J. S. MEYER4, M. T. BAILEY2;
1Child Study Ctr. & Dept. of Pediatrics, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; 2Ctr. for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Res. Inst. at Nationwide Children’s Hosp., Columbus, OH; 3Lab. of Comparative Ethology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Natl. Inst. of Child Hlth. & Human Develop., Poolesville, MD; 4Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 500 – Early-Life Stress: Molecular Mechanisms and Cellular Effects

November 6, 2018, Afternoon

601.25. Adolescent exposure to cuprizone leads to demyelination and increased microglia cell number in the corpus callosum of male rats
*E. TAVARES1, A. SILVA-GOTAY2, A. LIN1, G. MOLICA1, S. HURWITZ3, H. N. RICHARDSON3;
1Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts – Amherst, Amherst, MA; 3Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sci., 2Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 601 – Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Alcohol: Neural Mechanisms II

601.20. Effects of chronic ethanol and stress on spontaneous and sensory-evoked responses of locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons
*C. R. DEN HARTOG1, D. E. MOORMAN2, E. M. VAZEY3;
1Biol. Dept, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA; 2Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; 3Dept. of Biol., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 601 – Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Alcohol: Neural Mechanisms II

586.07. Beta-band intramuscular coherence in the tibialis anterior predicts temporal gait adaptation on a split-belt treadmill
*S. SATO1, J. T. CHOI2;
1Neurosci. and Behavior Program, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA; 2Dept. of Kinesiology, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 586 – Voluntary Movements: Cortical Planning and Execution: Neurophysiology: Human

601.07. Effect of voluntary binge drinking on microglial cells in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of male and female adolescent rats
*A. SILVA-GOTAY1, W. VARGAS RIAD2, E. TAVARES1, A. LIN1, M. K. HOLDER3, H. N. RICHARDSON1;
1Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; 2BGB Group, New York, NY; 3Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA
Session: Poster: 601 – Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Alcohol: Neural Mechanisms II

591.10. RNAseq analysis of the mPOA in early postpartum Wistar-Kyoto rats reveals candidate genes associated with parenting deficits characteristic of postpartum depression
*S. B. WINOKUR, M. PEREIRA;
Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 591 – Behavioral Neuroendocrinology: Parental Behavior

601.21. Voluntary binge drinking disrupts myelin-associated proteins in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of adolescent rats
*S. AKLI1, E. R. TAVARES1, A. SILVA-GOTAY1, R. WYROFKSKY2, W. M. VARGAS RIAD3, E. VAN BOCKSTAELE2, H. N. RICHARDSON1;
1Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 2Pharmacol. and Physiol., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA; 3462 Broadway, BGB Group, New York, NY
Session: Poster: 601 – Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Alcohol: Neural Mechanisms II

November 7, 2018, 8:00 AM

703.24. An online platform for reproducible neural data analyses
*E. M. MEYERS1, L. RITHICHOO3, T. ZHANG, 010022, P. LU, 010022;
1Brain & Cognitive Sci., 2Hampshire Col., Amherst, MA; 3Mount Holyoke Col., South Hadley, MA
Session: Poster: 703 – Neuronal Network Models Applied to Neuroscience

November 7, 2018, Afternoon

782.18. Target-specific effects of hypocretin/orexin neuron activation on seeking-taking behavior in the rat
*C. G. PERK1, A. YAMANAKA2, D. E. MOORMAN1;
1Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; 2Res. Inst. of Envrn. Medicine, Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan
Session: Poster: 782 – Subcortical Mechanisms in Motivated Behaviors and Physiological States

719.03. Bayesian modeling of fMRI data to infer neural subpopulation tuning functions in visual cortex
*R. A. COWELL1, P. SADIL2, J. SERENCES3, D. E. HUBER1;
1Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 2Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; 3Psychology, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Session: Nanosymposium: 719 – Vision: Extrastriate Cortex

776.10. Early hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity predicts anxiety and sensitivity to the reinforcing effects of cocaine in adolescent macaques: Early life stress as a risk factor
*S. N. BRAMLETT1,2, A. WAKEFORD1,2, E. MORIN1,2, D. GUZMAN1,2, E. SIEBERT2, B. HOWELL1,2,3, J. S. MEYER4, A. KAZAMA2, M. SANCHEZ1,2;
1Psychiatry and Behavioral Sci., Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA; 2Yerkes Natl. Primate Res. Ctr., Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA; 3Inst. of Child Development, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 4Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Session: Poster: 776 – Stress and the Brain: Adolescence

788.12. Automatic and task related encoding of number in the dorsal visual stream
*N. K. DEWIND1, I. DAYAN2, J. PARK4, M. G. WOLDORFF5, E. M. BRANNON3;
1Psychology, 2Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3Psychology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phildelphia, PA; 4Psychological and Brain Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; 5Ctr. Cognitive Neurosci, Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Session: Poster: 788 – Human Cognition and Behavior: Perception and Imagery I