Author: Luis Martinez

Congratulations to Ingrid and Aili for their win today at NEURON! Very well deserved.

Their poster featured Ingrid’s senior thesis work on sex differences in sensitivity to cocaine in a rat model of ADHD, which Aili will be continuing/extending to examine the role of sex steroid hormones in mediating responses to cocaine in females of this model.

Members of the Martinez lab (Ingrid Schoenborn ’24, Aili Ramsden ’25, Luz Cumpa Gomez ’23, Danny Lenois ’25, and Miriam Schoenborn ’24) were part of a group of more than 20 Trinity students attending and/or presenting at NEURON 2024 in Quinnipiac University!

Kiera did an excellent job presenting not just the poster depicted here at the FUN social on 10-20-19 (on behalf of Meg Huston ’20), but also presenting at the main meeting on 10-19-19.

Congratulations to Meg for successfully proposing her thesis last week! She loves when candid photos of her are posted, so you’re welcome!

Congratulations to Kiera and Meg for presenting (to more than just Nina Tzianabos ’20) their summer work at the recent symposium in the Washington Room at Trinity College.

The Martinez Lab is proud to announce our first publication, now available online in the journal Neuropharmacology: https://doi-org.ezproxy.trincoll.edu/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.02.001. This work was a collaborative effort between the Martinez, Ruskin, and Masino labs at Trinity College, and represents the first demonstration of the therapeutic potential of the ketogenic diet in drug addiction. We look forward to continuing this very promising and exciting line of research!

Congratulations to recent graduate Amr Arqoub ’18 for presenting his senior thesis project at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience social in San Diego, CA on November 4th, 2018. Amr’s passion for this project is clearly evident! Special thanks to Kiera Flynn ’21 and Julianna Armentano ’20 for their dedication to continuing this project over the past summer.

Congrats to our students for their posters presented at the Science Symposium on May 2nd, 2018. Meghan Lees ’18 presented her thesis project titled Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Behavioral Responses to Cocaine in Male and Female Rats; Amr Arqoub ’18 presented his thesis project titled The Long-Term Behavioral Effects Caused by Prenatal Exposure to the Ketogenic Diet in Mice, with the assistance of Interdisciplinary Science Program student Kiera Flynn ’21

Kathy Andrews, Director of Media Relations at Trinity College, has written a nice piece on our new Crescent Center for the Arts and Neuroscience (CCAN) building:

http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/pages/CCANopens.aspx

A few pictures of the new Martinez Lab in the Crescent Center for the Arts and Neuroscience (CCAN). Still very much a work in progress, but we’re getting there!

Meghan Lees ’18 won best undergraduate poster for her work titled “Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Behavioral Responses to Cocaine in Male and Female Rats” at the UConn Neuroscience Retreat on 6/18/17. Congratulations!