Congratulations to Ingrid for winning a FUN travel award to present her work from the Martinez lab at the upcoming 2024 Neuroscience conference in Chicago, IL. Ingrid’s poster is titled “Altered sensitivity to cocaine in adolescent spontaneously hypertensive rats, a rodent model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” and will be presented during the morning session on Tuesday, October 8th. Please consider coming by if you’re planning to be at the conference!
Spencer, Taylor, Aili, and Prof. Martinez outdueled the surprisingly happy Prof. Puljung and the clearly disappointed members of his lab (Molly, Stella, and Shayla) to win the Inaugural Matterhorn Invitational held at Matterhorn Mini Golf in Canton, CT on July 19th. Those with keen eyes will note Prof. Ashby in the photo; despite playing a sterling round of golf, the lack of any laboratory students on his team was viewed by hard-liners on the Invitational rules committee to be a disqualifying factor. An appeal may be in order.
As is only fitting for a treasure of such immeasurable worth, the Invitational trophy will be given a place of honor in the Martinez Lab (specific location undisclosed, for security reasons) until the 2025 rematch. Members of the Trinity College golf team with interests in studying ion channels should reach out to Prof. Puljung, as he is currently planning his revenge.
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!