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Neuroscience grad students win awards at Young Researcher’s Conference!

Three Neuroscience graduate students won awards at this year’s Young Researchers’ Forum at the Institute of Mental Health Research. Congratulations to:

Emma Murray of the Abizaid Lab for her Best Undergraduate Poster Award for “The orexigenic peptide ghrelin and its relationship with metabolic challenges mammals face during reproduction.”

Harry MacKay of the Abizaid Lab for his Best Basic Poster Award for “Alterations in Hypothalamic Feeding Circuitry and Leptin Response in CD-1 Mice Perinatally Exposed to the Endocrine Disruptor Bisphenol-A (BPA)”

Kyle Farmer of the Hayley Lab for his Best Oral Presentation Award for his talk entitled “The Effects of Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor and Erythropoietin in a Prodromal Model of Parkinson’s Disease.”

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