The OMV-SfN chapter is pleased to announce that both of our 2013 nominees received chapter travel awards from the Society for Neuroscience.

Jessica McKlveen, a student in the laboratory of James Herman, PhD, in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati, won a Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award for her abstract entitled “Chronic stress increases the inhibitory tone of the medial prefrontal cortex”.

Dr. Patrick Sonner, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David Ladle, PhD in the Dept. of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology at Wright State University, received a Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award for his abstract entitled “Modulation of reciprocal facilitation in mouse spinal cord during postnatal development”.

Each winner will receive $1,000 and complimentary registration to Neuroscience 2013.