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    68 - The role of the Wallerian degeneration executor SARM1 in distal and proximal traumatic axonopathy and plasticity following traumatic brain injury.
    Primary Presenter: Athanasios Alexandris, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Other (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
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    69 - Layer V projection neurons selectively undergo stress responses in the acute phase following mild traumatic brain injury
    Primary Presenter: Mor R. Alkaslasi, Graduate Student, BS – National Institutes of Health/Brown University
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    70 - Military related TBI induced chronic astrogliosis in ferret and human influence astrocyte homeostatic protein expression
    Primary Presenter: Nicholas Breehl, Graduate Student, BS, MSc – Molecular and Cell Biology Program
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    71 - Sex- and circuit-specific lateral habenula dysfunction following mild traumatic brain injury
    Primary Presenter: William J. Flerlage, Graduate Student – Uniformed Services University
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    72 - Persistent Hypersomnia Following Repetitive Mild Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury: Roles of Chronic Stress and Sex Differences
    Primary Presenter: Genevieve Sullivan, PhD – Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, USU
    Co-Presenter: Amina Gauff, MS (she/her/hers) – USUHS/CNRM
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    73 - Blast Exposure Induces Acute Alternations in Circadian Clock Genes in the Hypothalamus and Pineal gland in rats: An exploratory study
    Primary Presenter: Manoj Govindarajulu, Post-Doctoral Fellow, PhD, MD (he/him/his) – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
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    74 - Chronic Behavioral Changes in a Ferret model of Combined Under-Vehicle Blast and Controlled Cortical Impact-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury
    Primary Presenter: Molly Goodfellow, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland School of Medicine
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    75 - Repeated rotational acceleration injury reveals sex differences in acute cytokine expression but not in motor impairments or astrocytic/microglial activation
    Primary Presenter: Antigone Grillakis, Graduate Student, BS (she/her/hers) – Uniformed Services University
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    76 - Exposure to Blast Results in Acute Dysregulation of Aquaporin 4 and Chronic Astrocytic Degeneration in Perivascular Area
    Primary Presenter: Ming Gu, PhD – Henry Jackson Foundation
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    77 - Assessment of the Effect of Simulated Aeromedical Evacuation on the Viability and Functionality of BV2 Microglia
    Primary Presenter: Carolyn Judge, MD – Navy Medical Research Center, Silver Spring
    Co-Presenter: Michael Shaughness, PhD – Navy Medical Research Center, Silver Spring
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    78 - Chronic behavioral deficits may be related to accumulation of phosphorylated tau in the piriform cortex in P301S tau transgenic rats after repeated blast exposure
    Primary Presenter: Claire Kostelnik, Graduate Student, BS – Uniformed Services University
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    79 - Traumatic brain injury-induced microglial and astrocyte changes in response to acute post-injury buprenorphine administration
    Presenter: Audrey D. Lafrenaye, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University
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    80 - The COmbat and traiNing QUeryable Exposure/event Repository (CONQUER) operational monitoring program: Five Years of Continued Activity
    Presenter: Fabio Leonessa, MD – Department of Neurology, USU
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    81 - Dissecting the roles of individual stress response pathways following mild traumatic brain injury
    Primary Presenter: Eliza Lloyd, Other – NICHD
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    82 - Temporal Profile of Mitochondrial Redox Homeostasis in a Preclinical Model of Severe Penetrating TBI
    Primary Presenter: Sudeep Musyaju, MD – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
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    83 - Temporal Profile of Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis, Membrane Integrity and Apoptosis Markers in a Preclinical Model of Severe Penetrating TBI
    Co-Presenter: Meaghan Ratcliffe, BS (she/her/hers) – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    Primary Presenter: Hiren R. Modi, PhD (he/him/his) – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
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    84 - Comparison of Metrics used to Predict Mid-Sized Male and Small-Sized Female Occupant Brain Injury in Automotive Collisions
    Primary Presenter: Jared Rifkin, Graduate Student (he/him/his) – University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics
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    85 - A FE ferret head model for prediction of histopathological outcomes of primary blast brain injury
    Primary Presenter: Shyam Sundar Santhanam, Graduate Student – university of virginia
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    86 - Loss of brain fatty acid oxidation results in increased hippocampal proliferation following TBI
    Primary Presenter: Susanna Scafidi, MD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Co-Presenter: Noelle Puleo, BS – JHU SOM
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    87 - Distribution of pathology after CHIMERA injury across brain regions in a gyrencephalic animal
    Primary Presenter: Susan C. Schwerin, PhD – Uniformed Services University
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    88 - The role of LC3-associated phagocytosis in traumatic brain injury mice model
    Primary Presenter: Sagarina Thapa, Graduate Student, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, Baltimore
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    89 - Effect of Midazolam on Long-Term Outcomes in a Pre-Clinical Model of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
    Primary Presenter: Alexis Thompson, Post-Doctoral Fellow, MD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins Medical Institution
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    90 - solTNF/TNFR1 Activity Regulates Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity following TBI in Mice
    Primary Presenter: Janakiraman Udaiyappan, Post-Doctoral Fellow (he/him/his) – Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1101 E. Marshall St, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA.
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    91 - Sex-Related Differences in Biomechanical Factors on Brain Deformation Response
    Primary Presenter: Kiersten Wark, Graduate Student, BS (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics
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    92 - Delayed White Matter Atrophy Caused By Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Effect of Neuronal Human Tau in P301S Mice
    Primary Presenter: Fengshan Yu, MD – Henry Jackson Foundation
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