{"id":136,"date":"2014-04-14T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:10","slug":"neuroscience-gsa-annual-invited-speaker-dr-alison-barth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/2014\/04\/14\/neuroscience-gsa-annual-invited-speaker-dr-alison-barth\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience GSA Annual Invited Speaker: Dr. Alison Barth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"DrBarth\" src=\"http:\/\/ubneuronews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/drbarth.png?w=300\" width=\"201\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Neuroscience Graduate Student Association annual invited speaker for 2013 was Dr. Alison Barth, an associate professor in the department of biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.\u00a0 Dr. Barth is an established scientist whose work focuses on neural activity and network connectivity in the sensory neocortex in mammals.\u00a0 Her most recent accomplishment includes receiving the 2013 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience \u2013 she was only one of four individuals in the country to receive this prestigious award.\u00a0 During Dr. Barth\u2019s visit to Buffalo, she met with faculty members and graduate students from the Neuroscience Program.\u00a0 The graduate students joined Dr. Barth for lunch and dinner, giving the students an opportunity to interact with her and each other in a personal setting.\u00a0 Dr. Barth gave a well-attended seminar presentation describing her current and upcoming research to a diverse audience from the school of medicine and biomedical sciences.\u00a0 This event marks the 3rd speaker invited and hosted by the Neuroscience graduate student body.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement for the event and an abstract of Dr. Barth&#8217;s research can be <a href=\"http:\/\/ubneuronews.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/ngsa-invited-speaker-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neuroscience Graduate Student Association annual invited speaker for 2013 was Dr. Alison Barth, an associate professor in the department of biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.\u00a0 Dr. Barth is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invited-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/neurogsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}