POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS
TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP AWARDEE POSTERS
| Name (First, Last) | Current Institution | Current Department | Mentor Name | City/State | Highest Degree Previously Awarded | Current Level | Title of Poster |
| Ardaman Kaur | Michigan State University | Department of Advertising & Public Relations | Dr. Dar Meshi | East Lansing, MI | Ph.D. | Posdoctoral Research Associate | EEG microstates as a biomarker for an early cognitive decline toward future Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Enoch Sumakpoyaa | Syracuse University | Department of Psychology | Dr. Daniel Corral | Syracuse, NY | M.S. in Cogntitive Neuroscience | M.S. Student in Psychology | Selective stopping task in normal aging and Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Neke Nsor | Georgetown University | Department of Neuroscience | Dr. Casey Brown | Washington, DC | M.S in Neuroscience and Education | Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience | The effects of cognitive activity and APOE status on cognitive decline in African Americans |
| Chinedu Odedo | Georgia State University | Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology | Dr. Marise Parent | Atlanta, GA | H.S. Diploma | Undergraduate | Obesity dysregulates brain metabolism during prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Destiny Ogbeama | Arizona State University | School of Life Sciences (Biomedical Science & Family-Human Development) | Dr. B. Blair Braden | Tempe, AZ | H.S. Diploma | Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Science & Family/Human Development (May 2023) | Verbal fluencey in ASD: the impact of age across the adult lifespan |
| Chinenye Odo | University of Wisconsin-Madison | School of Medicine and Public Health, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center | Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo | Madison, WI | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) | M.P.H. Student | Investigating the relationship between rate pressure product and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in African American vs. non-Hispanic white adults |
| Marco Pipoly | University of Iowa | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences | Dr. Michelle W. Voss & Dr. R. Eliot Hazeltine |
Iowa City, IA | B.S. in Psychology | Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience | Cardiorespiratory fitness modifies the effect of peak brain network hub cardiovascular reactivity on processing speed |
| Shreya Ramanathan | Emory University | Department of Neurology | Dr. Whitney Warton | Atlanta, GA | H.S. Diploma | Undergraduate Student, Anthropology & Human Biology (May 2025) | Perceived discrimination influences cognition score in a race-independent manner |
| Alexa Staples | UPMC-Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic | Department of Psychiatry | Dr. Andrea Weistein & Dr. Meryl Butters |
Pittsburgh, PA | B.S. in Biological Sciences | Employed, Research Data Coordinator (Future MD-PhD) | Think PHRESH: How structural racism affects cognition in African Americans living in disenfranchised communities |
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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY AND AFFILIATED STUDENT POSTERS
| Name (First, Last) | Current Institution | Current Department | Mentor Name | City/State | Highest Degree Previously Awarded | Current Level | Title of Poster |
| Fausto, Bernadette | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | PhD | Faculty Research Associate | High-quality sleep mitigates ABCA7-related generalization deficits in healthy older African Americans |
| Budak, Miray | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Plasma pTau positivity affects cognitive and network flexibility in the medial temporal lobe among healthy older African Americans |
| Osiecka, Zuzanna | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | B.A. | Incoming PhD Candidate | Relationship between generalization performance and plasma markers pTau231, pTau181 and NfL in cognitively healthy older African Americans |
| Gills, Joshua | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Hypertension is associated with reduced medial temporal lobe neural flexibility in older African Americans |
| Shiekh, Mustafa Z. | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | MPH | Research Coordinator | T-Cell immunosenescence is associated with poorer generalization performance in cognitively healthy older African Americans |
| Arnasalam, Alyssa | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | B.A. | Research Assistant (Post-Bacc) | Impact of depressive symptomatology and social network size on executive function in cognitively healthy older African Americans |
| Abedullah, Salma M. | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | H.S. Diploma | Undergraduate | Higher number of children is associated with increased risk of cognitive dysfunction in older African American women |
| Napoleon, Darian | Rutgers University– Newark | Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience | Dr. Mark Gluck | Newark, NJ | H.S. Diploma | Undergraduate | Diabetes is associated with poorer prefrontal cortex-dependent cognitive function in older African Americans with the APOE-ε4 Alzheimer’s Disease risk allele |
| Akbulut, Elizabeth | The New Jersey Medical School | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly | Newark, NJ | B.S. | Research Assistant (Post-Bacc) | Association of immune senescence in human peripheral blood CD8+ T cells and Alzheimer’s disease risk markers |
| Joshua Egwuonwu | Rutgers University– Newark | Department of Psychology | Dr. Darlingtina Esiaka | Newark, NJ | A.A. | Undergraduate | Predicting subjective cognitive decline in black American men living in urban areas using neighborhood problems and sleep difficulties |