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Hannah Moser Entering Class - 2009 E-mail: mose0180@umn.edu

Undergraduate Institution and Major/Degree:

• B.A., Biology: Neuroscience & Persons, 2008
  Northwestern College, Orange City, IA

Major Advisor(s):

• Glenn Giesler

Research Description:

Our lab studies the transmission of itch and pain information within the central nervous system. I have been characterizing itch responses in thalamic-projecting neurons in the spinal trigeminal subnucleus caudalis of rats. Currently, I am examining the roles of opioid receptors in mediating responses to itch in the trigeminal system. I am also performing parallel experiments to determine effects of opioid drugs on scratching behavior in rats.

Lab Rotations:

• Jonathan Gewirtz
• Mark Thomas
• Glenn Giesler

Courses Taken Beyond the Core Courses:

• EEB 5332 - Evolution & Animal Cognition
• NSC 8217 - Systems & Computational Neuroscience
• NSC 5202 - Theoretical Neuroscience
• NSC 8221 - Neurobiology of Pain & Analgesia

Graduate Level Minor:

• Supporting Program

Publications:

• Davidson S, Zhang X, Khasabov SG, Moser HR, Honda CN, Simone DA, Giesler GJ Jr. Pruriceptive spinothalamic tract neurons: Physiological properties and projection targets in the primate. Journal Neurophysiology, 2012 (In press).
  
• McKee BL, Kelley AE, Moser HR, Andrzejewski ME. Operant learning requires NMDA-receptor activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and dorsomedial striatum, but not in the orbitofrontal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 2010 124: 500-509.
  
• Nieuwenhuis JJ, Larson JD, De Jong TS, Moser HR, Davis RE (2012). Tribendimidine: An anthelmintic with cholinergic activity in the parasitic nematode, Ascaris suum. (In revision).

Conferences Attended:

• Society for Neuroscience - 2009, 2011
• International Workshop for the Study of Itch - 2011

Committee Members:

• Chris Honda - Chair
• Don Simone
• Martin Wessendorf
• George Wilcox
• Glenn Giesler - Advisor

Awards and Honors:

• Morris Smithberg Memorial Prize - 2010
• GPN/Milne-Brandenburg Award - 2011
• Poppele Prize - 2011
• Stark Award - 2011
• Hermann Handwerker Prize for young itch researchers - 2011
• Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA - 2011

Home Town:

• Humboldt, Iowa