Poster Tour Award Winners
Poster Awards were established in 2016 by the Board of Directors as a way to help recognize exceptional work presented by those in the early stages of their careers - students (graduate and under graduate), residents, trainees and post docs.
Posters presented during the Poster Tour sessions were judged by members of the Board of Directors, SPAC, Chairs of the SIG Sessions and other leaders in various fields of neurology. The top scoring posters are awarded $250 each. Posters are scored based on the following criteria:
- Overall Quality - the poster is interesting and easy to read, concise, attractive, explains complex topics well to a general audience, information is presented in a logical sequence
- Aims of the Study - clear, logical, appropriate to problem area of interest, well thought out and explained
- Methodology - well described, clear, appropriate, informative, good use of text and/or figures
- Analysis - appropriate interpretation, well presented, understandable for non-expert audience
- Discussion of Research - clear conclusions, relevant interpretation, related to hypotheses and literature base, implications discussed
- Verbal Presentation
- Clarity of Presentation - eye contact, clear voice, clarity, enthusiasm, good interaction skills, confident, ability to make complex ideas understandable to non-expert audience
- Answering Questions - clear and well considered answers, correct breadth and depth of answer, confident
- Overall Scientific Impact
Congratulations to our 2021 Poster Tour Award Winners!
| Bonnie Breining, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Regional Atrophy Predicts Naming Decline in Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Comparison of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses |
Ryan Coburn, MD Mayo Clinic Baseline Multimodal Imaging to Predict Longitudinal Decline in Atypical Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Michael Glendinning, BA Columbia University Irving Medical Center Analysis of COVID-19 Brain Autopsies Reveals That Neuroinflammation is Not Caused by Direct SARS-CoV-2 Infection of the CNS |
Vivian Ko, BS University of California San Diego CK1ε-dependent TDP-43 Phosphorylation in ALS |
| Hyunyong Koh, MD, PhD Boston Children's Hospital Non-cell Autonomous Hyperexcitability Underlies Focal Epileptogenesis Mediated by Low-level Brain Somatic Mutations in Mtor |
Naveen Kondru, DVM, PhD Mayo Clinic Characterizing the Role of Genetic Variants Influencing α-synuclein Seeding Activity Using Neuropathologically Characterized Human Brains |
| Fatemeh Mohammadpour Touserkani, MD SUNY Downstate Medical Center Encephalopathy in Patients with Covid-19 Infection |
Suzanne Odom, MD Wake Forest Baptist Health Challenging Diagnosis of Stroke in Young: A Case Report Reflecting Delayed Diagnosis of Takayasu Arteritis and Use of Ultrasound to Reveal Typical Inflammatory Vessels |
| Kunal Shroff, BS Duke University School of Medicine DYT-TOR1A Subcellular Proteomics Reveals Selective Vulnerability of the Nuclear Proteome to Cell Stress |
Melissa Stockbridge, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Investigating the Utility of Common Linguistic Tasks in Distinguishing PPA Subtypes |