Student Researchers Present Findings at Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting

A group of Dominican University students presented research at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Meeting, held Nov. 15-19 in San Diego.

Eli Caron, Charles Kasella, Karolina Kraj, Carys McFaul, Armin Mrzljak and Diana Wittrock presented posters of the research they conducted over the summer in DU’s Slug Lab. This research involved examining changes in methylation and gene expression during long-term sensitization in Aplysia (sea slugs). The students presented at a special poster session that focused on learning and memory, and later at a second session for early-career researchers.

“They also got to soak up a lot of neuroscience, joining over 19,000 other attendees at this meeting,” noted Dr. Robert Calin-Jageman, professor of psychology and director of the Neuroscience Program at Dominican University.

Student travel was supported by the Neuroscience Program and DU’s Title III-F HIS STEM award.

For more than a decade the Slug Lab has given Dominican University STEM majors hands-on experience conducting neuroscience research on learning and memory using sea slugs.