POSTER PRESENTATIONS
SE Ashton, P Sharalla, N Kang, AT Brockett, MR Roesch and MM McCarthy. (2022). Characterization of social and cognitive behaviors across the lifespan in a "two-hit" rat model of neuropsychiatric developmental disorders. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California.
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SE Ashton, SN Yavasani, S Pattanaik, KE Kight and MM McCarthy. (2021). Characterization of playfulness and social motivation in juvenile rats in a model of neuropsychiatric developmental disorders. 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
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SE Ashton & MM McCarthy. (2021). Measuring motivation for social interaction in a rat model of neuropsychiatric developmental disorders. 25th Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.
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SE Ashton & MM McCarthy. (2021). A novel assay for assessing motivation for social interaction in juvenile rats. Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences.
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SE Ashton, JW VanRyzin & MM McCarthy. (2021). Sex differences in activation of reward-related brain regions during juvenile rat social play. Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome.
SE Ashton & MM McCarthy. (2020). Sex differences in reward-related brain regions and their involvement in juvenile rat social play. Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendrocrinology, Atlanta, GA. Canceled due to COVID-19.
SE Ashton & MM McCarthy. (2019). Investigating developmental origins of sex differences in the rewarding properties of juvenile rat social play. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
MM McCarthy, JW VanRyzin, KE Kight, EL Reinl, AE Marquardt, SE Arambula, SE Ashton, KT Davis, LA Pickett, and A Holley. (2019).
Characterization of a CRISPR-generated rat model containing eGFP-Iba1 for study of microglia. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
SE Ashton & MM McCarthy. (2019). Exploring sex differences in the rewarding properties of juvenile rat social play. Sex Differences, Dimorphisms, Divergences: Impact on Brain and Behavior in Health and Disease, Erice, Italy.
SE Ashton & MR Parker. (2017). Searching for sex differences in snake skin. Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, New Orleans, LA.
SE Ashton & MR Parker. (2016). Searching for sex differences in snake skin. 19th Annual UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, Baltimore, MD.
TALKS
SE Ashton (2022). Characterization of behavior across the lifespan in a (not so good?) two-hit rat model of neuropsychiatric developmental disorders. Department of Psychology Cognitive Neural Systems Seminar. University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
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SE Ashton (2021). Work hard, play hard?: How the brain controls playfulness in young mammals. Department of Biology STEMinar. Stevenson University, Owings Mills, MD.
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SE Ashton (2021). Working for play: Using a new behavioral task to interrogate the role of the brain's reward circuitry in driving the motivation to play in juvenile rats. 43rd Annual Graduate Research Conference at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Virtual.
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SE Ashton (2020). Sex differences in the brain's reward system and playfulness in young rats. Graduate School Three Minute Thesis at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Virtual.
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SE Ashton (2017). Searching for sex differences in snake skin. 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. New Orleans, LA.
PUBLICATIONS
VanRyzin J. W., Arambula S. E., Ashton, S. E., Blanchard A. C., Burzinski M. D., Davis K. T., Edwards S., Graham E. L., Holley A., Kight K. E., Marquardt A. E., Perez-Pouchoulen M., Pickett L. A., Reinl E. L. & McCarthy, M. M. (2021). Generation of an Iba1-eGFP transgenic rat for the study of microglia in an outbred rodent strain. eNeuro.
*Acquired microscopy image featured on eNeuro's homepage "cover slide"
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VanRyzin J. W., Marquardt A. E., Argue, K. J., Vecchiarelli, H. A., Ashton, S. E., Arambula, S. E., Hill, M. N. & McCarthy, M. M. (2019). Microglial Phagocytosis of Newborn Cells Is Induced by Endocannabinoids and Sculpts Sex Differences in Juvenile Rat Social Play. Neuron.
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Ashton, S. E., Vernasco, B. J., Moore, I. T. & Parker, M. R. (2018). Sex and seasonal differences in mRNA expression of estrogen receptor α (ESR1) in red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis). General and comparative endocrinology.