Category: News

On April 12th, Minna McFarland successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Allopregnanolone regulation of phasic dopamine release and motivated behavior”. Mentor: Dr. Donita Robinson.  Congratulations Dr. McFarland!!

On March 21st, Reagan Bullins (Hantman Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “High resolution optogenetic perturbations to control motor cortical activity and skilled behavior”. Congratulations Reagan!!

On January 15th, Sara Yi-Ling Conley (McElligott Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Investigating tonic and synaptic excitatory signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis across models of alcohol exposure”. Congratulations Sara!!

Hippocampal area CA2—a region of the hippocampus that is involved in social memory and aggressive behaviors—has been characterized in vole and hamster brain. These findings are detailed in a preprint released to BioRxivs by the Dudek group. While mice and rats are among the most commonly used animal models in...

On January 15th, Nicholas Ringelberg (MD/PhD student in Philpot Lab) was awarded an NRSA F30 predoctoral fellowship from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) entitled “Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Seizure Susceptibility in a Mouse Model of Angelman Syndrome”. This grant will fund Nick’s project...

On January 19th, Arianna Cascone successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Categorical and dimensional investigations of dynamic functional connectivity and behavior during response inhibition in children with and without ADHD”. Mentor: Dr. Jessica Cohen.  Congratulations Dr. Cascone!!

On January 11th, Elissavet Chartampila (Diering Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Elucidating the mechanism underlying the developmental vulnerability to sleep disruption”. Congratulations Liza!!

On November 27th, Yuechen Qiu (Scherrer and Hantman Labs) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Leveraging cortical motor circuits to elucidate opioid mechanisms of neuromodulation”. Congratulations Yuechen!!

On September 14th, Preston Siegler (Dudek Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “The Role of Corticosterone in Hippocampal Area CA2 Development and Activity”. Congratulations Preston!!

On September 5th, Joseph Krzeski (Philpot Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “The role of UBE3A isoforms and their respective substrates in Angelman syndrome-associated seizures”. Congratulations Joe!!