Three of INS gradaute students were award NRSA graduate fellowships to support their predoctoral reserach projects.
Leah Truckenbrod (PI: Caitlin Orsini): "Neurobiology of risk taking in females: hormonal modulation of basolateral amygdala function" Michael Dugan (PI: Bob Messing): "The role of BRSK1, a PKC epsilon substrate, in behavioral and physiological responses to ethanol "The role of BRSK1, a PKC epsilon substrate, in behavioral and physiological responses to ethanol". Dylan Kirsch (PI: Beth Lippard): "
LCID Assistant Director Dr. Jaquelin Dudley is shown with her mentor, Dr. Harold Varmus, and her mentee, Dr. Wendy Kaichun Xu, at the recent Fifty Years of Reverse Transcriptase conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held April 20-23, 2022. Dr. Dudley and Dr. Varmus both spoke at the Symposium.
Dr. Varmus is a former Director of the National Institutes of Health. He has many accolades and is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at
Samantha Santacruz received a NSF CAREER Award for her proposal entitled "Scalable, Penetrating Multimodal Neural Interfaces for Adaptive Closed-Loop Neuromodulation". This CAREER project will develop and leverage a neural interface technology to characterize neural circuits impacted by anxiety disorders. Ultimately the work will increase understanding of neural mechanisms underscoring anxiety-related behavior and potentially lead to new treatment options.
Congratulations to 2nd year grad student Nick Chen, who is the 2022 recipient of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Steve Duck New Scholars Award. This award will provide grant funding to support Nick’s proposed research project, entitled “Cross-Cultural Differences in the Transformation of Motivation.”
Dr. Franco Pestilli received a grant from the Kavli Foundation to support the development of an international data governance framework for neuroscience.
Mauro takes an independent research fellow posisiton in the department of physics at Georgetown University, starting on April 1, 2022. Congratulations and best of luck to Mauro!
