September 2022

Harold Varmus, Jaquelin Dudley, Wendy Kaichun Xu

Three Generations of Retrovirologists

May 5, 2022

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 

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Dr. Robbe Goris receives funding from NEI

September 20, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Robbe Goris on his RO1 from the National Eye Institute!

This award will provide more than 1.5 million over four years to support his research project "Uncertainty, inference, and introspection in the primate visual system".

Brief Summary:
Vision science seeks to understand how the visual system functions and aims to develop treatments for visual pathologies. The proposed studies to investigate the processing of visual uncertainty in cortex and its role in perception will provide rigorous steps towards those goals. The

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INS graduate student, Dylan Kirsch, receives predoctoral fellowship from NIAAA

September 2, 2022

Congratulations to Dylan Kirsch, INS graduate student in the Lippard Lab, on her predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism!

This award provides two years of support for her research "Ventral Prefrontal Network Connectivity and Alcohol Sensitivity in Bipolar Disorder and Typically Developing Young Adults".

Brief Summary:
Alcohol use disorders affect up to 60% of individuals with bipolar disorder and are associated with more severe illness outcomes, yet we lack sufficient understanding of the

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Drs. Laura Colgin and Darrin Brager receive multi-PI RO1 from NIMH

August 29, 2022

Congratulations to Drs. Laura Colgin and Darrin Brager on their RO1 from the National Institute of Mental Health!

This award will provide more than 3 million dollars over a four year period to support their their research proposal “Investigating mechanisms underlying impaired social and spatial cognition in rodent models of Fragile X syndrome”.

Brief Summary:
Fragile X syndrome (FX) is associated with deficits in social and spatial behaviors, yet the neural mechanisms responsible for these impairments remain poorly understood. Hippocampal areas

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