Walter L. Fast, LCID Faculty member and Pharmacy professor, passed away on December 4, 2023 after a brief illness. Dr. Fast was the Division Head and Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry, William I. Dismukes Fellow, and Southwestern Drug Corporation Centennial Endowed Fellow in Pharmacy. He first joined UT Austin in 2002 as an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy. Dr. Fast was part of the LCID Faculty from its beginning in 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Harris on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences!!
Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Current NAS membership totals approximately 2,400 members and 500 international members, of which
LCID Associate Director Dr. Jaquelin Dudley, along with 10 other UT-Austin faculty, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
The honor recognizes Fellows for their extraordinary achievements across disciplines in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and includes pioneering research, leadership in a particular field, fostering collaborations, and advancing public understanding of science.
Congratualtions to INS Grad Student Brandy Routh (Fonken Lab) for wining the Empower Your Pitch -Overall Excellence in Research Communication award for her presentation, "Circadian Rhythms Shape the Growing Brain"!!
“Empower Your Pitch” is an engaging and dynamic competition offered in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Univeristy. This competition is designed to equip participants with the strategies needed to effectively communicate complex ideas in just three minutes. Winners will receive a cash prize and a funded trip to Washington, D.C. to
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Messing for being awarded The Civitatis Award!
The Civitatis Award is conferred upon one or two members of the faculty each year in recognition of dedicated and meritorious service to the University above and beyond the regular expectations of teaching, research, and service. Recipients are deemd to be a person of such integrity, stature, demonstrated ability and renown that the university community, including alumni, faculty, staff and students,
Congratulations to Dr. Marineli on receiving the NINDS Rigor Champion Award! The NINDS lauched the Rigor Champions Award in 2023 in an effort to promote research rigor and transparent reporting and to foster a culture of reserach quailty withing the scientific ecosystem. The goal of this prize is to help recognize and reward those individuals and small teams who have championed rigor and transparency practices above and beyond their normal job duties and who have helped cultivate a culture that promotes robust, high-quality neuroscience research.
Angus Deaton, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015, has written a fascinating essay about his changing views on economics. I thought the following quote has great relevance to ecology: "The credibility revolution in econometrics was an understandable reaction to the identification of causal mechanisms by assertion, often controversial and Read more about On empiricism and falsification
Congratulations to INS Grad Student Kevin Zhou (Bittner Lab) for receiving a fellowship from the Lone Star Paralysis Foundation! This fellowship will support Kevin's research on peripheral nerve repair by providing funds for his education and research expensis that traditional NIH undergraduate fellowships may not provide.
Josue Lopez and colleagues from the Lee Lab published a reserach article in The Journal of Neuroscience entitled "Caldendrin Is a Repressor of PIEZO2 Channels and Touch Sensation in Mice". This study investigated the role of the calmodulin-like Ca2+ sensor, caldendrin, in the regulation of mechanically activated ion channels and their roles in touch sensation.
Congratulations to INS graduate student Kanako Matsumura (Dobbs Lab) on being awarded an NRSA from NIDA for her research proposal entiteld "Recruitment of striatal enkephalin by cocaine as a substrate for striatopallidal circuit adaptations and cocaine seeking"!
