Congratulations to Marcel for being recognized for his excellence in teaching and mentoring with a 2024 CNS Teaching Excellence Award! Only 10 faculty across all of CNS were given this award so it is quite an honor and indication of Marcel's dedication and skill in connecting with and teaching our students.
Dr. Husniye Kantarci and colleagues from Stanford University published a research article in Cell entitiled "Schwann cell-secreted PGE2 promotes sensory neuron excitability during development". The research investigated the role of glial cells in controlling neural development, learning and numerous diseases and revealed for the first time that brain cells rely on glial cells to become electrically excitable.
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I was in TBS this summer and deployed two sensor devices. One is shown here. The other is on solar atop a 30m canopy tower. The TBS folks were amazing with installing the devices -- real engineers!
Logan Becker, an INP graduate student in Dr. Thibaud Taillefumier's lab, was awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship. The fellowshiop will provide a stipend that will allow Logan to spend 4 months in France working in the lab of Dr. David Hansel at the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center through CNRS, Université de Paris. During his stay he will be extending his thesis work on neural variability in biophysically relevant single-cell models at the network level with a goal of understanding how input spiking synchrony shapes subthreshold co- Read more about INP Graduate Student Logan Becker awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship
LCID Associate Director, Dr. Jaquelin Dudley, and LCID Faculty Member Dr. Christopher Sullivan, recently talked to the Daily Texan about traces of avian flu being detected in Austin wastewater.
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
