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"!
Congratulations to Dr. Jon Pierce on being award a CNS Spark Grant to support his research proposal entitled "Predicting Genes that Cause Phenotypes as Extra Copies".
The CNS Spark Grants program supports new ideas that have the potential to elevate or transform a research program but that are too early-stage in development to be appropriate for external funding opportunities. The program encourages high-risk/high-reward projects. Applicants may propose to develop new methods or to gather preliminary data for new directions in research. Proposals for exploratory,
