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  • Mon 20th April 2020

    Congratulations to Dr. Chris Potter for being selected as the recipient of the 2020 Hamilton Smith Award for Innovative Research

    The 2020 Hamilton Smith Award for Innovative Research

    is being presented to:

    Dr. Christopher Potter

    Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience

    Dr. Potter’s research focuses on neural mechanisms responsible for olfaction in insects. Dr. Potter and his students have developed novel molecular genetic approaches to alter gene expression and to visualize and monitor neuronal responses in insects, and they are applying these approaches to a model organism, the vinegar-fly Drosophila melanogaster, and to Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that transmits malaria.

     

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  • Thu 9th April 2020

    Congratulations to Graduate Student and Postdocs in the Neuroscience Department for their Young Investigator Day Awards

    Congratulations to the following Grad Students and Postdocs in the Neuroscience Department recognized with Young Investigators' Day Awards:

    Graduate Student Awards

    THE MICHAEL A. SHANOFF RESEARCH AWARD 
    Identification of MRGPRX4 as a therapeutic receptor target for cholestatic itch
    James Meixiong, M.D., Ph.D. Candidate
    The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience Department of Neuroscience
    Sponsor: Xinzhong Dong, Ph.D. 

    THE MICHAEL A. SHANOFF RESEARCH AWARD Preference encoding in ventral pallidum guides choice behavior
    David Ottenheimer, Ph.D. Candidate
    The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience Department of Neuroscience
    Sponsor: Patricia Janak, Ph.D. 

    THE ALICIA SHOWALTER REYNOLDS RESEARCH AWARD
    Phototransduction Pathways in Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells 
    Lujing Chen, Ph.D. Candidate
    Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience Department of Neuroscience
    Sponsor: King-WaiYau, Ph.D. 

    Postdoctoral Awards

    THE HELEN B.TAUSSIG RESEARCH AWARD 
    Molecular Heterogeneity and Functional Diversity of Spiral Ganglion Neurons
    Shuohao Sun, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neuroscience
    Sponsor: Ulrich Mueller, Ph.D. 

    THE W. BARRY WOOD, JR. RESEARCH AWARD 
    A dopamine-gated nucleus accumbal circuit for cognitive map reification
    Kanghoon Jung, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neuroscience
    Sponsor: Hyungbae Kwon, Ph.D. 

    THE ALFRED BLALOCK RESEARCH AWARD 
    Functional characterization of mosquito repellents
    Ali Afify, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neuroscience
    Sponsor: Christopher Potter, Ph.D. 

     

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