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Drs. Denisse Parades and Nihal Salem awarded UT Provost's Early Career Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Denisse Paredes, postdoc in the Drew lab and Dr. Nihal Salem, postdoc from the Mayfield lab, for being awarded a UT Provost's Early Career Fellowship The Provost’s Early Career Fellows program supports promising postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from a variety of disciplines and colleges across the university in their...Drs. Audrey Brumback and Jon Pierce receive NIH grant to study genetics in autism
The important role of genetics in autism development has become increasingly obvious. Many genes implicated in autism are so fundamental to basic neurobiology that species as diverse as worms and humans share them. After discovering that natural variability in autism-related genes correlates with alterations in worm social behavior, Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD,...Dr. Dayne Mayfield invited to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Dr. Dayne Mayfield was invited by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve a 3 year term on the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism . The Council will advise and make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the National Institute...Zakon Lab publishes in BMC Biology
The Zakon lab recently published a manuscirpt in BMC Biology entitield "A potential cost of evolving epibatidine resistance in poison frogs". The paper investigates how poison frogs have evolved resistance to the deadly alkaloid toxin that they accumulate in their bodies as protection against predators. York JM, Borghese CM, George AM, Cannatella...Dr. Alex Huth and colleagues publish in Nature Neuroscience
Dr. Alex Huth and colleagues in the department of Computer Science published a research article in Nature Neuroscience entiteld "Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings". This research produced a non-invasive decoder that reconstructs continuous language from cortical semantic representations recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and revealed the viability...Congratulations to Neuroscience's Dean's Honored Graduates!!
Congratulations to Neuroscience's Dean's Honored Graduates!! This year 4 of the 27 Dean's Honored Scholars gradauted with a degree in neuroscience. Eva Beckett, Neuroscience, Distinction in Research LuLu Eisenberg, Neuroscience, Distinctions in Research & Entrepreneurship Ren Smith, Neuroscience, Distinctions in Research & Service and Leadership Maya Kayla Webb,...Dr. Mike Mauk receives President's Associates Teaching Award
Dr. Mauk was one of seven faculty across UT honored with the President's Associates Teaching Award. This award recognizes great teaching of undergraduates in the core curriculum. Recipients are UT Austin’s educational innovators whose commitment and performance not only instruct, but inspire. Dr. Mauk also won a CNS Teaching Excellence Award...Dr. Thibaud Taillefumier receives NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Thibaud Taillefumier receivesa NSF CAREER award for his project entitield "Nontrivial correlations in the neural code: a question of synchrony". This award will support Dr. Taillefumier’s research to understand how synaptic synchrony can stably emerge in neural networks that are plagued with biological noise. In addition, the awards will support Dr. Taillefumier’s effort...Rick Aldrich honored with Lifetime Achievement Symposium
Dr. Rick Aldrich recently retired to Emeritus status and in recognition of his contributions to the field and the legacy he has left through the work of his many trainees, he was honored by his colleagues with a Lifetime Achievement Symposium. Rickfest_program_full.pdfDr. Kristen Harris receives the University Co-operative Society’s Career Research Excellence Award
The Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors and the University Co-operative Society have award Dr. Kristen Harris the Career Research Excellence Award. This award is given to a faculty member or staff researcher who has maintained a superior research, scholarly and/or creative endeavor across many years. Dr....Dr. Micky Marinelli receives CNS Teaching Excellence Award!
Congratulations to Dr. MIcky Marinelli for receiving a 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award! The College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award celebrates the members of the CNS faculty that excel in the classroom. Recipients of CNS Teaching Excellence Awards are educational innovators, who embody and demonstrate commitment to CNS's mission: To provide...Rick Aldrich awarded the Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences
STANFORD UNIVERSITY HONORS Richard Aldrich, Jr., PhD ‘80 The Stanford Medicine Alumni Association (SMAA) has announced that Richard Aldrich, Jr., PhD ‘80, will receive the prestigious Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences. He will be honored at a dinner held on the Stanford School of Medicine campus on...Dr. Lief Fenno appointed to the APA Addiction Psychiatry Board
Dr. Fenno was appointed to a 3-year term as a member of the American Psychiatric Association Council on Addiction Psychiatry. The Council on Addiction Psychiatryprovides psychiatric leadership in the growing field of prevention and treatment of addictive disorders and works to develop and clarify the role of the psychiatrist in the prevention and treatment of...Drs. Laura Colgin and Darrin Brager receive multi-PI RO1 from NIMH
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...Dr. Lauren Dobbs receives RO1 from NIDA
Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Dobbs on her RO1 award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse! This award will provide over $2.4 million to support her research "Regulation of striatal microcircuits by endogenous opioids as a novel mechanism underlying cocaine seeking" Brief Summary:Recent epidemiological reports indicate that cocaine use increased by 45%...Waggoner Center Affiliate Faculty renew INIA Neuroimmune consortium grant
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) renewed funding for the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Neuroimmune consortium in January 2022. Dr. Messing is now the consortium coordinator, a role previously held by Dr. Adron Harris. Drs. Yuri Blednov & Robert Messing, Dr. Regina Mangieri, and Dr. Dayne Mayfield received funding...Dr. Michael Drew elected president-elect of Pavlovian Society
Dr. Michael Drew was elected president-elect of the Pavlovian Society. He will serve as president in 2023 and host the Pavlovian Annual Meeting in Austin in Sept 2023Dr. Dayne Mayfield receives R01 from NIAAA
Dr. Dayne Mayfield received an R01 award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for his proposal entitled "Gene Expression in the Human Alcoholic Brain". This project will use cell-type-specific RNA sequencing to define the brain transcriptome from human alcoholics and alcohol-dependent mice in unprecedented detail to investigate the hypothesis is that...Drs. Dunsmoor and Lewis-Peacock receive R01 from NIH
Dr. Joey Dunsmoor and Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock received and R01 from the National Institutes of Helath for their proposal entitled "Isolating competing memories of fear and safety in the human brain". In psychiatric disorders characterized by severe stress and anxiety, memories of safety are more difficult to learn and remember...
