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Dr. Kristen Harris publishes in Nature Scientific Data
The Harris lab recently published an article in Nature Scientific Data entitled “A resource from 3D electron microscopy of hippocampal neuropil for user training and tool development”. The work reveals 3D reconstruction from serial section electron microscopy from volumes of CA1 of the rat hippocampus. These data set guidelines for...Pierce-Shimomura and Raab-Graham receive 2015 College of Natural Sciences Excellence Awards
Drs. Jon Pierce-Shimonura and Kimberly Raab-Graham each received a 2015 College of Natural Sciences Excellence Award. Dr. Pierce-Shimomura received an Outreach Excellence award for his work offering post-secondary education through UT Informal classes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Dr. Raab-Graham received a Teaching Excellence award that recognizes her...Dr. Harold Zakon received the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award
Dr. Harold Zakon was awarded the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The mission of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is to promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. The award is granted in recognition of a scientist whose...Drs. Lewis-Peacock, Nauhaus and Zemelman receive UT BRAIN seed grants
Dr. Jarrod Lewis Peacock, Dr. Ian Nauhaus and Dr. Boris Zemelman are among the forty-five new research teams from across the University of Texas System that have been awarded $100,000 seed grants each as part of a UT System initiative to jump-start multi-disciplinary and innovative research on the human brain. The...
