LAB NEWS
January 2024
– Lab gets a CAREER award from the NSF. Thanks, NSF!
– Lab gets a Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition grant in collaboration with Yao Chen (Washington University St. Louis) and Ben Scott (Boston University). Thanks, Research Corporation!
– Lab gets a Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition grant in collaboration with Yao Chen (Washington University St. Louis) and Ben Scott (Boston University). Thanks, Research Corporation!
November 2023
– Research technician Erin Myhre joins the lab. Erin earned her BS and BA from the University of Minnesota.
October 2023
– Pilot award from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain is renewed. Thanks, Simons Foundation!
August 2023
– Postdoc Matt Rynes joins the lab. Matt earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota working with Suhasa Kodandaramaiah.
July 2023
– PhD student Lyn Ackert-Smith joins the lab. Lyn earned his BA from Middlebury College.
June 2023
– PhD student Junhua (June) Tan joins the lab. June earned her BA from Northwestern University.
March 2023
– Research technician Janhavi Sahasrabudhe joins the lab. Janhavi earned her BS from the Ohio State University.
January 2023
– Lab gets a Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition grant in collaboration with Dan Burnston (Tulane U.) and Evelyn Tang (Rice U.). Thanks, Research Corporation for Science Advancement and Walter Foundation!
December 2022
– We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague, the lab’s first graduate student Peter Salvino.
November 2022
– Congrats to postdoc Keith Luo, whose preview of a cool new paper just got published in Neuron! (see publications page)
September 2022
– Double whammy for postdoc Neto Canton! He got selected to join the Mechanisms of Aging and Dementia T32 program and as a mentor in the Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain SURF program. He will mentor Northwestern undergrad Hein Kim.
– Lucas gets appointed as affiliated faculty in the Department of Neurobiology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern.
– Lucas gets appointed as affiliated faculty in the Department of Neurobiology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern.
August 2022
– Postdoc Renan Costa joins the lab. Renan earned his PhD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston working with Jack Byrne.
– Research technician Camey Calzolano also joins the lab. Camey earned her BS from the University of Notre Dame.
May 2022
– Postdoc Neto Canton joins the lab. Neto earned his PhD from Northwestern University working with Genia Kozorovitskiy.
– Research technician Shawna Ibarra also joins the lab. Shawna earned her BA from Bringham Young University.
– Research technician Shawna Ibarra also joins the lab. Shawna earned her BA from Bringham Young University.
April 2022
Postdoc Keith Luo joins the lab. Keith earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne working with Jess Nithianantharajah and Sarah Gordon.
February 2022
Lucas is selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. Thanks, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!
November 2021
Lucas is selected as an Allen Institute Next Generation Leader. Thanks, Allen Institute!
October 2021
Lab gets a Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Pilot Award to study the role of diverse intrinsic neuronal timescales in cognition. Thanks, Simons Foundation!
June 2021
NUIN PhD student Peter Salvino joins the lab. Peter earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University.
April 2021
Postdoc Amy Rapp joins the lab. Amy earned her PhD from Northwestern working with John Disterhoft.
January 2021
Research technician Virginia Rodriguez joins the lab. Virginia earned her BA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
March 2020
Hello world! Physical doors open in January 2021.