Dr. Michael Drew was one of a few select faculty chosen from across all UT system institutions to be awarded the 2016 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. This award acknowledges Dr. Drew for his outstanding performance and commitment to undergraduate teaching. With a monetary award of $25,000, the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards are among the largest in the […]

Jenni Siegel, a research scientist in Dan Johnston’s lab, received an award from the FRAXA Research Foundation for her project entitled “Prefrontal cortex network dynamics in Fragile X Syndrome”.  Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is an autism spectrum disorder and the most common heritable cause of mental disability.  Using a Fragile X mouse model of the working […]

Dr. Tracy Wang, a postdoc in the Lewis-Peacock lab, presented her work in a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting and it was subsequently covered by Science News.  The poster, entitled “Forgetting is more work than remembering”, described Tracy’s work on the neural processes underlying forgetting.  By using fMRI imaging and a behavioral paradigm in which […]

Drs. Boris Zemelman and Michael Drew, along with Dr. Stephan Martin in the department of Chemistry, received a NIH Brain Initiative grant for their proposal entitled  “A viral system for light-dependent trapping of activated neurons”.  This project will develop a novel method for identifying and gaining genetic access to transiently active, behaviorally-relevant assemblies of neurons in […]

Dr. Laura Colgin’s lab recently published a paper in Neuron entitled “Spatial Sequence Coding Differs during Slow and Fast Gamma Rhythms in the Hippocampus”.  This research reveals that place cells code sequences of locations differently during slow and fast gamma rhythms and has implications for understanding “fast forward” memory, as described in the Austin American […]

Dan Johnston was honored by a day-long symposium that was planned by the many people in the field of neuroscience that he has trained and mentored.  The symposium was held in Chicago the weekend of SfN and included a day of talks from many of Dan’s former students and postdocs, as well as a celebratory […]

Meg Schlichting, in the Preston Lab, received a 2015 Trainee Professional Development Awards from the Society for Neuroscience.  These awards are presented to deserving young scientists who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in their research. These awards provide those in the early stages of their career the chance to present a scientific abstract and to […]

Dr. Laura Colgin received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her project entitled “Role of slow and fast gamma rhythms during sleep”. CAREER awards are one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards given in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration […]

Dr. Michael Drew’s lab published a research article in the Journal of Neuroscience entitled “Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Modulates Fear Learning through Associative and Nonassociative Mechanisms”.  This research reveals two different mechanisms through which adult hippocampal neurogenesis supports fear learning. Seo DO, Carillo MA, Lim CH, Tanaka KF and Drew MR. (2015).  Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Modulates […]

Researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Johnston have recently published two papers with future research implications. Matlab-based automated patch clamp system for awake behaving mice. Niraj S Desai, Jennifer J Siegel, William Taylor, Raymond A Chitwood, Daniel Johnston Journal of Neurophysiology Jun 2015, DOI: 10.1152 / jn.00025.2015 and Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in Mice Is Dependent upon the Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Cerebellum, and Amygdala: Behavioral Characterization […]