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Colgin Lab News
John and Laura publish a Spotlight in Neuron about an exciting new paper from the Ulanovsky group.
The highlighted paper by Eliav and colleagues shows modulation of spike times by the phase of irregular fluctuations in bat hippocampal local field potentials: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(18)31229-7.pdf
Congratulations to Dr. Brian Gereke!
On May 8, 2018, Brian Gereke successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled, “Experience-dependent trends in hippocampal rhythms”. Brian is now at UC Berkeley, where he accepted a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Kristofer Bouchard’s lab. Congratulations, Brian!
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Trettel!
On December 4, 2017, Sean Trettel successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled, “Grid cell co-activity patterns remain stable across different behavioral states and experiences”. Sean has now moved on to a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Rebecca Burwell’s lab at Brown University. Congratulations, Sean!
Brian’s new paper reporting experience-dependent changes in theta and gamma rhythms in freely behaving mice is published in Journal of Neurophysiology.
https://www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/jn.00472.2017
Congratulations to Devin Wehle on his graduation from UT Austin!
Devin received a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Neuroscience with Honors. He will pursue his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Washington, where he was awarded a prestigious ARCS fellowship.
Congratulations to Nicole Alexander on her graduation from UT Austin!
Nicole completed her honors thesis, entitled “Characterizing Social Behavior in a Rat Model of Fragile X Syndrome”, for Special Departmental Honors in Biology. Nicole is headed to her first choice medical school, Baylor College of Medicine, this fall.