Colgin Lab
The University of Texas at Austin

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!

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!

https://www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/jn.00472.2017

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnsys.2017.00057/full

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.

Nicole Alexander won the CNS Award for Excellence in Neuroscience for her poster entitled “Characterizing social behavior in a novel rat model of Fragile X Syndrome”.  Nicole’s research was supervised by Dr. Alexandra Mably.

Chun-Ting Wu and colleagues found that place cells replay representations of locations to be avoided.  You may read about their findings here:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n4/full/nn.4507.html

Chenguang and Laura comment on the importance of this work here:

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n4/full/nn.4525.html

The study is published in the current issue of Hippocampus:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hipo.22697/full

The lab published a new study in Journal of Neurophysiology showing that slow gamma rhythms in CA3 are entrained by slow gamma activity in the dentate gyrus:

http://jn.physiology.org/content/early/2016/09/09/jn.00499.2016