October 29, 2021
Dr. Audrey Seasholtz receives an Endowment for the Basic Sciences Teaching Award
Congratulations Dr. Audrey Seasholtz for receiving an Endowment for the Basic Sciences Teaching Award.
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October 18, 2021
U-M pharmacologist Lori Isom elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Lori Isom, professor and chair of the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Pharmacology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors for a clinician and scientist.
October 12, 2021
MNI - A Video Worth Watching!
MNI is creating new synergies, enabling great discoveries, and enhancing the impact of neuroscience across the UM Campus. Learn more by watching our new video !
October 5, 2021
Announcing NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
A multidisciplinary group of University of Michigan researchers received the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to explore the role of environmental exposures, genetics, and other factors on susceptibility to ALS.
September 30, 2021
UM receives $11.7M grant for Parkinson’s disease research
Congratulations to Dr. Roger Albin, director of UM's Parkinson’s Foundation Research Center of Excellence, and all of the neuroscientists involved in this research across the UM campuses for securing a $11.7M NINDS grant to re-establish a Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson’s Disease Research.
September 3, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Owen Funk
Owen (Kwan Lab) successfully defended his thesis " The Role of Histone Variant H3.3 in Cortical Development . " on Sep 2nd, 2021.
Congratulations Owen!
July 28, 2021
Dr. Shelly Flagel elected President-Elect of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society
The European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS) is an international society at the crossroads of pharmacology, experimental psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience.
July 20, 2021
"Springing forward" affects early birds less than night owls!
Dr. Margit Burmeister in collaboration with Dr. Srijan Sen and Dr. Forger and student Jonathan Tyler published an article showing that people’s genetic make-up – specifically their genes related to circadian clock and sleep – affect how fast they adjust to the DST change. People who genetically tend to be “early birds” adjust within days,
July 7, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Srijan Sen on Receiving 2021 Joint Institute Award
We would like to congratulate Dr. Srijan Sen, who has received funding from the Michigan Medicine-Peking University Health Science Center Joint Institute to investigate genomic and environmental drivers of depression in physicians training across China and in the US.
June 30, 2021
Scientific Sense Podcast Featuring Dr. Shelly Flagel
Dr. Flagel spoke with Gil Eapen about her basic research and clinical implications.
June 18, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Amanda White
Amanda (Debiec Lab) successfully defended her thesis " Maternal Buffering of Infant’s Fear In Typically Developing Rats and In A Rat Model for A Psychiatric Disorder." on June 17, 2021.
Congratulations Amanda!
June 17, 2021
Clowney named 2021 Pew Scholar
E. Josephine Clowney, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Director of the Kavli Neuroscience Innovators, joins 1,000 early career scientists as a Pew Scholar. Clowney will use this opportunity to focus on unraveling how female and male brain development are programmed to allow sex-specific behaviors.
June 7, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Chen
Alex (Sutton Lab) successfully defended his thesis " Homeostatic metaplasticity in hippocampal neuronal networks. " on June 7, 2021.
June 4, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline Quigley
Jacque (Becker Lab) successfully defended her thesis " Sex Differences in the Role of GPER1 in the Dorsolateral Striatum on Motivation and Reward " on June 4, 2021.
Jacque will be staying in Becker lab as a post-doc for the next year.
June 4, 2021
Josie Clowney and Swathi Yadlapalli Won 2021 McKnight Scholar Awards
The Board of Directors of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected seven neuroscientists to receive the 2021 McKnight Scholar Award. Two of them are from UM and they are both members of the Kavli Neuroscience Innovators .
Congratulations Josie and Swathi!
June 2, 2021
Colleagues at the Center for Consciousness Science elucidate the timeline of neural and cognitive recovery from anesthesia
Escape from Oblivion: How the Brain Reboots after Deep Anesthesia!
May 19, 2021
Kwan Promoted to Associate Professor!
The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved Dr. Ken Kwan's promotion to Research Associate Professor in the Michigan Neuroscience Institute and Associate Professor in Department of Human Genetics .
Congratulations Ken!
May 18, 2021
Kwan Lab Research Published In PNAS!
The Kwan Lab authored a recent PNAS paper, "Chromatin remodeler Arid1a regulates subplate neuron identity and wiring of cortical connectivity."
May 4, 2021
Study Reveals the Gateway to Conscious Awareness
Michigan Medicine researchers identify a key area in the cortex that acts as a type of gate between low level sensory information and higher level awareness.