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!

 

 

Josie Clowney, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

A Feminist Framing of Fruitless: Maleness as a Suppression of Female Neural Programs – Examining how male fruit fly brains develop sex-specific circuits, and whether they are formed by suppressing parts of a female “base.”

 

 

  

    

 

 

Swathi Yadlapalli, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Circadian Rhythms – An in vivo study to uncover how our circadian clocks are regulated at the subcellular level.