Students from the lab visit Kittredge Elementary School and demonstrate visuomotor adaptation.
January 2015 – Claire’s paper highlighted in NRN
Claire Tang’s paper in PLoS Biology is profiled as a “Research Highlight” in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
January 2015 – Lyndie joins the lab
Alynda Wood (graduate student) joins the lab.
December 2014 – Tang et al., PLoS Biology
“Millisecond-Scale Motor Encoding in a Cortical Vocal Area” by Claire Tang (undergraduate), Kyle Srivastava (graduate student), Diala Chehayeb (technician), Ilya Nemenman (Emory Physics and Bio Departments) and Sam Sober is published in PLoS Biology.
October 2014 – podcast
Sam makes a guest appearance on the “Neuroscientists Talk Shop” podcast.
September 2014 – Kelly & Sober, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
“A simple computational principle predicts vocal adaptation dynamics across age and error size” by Conor Kelly and Sam Sober is published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
September 2014 – Lukas receives NRSA grant
Lukas Hoffmann (graduate student) is awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the NIH. Congratulations Lukas!
June 2014 – Supplemental funding for electrode development
The lab is awarded supplemental funding from the NIH (with additional support from Emory’s Dean’s Discretionary Fund) to develop new technologies for high-resolution electromyography (EMG).
June 2014 – David wins outreach award
David Nicholson (graduate student) wins the Neuroscience Program’s Scientific Outreach Award for his commitment to science education in the greater Atlanta community. Congrats David!
May 2014 – Emily goes to Northwestern
Emily Berthiaume (undergraduate) will join the Masters Program in Neurobiology at Northwestern University this fall.