The lab visits Briarlake Elementary School as part of Science Night and brings brains from species ranging from songbirds to humans for students to explore.
April 2014 – Varun joins the lab
Varun Saravanan (graduate student) joins the lab.
April 2014 – Emily honors defense
Emily Berthiaume (undergraduate) defends her thesis and receives Highest Honors. Congrats!
April 2014 – Hoffmann et al., J. Neuroscience
“Vocal generalization depends on gesture identity and sequence” by Lukas Hoffmann (graduate student) and Sam Sober is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
February 2014 – Claire wins travel award
Claire Tang (undergraduate) wins a travel award to the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Meeting in Salt Lake City; Claire presents a poster.
February 2014 – Sober & Calabrese (commentary)
Sam’s commentary (co-authored with Ron Calabrese) on Hamaguchi et al. (“Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches”) is published in eLife.
April 2013 – Claire goes to UCSF
Claire Tang (undergraduate) will join the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UC San Francisco this fall.
February 2013
Sam talks about the lab’s research on public radio (WAMC podcast), and our work is profiled in Popular Science, New Scientist, The Daily Mail UK, and Popular Mechanics.
February 2013 – COSYNE
Conor Kelly and Sam Sober present their work at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Meeting in Salt Lake City.
February 2013 – Lab awarded R01 grant
The lab is awarded a 5-year R01 grant from the NIH (NINDS).