The Sober lab and Dr. Muhannad Bakir’s lab (ECE, Georgia Tech) are jointly awarded a 5-year R01 to develop advanced hardware and software methods for measuring single-unit muscle activity in mice and songbirds.
June 2019 – Lab awarded 5-year R01 (renewal)
The Sober lab is awarded a 5-year renewal of our R01 grant from NINDS to examine how how spiking codes in neurons and muscles are revised during motor skill learning.
May 2019 – Andrea wins the Neuroscience Program’s Teaching Award
Andrea wins the Neuroscience Graduate Program’s Teaching Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching, including her work teaching neuroscience courses in Georgia prisons. Congratulations Andrea!
April 2019 – Andrea wins travel award, presents work at NCM in Toyama, Japan
Andrea Pack (graduate student) wins a travel award and gives a platform presentation at the Neural Control of Movement conference in Toyama, Japan. Go Andrea!
April 2019 – Andrea wins the GDBBS Student Career Teaching Award
Andrea wins Emory’s Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS) Student Career Teaching Award in recognition of her exceptional contributions to teaching both within and outside of the Emory community. Congratulations Andrea!
September 2018 – Lab awarded 4-year NSF (CRCNS) grant
The Sober lab, in collaboration with Dr. Ilya Nemenman’s group, is awarded a 4-year Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) grant from the National Science Foundation to study how the nervous system generates motor variability.
July 2018 – Sam wins Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award from the McKnight Foundation
This award will support the development (in collaboration with the lab of Dr. Muhannad Bakir at Georgia Tech) of new technologies for recording electrical activity from the motor system during skilled behavior in rodents and songbirds.
May 2018 – Sam wins Graduates in Neuroscience’s Faculty of the Year award
Sam wins the Graduates in Neuroscience’s Faculty of the Year award. Congratulations, Sam!
May 2018 – Lyndie wins the NS Graduate Program Director’s Award
Lyndie wins the Neuroscience Graduate Program Director’s Award for Outstanding Leadership for her exceptional contributions to improving Emory’s Neuroscience Graduate Program. Congratulations Lyndie!
April 2018 – Lyndie wins GDBBS Career Teaching Award
Lyndie wins the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (GDBBS) Career Teaching Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching at Emory and in the broader Atlanta community. Congrats, Lyndie!