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.
May 2014 – Briarlake Elementary
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.