Graduate Program
Evan Fullerton Wins Best Poster Presentation at MBD Retreat
Congrats to NI PhD student and MBD fellow, Evan Fullerton!
Evan Fullerton, of the Murphy Lab, recently won Best Poster Presentation at the annual Molecular Basis of Disease retreat.
His award winning poster was entitled, “Impact of sex and advanced age on opiate analgesia in the rat Periaqueductal Gray.”
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Neuroscience Institute Graduate Student Awards
The NI recently recognized PhD graduate students in our program with the inaugural Neuroscience Institute Graduate Student Awards! For more information on the NI Graduate Student Awards, please visit our ‘Resources for Current Students’ page, and click on the first link listed under the ‘funding’ tab.
Congratulations to all of the well-deserved winners!
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B&B Fellowships Reach Two New Departments
Recently, the B&B Interdisciplinary Committee (IDC) has completed its task of reallocating fellowships among the member departments. Brains & Behavior is excited to announce two new fellowship lines in the departments of Music and Kinesiology & Health this Fall. Please help us welcome Caroline Simpkins from the Feng Yang lab (Kinesiology & Health) and Lauren Garber… more »
Psychology B&B Fellow Mary Fernandes Wins American Psychological Association Research Competition
GSU News Hub Jeremy Craig Reports:
CHICAGO – Mary Fernandes, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical neuropsychology at Georgia State University, won first place in the 2019 Psych Science-in-3 Competition Aug. 9 at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) annual conference.
Fernandes gave a three-minute presentation entitled, “The Associations Between Pupillary Response Patterns to Emotional… more »
2019-2020 Distinguished Lecture Series is Set
Dear Colleagues,
We are super excited to share the upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series for 2019-2020 academic year. Please mark your calendars.
Please note! This year, we will be meeting in Petit Science Center, room 101 at 12pm for this series.
Please share widely!
GSU Neuroscience Travels to Sweden
Graduate and undergraduate students working on their PhDs, Master’s Degrees, and Bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience, Music, Math, Psychology have been accepted into a study abroad program called “Thinking Nobel,” centered at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is the esteemed presenter of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology every year,… more »
RSVP Now for the May 24th B&B Retreat
Join us for this year’s May 24th Retreat in Centennial Hall from 12:00-6:30pm. KEYNOTE Alumna Karen Gamble, Ph.D. Associate Professor Tate Jordan Thomas Professorship Behavioral Neurobiology Division Department of Psychiatry University of Alabama at Birmingham FELLOW TALKS Barrett Brister *Math* Belykh Lab Anna Dunigan *Biology* Roseberry Lab Spencer Knafelc *Philosophy* Van Leeuwen Krishna Pusuluri *Neuro* Shilnikov Lab Greg Suess *Neuro* Frantz Lab Join… more »
Brains & Behavior Fellow Katie Partrick Awarded Prestigious Dissertation Grant and Suttles Graduate Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that our Graduate Brains & Behavior Fellow, Katherine (Katie) Partrick, has been awarded with not one, but TWO prestigious University fellowships this month! She, along with 10 other deserving doctoral students, have been awarded with a $2,000 Dissertation Grant. The purpose of the Dissertation Grant Program is to support the… more »
Renowned Brain Researcher to Join Georgia State Faculty & Head Center
Vince Calhoun, one of the world’s foremost experts in brain imaging and analysis, has been named the founding director of the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) at Georgia State University.
TReNDS will be a tri-institutional effort supported by Georgia State, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, with a… more »
