Brains and Behavior fellow and Shilnikov lab doctoral student, Krishna Pusuluri, was recently awarded a $1,000 travel grant for the COSYNE 2020 annual conference! The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. Cosyne topics include (but are not limited to): neural basis… more »
Anne Murphy @AnneZMurphy has been named Associate Editor at the publication Hormones and Behavior. Dr. Murphy is replacing Peg McCarthy @PegMcC who will remain on the editorial board.
Way to go Anne!
We are delighted to announce that Laura Cortes (Forger Lab) has been selected to receive a Dissertation Grant from URSA and is the sole recipient of the 2020 William M. Suttles Fellowship! Laura’s project concerns the role of epigenetics in sexual differentiation of the brain.
The purpose of the Dissertation Grant Program is to support the… more »
Along with team “Core Collab” Neuroscience Institute’s own “The NeurDS” (Neuro Dynamical Systems) comprised of Krishna Pusuluri, Jack (James) Scully, and Rickey Lindsay won first place at Brainhack Atlanta 2019.
Brainhack ATL, “a Neuroimaging Hackathon”, is a neuroscience hackathon focused on bringing together students, researchers, non-academic industry professionals, engineers, data scientists, and neuroscientists from… more »
The Georgia State University chapter of Nu Rho Psi received the 2018-2019 Chapter of the Year Award! Nu Rho Psi is the National Honor Society in Neuroscience.
Featured in this picture from left to right are: Dean Sara Rosen of the College of Arts and Sciences, neuroscience major Kali Malham, Dr. Nancy Forger (Director of… more »
The Brains & Behavior program is excited to announce our new initiative, the B&B Digital Badge Program. As you may know, Brains & Behavior supports its staff, faculty, and students in their curricular pursuits through fellowships, retreats, lectures, seminars, seed grants, and more! What you may not know is that the B&B community is very active outside the classroom and lab.
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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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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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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 »
