B&B Neuro Faculty Laura Carruth makes GSU 2020 Hall of Fame
B&B Neuro Faculty Laura Carruth makes the GSU 2020 Hall of Fame for her incredible response to the challenges of the 2020 pandemic. https://provost.gsu.edu/champions/ According to… more »
B&B Neuro Faculty Laura Carruth makes the GSU 2020 Hall of Fame for her incredible response to the challenges of the 2020 pandemic. https://provost.gsu.edu/champions/ According to… more »
For the first time in national Nu Rho Psi undergraduate honor society history (https://nurhopsi.org) and out of 97 chapters, our Georgia State University… more »
Brains & Behavior is excited to present our VIRTUAL Distinguished Lecture Series this Fall (PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE IN TIME) Up first on Friday September 11 @ 10am; Dr. Larry Young from Emory University with his talk entitled “Neurobiology of social bonding, social loss and empathy: Implications for Autism.” According to the Center for Translational… more »
Many species use vocalizations as part of their communication and interactions, and hummingbirds are not the exception. In fact, some species of hummingbirds have developed extraordinary high-pitched signals. Until recently, however, there was no evidence showing that these hummingbirds could hear high-pitched sounds. Fernanda G. Duque, a PhD candidate in Neuroscience Institute at GSU, co-advised… more »
From the Neuroscience Core Faculty to our Students, Staff and other Colleagues:
In the midst of a national movement that is once again bringing to light the inexcusable pain inflicted upon Black people in this country, the faculty of the Neuroscience Institute want our entire community to know that we recognize and condemn the shameful… more »
We are pleased to announce that Murphy Lab PhD candidate, Evan Fullerton, has received a 2019-2020 Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) Outstanding Fellow Award! This award is accorded on the basis of outstanding contributions to research, future promise as a researcher, and originality, imagination and significance of research. Nominations were invited from PI’s and five outstanding fellows were selected by the Chairs of… more »
The B&B Summer Scholars Program has awarded its 2020 B&B Scholarships to 19 undergraduates. The Scholars program provides summer fellowships to selected GSU undergraduates to support their research efforts in faculty laboratories.
This year, our summer cohort will engage in distance learning via interactive virtual training workshops centered on their professional development in our new… more »
Nate Himmel (Cox Lab) is the 2020 recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Scholar Award. Nate has excelled in his academics and has an outstanding record of scholarly productivity including 8 peer-reviewed publications, 5 as first author, in high impact journals including Current Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, and Molecular Biology and Evolution. … more »
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!