Congratulations to Michael Halassa (Philip Haydon's lab) and Chris Vescey (Ted Abel's lab) for being awarded this year's Flexner Award for Outstanding Thesis Work in the Neurosciences. Michael and Chris will receive a monetary award and their names will be engraved on the plaque that now hangs in the Barchi Library.
Check out Chris Vescey speaking about his work on the October 15, 2009Nature PodCast at www.nature.com/nature/podcast/
NGG student Greg Dunn's artwork, that now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Barchi Library, is featured on the 28 October 2009 Journal of Neuroscience cover.
Journal of Neuroscience cover legend: An artistic rendition of a glomerulus in the mammalian olfactory bulb, with affiliated excitatory mitral cells (dark green) and external tufted (ET) cells (white) and inhibitory periglomerular (PG) cells (brown, pink, orange). Local dendrodendritic processing involving ET and PG cells appears to control whether the mitral cell output of a glomerulus is entirely ‘on’ or ‘off.’ Artwork by Greg Dunn, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania. For more information, see the article by Gire and Schoppa in this issue (pages 13454–13464).
Click here for the 2009 NGG Student-led Retreat Program, Friday, Oct. 30th at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Click here to register for the Retreat.
Click here for the MINS / NGG Calendar 2009-2010.