News
2024
Congratulations to Andrew & Paula for their successful Candidacy Exams!
Congratulations to Hannah & Vishnu on their tenure-track faculty positions!
Vishnu Cuddapah will be at Baylor College of Medicine, and Hannah Shoenhard at Bryn Mawr College
2023
Congratulations to Joe & Cynthia on their tenure-track faculty positions!
Joe Bedont is headed to Kent State in Ohio, and Cynthia Hsu to California State at Fresno
Congratulations to Vishnu on his K08 Award from NIH!
Project Title: Regulation of Seizure Timing by Circadian Rhythms & Sleep
Congrats to Jessica, Yongjun & Fola on their outstanding Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Mariela & Camilo for acing their Prelim Exams!
2022
Congratulations to Rebecca on receiving a Damon Runyon fellowship award!
Project Title: Investigation of the Role of Peripheral Secreted Molecules on Sleep & Circadian Rhythms
Congratulations to Julie on her R01 Award from NINDS!
Project Title: Interactions Between the Immune Response & Lipid Homeostasis in Regulating Sleep During Sickness
2021
Congratulations to Sara on receiving a fellowship award from SNSF!
Project Title: Regulation of Adaptive Sleep Through the Antimicrobial Peptide NUR in Flies
Congratulations to Shirley on her Tenure-Track Faculty Position!
Emory University
Congratulations to Nitin on his Tenure-Track Faculty Position!
The Tata Institute, Mumbai
2020
Congratulations to Joe Bedont on his K99 Award from NINDS!
Project Title: Nitrogen Metabolism in Sleep Homeostasis and Pathology
Congratulations to Dan on receiving an F32 Award from Brain Initiative!
Project Title: Coupling Between Circadian Rhythms & Redox Signaling in Stem Cell Differentiation & Adult Neurogenesis
Congratulations to Jessica on receiving a Gilliam Fellowship from HHMI!
Press Release: HHMI Awards 45 Gilliam Fellowships to Support Diversity in Science
Congratulations to Jack on his Outstanding Thesis Defense!
Thesis Title: Endocannabinoids Protect Against Seizures in Drosophila Melanogaster
2019
Congratulations to Greg on his Outstanding Thesis Defense!
Thesis Title: The Emerging Involvement of Glia in Sleep: Insights from Drosophila Melanogaster
Congratulations to Annika on her Tenure-Track Faculty Position!
Waksman Institute, Rutgers University
Congratulations to Shirley Zhang on her K99 Award!
Project Title: Determining the Importance of Temporal Regulation of the Blood-Brain Barrier
Collaborative Grant Awarded (with Aalim Weljie):
- Balance of sleep and circadian metabolic switches in Drosophila—R01 from NIDDK
2018
Congratulations to Graduating Students! Outstanding Job Anna & Iryna!
Thesis Title (Anna King): Neural Circuits Controlling Circadian Rhythms
Thesis Title (Iryna Shakhmantsir): Splicing the Clock is Timeless: from Fruit Fly Behavior to Mammalian Retinal Degeneration
Congratulations to Annika Barber on her K99 Award!
Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award to Amita
Project Title: Integration of Circadian and Homeostatic Signals in a Peptidergic Circuit in Drosophila
2017
Collaborative Grants Awarded:
- NIDDK: Impact of Daytime vs. Delayed Eating Schedule on Weight and Metabolic Markers Among Obese Persons: An Examination of Circadian Mechanisms; Collaborators at Penn: Sehgal, Goel, Allison, Taylor, Rickels
- Volkswagen Stiftung: The Fourth Dimension: Integration of time to shape co-oerativity and survival in the biosphere; Collaborators: Sehgal, Fitzgerald (Penn), Merrow, Mann/Robles and Frey in Germany
Congratulations to Joe Bedont and Anna King!
Joe Bedont and Anna King have been awarded NRSA grants.
- Joe's Project Title: Characterizing Metabolomic Links Between Sleep Deprivation and Alzheimers Disease
- Anna's Project Title: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Circadian Rhythms in Behavior