Congratulations to the 2021 CNLM Junior Scholar Award Recipients
Undergraduate Student Awards
Vivian Chau (Advisor: Dr. Javier Diaz-Alonso)
"Exploring the localization of MDGAs and their role in synaptic excitation and inhibition balance"
Avril Stulginski (Advisor: Dr. Karina Cramer)
"Reducing caspase-3 activity in the auditory brainstem leads to disrupted neural circuitry in both a cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous manner"
JAMES TAIT GOODRICH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Angeni Muralidhar (Advisor: Dr. Nicolas Phielipp)
"Biomarkers of Parkinson's Disease"
Brian Gomringer (Advisor: Dr. Autumn Ivy)
"Does early-life exercise influence the expression of astrocytic aquaporin-4"
Graduate Student and Post Doc Awards
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Carlene Chinn (Advisor: Dr. Marcelo Wood)
"How our true age can be defined by our epigenetic signature"
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Andra Ionescu (Advisor: Dr. Carl Cotman)
"How exercise changes gene expression"
JOHN W. HAYCOCK MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
Scott Kilianski (Advisor: Dr. Bruce McNaughton)
"Does the hippocampus conduct a neural orchestra?"
JARED M. ROBERTS MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Cassie Kooiker (Advisor: Dr. Tallie Z Baram)
"The Paraventricular Thalamus: A sensor & integrator of emotionally salient early-life experiences"
JARED M. ROBERTS MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Desiree Macchia (Advisor: Dr. Kevin Beier)
"Mapping brain circuits of Alzheimer's disease"
JARED M. ROBERTS MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Daniel Rindner (Advisor: Dr. Gyorgy Lur)
"How neurons keep from getting overwhelmed"
JARED M. ROBERTS MEMORIAL GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Alexandria Weaver (Advisor: Dr. Susanne Jaeggi)
"Keeping the mind sharp is music to my ears"
Keiland Cooper (Advisor: Dr. Norbert Fortin)
"Linking memories into networks, one sniff at a time"
ROGER W. RUSSELL AWARD IN THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
Lily Cheng (Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Chrastil)
"Finding the compass: Head direction signals in the human brain"
ROGER W. RUSSELL AWARD IN THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
Vinicius Duarte (Advisor: Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer)
"Neuronal neglect: What about dendrite regeneration?"
Natalie DiProspero (Advisor: Dr. Michael Yassa)
"Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome: Breaking free from the catch-22"
Jessica Noche Lingad (Advisor: Dr. Craig Stark)
"Investigating the role of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease"
RENÉE HARWICK ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Andrew Chen (Advisor: Dr. Christie Fowler)
"A missing piece in understanding nicotine addiction: Purinergic signaling in the medial habenula"
RENÉE HARWICK ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Pin-Chun Chen (Advisor: Dr. Sara Mednick)
"Trust your heart in sleep to fight against cognitive aging"
RENÉE HARWICK ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Sima Chokr (Advisor: Dr. Karina Cramer)
"Listening to microglia"
RENÉE HARWICK ADVANCED GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Steven Granger (Advisor: Dr. Michael Yassa)
"Memory bias in psychiatric illness"
The annual awards of the CNLM are possible thanks to the generosity of our wonderful community of supporters including Dr. James McGaugh, Mrs. Janice McGaugh Morrow and Mr. William Morrow, Mrs. Judy Goodrich and the late Dr. James Tait Goodrich, Dr. Renée Harwick, the friends, family and colleagues of Dr. John Haycock, the friends, family and colleagues of Mr. Jared Roberts, the friends, family and colleagues of Dr. Roger Russell, the friends, family and Colleagues of Dr. Norman Weinberger, and the Friends of the CNLM. Thank you for making a difference in the careers of our young scholars.
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