March 2023

Gregory DeCarvalho (Chen Lab) had a first-author paper, entitled “Early life adversity impaired dorsal striatal synaptic transmission and behavioral adaptability to appropriate action selection in a sex-dependent manner”, recently accepted to Frontiers in Molecular Science.

Alexa Tierno and recently graduated Jan Frankowski (both Hunt lab) are co-first authors on the Nature Communications (2022) paper “Brain-wide reconstruction of inhibitory circuits after traumatic brain injury” that has been selected for the 2023 STAT Madness competition.

Cassie Kookier (Baram Lab) had a recent paper in Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science (2023) featured in the Research Highlight section of Science. Their study used genetic tagging to show selective activation of the thalamic paraventricular nucleus by adverse experiences early in life.

Fan-Gang Zeng, a Joint appointee in Anatomy & Neurobiology, was recently elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was recognized for his work on engineering better treatments for hearing loss and tinnitus, and for fostering inclusiveness in the field of engineering.

The 20^th Annual Epicenter Symposium, Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Epilepsy was held on Feb 28^th, 2023. This symposium, associated with the Epicenter T32 award, was co-organized by A&N faculty Bobby Hunt and Laura Ewell and invited speakers included two departmental trainees, Jasmine Chavez (graduate student, Gall Lab) and Brittney Boublil (postdoctoral researcher, Ewell lab).