Congratulations to Drs. Laura Colgin and Darrin Brager on their RO1 from the National Institute of Mental Health!

This award will provide more than 3 million dollars over a four year period to support their their research proposal “Investigating mechanisms underlying impaired social and spatial cognition in rodent models of Fragile X syndrome”.

Brief Summary:
Fragile X syndrome (FX) is associated with deficits in social and spatial behaviors, yet the neural mechanisms responsible for these impairments remain poorly understood. Hippocampal areas

Samantha Santacruz received a NSF CAREER Award for her proposal entitled "Scalable, Penetrating Multimodal Neural Interfaces for Adaptive Closed-Loop Neuromodulation".  This CAREER project will develop and leverage a neural interface technology to characterize neural circuits impacted by anxiety disorders. Ultimately the work will increase understanding of neural mechanisms underscoring anxiety-related behavior and potentially lead to new treatment options.

INS gradduate student, Maddie Dwortz (Curley Lab), was first author on a review article entitled "Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank," published in the Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Dwortz MF, Curley JP, Tye KM, Padilla-Coreano N. Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 Feb 28;377(1845):20200444.

Several INS students recently received NRSA Fellowships.  These competitive research awards enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.

Cherish Taylor (Mukhopadhyay Lab) received an NRSA from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for her proposal entitled "Mechanisms of Brain Manganese Homeostasis and Manganese-induced Parkinsonism".

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