Diego Gutnisky Awarded University Presidents’ Research Scholarship
Diego Gutnisky, a graduate student with the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been selected to receive the Presidents’ Research Scholarship. Larry R. Kaiser, President of The University of Texas Health…
Proleta Datta Awarded Endowed Fellowship
Proleta Datta, a student in Dr. Ruth Heidelberger’s laboratory within the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been selected to receive the Sam Taub and Beatrice Burton Endowed Fellowship in Vision…
Cameron Jeter Awarded Endowed Scholarship
Cameron Jeter, a student in Dr. Anne Sereno’s laboratory within the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been selected to receive the Roberta M. and Jean M. Worsham Endowed Scholarship in…
UT System Regents Award $500K Grant To Computational Neuroscience Initiative
As one of seven grantees, out of 37 proposals, the Medical School’s Graduate Program Initiative in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience has received a $500,000 grant from the UT System Board of Regents. The funding will be used to support and…
Research Fellow Max Fletcher Wins $450K Grant
Dept of Neurobiology and Anatomy Research Fellow Max Fletcher, Ph.D., has been awarded a $450,000 three year grant by the National Institutes of Health for a project titled, “In Vivo Optical Imaging Of Experience-Induced Olfactory Bulb Glomerular Plasticity.” From The Abstract The…
Dr. Valentin Dragoi To Receive EUREKA Award From NIH
Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been selected to receive one of the National Institutes of Health’s EUREKA Awards. The EUREKA Program targets investigators who are testing novel,…
Proleta Datta, Cameron Jeter Win University Writing Awards
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy graduate students Cameron Jeter and Proletta Datta have placed 2nd and 3rd, respectively in this year’s Writing Science for the Lay Public contest. For doctoral students in The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical…
Cameron Jeter To Receive SfN Graduate Student Travel Award
Cameron Jeter, neuroscience graduate student affiliated with the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy’s Sereno Lab, has been awarded one of the 2009 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Chapters Graduate Student Travel Awards. The award honors outstanding graduate students nominated by their…
Yili Zhang Awarded Training Program Fellowship By NLM
Yili Zhang, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department’s Byrne Lab, has been awarded a Fellowship by the National Library of Medicine Training Program (NLMTP) through the W.M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training. One goal of the Keck center,…
Dr Wright’s Laboratory For Memory And Cognition Releases New Website
The Neuroscience laboratory of Anthony Wright, Ph.D., has released a new lab website. Among other things, Dr. Wright’s website focuses on the research subjects of Memory and Cognition. Research topics include monkey and pigeon same/different abstract-concept learning, as well as memory…