Lab News

June 2024

Congratulations to Andrea on her graduation AND for winning the Enroth-Cugell award from the Neuroscience Program for her honors thesis!


May 2024

Congratulations to Maddie for being admitted to many veterinary medicine programs! University of Illinois is lucky to get you!


October 2023

Welcome to Neurobiology Masters student, Cassandra Fitzgerald!


September 2023

Tom has been named the Edgar C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology! (Probably for his ability to open laboratory jars and bottles).


July 2023

A big welcome to Research Tech Jakub Krasewicz (joining us from Loyola University)


March 2023

Congratulations to Zhuoling for being appointed to the CMBD Training Grant and for passing her Qualifying Exam!


September 2022

Tom has been promoted to Full Professor!  


June 2022

We are thrilled to have graduate student Zhuoling He (IBiS) and intern Kyugho Seong joining the lab. Welcome!

And congratulations to our most recent graduates, Rya and Kate!


May 2022

Congratulations to Sarah Asif for successfully defending her MS thesis!

A hearty welcome to our new undergraduate lab members, Isha Bhardwaj and Andrea Penrose!


ApriL  2022

Tom has been honored with a University Teaching Award!


March 2022

Congratulations to Hallie for completing her MA degree in Human Computer Interactions at Depaul, and a huge THANK YOU for designing this new web page! We will miss you. Best of luck!


February 2022

Congratulations to Rya on her acceptance to the Feinberg Premedical Scholars Program! You're a dynamo!


January 2022

Welcome to the newest member of the lab, Kate Conner!


June 2021

The gene regulation paper is out! Have a look. Congratulations to Ami Shah and Maddie Ratkowski (Maddie's first paper!)

Maddie Ratkowski is the recipient of the Christina Enroth-Kugel prize for the outstanding honors thesis submitted to the Neuroscience major! She was also selected to be the Senior Marshall for the Neuroscience major at graduation this year. GOAT!


May 2021

Congratulations to Maddie Ratkowski for being inducted in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Welcome to the new undergraduates Rya Muller (who finally got to come to the lab in person after joining us remotely for a year) and Yang Shangguan!


June 2020

Congratulations to Annika Cichy for being awarded an Early Career Research Award (R21) from NIDCD! The goal of the project is to study neural mechanisms of odor valence modulation in female mice.

And congratulations to Maddie Ratkowski for being awarded a Neuroscience Summer Research grant. Her remote (thanks COVID) summer project (with postdoc mentor Ami Shah) will focus on identifying conserved sequence motifs in TAAR gene regulatory elements.


October 2019

Congratulations to Maddie Ratkowski for being accepted to the NEURON program! You are officially a dendrite.


August 2019

Annika's paper on class I OR function is published in Current Biology! Check it out.