Congratulations to Andrea on her graduation AND for winning the Enroth-Cugell award from the Neuroscience Program for her honors thesis!
Congratulations to Maddie for being admitted to many veterinary medicine programs! University of Illinois is lucky to get you!
Welcome to Neurobiology Masters student, Cassandra Fitzgerald!
Tom has been named the Edgar C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology! (Probably for his ability to open laboratory jars and bottles).
A big welcome to Research Tech Jakub Krasewicz (joining us from Loyola University)
Congratulations to Zhuoling for being appointed to the CMBD Training Grant and for passing her Qualifying Exam!
Tom has been promoted to Full Professor!
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!
Congratulations to Sarah Asif for successfully defending her MS thesis!
A hearty welcome to our new undergraduate lab members, Isha Bhardwaj and Andrea Penrose!
Tom has been honored with a University Teaching Award!
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!
Congratulations to Rya on her acceptance to the Feinberg Premedical Scholars Program! You're a dynamo!
Welcome to the newest member of the lab, Kate Conner!
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!
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!
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.
Congratulations to Maddie Ratkowski for being accepted to the NEURON program! You are officially a dendrite.
Annika's paper on class I OR function is published in Current Biology! Check it out.