2019
- Congratulations to the Ge-Xiong lab for their recent paper in Nature Communications. Former postdoc Jia Wang used live imaging methods to show that adjacent new neurons coordinate lateral dispersion, which is important for circuit integration (7/25/2019)
- Congratulations to Jia Shen (Ge and Xiong labs) for her recent paper in Neuron uncovering a neurovascular coupling network that regulates experience-induced neurogenesis in the adult brain (6/27/2019)
- Congratulations to Kelvin Chan (Wollmuth lab) for winning the outstanding poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Excitatory synapses and brain function (6/14/2019)
- Congratulations to Dr. Alfredo Fontanini for being promoted to the rank of Professor with Tenure in the School of Medicine (4/30/2019)
- Congratulations to Prof. Memming Park for winning the 2019 Discovery Prize Competition! (4/23/2019) → Read more
- Congratulations to Olivia Swanson (Maffei lab) for winning the 3 Minute Thesis competition (4/16/2019)
- Congratulations to Prof. Maya Shelly for receiving a 2019 Godfrey Excellence in Teaching Award (4/8/2019)
- Congratulations to Allen Chen (Ge and Xiong labs) for being awarded an NIH/NIMH NRSA F30 Fellowship to study dopaminergic modulation in auditory decision-making. Expected start date 4/3/2019 (4/3/2019)
- Congratulations to Luca Mazzucato, Giancarlo La Camera and Alfredo Fontanini for their recent paper in Nat Neurosci proposing a new model of general expectation in gustatory cortex (4/1/2019) → Read more: SBU news - Quanta article
- On April 1, 2019 the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior has hosted the Swartz Mind Brain lecture featuring Giulio Tononi (4/1/2019)
- Congratulations to Prof. Giancarlo La Camera for being awarded an international Human Frontiers Science Program Grant to study the mechanisms of decentralized vision in the sea-urchin (3/19/2019) → Read more
2018
- Congratulations to Prof. Mary Kritzer for being named a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor (11/2018)
- Congratulations to Chris Infantino (Colognato lab) for receiving the Chuck Boone Leadership and Excellence Award. Read more about Chris here (11/2018)
- Congratulations to Lindsey Czarnecki (Fontanini lab) for winning 1st prize at the SBU Postdoc Spotlight 2018 (11/2018)
- Congratulations and welcome to our new chair, Prof. Alfredo Fontanini! (9/2018)
- Congratulations to Prof. Erin Vasudevan for being named a Scientific Teaching Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year (8/2018)
- Congratulation to Tiffany Kim (McKinnon Lab) for being awarded an American Heart Association Founders Affiliate Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowship (Summer 2018)
- Congratulations to Rachel Kery (Ge and Xiong labs) for being awarded an NIH/NIMH NRSA F30 Fellowship (with perfect score!) to develop and apply a novel genetic tool for studying neural circuits. Expected start date 09/20/2018.
- Congratulations to Jia Shen (Ge and Xiong labs) for being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to investigate functional neurovascular coupling during animal behavior (6/1/2018).
- Congratulations to Program in Neuroscience Alumnus, Dr. Lyl Tomlinson (Colognato Lab) for being awarded the prestigious AAAS Science Policy Fellowship (06/2018)
- Congratulations to Melissa Haley (Maffei lab) for being awarded a Polak Young Investigator Award from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (04/2018)
- Congratulations to Roberto Vincis (Fontanini lab) for being awarded a Polak Young Investigator Award from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (04/2018)
- Congratulations to Roberto Vincis (Fontanini lab) for his new position as Assistant Professor at Florida State University (04/2018)
- On April 2, 2018 the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior has hosted the Swartz Mind Brain lecture featuring Adrienne Fairhall (4/2/2018)
- Welcome to our new faculty member, Erin Vasudevan (04/2018)
- Welcome to our new faculty member, Braden Brinkman (01/2018)
- Congratulations to Howard Sirotkin for being named Associate Editor at BMC Neuroscience (01/2018)
2017
- Congratulations to Arianna Maffei for being named Associated Editor of the Journal of Neuroscience (2017)
- Congratulations to Arianna Maffei for being named named as the Neurobiology & Behavior member of the Editorial Board of iScience, Cell Press' first interdisciplinary journal. (12/01/2017)
- Congratulations to Roberto Vincis (Fontanini lab) for his NIH award on the role of the mediodorsal thalamus in taste processing (10/30/2017)
- Congratulations to Luca Mazzucato (LaCamera and Fontanini labs) for his new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon (10/16/2017)
- 8th Annual Meeting of the Minds Symposium - STROKE was held on October 20, 2017 at the Charles B Wang Center. See Agenda and Speaker Bios.
- Congratulations to Il Memming Park on his NSF award "NCS-FO: Connecting Spikes to Cognitive Algorithms" (8/10/2017)
- We were honored that Prof. Eve Marder, winner of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience presented her recent work entitled: "Understanding Why Animals Show Variable Responses to Climate Change" for the 2017 MIND BRAIN LECTURE
- Our Celebration of Gary G. Matthews and His Science Symposium, June 2, 2017. Agenda
2016
- The Department mourns the loss of colleague and friend, Leading Professor Gary G. Matthews (12/16/2016). Our tribute to Gary >.
- Congratulations to the Fontanini lab for their recent paper on cross-modal representations in gustatory cortex published in eLife (9/20/2016). Learn more >
- Congratulations to Gregory Kirschen (Ge Lab) for being awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA F30 fellowship from NIH (9/9/2016)
- Congratulations to Raja Pillai (Parsey lab) for being awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA F30 fellowship from NIMH (6/7/2016)
- Congratulations to Lorna Role and David Talmage's labs for the publication of their recent study published in Neuron on the role of cholinergic signaling on conditioned fear behavior and memory formation (5/5/2016). Learn more >
- The Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior hosted the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Swartz Mind Brain Lecture featuring Alan Alda, Eric Kandel, and Jim Simons in a conversation on "Melding the Mind & Math: Brain Science, Past & Future" (4/4/2016) - watch the video of the lecture
- Congratulations to the Matthews lab for their recent paper on nanoscale dynamics of synaptic vesicle trafficking at the presynaptic active zone (eLife, 2/11/2016)
- Congratulations to Intel STS Semifinalists Matthew Sun (Thomas Jefferson HS for Science & Technology) & Michael Li (James M. Bennett High School; Park Lab) (1/2016)
2015
- Welcome to our new faculty member, Qiaojie Xiong (9/16/2015)
- Congratulations to Jesse Levine (Huang Lab) for being awarded an NIH Individual Fellowship for the 2015-2016 year (9/15/15)
- Congratulations to Prof. Lorne Mendell for being named a Fellow of the Americal Physiological Society Inaugural Class (9/1/2015)
- Congratulations to Prof. Josh Plotkin for being awarded the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (8/3/2015)
- Welcome to our new faculty member, Joshua Plotkin (5/1/2015)
- Congratulations to Ashleigh Lussenden (Talmage Role Lab) for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (3/31/2015)
- Welcome to our new faculty member, Il Memming Park (1/21/2015)
- Congratulations to Jason Tucciarone (Huang Lab) for his published paper in Nature. More info here (1/21/2015)
2014
- Congratulations to Haixin Liu (Fontanini lab) for his paper published in PNAS (12/12/2014)
- The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior launches a Master's Program in Neuroscience (5/2014)
- Congratulations to Rashek Kazi (Wollmuth lab) for his paper published in Nature Neuroscience (5/25/2014)
- Congratulations to Thirumalini Vaithianathan and Gary Matthews for their recent paper on vesicle turnover and pool refilling at presynaptic active zones of ribbon synapses (PNAS, 4/24/2014)
- Congratulations to Lyl Tomlinson (Colognato lab) has won the National Famelab USA competition (4/2014)
2013
- The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior opens the Thomas Hartman Center for Parkinson's Research (6/24/2013)
