- Congratulations to Olivia Swanson and Mala Ananth for receiving GSO Distinguished Travel Awards for 2018!
- Congratulations to Sheed Itaman, working in Professor Grigori Enikolopov's lab won first prize for his recent presentaton at the Academic Research Event (May 2018). Sheed demonstrated that memantine acts by recruiting new stem cells; a finding that may have clinical implications.
- Welcome to our new faculty member Braden Brinkman (2/1/2018)
- Welcome to our new faculty member, Qiaojie Xiong (9/16/2015)
- Welcome to our new faculty member Joshua Plotkin (5/1/2015)
- Welcome to our new faculty member I. Memming Park (2/7/2015)
- Jason Tucciarone (J. Huang's lab) co-authored a paper on thalamic control of a central amygdala fear input published in Nature (read more) (1/21/2015)
- Scott Massa from Commack High School was chosen as Intel Finalist. Scott worked with Professors Lorna Role and David Talmage (read more) (1/20/2015)
- Alfredo Fontanini's group in collaboration with NIDA's scientist Antonello Bonci published their results on the role of the insular cortex in mediating conditioned responses to anticipatory cues in PNAS(12/12/2014)
- Lonnie Wollmuth's group's work on mechanisms of fidelity of NMDAr-mediated current published in Nature Neuroscience (5/25/2014)
- Drs. Lang Wang and Arianna Maffei's paper on inhibitory long-term-plasticity in primary visual cortex featured in this week issue of The Journal of Neuroscience (1/2014)
- Drs. Jezzini, Mazzucato, La Camera and Fontanini's paper on palatability coding in medial prefrontal cortex featured in J Neurosci's Journal Club (3/2013)
- Camilo Ferrer's work featured the cover illustration in the December 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, for his work with Enrico Nasi (12/2012)
- Shaoyu Ge 's group published research in Nature Neuroscience that reveals that 'silencing' newborn neurons leads to impaired memory (11/2012)
- Alfredo Fontanini 's group published in Neuron their recent finding of the effect of general expectation on gustatory taste processing. See commentaries from Neuron and Nat Rev Neurosci(4/2012)
- Shaoyu Ge 's group published in Nat Neurosci their recent finding of primary cilia's role in neuronal development. See commentaries from Nat Neurosci and Nat Rev Neurosci (2/2012)
- David McKinnon's group's work on the importance of CpG island promoter evolution in controlling ion channel gene expression published in PNAS (12/2011)
- Simon Halegoua's group's efforts on a new painkiller with no apparent side effects or addictive qualities near to market (1/25/2011)
- Gary Matthews published a major review in the December 2010 issue of Nature Neuroscience (12/2010)
- Two high school students, Alexis Tchaconas and Pragya Kakani, were chosen as Intel semi-finalists. Alexis Tchaconas worked with Professors Lorna Role and David Talmage; Pragya Kakani worked with Professor Joel Levine (1/2010)
