This award provides monetary support for Kelcie to attend this year’s SfN meeting in Chicago. It also gives Kelcie the opportunity to participate in learning opportunities at the meeting as well as SfN’s Leadership Development Program.
Congratulations Kelcie!
A fun collaboration with the Dent Lab was just published in PLoS One!
In this study, we show that there are sex differences in the auditory brainstem responses of Long Evans rats to pure tones, particularly at low (1 and 4 kHz) and high (32 and 42 kHz) frequencies. Check it out here.
Congratulations Charlton et al.!
Kelcie won the Robert W. Rice Memorial Award for Early Excellence in Research!
Kelcie won this award for her 2018 publication in Hormones and Behavior – check it out here.
Congratulations Kelcie!
Kennedy was inducted into UB’s chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology! Congratulations Kennedy!
Congratulations to Kelcie on her second first-author paper. Here, she shows that adolescent male rats exhibit higher social reinforcement responding than adolescent female rats. Furthermore, she showed that this sex difference is absent in adolescent Brattleboro rats, which lack the neuropeptide vasopressin!
Check out the full publication here.
In this study we show that photoperiod regulates micro RNAs (specifically MiR-155) differently in males and females. This emphasizes the importance of testing both males and females in experiments!
Check it out here
And the winners are…
Matt and Geert!
Kelcie’s paper was accepted in Hormones and Behavior!
Check it our here.
Congratulations to Kelcie and the other authors (Rob, Stephanie, and Matthew).
Brianna presented her poster at the Annual Summer Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) Symposium at UB. She did such a great job that she was selected to present her poster at the Statewide CSTEP Conference and given a travel award!
Rob has successfully defended his M.S. degree in the Neuroscience Program. Congratulations Rob!