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Dr. Shawn Sorrells has been awarded the 8th Annual Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience on July 26, 2024 in Fukuoka, Japan at the 47th annual meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society. Award talk title: "Neurodevelopment continues into adolescence within memory and emotion brain regions in humans and mice".
Dr. Susan Sesack will start as the University of Pittsburgh Research Integrity Officer (RIO) on July 1, 2024. It is an honor for our department to have the RIO be a member of our faculty. Congratulations Dr. Sesack!
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New research from the Chamberland lab discovered how specialized inhibitory neurons control the duration of plateau potentials, powerful electrical signals that help neurons learn and form memories.
Authors:
Lee O. Vaasjo, Shawn E. Kotermanski, Tiya Patel, Hengyue J. Shi, Robert Machold and Simon Chamberland
Our department provides outstanding undergraduate and graduate education with innovative independent and collaborative research.
New research from the Chamberland lab discovered how specialized inhibitory neurons control the duration
Our department provides outstanding undergraduate and graduate education with innovative independent and collaborative research.
