News from the Lab

Congrats, Sophie Liebergall!

Sophie Liebergall's paper is out in print!Ndnf Interneuron Excitability Is Spared in a Mouse Model of Dravet Syndromehttps://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1977-23.2024

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Congrats, Melody & Eric!

Melody Cheng (School of Arts & Sciences '26) has been awarded a 2024 College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant in the amount of $1,000. Congratulations to Melody and her postdoc mentor Eric Wengert.

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Congrats, Clara!

Clara Wang (School of Arts & Sciences '25) has been awarded the prestigious Frances Velay Fellowship, to encourage and advance women in the sciences through summer undergraduate fellowships. This Fellowship provides $5,000 for summer research. Congratulations to Clara...

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Congrats, Yerahm!

Yerahm Hong (School of Engineering '26) has been awarded a 2024 Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund Grant of $1,000 for her research. She will continue her work with graduate student mentor Sophie Liebergall this summer.

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Congrats, Sarah & Julie!

Sarah Pham (School of Arts & Sciences'24) has been awarded the Eliot Stellar Award for an outstanding honors thesis presented at the Undergraduate Neuroscience Student Research Symposium. She will be presented with an award in recognition of this honor at the...

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Congrats, Jade!

Jade's paper in Cell Reports Medicine was featured in a Preview by Gerald Zamponi here: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/pdf/S2666-3791(24)00048-X.pdf

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Congrats, Melody!

Penn junior undergraduate Melody Cheng is recipient of the 2024 Meyerhoff Summer Fellowship for Neuroscience Research

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Congrats, Zach!

Zach Rosenthal received a 1-Year $50K pilot grant from the Penn ITMAT Translational Biomedical Imaging Center (TBIC) entitled "Brain network dynamics in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy."

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Congrats, Sophie!

Sophie Liebergall's first paper in the lab was accepted to Journal of Neuroscience and is available online here: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/03/04/JNEUROSCI.1977-23.2024Sophie was recipient of a 2024 Medical Student Research Paper Prize from Penn for...

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Congrats, Humberto!

Humberto Mestre received an NINDS Research Education Grant (R25) entitled "Spreading depolarizations as drivers of cytotoxic edema formation."

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