Chen Graduate Innovator Awards 2019 - 2021
The 2019 - 2021 Chen Graduate Innovator Grant Awards are sponsored by the T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience. The grants are awarded to projects which are conceived and driven by graduate students and are not an obvious extension of other research in their lab. The program is meant to fund out-of-box ideas that would not otherwise be pursued.
2021 Awards
Prashant Bhat and Isabel Goronzy, Guttman lab
Investigating nuclear compartmentalization and kinetics of RNA splicing in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Laura Luebbert, Lois lab
Biological Consequences of Electromechanical Effects in Neurons
Anand Muthusamy, Lester lab and Matthew Rosenberg, Meister lab
Ethological Drug Utility
Daniel Pollak, Meister lab
ERGo! – a citizen science initiative aimed at allowing scientific novices to make electroretinograms, thereby identifying new insect species for subsequent comparative studies of visual physiology and ecology.
Martin Tran, Elowitz lab
Lineage motifs reveal cell fate decision programs in the retina
2020 Awards
Annie Erickson, Chen Graduate Fellow and Tarun Sharma, Dickinson lab
Sensorimotor computation underlying praying mantis predatory strike
Shannon Esswein, Bjorkman lab
Evaluating temporal proteomics of Zika virus infection in neural progenitor cells using bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging
Han Kim, Parker lab
Investigating the reafferent chemosensory effects of an innate behavior
Sangjun Lee, Oka lab
Investigating the neural basis of need-free appetite
Zsofia Torok, Lois lab
The role of sleep in birdsong maintenance
2019 Awards
Jonathan D. Kenny and Koichiro Kajikawa, Siapas lab
Neural circuit dynamics during general anesthesia
Kyu Hyun Lee, Meister lab
Investigating the role of cerebellum in cognition
Guruprasad Raghavan, Thomson lab and Varun Wadia, Graduate Chen Fellow, Tsao lab
Fabricating Cortical Computers
John Thompson, Hsieh-Wilson lab and Pachter lab
SUGAR-seq: A New Technology for Simultaneous Glycan and Gene Expression Profiling at the Single-Cell Level