Congratulations to the winners of the Iowa Brain Bee! This is an event held throughout the nation and with the help of the Neuroscience PhD Students and the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, the Iowa Brain Bee is held at the University of Iowa each year.

The Neuroscience Graduate Program congratulates Lindsay Agostinelli (Bassuk Lab, Pediatrics) on her successful thesis defense on December 4th, 2019!

The Neuroscience Graduate Program congratulates Dylan Todd (Bonthius Lab, Pediatrics) on his successful thesis defense on December 2nd, 2019!

Our outside guest speaker will be Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., of George Washington University.

Two University of Iowa doctoral students have received American Fellowships from the American Association of University Women for their work, and support of women in their fields.An American Association of University Women fellowship aims to advance the academic work of women who struggle to complete their dissertation because of family issues and funding. Two University of Iowa doctoral students...

The Neuroscience Graduate Program congratulates Ryan Kelley (Greenlee lab, Neurosurgery) on his successful thesis defense yesterday! His seminar title: Neural representations of cognitive control and speech in the subthalamic nucleus. Pictured below Ryan Kelley (left) and mentor Jeremy Greenlee, MD (right)

The Neuroscience Graduate Program congratulates Shane Johnson (Radley lab, Psychological and Brain Sciences) on his successful thesis defense yesterday! His seminar title: An analysis of prefrontal cortex pathways and their assembly of stress coping responses.Pictured below: Shane (left) and mentor Jason Radley, PhD (right)

University of Iowa Neuroscience MD/PhD student Ryan Kelley has won the 2019 Kwak-Ferguson Fellowship, a $10,000 award from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute for an upper level graduate student working in the area of neurodegenerative diseases. His research in the lab of Jeremy Greenlee, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery focuses on the neural mechanisms of speech production.Kelley is pursuing both MD and...

Alexandra Petrucci has received a predoctoral research fellowship award from the American Epilepsy Society (AES).Petrucci, who works in the Iowa Neuroscience Institute lab of Gordon Buchanan, MD, PhD, was one of four students nationally to receive this award. She will use the funding to support her epilepsy research investigating post-ictal generalized EEG suppression network and receptor...

Recent alumnus Thomas James (2018) recently published this study in eLife with his mentor, C. Andrew Frank. The Frank lab researches the ability of neurons to self-regulate their own activity (i.e., homeostatic plasticity), and this study examines the role of second messenger pathways at the fruit fly neuromuscular synapse.Abstract: Synapses and circuits rely on neuroplasticity to adjust output...