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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2015 Recipient: William Butler, PBS

    March 16, 2017
    William Butler Alumni Research Awardee

    Spatial cognition and navigation are evolutionarily critical for a number of tasks that are necessary for survival, including the locating of food, water, and mates. Research in the spatial cognition mechanisms in the human brain has enabled a greater understanding of disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, in which one of the most common symptoms is spatial disorientation. Rat models have enabled a much more fine-grained understanding of these spatial cognition processes through the recording of single neurons in the brains of freely moving animals.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award Recipient - Luke Eglington, PBS

    March 16, 2017
    Graduate Alumni Research Award Recipient Luke Ellington

    Understanding how people remember and why they forget is a perennial research topic in psychology. A classic finding is that recalling information from memory is known to increase the probability of being able to retrieve that information again later, and strengthens long-term memory. This benefit has been shown to persist for months after the initial recall attempt. This phenomena is known as the testing effect. More recently, there have been attempts to apply this research finding in educational contexts.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award Recipient - Stela Celaj (MCB)

    March 16, 2017
    Alumni Awardee Stela Celaj in the lab

    Acute liver failure is a health concern worldwide. Stemming from a range of causes, such as viral, drug-induced, alcoholic, or autoimmune, the rate of progression is highly variable, and the environmental factors dictating the outcome remain poorly identified. Through working with an animal model of acute liver failure, our laboratory has found that gut microbiota is a critical modulator of liver injury.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2014 Recipient: Ziyi Chai, Chemistry

    March 16, 2017
    alumni research awardee Ziyi Chai

    Amino acids, in the form of proteins, comprise the second-largest component of human muscles, cells, and other tissues. They also perform critical roles in neurotransmission and biosynthesis. Using a molecular imprinting technique, the goal of this project is to separate mixtures of amino acids and proteins present in certain brain tumors.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2014 Recipient: Julianna Bozler, MCB

    March 16, 2017
    Alumni Research Awardee- Julianna Bozler

    Many fundamental advances in the field of innate immunity have been made through studying the immune system of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.  Their simplified physiology has allowed for the identification and dissection of conserved immune receptors and signaling pathways, which have resulted in numerous medical advances and contributed greatly to the overall progress of the immunity field.  The value of studying invertebrate immunity has been recognized by many, with a variety of researchers exploring this topic in model systems ranging from aphids to grasshoppers.  One

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