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Natalia Vilcek has joined the research group! She will be playing key roles in behaviorally characterizing our animals and conducting histology experiments.

Last birthday of the year!

Another successful SFN meeting!

Dr. Kyle Kelly has joined our research group! He will be conducting in vitro electrophysiology and 2P calcium imaging experiments.

Mellissa Grana and Michael McCarthy has recently joined the research group! They will be playing key roles in behaviorally characterizing our animals and conducting histology experiments.

We shall miss you and wish you the best at NYU!

Carmen has been awarded an Individual Predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA: F31 AG055331) to examine learning and/or aging-related intrinsic excitability change(s) in principal neurons of lateral entorhinal cortex. Her NRSA is entitled “Functional Properties of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex in Learning and Aging”.

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Luke Flores came to Northwestern University in 2004 after graduating with highest honors from the University of Texas – San Antonio.  He joined the Disterhoft lab as a graduate student in 2005 and began researching the role of the basal ganglia in trace eyeblink conditioning. During his tenure in the lab, he was awarded the […]

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