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Congratulations Dr. Daniel Lawler!

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This morning Daniel Lawler presented and defended his PhD thesis “Development of Automated Analysis Methods for Identifying Behavioral and Neural Plasticity in Sleep and Learning in C.Elegans“. Dan’s dissertation aimed to develop high throughput behavioral assays for adult sleep using a closed-loop assessment system; which demonstrated microfluidic devices for associative learning and neural plasticity experiments.

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Congratulations, Dr. Kyra Burnett!

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Our newest PhD graduate successfully defended her thesis, “High-throughput and High-resolution Functional Imaging Methods to Identify Mechanisms of Variable Neural Excitability in C. elegans“. Congratulations to Dr. Kyra Burnett!  In this dissertation, Kyra explored neural responses to a repeated stimulus whose neural response could change minute-to-minute, or remain consistent, identifying the neurons detecting novel stimuli, […]

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Ross wins Sigma Xi doctoral dissertation award

Filed in Awards, People by on April 25, 2019 0 Comments

Ross wins the 2019 Sigma Xi Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD dissertation in 2018. This award, established in 1983, is presented for outstanding research by students at the doctoral and master’s levels and is sponsored jointly by the Society of the Sigma Xi and the Committee on Graduate Studies and Research. Congrats, Ross!

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Congratulations Ross Lagoy, PhD!

Filed in People, Publications by on April 20, 2018 0 Comments
Congratulations Ross Lagoy, PhD!

Ross Lagoy successful defended his PhD Thesis on April 18, 2018. A portion of the work is reported in the newly published ‘Automated fluid delivery from multiwell plates to microfluidic devices for high-throughput experiments and microscopy‘

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Welcome summer REU students

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Summer REU students Cortni Dick (MIT) and Allison Marley (ASU) joined the lab Monday! Both will be working with microfluidic devices and neuronal imaging, investigating how neuronal responses to chemical and light stimuli change with chemical perturbation and behavioral states.

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