Ben Scott
Congratulations to postdoc Ben Scott (joint with Tank lab), who was named as one of the prestigious Next Generation Leaders of the Allen Institute for Brain Science .
► November 2016: postdoc Ben Scott named Next Generation Leader
► July 2016: Undergrad Cecilia Barowski advances to the Women’s 800m Olympic Semifinals
Congratulations to undergrad Cecilia Barowski who advanced to the women’s semifinal in the 800m track and field event at the
US Olympic Trials.
► February 2016: Postdoc Marino Pagan is awarded prestigious Simons Fellowship
Marino Pagan
Congratulations to postdoc Marino Pagan, who was awarded a prestigious Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Postdoctoral Fellowship!
(Recent graduate Ann Duan also got one!)
► February 2016: lab alum Ann Duan is awarded prestigious Simons Fellowship
Ann Duan
Congratulations to recently-graduated Ph.D. student Chun-Yu (Ann) Duan, who was awarded a prestigious Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Postdoctoral Fellowship! After graduating in summer 2015, Ann joined Ning-long Xu’s lab at the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai.
(Current Postdoc Marino Pagan also got one!)
► December 2015: Ben Scott and Christine Constantinople publish in eLife on noise properties in accumulation of evidence
Christine Constantinople
Ben Scott
Congratulations to Ben Scott and Christine Constantinople, co-first authors of a paper in eLife describing how noise variance in pulsatile accumulation of evidence tasks appears to not scale linearly with the number of pulses, but as the square of the number of pulses. This has a number of important implications for how the noise might be generated.
► November 2015: Postdoc Tim Hanks starts faculty position at UC Davis
Congratulations to both Tim Hanks and to UC Davis — Tim started his own lab there this November. We’ll miss you Tim!
Tim Hanks
► October 2015 Chuck Kopec publishes in Neuron on memory-guided orienting
Congratulations to postdoc Chuck Kopec, whose paper on cortical and superior colliculus contributions to memory-guided orienting is now online in Neuron.
► June 2015: Ann Duan publishes in Neuron on fast executive control
Congratulations to graduate student C. Ann Duan, whose paper on prefrontal and midbrain contributions to fast executive control came out in Neuron. We also got a nice preview from Vanessa Carels and Mike DeWeese!
► April 2015: Jeff Erlich publishes in eLife on accumulation of evidence
Congratulations to ex-postdoc Jeff Erlich, whose paper on inactivating PPC and FOF during accumulation of evidence came out in eLife.
► February 2015: The lab will go en masse to COSYNE conference!
A remarkably lucky year for for us at COSYNE! Although their overall acceptance rate was 60%, all 7 of the abstracts we submitted to the COSYNE conference this year were accepted. (And yes, 0.6^7 is small — 0.028 😉 .) Furthermore, Ann Duan’s abstract was chosen for a talk. Looks like the lab will have a blast at COSYNE this year. 🙂 Have fun skiing, folks!