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Oscar Vivas, PhD, joins UW P.Bio & UW Pharmacology
Oscar Vivas, PhD, has accepted a joint assistant professor position with the Department of Physiology & Biophysics and the Department of Pharmacology. He is slated to start in early 2023. Oscar has been a valued member of our community for many years. Oscar first joined the department when he came to Seattle to do postdoctoral…
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Hanna Gray Fellows
Congratulations to Kiara Eldred and Anna Bowen, who have been selected as 2022 Hanna Gray Fellows of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)! We are very proud to have you in our department and wish you every success! Read about them and their research here (link).
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Astra Bryant, PhD, to join department
We are delighted to announce that Astra Bryant, PhD is joining the department in January 2023 as a tenure-track assistant professor. Her lab will study the thermal physiology of skin-penetrating parasitic nematodes. She will focus her projects on parasite thermosensory neural circuits, parasite thermotransduction cascades, and more. Welcome to P.Bio, Astra!
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Jessica Jones awarded Gilliam Fellowship
Congrats to Jessica! Jessica Jones, a neuroscience graduate student in John Tuthill’s lab, was awarded a Gilliam Fellowship from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. More information about the fellowship can be found here: https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-awards-51-new-gilliam-fellowships-advance-diversity-and-inclusion-science
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Liz de la Cruz featured in Journal of Cell Science
Postdoctoral fellow Liz de la Cruz published a poignant essay in Journal of Cell Science’s May issue: Diversity as the fuel of my scientific career. Dr. de la Cruz is a Weill Neurohub postdoctoral fellow working with Research Assistant Professor Oscar Vivas.
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Rachel Wong Recipient of the 2022 Friedenwald Award
Dr. Rachel Wong is the recipient of the 2022 Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). This achievement award honors outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology. The 2022 ARVO Achievement Award recipient page is available here: https://www.arvo.org/awards-grants-and-fellowships/arvo-achievement-awards/2022-arvo-achievement-award-recipients/. Congratulations, Rachel!
Lectures/Seminars
Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong