Summer 2024 -Sarah Kim Awarded Woese Research Scholar
Congrats to Sarah Kim for winning the Carl R. Woese Undergraduate Research Scholar Grant. Over the summer she will carry out research projects studying the effects of stress on individuals and their brains. Specifically, she will be looking at chronic social defeat stress in mice, which imitates stress responses in humans. To do so, she will be isolating RNA from the fear and reward regions in control mice and those under stress to measure changes in gene expression. She will then integrate those patterns with behavioral data to uncover which genes play a role during stress. We are appreciative of the opportunity provided by IGB for undergraduates to do summer research. We are impressed with Sarah’s strong bench skills and research as an uprising sophomore and dedication to the lab.
Read more here:
https://www.igb.illinois.edu/article/woese-research-scholars-announced-2024
Congratulations to Erin O’Leary, Neuroscience Graduate Student, who won an award of $500 for her lightning talk and poster presentation entitled Effects of Noncanonical Genomic Imprinting in the Brain Monoamine System on Social Dominance at the College of Veterinary Medicine Research Day on April 27th, 2022.
Congratulations to Sam Rahman who was awarded the Highest Distinction for his undergraduate research project and thesis. Sam presented his written thesis and talk, titled A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DEEPLABCUT AND SIMPLE BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS, to his distinction committee and colleagues at the VetMed Basic Science building on April 18th, 2022 . Sam’s distinction committee (Professor Justin Rhodes, Psychology; Assist. Professor Jake Hinman, Psychology; and Assist. Professor Paul Bonthuis, Comparative Biosciences) unanimously and without reservation recommended Sam for literally the highest distinction possible for his Individual Plan of Study in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sam’s future plan is to pursue a PhD in the field of Neuroeconomics.
