The CAMBER team contributes to a Cajal course: “The Brain Prize Course: Movement and motor control in health and disease”

Nov 18, 2024 - The CAMBER team contributes to a Cajal course: “The Brain Prize Course: Movement and motor control in health and disease”

Members of the CAMBER team (Sam Sober, Amanda Jacob, and Kristen Frenzel) plus collaborators from University of Cologne, Graziana Gatto and Matthias Gruhn, and OpenEphys, Ceci Herbert were invited to run a project at the Cajal course in November 2024 in Bordeaux, France. The project was called “Advancing Neuroscience Research with Myomatrix Arrays: High-Resolution EMG Recordings in Freely Behaving Mice and Insects” and the team successfully taught students to surgically implant and record from mouse forelimb and hindlimb and locust wing depressor muscles. Sam gave a lecture and taught students about EMUsort in the spike sorting workshop.

Cajal team


César Vargas contributes to NDiSTEM

Oct 30, 2024 - César Vargas contributes to NDiSTEM

The Society for Advancing Chicano/Hispanic and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) hosts an annual conference called the National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) conference, which is the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country. César traveled to Phoenix, AZ to attend the conference and to contribute to the professional development of the attendees through judging posters and attending the networking lunches. To learn more about this organiation, click HERE to access their website.


Annual Graduate Biology Academic Award goes to Leila May Pascual!

Oct 11, 2024 - Annual Graduate Biology Academic Award goes to Leila May Pascual!

Congratulations (again) to Leila May Pascual who has been awarded the Graduate Biology Academic Award. The award was conceived in 2013 by Dr. Paul Orser, other alumni and emeritus faculty who completed their doctoral degrees in the Biology Department (prior to the start of the GDBBS).  The award recognizes a pre-doctoral graduate student’s academic excellence and professional achievements and comes with bragging rights and a $2000 award. Leila will receive her award at the annual GDBBS Banquet on Oct. 10th.

 


The Sober lab takes the annual SFN 2024 meeting by storm!

Oct 10, 2024 - The Sober lab takes the annual SFN 2024 meeting by storm!

The Sober lab graduate students were well represented at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) annual meeting in Chicago. Leila Pascual, Abi Grassler, and Will McCallum all presented posters. Sober advisees and CAMBER affiliated students Sean O’Connell, Jiaao Lu and Philip Anschutz also presented their research. The CAMBER booth was a huge success, which was in large part due to the everyone’s contributions to of time and energy. Thanks to Matt Williams, Amanda Jacob, Abi Grassler, Jiaao Lu, Philip Anchutz, Will McCallum, Kristen Frenzel and Sam Sober for working at the booth.

 


Leila May Pascual is awarded the NIH D-SPAN (F99/K00) fellowship

Sep 19, 2024 - Leila May Pascual is awarded the NIH D-SPAN (F99/K00) fellowship

Congratulations to Leila May Pascual who has been chosen to take part in the 2024 cohort of D-SPAN scholars. The purpose of this award is to support outstanding graduate students who are from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups that are underrepresented in neuroscience research, in the career transition between predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships. This two-phase award will facilitate completion of Leila’s doctoral dissertation in the Sober lab and provide funding and career development support as she moves into a competitive neuroscience research postdoctoral position.


Will McCallum passes his doctoral qualifying exam.

Sep 18, 2024 - Will McCallum passes his doctoral qualifying exam.

Congratulations to Will McCallum who has successfully passed his written and oral qualifying exams and has moved into PhD candidacy.  Specifically, on Sept. 18th, he passed Part II of the qualifying exam which consists of a written proposal for an original research project and an oral defense of that proposal. Ultimately that proposal forms the basis of his PhD dissertation. This milestone in his PhD career indicates that he has demonstrated adequate intellectual mastery of his field of specialization and of any appropriate supporting fields of study.


The Science Gallery features Sober lab members’ research images in an new exhibition

Sep 14, 2024 - The Science Gallery features Sober lab members’ research images in an new exhibition

Dr. Amanda Jacob, research scientist in the Sober lab, and a team of artists, musicians and research scientists have explored the brain’s amazing ability to change, particularly with respect to attitudes and actions to protect our planet, in a new exhibition at the Science Gallery.   The centerpiece of the exhibition entitled “Thermal Reverberations” is a large polygonal brain sculpture covered with lenticular images that change as viewers move around it, symbolizing the brain’s adaptability. Amanda Jacob, Will McCallum, Abi Grassler, Kyle Thomas and Leila Pascual all contributed images that were incorporated into the sculpture. This exhibit is part of the Resilient Earth collection and is on view from Sept 2024 – April 2025.

Amanda SGA1


Aanya Vusirikala presents her research at SURE 2024 poster session

Jul 31, 2024 - Aanya Vusirikala presents her research at SURE 2024 poster session

Aanya Vusirikala presented her research at the Emory Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) poster session held on July 31, 2024. Aanya is a undergraduate Quantitative Social Science (QSS) major with a concentration in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology (NBB) and is mentored by Sober lab neuroscience PhD student Leila Pascual.

 


Anna Sotirescu graduated with Highest Honors from Emory College of Arts and Sciences

May 12, 2024 - Anna Sotirescu graduated with Highest Honors from Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Anna! Anna Sotirescu did her undergraduate research under the mentorship of Dr. Amanda Jacob. She was a Biology major and completed an Honors thesis in her senior year. She defended her undergraduate thesis and earned “Highest Honors” for her written thesis and oral presentation. Anna will be continuing on to veterinary school in the fall.


Will McCallum earns award from the Emory Neuroscience graduate program

May 02, 2024 - Will McCallum earns award from the Emory Neuroscience graduate program

Will McCallum, currently in his second year in the Emory Neuroscience graduate program, was recognized for his research activity by winning the Program’s “Early Scientific Achievement” award at the ceremony on May 2nd. Will is co-advised in his PhD program by Drs. Sam Sober and Paco Alvarez. Congratulations Will!


Sober lab graduate students attend Neural Control of Movement

Apr 20, 2024 - Sober lab graduate students attend Neural Control of Movement

The Sober lab was well represented by Sean O’Connell, Leila Pascual, and Kyle Thomas at the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) 2024 annual meeting in the beautiful town of Dubrovnik, Croatia. From the NCM website, this conference offers “a forum for leading edge research, scholarly debate, the interchange of ideas and a platform for many exceptional established and emerging researchers in the field of Neural Science”.


Sober lab at the Simons SURFiN Symposium 2024

Apr 15, 2024 - Sober lab at the Simons SURFiN Symposium 2024

Simons Foundation’s Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program is designed to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students whose backgrounds and experiences are underrepresented in science. The Sober lab supports several SURFiN undergraduate students and their graduate student mentors. This year the undergraduate representatives presenting their research projects are Javonna Bradford, Rhuna Gibbs, Yujingai Shi, and Felipe Oliveira and their graduate mentors are Kofi Vordzorgbe (Yujingai and Felipe) and Kyle Thomas (Javonna and Rhuna).

 


European Union Workshop on Single Motor Unit EMG

Apr 01, 2024 - European Union Workshop on Single Motor Unit EMG

PI Sam Sober and research scientists Amanda Jacob traveled to Cologne, Germany to participate in a workshop organized by close collaborator Graziana Gatto and featured another collaborator, Ceci Herbert from OpenEPhys. Amanda trained numerous scientists on surgical techniques for recording EMGs from rodent muscle and even tried to record EMG from a stick insect! Ceci lectured on electrophysiological theory and the practical applications of these theories to recording EMG in animals.


Neuroscience + circus arts take center state at the Atlanta Science Festival

Mar 09, 2024 - Neuroscience + circus arts take center state at the Atlanta Science Festival

Two neuroscience + circus arts events were brought to the Atlanta Science Festival by the Sober Lab and colleagues at Georgia Tech, McGill University, and the National Circus School of Montreal – Centre for Circus Arts Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer. The performances were co-created by neuroscientists, performing artists, people living with Parkinson’s disease and with dementia and their caregivers, uniting neuroscientific knowledge and lived experiences on the same stage.


Neuroscience PhD student Will McCallum presents at OIST workshop:

Mar 05, 2024 - Neuroscience PhD student Will McCallum presents at OIST workshop:

Neuroscience PhD student Will McCallum attended the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology’s (OIST) workshop entitled Sensorimotor Circuits for Limb Control on March 5-8, 2024 in Okinawa, Japan.


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