Department News & Updates
Ryan Schutte’s epilepsy research has earned him a Public Impact Fellowship
Mr. Ryan Schutte, a graduate student in the O’Dowd and Smith labs, is using fruit flies to understand how seizures are generated in Dravet Syndrome, a severe childhood epilepsy. Schutte in collaboration with a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Lei Sun, are using this new fly model as a low cost platform … Continue reading
Amanda Janesick to be presented the Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award
The Department congratulates Ms. Amanda Janesick, who is a graduate student in the Blumberg lab, for her Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award. Recipients were competitively selected by the Academic Senate Council on Student Experience based on nominations made by faculty and students. The award comes with a one quarter … Continue reading
