Dr. Irina Sinakevitch's paper titled, "Anti-RDL and Anti-mGlutR1 Receptors Antibody Testing in Honeybee Brain Sections using CRISPR-Cas9" , has been accepted by the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). Dr. Sinakevitch is with the Gronenberg Lab and Nat Klein, a co-author of the paper, is with the Bhattacharya Lab. Both labs are in the Department of Neuroscience. Congratulations to all the authors on this paper. 

Dr. Lynne Oland was nominated for the 2019 College of Science Teaching and Advising Award. The selection committee reviewed the nomination and was very impressed with Lynne's long‐time commitment and dedication to the students in the Neuroscience/Cognitive Science Undergraduate Program (NSCS). To honor Lynne's efforts, the committee created a special award, the Excellence in Transformative Education Award. This Award acknowledges Lynne's work in creating the NSCS Program and making it a huge success.

Lynne will be honored and presented the Excellence in Transformative Education Award at the Annual College of Science Faculty Reception, held on Tuesday, September 24 at 5:30 P.M. at the Arizona Inn. Congratulations, Lynne.

Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Yin  have been granted the BIO5 Team Scholars Program award for collaborating on neuron-glia co-cultures from the Yin lab and infected with a virus built in the Bhattacharya lab. Dr. Bhagyashree Manivannan, Bhattacharya lab, is performing biochemical and proteomic analysis on the separate cell populations. 

The BIO5 Team Scholars Program award is granted through the BIO5 Institute, one of the Research Discovery & Innovation (RDI) University Research Institutes/Centers (URICs).

The award offers support for scholarships to allow a faculty member release time and other support for full implementation of collaborative, interdisciplinary projects. URICs are intended to be the campus hubs for large scale transdisciplinary work, and yet many faculty are not fully utilizing the resources and connections available at the URICs in their work. The goal of these BIO5 Institute Team awards is to develop, produce and submit a collaborative proposal for external funding, and to enhance the connection of faculty to the BIO5 Institute and other colleagues.

UA researchers, in Dr. Haijiang Cai's Lab, have identified a network of neurons that coordinate with other brain regions to influence eating behaviors. These findings could help those suffering from disease-induced appetite loss or over-eating.  Cai's co-authors, all of whom were associated with the Department of Neuroscience during the research, are lead author Dr. Yong Wang, JungMin Kim, Matthew B. Schmit, Tiffany S. Cho and Dr. Caohui Fang. The research was partially funded by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

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Congratulations to Gaige Tucker for being selected to receive the John G. Hildebrand Summer Research Scholarship. Gaige is an undergraduate participating in the Bhattacharya Lab in the Department of Neuroscience.

Congratulations to Rebekah Keating (Godfrey) for being selected to receive the Andrew C. Comrie Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs (GIDP) Doctoral Fellowship. "Keating" is part of the Gronenberg Lab in the Department of Neuroscience, and is the first person to receive this disguished honor.