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Ongoing Events:

  • Brains & Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series
  • NIBL, Neurophilosophy, Spineless Neuroscience, Neuroendocrinology and more...

  • For more information about current events click here. 

    At the Institute:

    • Congratulations to Sarah Pope, a first year Neuroscience doctoral student in the Hopkins' lab and a Primate Cognition 2CI fellow, who has been awarded a prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship to study the neural correlates of communication in baboons at the Aix-Marseille Univ. in France from Sept. 2013-June 2014.  Read more...
    • The Neuroscience Institute congratulates the winners of this year's Brains & Behavior seed grant competition. Read more...

    • The Neuroscience Institute adds new faculty members.  Dr. Geert de Vries, Dr. Nancy Forger, and Dr. William Hopkins are joining  GSU as professors in the Neuroscience Institute and members of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. Read more…

    • The first Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowships for Neuroscience graduate students was awarded in the Fall 2011 semester. Read more…

    • The new NEUROSCIENCE MAJOR started in Fall of 2011 with NEUR 3000, Principles of Neuroscience, and was followed in the Spring semester of 2012 with the full complement of courses for the major. Read more....

    • Earn your PhD in Neuroscience at Georgia State.
      go to graduate program page.
    • Neurophilosophy Masters degree. The Philosophy department in collaboration with the Neuroscience Institute has a neurophilosophy track in their graduate program.
      Read a news story about this... | Go to the Neurophilosophy website...

    • GSU’s Second Century Initiative prepares the University for substantial growth in neuroscience and behavior. Read more…

     Research & Community News:

    • "This isn't the sea hare you were looking for." BBC, Scientific American, Science, National Geographic, Discover, New Scientist, Yahoo, NBC, Huffington Post, io9, and others report that the Neuroscience Institute's Charles Derby, Juan Aggio, and Tiffany Love-Chezem discovered how sea hares defend themselves. Using a mix of ink and opaline, Aplysia stop spiny lobsters and other predators. Their chemical weapons induce confusion, distraction, and demotivation, allowing a sea hare to escape after already being caught by a would-be predator. While one chemical defense, opaline, jams the lobster's sense of smell, the other, sea hare ink, combines both attractive and repellent odors.  With reduced ability to smell its intended prey, and diffusing odors that suggest something else better to eat may be near by…but not here…the lobster spares the sea hare. read more...
    • The Dana Foundation and the GSU Brains and Behavior Program is proud to announce Fellow Tim Balmer as the winner of a contest to be a guest blogger for the Dana Foundation. You can find his blog series entitled "Tales from the Lab". It will focus on life as a neuroscience graduate student, read more...
    • An abstract submitted by Nicole Victoria, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Anne Murphy has been flagged as a “Hot Topic” at the 2012 Society for Neuroscience meeting this October in New Orleans. This work is the first to show that a single painful insult early in life permanently changes adult responses to stress and implicates changes in the endogenous opioid system as an underlying mechanism.
    • Yuting Mao, a doctoral student in the Pallas lab, has found that not only can early injury to sensory inputs lead to invasion of the auditory pathway by the visual system, but permanently compromised auditory function can result.  Her work was recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience and has caught the attention of the popular press. Read more...
    • Two students have recently received travel awards, Tessa Solomon-Lane was awarded a Travel Award from he Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology to attend the SBN annual conference in Madison, WI.
      Nicole Victoria was awarded a Trainee Travel Award in the amount of $750 front he National Science Foundation for Neurobiology of Stress Workshop 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania.
    • Funding for Neuroethics at Georgia State, read more...
    • Student wins Suttles Fellowship. read more...
    • Neuroscience professor named an AAAS Fellow. read more...
    • Tiffany Love-Chezem, a doctoral student in the lab of Professor Charles Derby, won best poster award from the Division of Neurobiology at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology this year. The title of her poster was "Chemical defense through sensory disruption in spiny lobster-sea hare interactions".  The student winners will receive a certificate, a check for $150 each, and a subscription to Developmental Neurobiology.
    • Researchers find gender-specific differences in the brain’s responses to abuse. read more...
    • Neuroscience graduate class publishes a guide bridging biology and mathematics for visiting speaker's seminar on the mathematical modeling of obesity.read more...
    • Paul Katz and his research team have made some important discoveries about the role of evolution in producing behaviors that are similar across different species. read more...
    • Bradley Cooke, assistant professor of neuroscience at GSU, has found that in male Siberian hamsters, a part of the brain called the medial nucleus of the amygdala increased by nearly 25 percent during puberty. The results have been published in a new study in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology.  read more...
    • GSU scientist awarded NSF Career grant to study decision making.  read more...
    • Neuroscience Institute Core Faculty highlighted for their part of a 1.7 million dollar grant read more...
    • Sea slug brains rewire themselves in response to injury. read more...
    • Researchers find differences in how adolescent girls’ and boys’ brains react to peer interaction. read more...
    • Researcher garners major award to further explore mechanisms of obesity. read more...
    • Brains rule! : Expo helps ignite middle schoolers' neuroscience curiosity. read more...
    •  Dean's Inaugural Faculty Fund Award recognizes two Neuroscience Institute Associate Faculty. read more...
    • Unlocking the Mind's Mysteries: Georgia State neuroscientists work to expand the understanding of the brain. read more...

      The composition of the Neuroscience Institute reflects the interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to neuroscience that characterizes research at Georgia State University. Read more about the Neuroscience Institute...

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