The lab contributes to a shared publication on a new type of 2-photon objective that appears in Nature Methods.
Rachel leaves for a position as a Research Support Veterinarian at the University of Western Ontario
The lab gets together for a lab reunion 🙂
Ed Connor & Kristina publish a review in Annual Review of Vision Science
A collaboration with the labs of Farran Briggs and Krystel Huxlin is funded through NEI
The lab contributes to a paper in Nature Communications by the Mueller lab
2023
The lab receives an R01 from NEI
Alexandriya’s paper on gravitational reference frames in inferotemporal cortex appears in eLife!
2022
Alexandriya graduates! Congratulations!!! She leaves us for a position as a post-doc in Chicago.
We receive a Catalyst award from JHU
The lab contributes to a publication by the Blackshaw lab that appears in Nature Communications
The Ferret Brain Meeting happens in San Diego, with Kristina as one of the organizers, and Dallas presenting
Dallas presents a poster at SfN in San Diego
2021
The lab publishes an eLife paper
Jen leaves for a position at Synchrogenix Regulatory Science
2020
Josh defends his Master thesis! He moves on to a tech position at the School of Medicine.
Erika defends her PhD thesis and graduates! Congrats! She will spend the next months as a Science Fellow in the Insight Health Data program.
Ram leaves for a postdoc in the lab of Marlene Cohen at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Connor & Nielsen labs publish a paper in Current Biology!
Kristina is promoted to Associate Professor, and becomes the Scientific Director of the MBI
2019
Kristina becomes the president of the Greater Baltimore SfN chapter for the year.
The lab publishes a paper on the ferret’s motion pathway in Current Biology!
Erika presents a poster at the 5th Brain Initiative Meeting in Washington, DC.
Augusto defends his PhD thesis and graduates – congratulations! He leaves us for a postdoc in David Fitzpatrick’s lab at the Max Planck Florida Institute.
The lab publishes a paper on ferret behavior in eNeuro!
Ram defends his PhD thesis and graduates – congratulations! He will stay in the lab as a postdoc for a while longer to finish up his projects.
Dallas and Josh present posters at the annual meeting of the Greater Baltimore SfN chapter.
Augusto, Dallas, Erika, Ram and Alice present posters at SfN in Chicago.
2018
The lab, in collaboration with Ed Connor’s lab, receives an R01 from NEI.
Ram, Augusto and Sid present posters at SfN in San Diego.
2017
A collaboration between Uli Mueller’s lab and ours is funded by a Synergy award from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
The lab becomes part of an NSF funded NeuroNex consortium, led by Spencer Smith at UNC. The goal of the consortium is to develop and distribute new two-photon imaging technology.
The lab’s research is funded by an NEI R01.
Augusto, Erika and Ram present posters at SfN in Washington, DC. The lab participates in the 3rd Ferret Brain Meeting, held at JHU.
2016
The lab receives a three year research grant from the Whitehall Foundation. We are very grateful for the support!
A collaboration with Hey-Kyoung Lee’s labs is funded with an R21 from NEI.
Augusto and Drew present posters at SfN in San Diego.
2015
The lab, in collaboration with Joshua Vogelstein, receives a research grant from the Science of Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins. Many thanks for the support!