News

2024

  • 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!
  • Ram presents a poster at SfN in Chicago.

2014

  • Sam presents a poster at SfN in Washington, DC.

2012

  • Lab opens.