The Department of Neurobiology Annual Symposium (“A New Beginning”) will be held this Thursday, September 28th from 1-5 pm at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Classroom. Please join us in listening to our newest faculty speak on their research endeavors.
Neurobiology postdoctoral scholar Michael Ryan, Ph.D. in the Churchland laboratory is the recipient of the prestigious Giannini Foundation grant for his project, “Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes in Flexible Decision Making.”
The Department of Neurobiology welcomes Professor Gina Poe to the Department. Dr. Poe holds a primary appointment in Integrative Biology & Physiology at UCLA. Gina Poe has been working since 1995 on the mechanisms through which sleep serves memory consolidation and restructuring. Dr. Poe is a southern California native who graduated from Stanford University then worked for two post-baccalaureate years at the VA researching Air Force Test Pilots’ brainwave signatures under high-G maneuvers. She then earned her PhD in Basic Sleep in the Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program at UCLA under the guidance of Ronald Harper. Poe has over 80 undergraduates, 9 graduate students, and 8 postdoctoral scholars, and has served in university faculty governance as well as led 5 different programs designed to diversify the neuroscience workforce and increase representation of people of the global majority in the STEM fields. At UCLA she continues research and teaching and Directs the COMPASS-Life Sciences and BRI-SURE programs and co-Directs the MARC-U*STAR program. Nationally she has served as course director of the Marine Biological Lab’s SPINES course and co-Directs the Society for Neuroscience’s NSP program which earned the nation’s highest mentoring honor in 2018. These programs have over 1000 PhD level alumni.
The Department of Neurobiology congratulates research administrators Lyset Castillo and Grace Fransisca on receipt of professional certification in research administration. The CRA designation indicates professional competency from the national governing body. Our best wishes and congratulations.