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NeuroNews: September 2021

Click here to read the September 2021 edition of NeuroNews, featuring the latest highlights from the department of neuroscience.

SNIP students arrive on campus for summer program

On May 29, Summer Neuroscience Internship Program (SNIP) students for the 2021 program arrived on UF’s campus. These interns will join active neuroscience research labs at the University of Florida (UF), one of the largest and most productive research universities in the United…

BAW Week 2021 Helmet Winners

This year, Brain Awareness Week was held March 15-19th through an entirely virtual format. Working with the Alachua County school system, lessons incorporated age-appropriate brain information with accompanying activities. These include making a pipe cleaner neuron or brain hat for the younger students, 5 brain tricks and the 5 senses,…

Douglas Miller defends thesis May 20, 2021

On Thursday, May 20, 2021, Douglas Miller, predoc fellow, will defend his thesis entitled “Differential sensitivity of the SNC and VTA dopaminergic networks.” The motivation behind the thesis, Miller says, was to better understand complex network properties of dopaminergic brain regions that make them sensitive to neuronal loss…