Biology's Training Grant in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing Renewed by the NIH

The training program, which the NIH has supported for 26 years, funds five graduate students and two postdocs. Distinguished University Professor Catherine Carr is co-principal investigator for the program.

Professor Elizabeth Quinlan Named Founding Director of New Brain and Behavior Institute

As the institute director, Quinlan will hold the Clark Leadership Chair in Neuroscience, which was endowed with a gift from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation that was matched by the state’s Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund.

Emerging From the Fog: Little Understood Post-stroke Cognitive Issues Verified

A new study provides, for the first time, measurable physical evidence of diminished neural processing within the brain after a stroke. The study was conducted by Professor Jonathan Simon and his former postdoctoral researcher Christian Brodbeck, among others, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Global-scale Animal Ecology Reveals Behavioral Changes in Response to Climate Change

International collaboration including Associate Research Scientist Elie Gurarie uses Arctic-wide data archive of animal movement to ask big-picture questions about effects of a changing world. A research paper describing the archive and case studies appears in the November 6, 2020, issue of the journal Science.

How Random ‘Fortunate Events’ Led to Us All

Professor Sean Carroll's new book examines unlikely chain of chance.

Assistant Professor Colenso Speer Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Brain Mapping Techniques

NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.

Riva Riley Named Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is interested in scholars with the potential to bring to their research and teaching the critical perspective that comes from their educational background or understanding of the experiences of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.

Three from Biology to Serve on College's Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council

Graduate student John Ficklin, Senior Lecturer Sara Lombardi and Professor Gerald Wilkinson will serve on the Council.

New Algorithms for Estimating Latent Dynamics Underlying Biological Processes

In "Dynamic estimation of auditory temporal response functions via state-space models with Gaussian mixture process noise," published August 19, 2020 in PLOS Computational Biology, researchers including Professor Jonathan Simon develop efficient algorithms for inferring the parameters of a general class of Gaussian mixture process noise models from noisy and limited observations, and utilize them in extracting the neural dynamics that underlie auditory processing from magnetoencephalography (MEG) data in a cocktail party setting.

Four Biology Faculty Members Promoted

We congratulate Quentin Gaudry, who was promoted to associate professor with tenure; Beth Parent, who was promoted to principal lecturer; and Bill Fagan, who was named Distinguished University Professor. 

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