May 2024
Sarah presented her work on FM sweep detection by inferior colliculus neurons at the Michigan Society for Neuroscience Conference.
After a busy year of rotations, Courtney officially joined the lab for her PhD dissertation research.
Welcome to the lab, Courtney! We can’t wait to see all the cool things you discover about the roles of cholinergic signaling in the IC!!
Huge congratulations to Audrey on receiving a prestigious Neuroscience Innovator Award from the Neuroscience Graduate Program!
As part of the award, Audrey gave an invited talk at the 2024 University of Michigan Neuroscience Conference.
Britney Aguirre joined the lab for the summer as part of the Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Opportunity (NURO) program.
Welcome, Britney! We’re excited to work with you!!
On May 16, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved Michael’s promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!
The lab threw an awesome surprise party for Michael to celebrate. Marina was even able to join over Zoom.
February 2024
Audrey, Yoani, Elie, and Michael attend the MidWinter meeting for ARO in Anaheim, California!
Audrey gave a talk at the ARO Circuits and Function of Auditory Midbrain and Auditory Brainstem symposium!
Yoani won 2nd place at the ARO poster blitz competition!
January 2024
Audrey’s review article on why it is so important to do circuit bashing in the IC is published in Hearing Research!
Congrats, Audrey!!
December 2023
Dr. Luis Rivera-Perez, the lab’s first graduate student, is officially hooded at the University of Michigan 2023 Winter Commencement Ceremony.
Congratulations, Luis!!!
November 2023
A potluck at Sue Moenter’s house to wish our final goodbyes to Marina and her family!
The lab goes axe throwing to celebrate Marina as she heads to UTSA to begin her assistant professor position
October 2023
2nd Annual Michaelfest - Happy Birthday Michael!
Pot luck with friends from Kresge Hearing Institute to celebrate Michael’s birthday.
September 2023
Marina’s paper was accepted at the Journal of Neuroscience!
Congratulations to Marina, Audrey, Trinity, Trevor, and Amanda!!
July 2023
David Goyer, our first postdoctoral fellow, returned for a visit! We had a blast catching up with David and his wife Steffi over dinner at the Jolly Pumpkin in downtown Ann Arbor.
Sarah presented her work on “Frequency tuning in inferior colliculus neurons partially predicts selectivity for directional frequency sweeps” at the Magnificent Michigan Summer Research Fellows Poster Session.
June 2023
University of Michigan Neuroscience Conference 2023:
Yoani won best poster award for “T-Stellate neuron synapses onto NPY and VIP neurons in the inferior colliculus undergo short-term depression.” Congratulations, Yoani!
Michael gave a talk titled, “Neuropeptide Y Regulates Recurrent Excitation in the Auditory Midbrain.”
May 2023
Luis successfully defended his dissertation “Neuromodulatory Mechanisms in the Auditory Tectothalamic Pathway.”
Congratulations, Dr. Luis M. Rivera-Perez!
Kresge Hearing Research Institute - Founders Day Symposium 2023:
Audrey presented “NR2D-Containing NMDA Receptors Enhance Temporal Summation in VIP Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus.”
Yoani presented “Short-Term Synaptic Depression at T-Stellate Synapses in the Auditory Midbrain.”