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June 24, 2021

June 24, 2021
Animals encounter a wide range of noxious stimuli in the natural world. Nociceptive neurons are specialized cells that sense harmful stimuli and trigger avoidance responses....

June 9, 2021

Amer Al-Hiyasat
June 9, 2021
A huge congratulations to Amer!  This award is for the  graduating senior majoring in the natural sciences who ranks highest in scholarship .  Amer is a graduation senior,...

April 26, 2021

April 26, 2021
Congrats to Ben Cifu for earning a Yale College First-Year Summer Research Fellowship in the Sciences & Engineering.  Ben will work in the Howard lab on his project “...

March 24, 2021

March 24, 2021
Congrats Dr.  Trottier for defending his PhD thesis defense “Morphogenesis of class IV neurons in Drosophila melanogaster”.  Excellent work, Oli. https://physics.yale.edu/...

March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Basak for completion of his PhD defense “Biophysical Characterization of Somatosensory Responses in Drosophila Class IV Dendritic Arborization Neurons...

January 11, 2021

January 11, 2021
Yazgan joined as a postdoc in our lab. We are excited to have him!!! Yazgan received his Ph.D. in physics from Max Plank Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. His...

November 11, 2020

November 11, 2020
Congratulations Kris!!! Please check out Kris’s new review article here.