Congrats to Stela for graduating!

Congratulations Dr. Stela Petkova for graduating with a PhD in Neuroscience in March 2021!

Dissertation:

Addressing an Unmet Need: Rigorous Examination of Motor as a Translational Outcome in Preclinical Models for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Awards!

Nycole Copping:

2020 Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Annual Conference Travel Award

Liz Berg:

2020 Travel Award, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

2020 Spring Travel Award, UC Davis Graduate Student Association

Anna Adhikari:

2020    Barbara Horwitz & John Horowitz Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Award. U.C. Davis. 

2020    Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Award.  

Stela Petkova:

2021 INSAR Dissertation Award “Addressing an Unmet Need: Rigorous Examination of Motor as a Translational Outcome in Preclinical Models for Neurodevelopmental Disorders”

2020 Ling-Lie Chau Graduate Student Award for Brain Research

2019 IBNS Travel Award

Berg et al. paper on AS rat selected as a Translational Psychiatry Highlight of 2020!

Translational Psychiatry publishes the latest research and review articles on current topics in a wide range of specialty areas. In 2020, the journal published over 400 articles and Editor-in-Chief Julio Licinio handpicked just 12 as highlight papers of the year. Among the handful he chose was the Silverman Lab’s first publication on their work with the Ube3a deletion rat model of Angelman Syndrome”. Read the official announcement here: 2020 TP Highlights

The MIND at 20: Jill Silverman

Meet Jill Silverman, a behavioral neuroscientist whose research uses a variety of strategies to discover clinically relevant phenotypes of genetic diseases associated with autism spectrum disorders in mouse models.

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