Graduate student Lisa Taxier was named the winner of UWM’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis competition! This competition encourages students to effectively explain their graduate research projects in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The competition drew… Read More
Graduate student Jaekyoon Kim has been awarded a 2018 travel award to attend the upcoming Organization for the Study of Sex Differences conference in Atlanta, GA. Jaekyoon will be presenting his work on the cell signaling mechanisms underlying estrogenic regulation… Read More
Graduate student Lisa Taxier and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Wendy Koss were awarded Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Awards to attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC in November, 2017. Both presented their posters at a special poster… Read More
Jaekyoon Kim, a senior graduate student in the lab, is the first author on a recently published paper in Psychoneuroendocrinology entitled, “Distinct effects of estrogen receptor antagonism on object recognition and spatial memory consolidation in ovariectomized mice”. Jaekyoon’s studies indicate… Read More
On August 29, grad student Jennifer Tuscher successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled, “The role of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in the estrogenic regulation of memory”. Congratulations Dr. Jen!
Dr. Frick’s NIH-funded grant to study cell-signaling and growth factor mechanisms underlying estradiol’s beneficial effects on memory formation was recently profiled as one of the top 6 NIH-funded research projects at UWM. See the article at: http://uwm.edu/news/top-6-nih-funded-research-projects-uwm/.
Second year graduate student Lisa Taxier authored a new paper based on her undergraduate senior thesis research at Carleton College. The paper, published in Physiology and Behavior, studied the effects pubertal ovarian hormones on paced mating and conditioned place preference… Read More
Postdoc Wendy Koss was awarded a Taconic Biosciences Travel Award for her poster presentation entitled, “Memory-enhancing effects of 17β-estradiol in male and female mice”, at the 2016 Society for Neuroscience meeting in November. Congratulations Wendy!
Jen Tuscher has been awarded the 2016-2017 Ruth G. and Joseph D. Matarazzo Scholarship from the American Psychological Foundation (APF) and Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP). This highly competitive scholarship provides Jen research funds to conduct her dissertation. Congratulations Jen!
Second-year graduate student Lisa Taxier is the second author on a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! The research was conducted as part of her IRTA fellowship in Dr. Peter Rapp’s lab at the National… Read More