Happy Birthday to all our NGP friends born in October!

Pictured from left to right: Isabella Palazzo, Damon DiSabato, and William Walker.

Join NGP and the rest of the IGP community in celebrating Halloween on Tuesday, October 24th at 7pm at Brazenhead in Grandview.

There will be catered food, a scariest dessert contest, and a costume contest! Plus-ones are welcome to attend.

Happy Birthday to all our NGP friends born in September!

Pictured from left to right: Kathryn Madalena, Jess Marbourg, Joe Pochiro, Ben Seicol, and Anzela Niraula.

We welcomed 8 new students to the NGP family today!

From left to right: Benjamin Seicol, Kia Adams, Zoe Tapp, Alexandra Smith, Abigail Zalenski, Helen Chen, Ren Wenyuan, and Warren Campbell (not pictured).

Congrats to both Sam Powers and Will Walker for completing their candidacy examinations this past spring! Good job and good luck with the next phase of grad school!

Kaitlin, a student in Dr. Karl Obreitan’s lab, has been chosen as a recipient of a Presidential Fellowship, which is the most prestigious award given out by the Graduate School. This competitive fellowship provides a full year of funding for a student to finish their dissertation.

More information about this fellowship and the process by which awardees and nominated and chosen can be found here.

Dan McKim (5th from left) and Luke Russell (last on right) win travel awards

The 16th annual OSUWMC Trainee Research Day took place this past Thursday, April 13th, featuring poster presentations and research talks by graduate students and post docs, as well as undergraduate students, clinical residents, and research fellows. Faculty members judged the talks and poster presentations and those trainees who scored the highest received $1000 travel awards. NGP students Dan McKim, who presented a poster, and Luke Russell, who gave an oral presentation, were both recipients of this travel award.

Jeremy defended his thesis titled “Sleep and Metabolic Abnormalities in a Syngeneic Mouse Model of Breast Cancer” on Thursday, April 13th.

Jeremy grew up in Washington, DC and received a Bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology from Indiana University in 2011. He joined the neuroscience program in Dr. Randy Nelson’s lab in 2012. During his time in the program, he has worked on several different projects focusing on circadian disruption by light at night, photoperiodic regulation of brain blood flow, and behavioral phenotyping of transgenic mice. His dissertation work focuses on how cytotoxic chemotherapy and peripheral non-metastatic tumors alter sleep in mice. Following graduation, Jeremy will start a post-doctoral position at Stanford University with Dr. Luis de Lecea.

Yasmine was interviewed for the local paper, The Columbus Dispatch, about her research project that was recently published in Scientific Reports titled, “Parental Exposure to Dim Light at Night Prior to Mating Alters Offspring Adaptive Immunity”.

Read the article from the Columbus Dispatch here.

Read the full scientific paper here.