Author: Ted Shi
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LLWF Press from the College of Natural Sciences
An idea that started with a neuroscientist’s personal experience morphed into a lifelong continuing education program for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
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American Society of Human Genetics 2022 Annual Meeting
Jon and Sophie attend and present at the ASHG 2022 meeting!
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Ben Graduates!
Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Clites for successfully defending and graduating! Here are some pictures of the celebration afterward:
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Jon wins the Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Endowed Excellence Award!
Congratulations to Jon for winning the prestigious award! Granted once every three years by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, this award recognizes the belief that education involves positive change and is the aggregate of all processes by means of which a person, or groups of people, develop abilities, attitudes and other…
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Briana Wins the Barry Goldwater Scholarship!
Congratulations to Briana for winning the Barry Goldwater Scholarship! You can see the press release here:
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Dr. Pierce wins the Diversity and Inclusion Award!
Dr. Jonathan Pierce was chosen by the UT’s Natural Sciences Council as this year’s recipient of the Diversity and Inclusion Award! Normally, he would be recognized at their annual banquet, but due to the pandemic, he was honored in a video instead.
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Holiday Party 2019!
The Pierce lab celebrates the 2019 holiday season with undergraduate presentations, amazing decorations, great food, and a white elephant gift exchange! Happy holidays, y’all!
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Society for Neuroscience (Oct 19-23, 2019)
We hope you came out to see the Pierce Lab at SfN 2019 in Chicago, IL! Lotti (center) presented her project and two of our undergraduates, Katherine and Kaelin (left and right, respectively), also attended!
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Jesse graduates!
Jesse successfully defended his thesis, and is now a Ph.D.! Congratulations, Jesse!
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Poster presentations at the Conference on Learning & Memory
The Pierce lab attended the Austin Conference on Learning & Memory. Lotti, Jesse, Sophie, Ted, and Keerthana had posters about their projects! You read their abstracts here. Jon organized an amazing selection of speakers on “Comparative Learning and Memory.” We heard about motivational states in zebrafish, learned behavioral preference in C. elegans, transcriptome approaches encoding alcohol…
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JPS Undergrads present posters at the URF and Longhorn Research Poster Session
Keerthana, Kirstin, and Ted present posters at the 2019 Undergraduate Research Forum (April 12, 2019) and the Longhorn Research Poster Session (April 17, 2019)!
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Pierce Lab at the CNS Endowment Reception
JPS undergrads show off our Alzheimer’s disease model worms at the CNS’s Endowment Reception.
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Holiday Party and Undergraduate Presentations
Holiday Party and Undergraduate Presentations We celebrated the holidays (and the end of the semester)! Kirsten, Ted, Sofia, and Keerthana presented on what they had been working on for the past semester. Afterward, we had our (relatively) annual white elephant gift exchange.
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Center for Learning and Memory Retreat 2018
The Pierce lab attends the CLM retreat! Jesse presented a talk on his work.
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Society For Neuroscience Meeting 2018
The Pierce lab goes to the 2018 SFN meeting in (sunny) San Diego, California! Sophie presents presents a poster on her work in Down Syndrome.
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Worm Meeting 2018
The Pierce lab attends the 2018 C. elegans Topic Meeting on Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The Vulnerable Brain: A Conversation about Predisposition to Alzheimer’s and Other Neurological Disorders
Dr. Jonathan Pierce gives a talk on his work with Alzheimer’s disease and his involvement in the Down syndrome community.
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Center for Learning and Memory Retreat 2017
The Pierce lab attends the UT Austin Conference on Learning and Memory. Jesse presented a poster on his work: “Activity-dependent dendritic morphology and gene expression in sensoryneuron pair URX in C. elegans.” See more here.
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Explore UT 2017
Empowering Alzheimer’s Patients to Discover Treatments WEL – ROBERT A. WELCH HALL, 2.308 Professor Jon Pierce gave a lecture on his personal connection to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) at the university’s annual Explore UT event. Students learned about this neuroscientist’s novel approach to researching the disease that involves tiny worms and the people who may find…
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Explore UT 2016
Discovering Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Worms The Pierce lab showcases how their researchers search for the cure for Alzheimer’s disease, one of the leading causes of death in the United States, at UT’s annual Explore UT. More information can be found here.