We had a great time on the Westside of ATL!

L to R: Tidhar, Stefano, Kayla, Bilal, Anderson, Joseph, James, KC, Esther

Congratulations to Kayla Peelman for a 3 year National Research Service Award from the NIH / National Eye Institute (NEI).

Kayla will investigate the impact of behavioral state and spatial attention on sensory responses in the primary visual thalamus.

Great work Kayla and thank you NEI!

We are excited and grateful to be 1 of 17 labs granted a Pilot award by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)!

Full list of awardees here.

Here is a nice write-up of this proposed work!

Here’s a nice feature about our recent paper on neural activity underlying perceptual impairments in a transgenic knockout mouse model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Congratulations again to lead author Joseph Del Rosario and all co-authors, and a big thanks to the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative for supporting this work!