Recent CBN Grants
Dr. Michael Wenger and colleagues received funding from the Federal Aviation Administration, "Leveraging EEG and ECG to examine the stress response and self-regulation processes in complex skill learning" (2024-2026).
Dr. Ari Berkowitz was awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, "Pharmacological investigation of sharing vs. specialization of spinal cord central pattern generators for leg movements" (2024-2028).
Dr. Michael Wenger and colleagues were awarded an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, "Characterizing the prevalence and nature of facial recognition deficits in non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy" (2023-2025).
Dr. Shanteri Singh was awarded a new RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health, "A chemoenzymatic approach to accessing novel isoprenoid scaffolds" (2022-2026).
Recent CBN Awards/Honors
Jordan Norris received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2025 for her dissertation resarch.
Dr. Lauren Ethridge received the 2025 University of Oklahoma Vice President for Research and Partnerships Award for Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences.
Peniel Simon, a CBN student in the lab of Ari Berkowitz, was accepted into the highly prestigious Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA for summer 2025.
Jordan Norris was named a 2024 scholar in the National Institutes of Health Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP).
Dr. Mikhail Kellawan won the John F. Perkins Jr. Research Career Enhancement Award from the American Physiological Society in 2024.
Shannon Wiser, a Ph.D. student with Dr. Michael Markham, was interviewed by the Journal of Experimental Biology in association with their 2024 article.
Selected Recent CBN Publications
Ethridge, L.E., Pedapati, E.V. Schmitt, L.M., Norris, J.E., Auger, E., De Stefano, L.A., Sweeney, J.A., and Erickson, C.A. (2024) Validating brain activity measures as reliable indicators of individual diagnostic group and genetically mediated sub-group membership in Fragile X Syndrome. Scientific Reports 14: 22982.
Bailey, M. L., Nixon, C. Rusch, D. B., Buechlein, A., Rosvall, K. A., and Bentz, A. B. (2024) Maternal social environment shapes yolk testosterone allocation and embryonic neural gene expression in tree swallows. Hormones and Behavior 163: 105561.
Morris, M. M., Hao, Z.-Z., and Berkowitz, A. (2024) Electrophysiological activity of multifunctional and behaviorally specialized spinal neurons involved in swimming, scratching, and flexion reflex in turtles. eNeuro 11: ENEURO.0038-24.2024.
Sapage, M., Santos, M., Matos, M., Schlupp, I., and Varela, S.A.M. (2024) Mate-choice copying accelerates species range expansion. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20241201.