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
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
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.
Bentz, A. B., George, E. M., Wolf, S. E., Rusch, D. B., Podicheti, R., Buechlein, A., Nephew, K. P., and Rosvall, K.A. (2021) Experimental competition induces immediate and lasting effects on the neurogenome in free-living female birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e201615411.
Berry-Kravis, E. M., Harnett, M. D., Reines, S. A., Reese, M. A., Ethridge, L. E. Outterson, A. H., Michalak, C., Furman, J., and Gurney, M. (2021) Benefit of BPN14770 for cognition, language, and daily function in adults with fragile x syndrome: A randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 2 clinical trial. Nature Medicine 27: 862-870.