News from the Stein Lab
Our new eNeuro paper is out!
Our newest paper is out in eNeuro - one of the journals of the Society for Neuroscience. The paper is open access and can be viewer here: https://t.co/sXAQvEAp7U State-Dependent Modification of Sensory Sensitivity via Modulation of Backpropagating Action Potentials
Carola Städele, Margaret L. DeMaegd, Wolfgang Stein
eNeuro 13 August 2018, 5 (4) ENEURO.0283-18.2018; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0283-18.2018
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Best poster presentation at the 111th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society
Congratulations to PhD student Margaret DeMaegd for being awarded one of the best poster presentation awards at the 111th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society in Greifswald, Germany. Margaret presented her work on backpropagating action potentials in sensory neurons and received a hand-signed neuroscience book by Dr. Giovanni Galizia. At the same meeting, PI Stein presented the keynote lecture at the Arthropod Neuroscience Network Symposium. The topic of the presentation was "Genes, channels and neuromodulation: how neurons remain functional as temperature changes". |
Small Circuits and Behavior Meeting in Philadelphia
MS student Casey Gährs and PhD student Margaret DeMaegd joined PI Stein at the Small Circuits and Behavior Meeting in Philadelphia this week. We had a great time and saw several excellent presentations. |
We presented at the Meeting of the International Society for Neuroethology
At the International Society for Neuroethology Meeting in Brisbane, Australia, PhD student Margaret DeMaegd discusses interactions between different senses via action potentials that backpropagate into sensory dendrites. Below is a photo of the Central Pattern Generation Satellite Symposium at the Leigh Marine Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. What a great meeting to participate in! |
Our newest bookchapter is out
Just in time for Margaret DeMaegd's presentation at the Congress of the International Society for Neuroethology: our book chapter in "Sensory Nervous Systems", edited by Thomas Heinbockel, is now available online. Margaret is a PhD student in our lab and the book chapter contains her research about how action potentials that backpropagate into dendrites alter information encoding in neurons. It is open access: DeMaegd, M. & Stein, W. (2018) Long-Distance Modulation
of Sensory Encoding via Axonal Neuromodulation. In: Sensory Nervous Systems. Ed: Thomas Heinbockel. Rijeka: IntechOpen. Doi: 10.5772/intechopen.74647. https://www.intechopen.com/books/sensory-nervous-system/long-distance-modulation-of-sensory-encoding-via-axonal-neuromodulation |
Arthropod Genome Symposium
We spent two days at the Arthropod Genome Symposium at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The photo shows PI Wolfgang Stein, MS students Casey Gahrs and Abbi Benson, and Julian Gutekunst, PhD in Frank Lyko's lab, our collaborator at the German Cancer Research Center. |
Teaching and Travel Awards
Congrats to ALL current student lab members for winning teaching and travel awards at this years Phi Sigma Spring Banquet! Chris Goldsmith won the outstanding PhD student teaching award. Maggie DeMaegd, Casey Gahrs and Abbi Benson won Rilett travel fellowships to support their presentations at the International Society for Neuroethology meeting, the Society for Neuroscience meeting, and the Genes, Brain & Behavior meeting. A special shout-out to Chance Bainbridge from the Vidal-Gadea lab for winning the outstanding PhD student award of the School of Biological Sciences. Only one awards is given out per year. Truly outstanding! |
2018 Phi Sigma Research Symposium
The lab presented two posters and one oral seminar at this year's Phi Sigma Research Symposium. Casey Gahrs and Abbi Benson presented their posters on marbled crayfish molecular neuroscience, and Margaret DeMaegd presented a seminar on modulation of sensory neuron activity. Congrats to Margaret for winning second place in the oral seminar competition! |
STEM Outstanding College Student award
Congratulations, Maggie! Margaret DeMaegd, doctoral student in the our lab, won the 2018 McLean County STEM Outstanding College Student award for her research and outreach activities in Neuroscience. Margaret also presented a poster at the STEM gala. Andrés Vidal-Gadea, Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, was awarded the 2018 McLean County Outstanding STEM Professional
award, recognizing his student mentoring and outreach activities. Congrats Andrés! |
Crustacean parade at the ISU child care center
Our lab went to Illinois State University child care last week and introduced our lab animals to the kids. MS students Casey Gahrs, Abbi Benson and PhD student Margaret DeMaegd told crayfish and crab stories and answered questions. We had a blast and hope we got the kids excited about research.Our favorites were: "Do crabs have tails?", "Do crayfish die if they live on land?" and of course "Do you dress them up in clothes? " :-) |
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