Patrick Sonner and Christopher Wyatt
Interim Chair Dr. Christopher Wyatt and Instructor Dr. Patrick Sonner recently promoted neuroscience education by giving a lesson in electrodes and wires to high school students. Read more about the demonstration.
New Chair Eric Bennett
Dr. Eric Bennett (pictured) has been named the new chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology. His term will begin October 1, 2016. Learn more about the new chair.
Robert Putnam’s Lab
Neuroscience Cell biology & Physiology Professor Dr. Robert W. Putman has been published twice in the last four months. In June 2016, Dr. Putman and other scientists had “Anatomical and functional connections between the locus coeruleus and the nucleus tractus solitarius in neonatal rats” published in Neuroscience.
Along with his peers, Putman also co-authored “Microglial Acid Sensing Regulates Carbon Dioxide-Evoked Fear” which was featured in May 2016's Biological Psychiatry.
