RECENT FACULTY AWARDS AND HONORS
Carmine Clemente Doctorate of Humane Letters (DrHL), Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science 5/31/08
James Bisley Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience 7/1/07-6/30/10
Edwin L. Cooper Elected to the Erfurt Academy of Arts and Sciences, Germany 1/2007
Edwin L. Cooper Nominated to receive Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Pecs Medical School, Hungary 12/12/06
Dean Bok 2006 Paul Kayser International Award in Retina Research 10/31/06
Carmine Clemente 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award 10/27/06-1/1/06
Guido A Zampighi, LM Zampighi, N Fain, S Lanzavecchia, SA Simon, and EM Wright.

Image featured on journal cover from: Conical Electron Tomography of a Chemical Synapse: Vesicles Docked to the Active Zone are Hemi-Fused. Biophysical Journal, Volume 91, Issue 8, pp. 2910-2918, October 2006. (issue) (cover picture) (article)

10/2006
Lars Dreier Stein Oppenheimer Endowment Award 5/1/06-4/31/07
Carolyn Houser Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (ninth time!)
James Bisley Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in Neuroscience 1/1/06-12/31/07
Josh Trachtenberg Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 9/1/05-8/31/07
David Glanzman Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award for NINDS Grant: Hebbian Long-term Potentiation and Learning in Aplysia 12/1/04-11/30/11
Josh Trachtenberg Larry L. Hilblom Foundation: Imaging Synaptic Loss and Repair in vivo in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease 7/15/04-7/14/07
Arne Scheibel, Sheila Nirenberg and Felix Schweizer

The Neuroscience Undergraduate Society held their first annual Professor Recognition Night. All the Neuroscience undergraduates voted for their favorite professors in four categories and three out of those four were from the Department of Neurobiology.

Michael Mauk and Dean Buonomano The Neural Basis of Temporal Processing. Annual Review of Neuroscience, Volume 27, July 2004
V Reggie Edgerton, Niranjala Tillakaratne, Allison J Bigbee, Ray D de Leon, Rolland R Roy Plasticity of the Spinal Neural Circuitry after Injury, Annual Review of Neuroscience, Volume 27, July 2004.
Josh Trachtenberg Frontiers of Science Award, June 2004 6/24/04-12/31/04
Josh Trachtenberg Klingenstein Fellowship, April 2004 2004-2006
RECENT POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS*
Alberto Cruz-Martin (former Neurobiology graduate student) President's Postdoctoral Fellow (UCOP), under mentorship of Carlos Portera-Cailliau in Neuroloy 7/1/07-6/30/09
Gregoire Courtine Fifth Annual Distinguished Postdoctoral Lecture 2006-2007
Severine Chaumont BRI Postdoctoral Scholar Award 2006-2007
Ronaldo Ichiyama BRI Fine Science Tools Postdoctoral Scholar Award 2006-2007
Consuelo Morgado-Valle Parker B. Francis Foundation Fellowship 10/1/06-6/30/07
Spencer Smith Giannini Fellowship 5/1/05-4/30/08
Spencer Smith NIH/NRSA: Spine Dynamics Underlying Ocular Dominance Plasticity 4/1/05-3/31/06
Paul Dodson Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellowship 2004-2006
Brian Malone NIH/NRSA: Characterizing the Neural Basis of Image Interpolation 9/30/03-9/29/06
Brian Wiltgen NIH/NRSA: Memory following CaMKII Loss in Hippocampal Subregions 1/1/04-12/31/06
RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS*
Che Hutson BRI/Semel Awards 2006-2007
Hope Johnson BRI/Semel Awards 2006-2007
Gina Rinetti BRI/Semel Awards 2006-2007
Carrie Shilyanski BRI/Semel Awards 2006-2007
Wenbin Tan BRI/Semel Awards 2006-2007
Movses Karakossian Dissertation Year Fellowship 10/1/06-6/30/07
Jose Maldonado Dissertation Year Fellowship 10/1/06-6/30/07
Natalia Mattan NIH National Research Service Award 8/1/06 - 7/31/09
Kristen Willeumier NIH National Research Service Award 2/1/05-1/31/06
Jennifer Ogren American Epilepsy Society's 2005 Young Investigator Award 2005
Frederick Gregory 2004 UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowship 10/1/04-6/30/06
Jose Maldonado Eugene V. Cota-Robles Award 10/1/04-6/30/05
Spencer Smith 2004 Eiduson Prize in Neuroscience 2004
Julia Herrmann Roman Reed Fellowship 1/1/03-12/31/04
Anna Denise Garcia Ford Foundation Fellowship 4/1/01-9/1/04
*includes those working in the labs of primary and secondary faculty.

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