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Date and Time: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 at 12 p.m.
Location: GBSF auditorium 1005 and Zoom
Speaker: Elizabeth Engler-Chiurazzi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Title: “Leveraging herpesviruses to define mechanisms of infection-induced chronic CNS manifestations” (PDF)
Host: Theanne Griffith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Date and Time: Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 at 3 p.m.
Location: Tupper Hall 2133/2135 and Zoom
Speaker: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Title: “Digital twins for the win!” (PDF)
Congratulations to Theanne Griffith, a neuroscientist at UC Davis Health, who has received a prestigious five-year, $1.6 million National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to investigate how this critical sensory system develops and shapes movement throughout life. The NSF CAREER Award is among the foundation's most competitive honors for early-career faculty, recognizing researchers who excel in both scientific discovery and education.
Congratulations to the latest winners of the School of Medicine Research Image Competition! The winners are Igor Vorobyov and Yen-Her Lai. Lai, who composed the image, is a research assistant and Vorobyov is an associate professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology.
Research Assistant Yen-Her Lai received the certificate and gift basket on behalf of the lab at Tupper Hall.
Congratulations to Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang who received prestigious early-career recognition.
Assistant professors, Griffith and Zhang are among the three UC Davis researchers who have been honored with prestigious awards from two major institutions.
In a rare honor, two of the 10 McKnight Scholar Awards will go to UC Davis neuroscientists this year. Theanne Griffith and Sergey Stavisky both received the prestigious early-career award.
Griffith and Elisa T. Zhang, are among the 30 new Freeman Hrabowski Scholars selected from across the United States by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Congratulations to Professor Aldrin Gomes, who has been named a Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).
This award honors individuals and organizations that have demonstrated excellence in mentoring individuals from groups that are underrepresented in STEM education and the workforce.
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