Congratulations are in order for our past and current students and research assistants in the Leal Lab. Eva Dicker, 5th year graduate student, will be starting a tenure-track position at Seattle University in the Fall! As an Assistant Professor of… Continue Reading
The Leal Lab recently presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory (April 26-30). Fernanda, 2nd year graduate student in the lab, was awarded an NIH travel award. We had lots of fun!
Jacob Buergler, 2nd year undergraduate and research assistant in the Leal Lab, received first place for his poster presentation at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium. His presented his work, in which he found that emotion dysregulation was associated with greater… Continue Reading
Michelle Sekili, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab working with second year graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva, presented her findings examining the resilience of memorability in mnemonic discrimination and attention at the Rice Undergraduate Neuroscience Symposium on March 28, 2023… Continue Reading
Alexis Bailey, a research assistant in the lab who graduated from Rice in 2016, will start medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in August 2023. While in school, Alexis plans to continue research related to Alzheimer’s disease and her… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Rishi Vas, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab who graduated in 2022, who will be starting medical school at Columbia University VP&S! Rishi plans to continue research and be part of the Washington Heights community through volunteering… Continue Reading
Congratulations to second-year graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva who has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Travel Award to attend the 2023 International Conference on Learning and Memory! Fernanda will be presenting a lightning talk titled “The Impact of Image… Continue Reading
Congratulations to second-year graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva on receiving a 2023 Diversity Grant of the Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS)! This is a highly competitive grant and an important achievement. Her project… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Hannah Ballard, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, who received a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA F32) to examine “Estrogen Declines with Menopause: Impacts on the Medial Temporal Lobe Network and Emotional… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Brandon Hayes who recently got accepted into graduate school at UC Davis!