News and Press

  • 18 April 2025 - Tharusha Seagoe is awarded the Mary G. Alden Scholarship!

  • 4 April 2025 - Avery Suriano is selected for the FYRE Award!

  • 1 December 2024 - Avery Suriano joins the lab.

  • 28 August 2024 - Leah Blankenship is selected for the CTN NETNeuro fellowship - Congrats Leah!

  • 10 June 2024 - Leah Blankenship and Jackie Kuyat will join the lab.

  • 30 May 2024 - Kaija Salwasser joins the lab.

  • 7 December 2023 - “Good Mentorship Leads to Good Science”

  • 1 Sept 2023 - Kana Suzuki is awarded an NRSA fellowship!

  • 10 July 2023 - Alex McCoy joins the lab.

  • 1 July 2023 - Emily Sylwesetrak receives the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience

  • 11 May 2023 - Tharusha Seagoe is selected for the FYRE Award!

  • 14 Dec 2022 - Kana Suzuki is selected for the CTN NETNeuro fellowship - Congrats Kana!

  • 10 Jan 2022 - Tharusha Seagoe joins the lab as a new undergraduate researcher.

  • 13 Nov 2022 - Kara Suzuki presented the first lab poster at SFN

  • 15 Sept 2022 - We made the cover!!! Check out new work that forms the foundation of the lab’s research program: Cell-type-specific population dynamics of diverse reward computations.

  • 22 June 2022 - Vincent Moore joins the lab

  • 17 June 2022 - Kana Suzuki is awarded the Hill Fund Outstanding Teaching GE Award!

  • 13 June 2022 - Leah Blankenship is awarded the Clarence and Lucille Dunbar AND Steve and Sherry Schroeder Scholarships!

  • 1 June 2022 - Kana Suzuki joins the lab

  • 4 April 2022 - Mindy Tran is awarded the William Sistrom Biology Scholarship!

  • 24 May 2022 - Emily Sylwestrak is named a Scialog Fellow.

  • 15 May 2022 - Leah Blankenship is awarded the UO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

  • 23 July 2021 - Isabella Salinas joins the lab

  • 3 March 2021 - Mindy Tran is awarded the Paul and Helen Weiser Memorial Scholarship. Congrats, Mindy!

  • 4 January 2021 - Mindy Tran joins the lab

  • 1 Nov 2020 - Leah McDowell joins the lab

  • 15 June 2020 - The Sylwestrak Lab received a Fay/Frank Seed Grant from the Brain Research Foundation.

  • 1 August 2019 - Blake Holcomb joins the lab

  • 5 June 2019 - Tev’s paper is out in J. Neurosci, highlighting the Elfn1- and mGluR7-dependent mechanisms of layer-specific facilitation in cortex!

  • 8 February 2019 - Our work is highlighted in the Allen Institute’s Data Stories.

  • 2 November 2018 - Emily is selected for the Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders Council.

  • 14 August 2018 - Sylwestrak Lab receives the Brain, Behavior & Research Foundation's 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant.

  • 26 July 2018 - A great collaboration with Xiao Wang and Will Allen from the Deisseroth Lab is out in this week's issue of Science