News

Reports are coming in a bit late, but it appears that the Usrey Lab took a weekend trip to the Oregon coast sometime in the vicinity of Memorial Day 2022.  There was food, fun, family, and plenty of photos - unfortunately, we appear to be limited to putting one photo up here, so take a look at the lab standing in front of Proposal Rock!

This year, the Usrey lab welcomes a new undergraduate student, Sara Chantit!  Sara is a fourth-year student majoring in NPB and is planning to apply to Optometry school.  She hopes to use her time in the lab to learn more about the visual system.  Welcome, Sara!

It's official!  Marty joined Stacey for her graduation ceremony this week.  Things were a bit tough at UC Davis graduations this year due to a heat wave, but we managed to get everything done!  Congrats to the new Doctor!  We'll all miss you!

The Usrey Lab's beloved former graduate student and post-doc Stacey Seidl is leaving us!  She has accepted a position at Iota Biosciences as Senior Preclinical Research Scientist.

We will miss her greatly, and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors!

Ben's dissertation work is coming out in a special theme issue of Frontiers In Systems Neuroscience, titled: "Contextual modulation of feedforward inputs to primary visual cortex"

 Come check out the annual Center for Vision Sciences Symposium this year! Alyssa will be presenting a short talk titled: "Center-surround spatial organization of corticogeniculate feedback." 

• Reviews essential knowledge about thalamocortical interactions 
• Explores novel and thought-provoking alternative views about thalamocortical interactions 
• Stimulate discussion and creative thinking, both of which are needed to advance further understanding of thalamocortical interaction.

 In print ISBN: 9780197503874 or online at Oxford University

Check out this news article from Science Life Education & Research News on Marty Usrey's recent Neuron publication on the topic of Evolutionary Neurobiology, titled "Evolutionary Thinking: a New Perspective on How Our Brains Control Behavior Takes Evolution into Account." 

We are celebrating Stacey Seidl's Exit Seminar on Sept 8th at 2pm PST. If you would like to attend, contact us for Zoom details.

Please join me in congratulating Alyssa Sanchez who was re-appointed to the Vision Sciences Training Grant (T32 EY015387) for a second year. Well done!