Category: News

Congratulations to CNLM Award Recipients from the Yassa Lab!

Sarah Kark and Sandra Gattas win funding for their research Our lab members are always achieving greatness, and this recent award season definitely showcased some of our talent. Postdoctoral scholar Sarah Kark and MD/PhD graduate student Sandra Gattas both received individual awards for their contributions to the research and community goals of the Center for…

Congratulations to Miranda: 2020 Grant Writing Workshop Award Recipient

Graduate student Miranda Chappel-Farley wins competitive award for grant writing.  In addition to our wonderful labmates Sarah Kark and Sandra Gattas winning individual awards just last month, graduate student Miranda Chappel-Farley continues this tradition of excellence as she received the 2020 Grant Writing Workshop Award. We caught up with Miranda to ask her about her…

Women in Neuroscience feature: Dr. Sarah Kark

Watch Dr. Sarah Kark talk about her research in this one minute video produced by the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory for International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To find out more, visit: https://cnlm.uci.edu/win/    …

Maria Montchal, Yassa Lab Graduate Student, Advocates for Brain Science at California State Capitol

You may have seen her research on how the brain marks time in the news last week. This week, she’s educating and advocating for brain science in Sacramento! Maria Montchal, UCI graduate student was one of 12 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to be invited to the California State Capitol to practice translating their research…

Yassa Lab study identifies a new way by which the human brain marks time

With a little help from HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” University of California, Irvine neurobiologists have uncovered a key component of how the human brain marks time.               New research from the laboratory of Dr. Michael Yassa, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior and Director of the UCI Center for the…