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November 2020: The page for the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Communication Symposium (part of the virtual SICB 2021 Meeting) is live! Check out the speaker list here!

August 2020: 
The lab is awarded a 4-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Neural Systems Cluster!

November 2020: 
The page for the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Communication Symposium (part of the virtual SICB 2021 Meeting) is live! Check out the speaker list here!

August 2020: The lab is awarded a 4-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Neural Systems Cluster!


August 2020: The Wellesley Neuroscience webpage adds a new page for alumnae updates, check it out here and if you are an alumna, please send in any news to share!

May 2020: Rachel Frazer ('20) is elected into the scientific research honor society, Sigma Xi  and is featured on the Wellesley Spotlight!

April 2020: Rachel Frazer ('20) will begin a PhD program  at Columbia University - Department of Neuroscience in the fall!

April 2020: Isabel D'Alessandro ('18) is awarded a NSF GRFP to support graduate studies in Neuroscience at Harvard University!
Proposal Title: "Integration of polarized light into the Drosophila heading compass"


​February 2020: Former lab member, Crystal Zhu ('19) has an illustration published in the Smithsonian Magazine as part of a story featuring a research article from the Garrity Lab at Brandeis University where she is currently a research technician!

January  2020: Crystal Zhu is accepted to attend the Collaborative Experimental Design and Analytics Course (CEDA 2020) at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology!

January  2020: Rachel Frazer presented her work in a poster session at The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference in Austin, TX!

November  2019: Rachel Frazer presented her work at The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) where she won a presenter award! 

​October  2019: Rachel Frazer presented a talk on her research at a regional SICB meeting in Boston, MA.

​October  2019: Crystal Zhu presented her work at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Chicago, IL.

​August  2019: Emily Park started her Md/Phd at Baylor University.

​August 2019: Rachel Frazer has been selected to be a McNair Scholar, congratulations! 


May 2019: Crystal Zhu gave a great presentation on her thesis work at the Ruhlman Conference at Wellesley!

November 2018: Isabel D'Alessandro presents at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, CA!

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May 2019: Crystal and Sara were featured on the Wellesley Facebook Page! Congratulations to Crystal who turned in her thesis moments before this photo was taken!

​June 2018: Emily Park's paper, "Diversity of Visuomotor Reflexes in Two Drosophila Species" has been accepted for publication in Current Biology!

June 2018: Rafa Tasneem will begin as a research assistant in the Mahoney Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine!

June 2018: Sara Wasserman is honored to be the first holder of the Kresa Family Assistant Professorship in Neuroscience at Wellesley College.
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June 2018: Isabel D'Alessandro is inducted into the scientific research honor society, Sigma Xi and awarded the Klein Prize in Neuroscience at Commencement! 


May 2018: Congratulations to Isabel D'Alessandro who will be continuing to work with flies as a research technician in the Wilson Lab at Harvard after graduation!
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Jan 2018: Emily gave a wonderful talk at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference in San Francisco, CA!

Nov 2017: Congratulations to Grace (Wellesley) and Rachel (UCLA)! They were selected to give a poster presentation on their summer project at The 2017 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C.!

May 2017: Congratulations to Emily Park who will be a research associate in the Greengard Lab at Rockefeller University after graduation!

May 2017: Emily Park is awarded The Klein Prize in Neuroscience! This prize is awarded to those students who demonstrate a commitment to Neuroscience and a life long pursuit of learning.  The award is given in memory of Louise Edwards who was a Lab Specialist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Wellesley College. She earned her PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior and a Masters Degree in Business Administration.


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