Lab News
May 2024 – Joanne Steinmiller retires after 14 years as lab manager in the Barth Lab
July 2023 – Matt Mosso and Joseph Christian join the rich Pittsburgh scientific community as CNBC members!
January 2023 Ajit Ray’s publication image makes the front cover of Journal of Neuroscience!
December 2022 Ajit Ray’s paper is accepted at The Journal of Neuroscience
November 2022 The Sainsbury Wellcome Center talks to Alison Barth https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/reflecting-causality-synaptic-changes
November 2022 Ajit Ray’s abstract is selected for a short talk at the annual Barrels meeting in La Jolla
November 2022 Eunsol Park coauthors a News and Views about Npas4 and SST interneurons in Neuron
October 2022 The Barth and Hong labs receive an NIH R21 to study sensory learning and cortical plasticity
October 2022 Eunsol Park presents her work on association learning and inhibitory plasticity at the Air Force Office for Scientific Research conference
Summer 2022 Rachel Swindell receives a NASA fellowship for summer research
June 2022 Eunsol Park’s abstract is selected for a short talk at the Synaptic Transmission GRC in Barga, Italy
May 2022 Fernando Bolio joins the lab as a Research Associate
April 2022 The Barth and Zhao lab receive an RF1 Brain Initiative award to use high-throughput anatomical techniques to study synaptic changes during learning
May 2021 – New Ph.D. students Joseph Christian and Matt Mosso join the Barth Lab
April 2021 – Eunsol Park’s paper is accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representation workshop “AI and the brain”
March 2021 – Undergrad Iulia Loghinov receives NASA suppose for summer research in the Barth Lab
September 2020 – Stories of Women in Neuroscience profile (Link)
September 2020 – Mo Zhu joins the graduate training program at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
August 2020 – Dika Kuljis joins the faculty at Sacred Heart University
July 2020 – New Ph.D. student Ryan Bowman joins the lab
September 2019 – Eunsol Park awarded Carnegie Fellowship in Neuroscience
July 2019 – Alison Barth was named the Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor of the Life Sciences
May 2019 – Ph.D. students Eunsol Park and Mo Zhu join the Barth lab
April 2019 – Stephanie Myal awarded an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship
November 2018 – The Barth lab was awarded a NIH grant to study synapses in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
October 2018 – Stephaie Myal was awarded the Henry L. Hillman Presidential Fellowship.
September 2018 – Nick Audette successfully defended his thesis.
Thesis Title: A Thalamocortical Circuit Initiates Experience Dependent Plasticity During Learning
May 2017 – Fluorescence synapse localization data from wild-type and Shank3 mutant mice selected for analysis by three different teams in the 2nd annual NeuroHackathon at Carnegie Mellon University. The winning team used the Shank3 dataset to find disease-related differences in synaptic morphology in cortical neurons.
March 2017 – Ajit Ray was awarded a BrainHub fellowship for collaborative projects between the Indian Institute of Science and Carnegie Mellon.
January 2017 – Dika Kuljis was awarded a training grant in the Neurobiology of Neurological Disease (T32 NS086749).
September 21, 2016 – Nick Audette was awarded the Henry L. Hillman Presidential Fellowship.
January 2016 – Joanna Urban-Ciecko was awarded the SONATA BIS from the National Science Centre, Poland.
Title: Learning-evoked plasticity of somatostatin and parvalbumin interneurons: mechanisms and impact.
December 2015 – Images from Chandrasekaran et al selected for Journal of Neuroscience December 16; 35(50): 16297-16561
September 2015 – Alison Barth named interim director of BrainHub
May 2015 – Santosh Chandrasekaran received his PhD!
Thesis Title: Unbiased, High-Throughput Electron Microscopy Analysis of Experience-Dependent Synaptic Changes.
May 2015 – Nick Audette received the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences Graduate Fellowship