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#TraineeTuesday

Launched on Twitter in January 2022, #TraineeTuesday shines a weekly spotlight on talented trainees throughout Yale's department of Neuroscience and Kavli Institute. Whether celebrating a recent paper, grant or job offer, this initiative seeks to celebrate the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers crucial to our groundbreaking research. This archive will house the blog versions of all our #TraineeTuesday features.

#TraineeTuesday Blog

#TraineeTuesday: Denethi Wijegunawardana

This #TraineeTuesday, we are excited to introduce Denethi, a graduate student in the Guo Lab! She has been awarded the prestigious Tom & Joan Steitz Fellowship, making her the youngest and only female graduate student recipient this year.

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Vaishnavi Veeranki

    This #TraineeTuesday, meet Vaishnavi Veeranki, a postgraduate associate in the Lim Lab! Vaishnavi was recently accepted into the Neuroscience PhD program at University of California Irvine. There, she will continue advancing her research career in cellular and molecular biosciences.

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Gaëlle Talross, PhD

    This #TraineeTuesday, we are introducing Gaëlle Talross, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Carlson Lab! Gaëlle was recently awarded the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Stephanie Staszko, PhD

    This #TraineeTuesday, meet Stephanie Staszko, PhD, a Postdoctoral Associate in the Kaye Lab! Her lab has recently secured funding from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the noradrenergic mechanisms underlying the innate fear of heights in mice.

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Peng Xu

    This #TraineeTuesday, we are highlighting Peng Xu, a postgraduate associate in the Cardin Lab! He recently got admitted to Yale INP PhD program with a Gruber Science Fellowship to support his first three years of study.

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Aaron Wolfe, PhD

    This #TraineeTuesday, we are introducing Aaron Wolfe, a postdoctoral associate in the Colón-Ramos Lab! Aaron recently received funding for his K99 application to the National Institute on Aging. Moreover, some of his research on the dynamics of neuronal metabolism was published in PNAS!

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Kyle King

    This #TraineeTuesday, meet Kyle King, an undergraduate researcher in the Yale Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Research Clinic!

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Rachel Oren

    This #TraineeTuesday, we are highlighting Rachel Oren, a graduate student in the Cardin and Higley Labs at Yale Neuro! She was recently awarded an F31 NRSA from the National Eye Institute.

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Leah Harmon

    This #TraineeTuesday, meet Leah Harmon, a graduate student in the Chandra Lab! She was recently awarded the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in Washington DC.

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  • #TraineeTuesday: Chase Amos

    This #TraineeTuesday, we are highlighting Chase Amos, a graduate student in the De Camilli Lab! He recently published a report in Contact on the connection between the two proteins VPS13A and XK in red blood cell precursors, and a paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell.

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