The summers on Tulane's campus can be quiet. Fewer undergrads around, but more time to spend in the lab staring at samples. So, after increasing our focus we needed to increase our relaxation. The lab...
Erik Bylund is a Swedish exchange student studying pharmacology at Uppsala University in Sweden. Erik has been awarded funding by the Tulane Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience (TURN) program to...
The Tulane Brain Institute had a celebration yesterday in Paul hall for all of the Neuroscience graduates. At the celebration our senior neuroscience undergrads, Yumnah Siddiqui (Left) and Chloe...
The annual lab BBQ has evolved into quite the shindig. We had the best time celebrating the end of the academic year with a huge assortment of food, fun games, and lots of laughs. Dr. Fadok's...
Undergraduate students Chloe Friedman (Senior) and Josie Leit (Junior) both presented posters at the Newcomb Tulane College (NTC) poster presentation session. Josie (top photo) presented her poster...
Yumnah defended her honors thesis titled "White Noise Intensity Shapes Defensive Behavior and Neural Activation" to her committee and a group of excited supporters this morning. She passed her defense...
Three of our researchers, Luisa Zavala Rodriguez, Maria Najjar, and Chloe Friedman presented their current research at the Tulane Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit (TRICS) this year. We are...
Chloe defended her honors thesis titled "Alprazolam Bidirectionally Modulates Defensive Behavior in a Sex-Dependent Manner" in front of her committee and a crowd of excited listeners on Monday. She...
Senior undergraduate researcher, Chloe Friedman, presented her thesis research ahead of her defense the following week at the Greater New Orleans Society for Neuroscience (GNOSN) presentation.
Officially published by the Journal of Neuroscience on March 5th, 2026, our paper, 'Corticotropin-releasing factor and somatostatin neurons in the central amygdala mediate dynamic defensive behaviors...
