On behalf of everyone in the Cahill Lab, present and past – congratulations to our incredible PI, Dr. Michael Cahill, on his promotion to Associate Professor with TENURE! Though we are not surprised at all, we are incredibly thrilled to celebrate you, your hard work and this huge accomplishment! Thank you for being such a …

Congratulations to our team for publishing “Identification of ARHGEF11 (PDZ-RhoGEF) as an in vivo regulator of synapses and cognition” in PNAS! Thank you to lead author, Dr. Katy Bjornson (former graduate student), and team member Dr. Bailey Kermath (former postdoctoral associate) for your hard work on this wonderful project! Read the paper here

Congratulations to our graduate student, Danielle Anderson, for successfully defending and graduating with her masters degree (M.S.) in neuroscience! We are so proud of you and excited for your next chapter. We will miss you in the lab!

Congratulations to our team for publishing “Increased regional activity of a pro-autophagy pathway in schizophrenia as a contributor to sex differences in the disease pathology” in Cell Reports Medicine! Thank you to lead author, Dr. Katy Bjornson (former graduate student), and team members Dr. Amanda Vanderplow (former graduate student) and Aishwarya Iyer Bhasker (former graduate …

Congratulations to our graduate student, Uma Chatterjee, for winning the NIH/ICTR TL1 Predoctoral Fellowship Award! Uma was awarded this competitive 2-year funding fellowship from the UW Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), funded by the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, for her thesis project characterizing the region-specific roles of candidate risk …

Congratulations to our team for publishing “Assessing protein distribution and dendritic spine morphology relationships using structured illumination microscopy in cultured neurons” in Star Protocols! Thank you to lead author, Dr. Katy Bjornson (former graduate student) for your immensely hard work with leading the charge on this wonderful project! Read the paper here

Congratulations to our graduate student, Dr. Katy Bjornson, for successfully defending and graduating with her Ph.D in Neuroscience! We are so proud of you for all of your fantastic accomplishments, hard work, and contributions to the lab as a scientist, mentor, and friend. We are very excited for your next chapter as a postdoc at …

We are very excited to welcome two new graduate students to the lab, both from the Neuroscience Training Program: Marta Avlas and Uma Chatterjee! Welcome to the lab, and we are looking forward to everything we will do together!

Congratulations to our team for publishing “IStress-mediated dysregulation of the Rap1 small GTPase impairs hippocampal structure and function” in iScience! Thank you to both lead authors, Katy Bjornson (graduate student) Dr. Amanda Vanderplow (former graduate student),  and team members Yezi Yang (former summer scholar), Danielle Anderson (graduate student), and Dr. Bailey Kermath (former postdoctoral fellow) …

Congratulations to our team and collaborators for publishing “A feature of maternal sleep apnea during gestation causes autism-relevant neuronal and behavioral phenotypes in offspring” in PLoS Biology! Thank you to lead author, Amanda Vanderplow (graduate student), team members Dr. Bailey Kermath (former postdoctoral fellow) and Cassandra Bernhardt (former summer scholar), and collaborators Kimberly Gums, Erin …