Lab News
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Celebrating Mike for his promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!
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…
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New Paper: Bjornson et al., 2025 in PNAS
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…
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Celebrating Danielle for graduating with her masters degree!
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…
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New Paper: Bjornson et al., 2024 in Cell Reports Medicine
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…
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Celebrating Uma for her TL1 Predoctoral Fellowship Award!
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…
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New Paper: Bjornson & Cahill, 2024 in STAR Protocols
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…
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Celebrating Dr. Katy Bjornson for defending her dissertation!
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,…
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Marta Avlas & Uma Chatterjee join the lab!
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…
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New Paper: Bjornson, Vanderplow et al., 2023 in iScience
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…
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New Paper: Vanderplow et al., 2022 in PLoS Biology
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,…