The Outstanding undergrads of the Auerbach Lab (2023 Edition)

Big congratulations to Haicho Wang, who has been selected for the C. Ladd Prosser Outstanding Achievement Award from the Molecular & Integrative Physiology. We look forward to his senior thesis Analyzing Circuit Disruption in Rat Autism Models of FXS and TSC using ABR and Behavior. Sarika Kumar was awarded Outstanding for her poster in the Cells and Molecules section at the 2023 UGRS. Liz Soellner obtained a Campus Honors Program Summer Research Grant and an MCB SURF award for her project on seizure susceptibility in rat models of autism.  Laurel Hart got an MCB SURF award for this summer to look at plasticity during development!

While we are sad to see them go, we are excited to see what our amazing students will achieve.

• Haichao Wang is headed to the U of I Bioengineering masters program and will continue with us as a technician

• Zaria George is off to the University of Illinois Chicago Neuroscience Graduate Program