Last week, we attended the 2024 Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago. Autum did a great job presenting our work on sensorimotor processing in the human subthalamic neucleus!
Irwin lab at SfN!
Welcome to Autum and Robert!
Autum Key, a Ph.D student in GBS, and Robert Rawlins, a Master’s student in the MBS program, have joined the lab and are hard at work getting up to speed on sensorimotor control and MATLAB programming! We are super excited to see where their research goes from here!
Our first R01!
As of July, we have received our first R01 grant, titled “Impaired sensory filtering as a mechanism of Parkinson’s disease.” We’re starting to investigate the impacts of sensory deficits on movement in disorders like Parkinson’s disease – do some of the classic motor symptoms of PD (slow movements, rigidity, tremor) actually result from altered sensory processing? We’re going to find out!
Here’s a link to the NIH RePORTER page for the grant: https://reporter.nih.gov/search/Z4HgxxdNokCza5r11dK2yA/project-details/10496464
It’s a 3-year project with $250,000/year direct costs. Exciting! And terrifying as a new PI – cross your fingers!
