Congratulations to Dennis (Co-PI) and our collaborator, Dr. Annie Leonard (PI) for securing a USDA grant ($431, 899, 3 years) to study how neonicotinoid pesticides affect the sensory mechanisms underlying wild bee nutrition.

We are really excited for this collaboration with the Leonard lab!

Congratulations to Dennis (Co-PI) and our collaborator, Dr. Andrew Nuss (Asst. Prof., ANVS, UNR) (PI) for securing a Dept. of Defense grant ($500,000, 2 years) to study mosquito olfaction!!! Read more about it here:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uonr-smo081517.php

A collaboration between our group in Biology and Dr. Benajmin Young’s group in the Dept. of Philosophy has been highlighted in Nevada Today. Link to the story can be found here;

http://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2017/research-on-biophilosophy-of-smell

Congratulations to the Mathew lab for winning two NSE (New Scholarly Endeavor Grant) awards;

1. “Biophilosophy of Olfaction”, Collaborator: Dr. Benjamin Young, Dept. of Philosophy, UNR
2. “Building an Odor coding model that can reliably predict insect behavior”, Collaborator: Dr. Deena Schmidt, Dept. of Math & Statistics, UNR

The NSE awards are competitive internal grants from the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation.

Congratulations to Kristen Hess for winning a research grant from the Beta Beta Beta Research Foundation!

Kristen is a Junior at UNR and is conducting research in the Mathew Lab. Way to go, Kristen!

Congratulations to Gunnar Newquist, Alex Novenschi, and Donovan Kohler on the recent publication of a research article in the journal eNeuro (eneuro.org). The title of the article is: Differential contributions of Olfactory Receptor Neurons in a Drosophila olfactory circuit.  

Donovan and Alex are undergraduates (sophomores!) in the lab!

This is a fantastic accomplishment for our lab and we are looking forward to many more publications in the future!

Link to the Publication: http://eneuro.org/content/3/4/ENEURO.0045-16.2016.full.pdf+html

Congratulations to Riley Kellermeyer  and Lea Cohen for winning HURA awards for their respective research!

Riley is a Senior at UNR and is conducting her Honors’ thesis research in the Mathew Lab. Lea is a Senior at UNR and is writing her (research review) Honors’ thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mathew.