The Friedman Brain Institute’s (FBI) 13th Annual Neuroscience Retreat, held virtually and in-person last spring, was a welcome event bringing together the entire neuroscience community at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Each year, the Retreat provides faculty, postdocs, and students with an opportunity to share their advances in neuroscience. Topics this year ranged from computational psychiatry, to stress-induced neuroplasticity, and glioblastoma progression.
FBI’s awards ceremony honoring outstanding researchers was a highlight of the Retreat. This year, for the first time, a prize-winning image from FBI’s popular “Call for Images” competition was chosen to be featured on the cover of the journal, Biological Psychiatry.
1. Retreat organizers Tristan Shuman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, and Jessica Ables, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Neuroscience, provided opening remarks.
3. PhD candidate Katherine Meckel received the Philip Hausfeld Memorial Award for her work in the lab of Drew D. Kiraly, MD, PhD.
2. Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, updated attendees on the Friedman Brain Institute's strategic goals.
4. Postdoctoral fellow Jacqueline-Marie Ferland, PhD, was recognized for her research into the effects of THC by Paul Kenny, PhD, Chair of the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience.