Mark Ferris

Congratulations to newly minted PhD from the lab, Dr. Melody Iacino. She had what some remarked as one of the best defenses they've seen. It was stellar. She will be missed as she is off to Univ. of Michigan for a PD.

A reminder that @VCARScience is hiring. Come find me at #SFN2024 to talk about opportunities at @VanderbiltU and what a great research community we have. Posting here: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/662480/fac…

@DayLabUAB @UAB_CNC Congrats Jeremy!

Got home from the @UAB_CNC retreat to find I had missed this promotion letter in my inbox over the past few days. Fitting for the "serious" lab retreat photo we took this year. Sincere thanks to the awesome scientists in the lab as well as many mentors that made this possible!

@denisejcai I'm sorry for your loss Denise

My beloved mom passed away peacefully on June 16, 2024. She loved fiercely, laughed loudly and welcomed everyone (and anyone) into her home and heart. We will honor my mom this Sat, June 22, 2024 (details below). Please feel free to join us as we remember her.

@CodySiciliano @suzanneonolan @VandyOPA @VandyPostdoc Congrats!

Congratulations to @suzanneonolan for being awarded Postdoc of the Year by @VandyOPA and @VandyPostdoc! Well deserved!

Congratulations to (former) Ferris lab student @acleach_94 for winning the Wake Forest Neuroscience Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2023-2024. Incredible body of work! I am so proud of you!

Congratulations to Dr. Amy leach! She did an amazing job defending her dissertation today. She will be greatly missed by the lab.

We are so excited to be hosting this amazing group of scientists for our annual @VCARScience Science Day on April 18th. This will be an awesome event that will showcase the work that our postdocs and students are doing and highlight how it fits into the greater field!

Great grandparents have a collage frame of my kids and this random stock photo couple, who I'm pretty sure they think is my wife and I

@Kurt_Fraser @UMNPsych Nice! Congrats!

My final postdoc paper is 'finally' out and published in NatNeu. I consider this the best work I have been involved in. Here, we present evidence of a systematic change in how the striatal dopamine signal integrates reward time horizons. nature.com/articles/s4159…

When people ask how I'm doing, my new response is "happily floating in a forced swim". These people cautiously slip out of the room, but I chuckle. Double win.

Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?

Check out our new preprint on single cell transcriptomics in the septal complex. Lots of exciting cell types and data following opioid withdrawal to dig in to!

This position is still open for a few more weeks. Apply today!

2023 lab holiday party in the books. Smoked some brisket, smoked pulled pork, veggie homemade pizza. We're a lab of amazing cooks and bakers. The dogs are even tired.

@DrGalboThomma Shots fired from San Antonio. Not sure I should like that post

@WakeFerris Gould lab has too much time on their hands, IMO.

Well, we didn't win the department holiday door decorating contest, but I think it serves an honorable mention. Congrats to Gould lab on the W.