Elle gets an F31!

Elle McCall, a third-year Neuroscience PhD student in our lab, just received an NIH F31 fellowship from NIDCD!

This is our lab’s first trainee fellowship (other than funding for summer undergrads), though we should note that two other trainees, Trinity Pruitt and Yuzhen Chen, would have received funding earlier this year if not for the NIH suddenly withdrawing support for diversity-related programs at the order of the new federal government (Trinity’s diversity F31 received a fundable score and Yuzhen’s diversity supplement had already been approved). We’re grateful to the NIDCD staff and Emory grants officers who got Elle’s award processed despite all the chaos at NIH.

Elle’s thesis project examines the encoding and integration of taste signals from different organs of the fly, including the legs and proboscis. Congratulations Elle!!!