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August 2023
Congratulations to Aditya Krishna who passed his Advanced Exam!
April 2023
Congratulations to Clarice A. Diebold on winning the G. Stanley Hall Scholar's Award!
March 2023
Congratulations to Michael Wilkinson who presented his work at the Imperial College London Robotics Forum Postgrad Network.
May 2022
Congrats to Dimitri Skandalis and Jennifer Lawlor who were awarded Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute postdoctoral fellowships!
Congrats to Michael Wilkinson who was awarded a Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute graduate fellowship!
April 2022
JHU HUB by
Study aims to unlock secrets of animal time perception
Neuroscientist Cynthia Moss and colleagues from around the world will design experiments to test animal cognition.
Clarice A. Diebold received the 2022 Mary D. Ainsworth Award for research excellence!
July 2021
Congrats to Grace Capshaw who is a 2021-2022 postdoctoral fellow on the Center for Hearing and Balance NIDCD-funded T32 training grant!
Congrats to Kate Allen who is a 2021-2022 postdoctoral fellow on the Center for Hearing and Balance NIDCD-funded T32 training grant!
Congrats to Angie Salles who was awarded a K-99 and will transfer it to her new faculty position at the University of Illinois, Chicago!
Congrats to Brittney Boublil who successfully defended her Ph.D. in July 2021!
June 2021
Congrats to Iven Yu who successfully defended his Ph.D. in June 2021!
Jenni Lawlor's research was highlighted at the 2021 Brain Initiative Investigator's meeting in June 2021!
January 2021
Congrats to Kate Allen for receiving a 2020 Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award!
October 2020
Congrats to Te Jones who successfully defended her Ph.D. in October 2020!
September 2019
Angie Salles won SfN Trainee Professional Development Award!
May 2019
Angie Salles won Konishi Award from the international society for neuroethology!
November 2020
CNN
Bats can predict the future to hunt their prey, Johns Hopkins researchers find
The winged mammals can predict the future.
October 2020
Congrats to Te Jones who successfully defended her Ph.D. in October 2020!
September 2019
Angie Salles won SfN Trainee Professional Development Award!
May 2019
Angie Salles won Konishi Award from the international society for neuroethology!
April 2018
JHU HUB
Scientists record the brain activity of free-flying bats for the first time
Wireless recording devices help researchers better understand what happens in the brain as we move through the world.
Angie Salles was awarded HFSP and Pew Postdoctoral Fellowships!
Bruce Nguyen receives undergraduate STAR award for 2018 summer research!
Samantha Dominguez receives undergraduate STAR award for 2018 summer research!
November 2017
October 2017
NSF
Batlab studies echolocation to learn how animals "see" with sound
Neuroscientist Cindy Moss is investigating how animals use sensory information to guide their behavior.
Angie Salles was featured in the article of INTERNATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION.
Congratulations to Ninad Kothari who just passed his dissertation defense!
September 2017
ScienceNews
Bat brain signals illuminate navigation in the dark
With new tech, researchers track nerve cell activity as bats dodge and weave.
August 2017
JHU HUB
Johns Hopkins team gets $1M grant to explore intricacies of bat navigation
Researchers receive National Science Foundation award that supports interdisciplinary brain science.
June 2017
JHU HUB
Astonishingly speedy brain mechanism helps bats get louder when necessary
New insights could lead to better treatment for diseases where vocalization is affected, such as Parkinson's disease.
May 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Moss on the 2017 Willian and Christine Hartmann Prize in Auditory Neuroscience!
BatLab was awarded Accelerator/Innovator Grant - David M. Rubenstein Fund for Hearing Research!
February 2017
Congratulations to summer intern, Traia Roper, on her admission to vet school!
September 2016
JHU HUB
Kill them with cute: The adorable behavior that helps bats catch prey
Bat's head, ear movements sync with the animal's sonar to help it hunt, study finds.
October 2015
Congratulations to Dan Ju on being awarded David S. Olton Research Award!
Lab alumnus Nachum Ulanovsky receives 2015 Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award.
April 2015
Ben Falk passed his dissertation defense. Congratulations, Ben!
JHU HUB
Keen sense of touch allows bats to fly with breathtaking precision
Researchers explore how information about airflow is sent to the brain.
JHU Gagette
Johns Hopkins professor talks about how she finds bats for her lab—and why she studies them
Bats produce high-frequency sounds that reflect off objects, and they use the echo returns to build pictures of the world.
March 2015
Ninad Kothari passed his qualifying exam. Congratulations, Ninad!
January 2015
JHU Magazine
On the roof of JHU's Ames Hall, bats and owls vie for space
Owls and bats are neighbors.
December 2014
Michaela Warnecke has been named the recipient of the first place Best Student Paper Award in Animal Bioacoustics at the Indianapolis meeting for the paper “Foraging among acoustic clutter and competition: Vocal behavior of paired big brown bats.” Congratulations Ela!
February 2014
Michaela Warnecke has been selected to receive a prestigious graduate fellowship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes! Congratulations Ela!
December 2013
Wu-Jung Lee has been awarded the prestigious Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America. Congratulations Wu-Jung!
November 2013
Congratulations to Mohit Chadha who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis!
June 2012
Congratulations to Genevieve S Wright who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis!
April 2012
Congratulations to Ben Falk who passed his dissertation proposal defense!
September 2011
Lakshmi Krishnan passed her prelim with flying colors!
Genevieve S Wright's study was featured on BBC Nature News.
June 2011
A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING news, Popular Mechenics
Tiny hairs on bats’ wings act as speedometers
One of the secrets of bats’ aerodynamic prowess was uncovered.
Nature News, BBC News
PNAS paper was featured in both Nature News and BBC News
Bat wing sensors support flight control.
May 2011
Chen Chiu and Dr. Cynthia F. Moss won the Acoustical Society of America 2011 Gallery of Acoustics Competition.
April 2011
Congratulations to Beatrice Mao who passed her prelim in April, 2011!
Dr. Cynthia F. Moss has been named the BSOS ADVANCE Professor for 2011. Congratulations!
November 2010
Chen Chiu won 2010 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize. Congratulations!
April 2010
Genni Spanjer Wright has been awarded an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for the semester of her choice during the 2010-2011 academic year.
March 2010
Congratulations to Ben Falk, who successfully passed qualified exam.
Dr. Cynthia F. Moss was a winner this year of the Regents Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities.
February 2010
Paper “Optimal Localization by Pointing Off Axis” was published in Science.
August 2008
Chen Chiu's new paper just appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chen Chiu successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations Chen!
April 2007
Nachum Ulanovsky has accepted a faculty position at the Weizmann Institute!
Genni Spanjer Wright has been selected to receive a 2007-2008 fellowship from the Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing Training Program!
Chen Chiu was awarded the distinguished Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for 2007!
Murat Aytekin successfully defended his dissertation and will receive his Ph.D. in May, 2007!
January 2007
Nachum Ulanovsky's new paper just appeared in Nature Neuroscience and it was featured in the “Research Highlights” section of the last issue of Nature!
October 2006
Congratulations to Chen Chiu, who has received the 36th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research “Outstanding Student Poster Award” for 2006!
May 2006
Congratulations to Kirsten Bohn, who has received the Department of Biology’s “Outstanding Research Award” for the 2005-2006 academic year!
March 2006
Kaushik Ghose successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis on March 14, 2006! Congratulations Kaushik!
September 2004
Lab wins first prize in NSF-Science visualization challenge. (award winning animation).
April 2004
CRCNS NSF/NIH grant: Innovative Technologies Inspired by Biosonar was awarded.