Huge congratulations to Sarah on successfully defending her dissertation today! Years of hard work, curiosity, and persistence have led to this moment, and we’re incredibly proud of our newly minted Dr. Donofrio! @donofrio_sarah

Our group has spent the last 15 years developing a surgical therapeutic approach called Cerebellar Deep Brain Stimulation. Here, we showed that the approach may restore brain circuit function and movement by modulating the sub-cellular structure of organelles.

Way to go @AlejandroReyHi1 for a stellar talk and earning 2nd place at the 34th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium! Rock on young man, rock on indeed!

Luis didn’t sleep on it. After just 2.5 years in the lab he defended with a beautiful body of work on cerebellum and sleep. Congratulations, Dr. Salazar Leon! We wish you the best in your future career, closer to your family and the cats 🐈

GRC out ☮️

This Ken’s job is no longer GRC chair. Thanks @alanna_j_watt @SamWangPhD

Six years later… the co-chairs are ready for Cerebellum GRC.

Sillitoe lab ladies arrived in Maine and got photobombed by a moose. Let’s do some science! @linda_h_kim @donofrio_sarah @Meikeesther1

… and different types of cerebellar manipulations affect sleep dissimilarly.

In "Deep Brain Stimulation of the Interposed Cerebellar Nuclei in a Conditional Genetic Mouse Model with Dystonia" we talk about the procedures of cerebellar DBS in dystonia.

In "Electromyography as a Method for Distinguishing Dystonia in Mice" we dive in EMG characterization of dystonia vs tremor. link.springer.com/chapter/10…

Lab lunch to say bye to Ken Nguyen (second to the left) before he leaves for graduate school. Best of luck on your continuing science journey, Ken!