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Congratulations to Professor Valerie Tornini for receiving a Faculty Career Development Award (FCDA) from the Office of Inclusive Excellence at UCLA

Congratulations to Professor Valerie Tornini for receiving a Faculty Career Development Award (FCDA) from the Office of Inclusive Excellence at UCLA

Congratulations to Professor Valerie Tornini for receiving a…
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A recent Leitch Lab publication, “A somatosensory fovea in the fingertips of the Surinam toad”, is featured in other news outlets

A recent Leitch Lab publication, “A somatosensory fovea in the fingertips of the Surinam toad”, is featured in other news outlets

A recent Leitch Lab publication, “A somatosensory fovea in the fingertips of the Surinam toad”, is featured in additional news outlets.: CBC, The Transmitter, and Science. Authors on the publication are Professor Duncan Leitch, and MCIP graduate students, Christopher Meredith, Rebeca Fuquen and undergrads Sophia Manfre and Penny Chai.
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Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Leal and NSF REU Fellow Renae Mannion on their new study in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Leal and NSF REU Fellow Renae Mannion on their new study in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

New publication from the Leal Lab! Congratulations to Dr. Stephanie Leal and NSF REU Fellow Renae Mannion on their new study in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, examining how olfactory context influences memory across the adult lifespan. The findings highlight important links between olfaction, memory, and cognitive aging.
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Congratulations to Professor Valerie Tornini for being awarded UCLA’s Molecular Biology Institute Community Building Award

Congratulations to Professor Valerie Tornini for being awarded UCLA’s Molecular Biology Institute Community Building Award

Congratulations to Professor Valerie Tornini for being awarded UCLA’s Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) Community Building Award (Faculty), for her community-building contributions at the national level. She has preprinted the outcomes and findings from these efforts (Labra*, Tornini*…Goldman, Fernandez, 2026 bioRxiv, doi: 10.64898/2026.03.12.710679), and she is currently working on peer-reviewed versions of this manuscript with updated data analyses. By sharing their outcomes, structures, and lessons learned, Professor Tornini aims to support other efforts with similar goals, to collectively provide graduate students access to inclusive support, mentorship, and community.
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The department is proud of its long history in training the next generation of thinkers and leaders in science and medicine. The department offers an Undergraduate Program (B.S. in Physiological Science) as well as a two-year, research-oriented Master’s Program (M.S. in Physiological Science). We are a co-founder and home to the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program, which is one of 11 Ph.D.-granting programs in the Graduate Programs in Biosciences (GPB) at UCLA. The department is also highly engaged with the Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program (UNSIDP). Specifically, IBP provides administrative expertise and support for UNSIDP’s leadership; staff; instruction; curriculum; courses; teaching assistants; and financial support for selected activities.

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