Recent News
Spring 2025: Brianna Bristow receives the Laura G. Jasch Memorial Prize. Kate Dunne and Ming Zhang both receive Science Undergraduate Research Experience awards. Mark receives the Canadian Association for Neuroscience New Investigator Award.
Winter 2025: Work led by Adrienne Kinman, discovering and interpreting an atypical excitatory neuron in the subiculum that governs object memory, is published in Nature Communications and has been highlighted by a variety of news sources around the world, as well as a viral social media post. Adi Swaro is named a Wesbrook Scholar (one of 20 scholars named across all of UBC undergraduate, MD, and JD students), as well as an HSBC Emerging Leader Scholar. The lab receives a CIHR Project Grant to study causal cell types in epilepsy.
Fall 2024: Daemon Cline is awarded a CELL Fellowship, Regan Campbell is awarded a UBC Four-Year Fellowship, Margarita Kapustina is awarded a UBC Kruger Graduate Fellowship, Adi Swaro is awarded the Neuroscience Program Third-Year Research Award and is a runner up for the Neuroscience Program Third-Year Leadership Award. Mark is awarded an Alzheimer Society Research Program New Investigator grant to study the cellular causes of Alzheimer’s disease from the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada and Brain Canada, and a Future Leader of Brain Canada Momentum Grant from Brain Canada to study causal cell types in epilepsy. The lab is featured in Pathways.
Summer 2024: Shalini Iyer, Daemon Cline, and Margarita Kapustina each receive Endowment Awards from the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health. Adi Swaro receives a Summer Student Research Program award and a Science Undergraduate Research Experience Award. Larissa Kraus is awarded a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship, Catie Futhey is awarded a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters, and Brianna Bristow is awarded an NSERC Canada Graduate Scholar-Doctoral Award. The Cembrowski Laboratory is awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant to study Layer 6b of the neocortex.
Spring 2024: Ming Zhang is awarded an SBME Synergy Award, Kate Dunne is awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, and Kaitlin Sullivan is awarded the Laura G. Jasch Memorial award. Work from the lab on the anterior thalamic nuclei is published in Cell Reports. Sarah Erwin, MSc, successfully defends her master’s thesis. Brianna Bristow is awarded the Dorothy May Ladner Memorial Fellowship from the UBC Faculty of Medicine.
Fall 2023: Shalini Iyer is interviewed on Global News for her leadership and advocacy in the Support Our Science movement. Kaitlin Sullivan is awarded a Friedman Award for Scholars in Health Fellowship.
Summer 2023: Adi Swaro wins the Outstanding Second-Year Student Leadership in Neuroscience Award, and receives second-place for his student presentation at the 2023 SBME Synergy Research Day. Brianna Bristow and Regan Campbell are awarded DMCBH General Awards, and Catie Futhey is awarded the Schizophrenia Endowment Award. Shalini Iyer is awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral award and a UBC 4-Year Fellowship.
Spring 2023: The lab, in collaboration with clinical and engineering colleagues, is awarded a New Frontiers in Research Fund grant to study the mechanisms of epilepsy in the human brain. Adi Swaro and Cate Futhey receive SBME Synergy Awards for their summer research. Brianna Bristow and Margarita Kapustina are each awarded Canada Graduate Scholarships - Masters from CIHR. Margarita is also awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Kaitlin Sullivan is awarded the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science. Derek Merryweather receives both the Faculty-nominated and Student-nominated Best Presentation Award at the CPS Departmental Retreat, and Larissa Kraus scores 2nd place for her poster. Lab alumnus Jennifer Tsai receives both the University of Waterloo and Ontario province co-op student of the year awards for her research in the lab.