Congratulations to Sasha McDowell, PhD student in the Department of Zoology (supervisor: Dr. Michael Gordon), who received a 2022 Brain Star Award from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA).
Brain Star Awards annually recognize outstanding research performed by students and trainees in Canada; awardees are selected on the basis of a first-author publication describing high-impact, original research, in all fields and disciplines covered by the CIHR-INMHA.
Sasha’s prize-winning paper, “A molecular mechanism for high salt taste in Drosophila”, published in Current Biology, provides novel molecular insights into mechanisms for high salt detection and response in fruit flies.
Read the official announcement on the Canadian Association for Neuroscience website here.
Read the paper:
Sasha A.T. McDowell, Molly Stanley, & Michael D. Gordon (2022). A molecular mechanism for high salt taste in Drosophila. Current Biology 32(14): 3070–3081.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.012