News & Publicity

September 2025

Nikita Finger and Davi Drieskens’ manuscript "Framework for Sensory-to-Memory Weighting During Navigation" was accepted for publication!

Congratulating Dr. Cynthia F. Moss on receiving the Kavli Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) award.

August 2025

Congratulating John Michael Cole on receiving the 2024–2025 Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) Travel Award to attend SFN this year! We learned that this was one of the most competitive application cycles in recent years, making his achievement especially impressive.

Aditya Krishna’s “Auditory object representation in the bat hippocampus” was published at Current Biology and also highlighted by the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Keegan Eveland was awarded the Quad Fellowship from The Institute of International Education (IIE)!

July 2025

John Michael Cole and Irene Park presented their work at 2025 Johns Hopkins University summer stem symposium.

2025 HOPKINS Summer STEM Symposium.

April 2025

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience. We are thrilled to be part of this exciting project.

Irene Park was awarded a Summer PURA fellowship for the upcoming summer 2025 to pursue an independent research project.

Leslie Bucio earned a near-perfect score for her honors project in neuroscience.

Congratulations to Keegan Eveland who has been recognized with an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention!

December 2024

Michael Wilkinson successfully defended his Ph.D. in December 2024 and moved to a new position at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, Ohio!

Clarice A. Diebold, Grace Capshaw, Kathryne Allen and Jenny Lawlor’s new Current Biology paper was highlighted by Yossi Yovel in the same issue of Current Biology.

November 2024

Grace Capshaw’s “Bats as an instructive animal model to study longevity and aging” was published at Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Clarice A. Diebold and Grace Capshaw’s “Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)” was published at Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences.

John and Irene presented their work at the summer stem symposium

 Nikita Finger was a winner of 2024 JHU Career Impact Award!

October 2024

Aditya Krishna presented talk “Sonar-guided attention drives hippocampal encoding of non-social objects in bats at the One Neuro Initiative

Organized by the One Neuro Initiative.

SfN 2024 Chicago

Lab members presented at SfN 2024 .

August 2024

Clarice A. Diebold successfully defended her Ph.D. in August 2024 and moved to a postdoctoral position at Washington University in the laboratory of Bruce Carlson!

Keegan Eveland completed the summer bioacoustics course at Southern Denmark University!

July 2024

ICN 2024 Berlin

Aditya Krishna, Grace Capshaw, Keegan Eveland, Jared Magdiel Jaroszewski, Michael Wilkinson and Nikita Finger presented their works at ICN 2024.

June 2024

Aditya Krishna was awarded the Kavli NDI Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute!

Welcome our Ph.D. students: Keegan Eveland and Jared Magdiel Jaroszewski!

May 2024

Aditya Krishna was awarded the Heiligenberg Student Travel Award from the International Society for Neuroethology!

March 2024

Aditya Krishna was awarded the Robert S. Waldrop Junior Investigator’s Award from PBS, JHU!

February 2024

Grace Capshaw was invited to give a talk at the National Institute on Aging "What Bats Can Teach Us About Aging" Virtual Workshop!