December, 2024. Fatemeh Basim received the Student Support Grant from the Inter-Society Color Council for $1,000!
September, 2024. Now former postdoc Camilla Simoncelli was awarded the Danny Rich Memorial Scholarship Fund 2024 for $10,000 to support her project on individual differences in color perception! She presented her work at the ICC Expert Day on Spectral Imaging on September, 9th in Norway. Camilla has now accepted a postdoc position at the Neuroscience Institute of the CNR (National Center of Research) is Pisa, Italy.
May, 2024.
Kassandra Lee successfully defended her dissertation: "Individual differences in face perception" and graduated with her doctorate in Neuroscience!
2023
August, 2023. Lab PI Mike Webster braved the weather at Burning Man and gave a talk on color and consciousness!
August, 2023. Welcome to Camilla Simoncelli, who joined the lab as a postdoc!
June, 2023.
Lab member Kassandra Lee was selected for an internship with Snap Labs. Kassandra spent 4 months as a Vision Science intern at their Boulder office!
June, 2023.Former lab member, Talia Retter, received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the UNR College of Science - Congratulations!
June, 2022.
Congratulations to Dr. Joyce on being named a Fellow in the 2022-2023 Sleep Research Program for Advancing Careers, sponsored by The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation!
June, 2022.Congratulations to Mohana Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy for receiving PAICE (Postdoctoral Academic and Inductry Career Empowerment) grant funding!
2021
October 30, 2021. Congratulations to Zoey Isherwood and alumna Katie Tregillus for receiving a UMN Brain Imaging Grant titled "Using high-resolution fMRI to assess color compensation in anomalous trichromacy."
October 18, 2021. Congratulations to Daniel Joyce for receiving an American Academy of Sleep Medicine Focused Projects Grant for Junior Investigators!
September 21, 2021. Congratulations to Daniel Joyce for receiving a National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award!
July 26, 2021.Congratulations
to Yi Gao for defending her dissertaion on “Visual adaptation in central and
peripheral vision.” Yi is starting a postdoc at Georgia Tech.
May 6, 2021. Congratulations to Kara Emery for defending her dissertation on "Coding strategies underlying visual processing." Kara has now started a postdoc at NYU.
June 21, 2021. Congratulations
to Zoey Isherwood for receiving a fellowship from the American Australian Association!
June 16, 2021. Congratulations Kassandra Lee, and welcome to our
newest lab member Vincent Orion!
April 20, 2021. Congratulations to Zoey Isherwood for being selected to receive a FoVea Travel Award for VSS 2021!
April 2, 2021. Congratulations to Daniel Joyce for receiving a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career Starter Grant!
April 1, 2021. Congratulations to Kassandra Lee for receiving the Rick M. Gardner Scholarship through the UNR Psych Department!
March 8, 2021. Alumna Katie Tregillus' dissertation work has just been published in Current Biology! The study shows amplification of color responses in early visual cortex of anomalous trichromats that may reflect compensation for their color deficiency. Katie is now a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Steve Engel at the University of Minnesota and also recently received an NIH NRSA fellowship.
January 1, 2021. Great to see strong representation from the lab at the launch of the UNR Postdoctoral Association (UNRPA)! Daniel Joyce (Executive Director) and Zoey Isherwood (Communications Director) are passionate about improving training, equity, and diversity for UNR postdocs and more broadly in academia. Congratuations and good luck!
2020
December 17, 2020. Congratuations to Kara Emery for defending her dissertation proposal entitled "Coding strategies underlying visual processing"!
August 24, 2020. Congratuations to Raquel Wescott and Franklin Fuchs who both received undergraduate research awards in Fall 2020 to support their honors research projects in the lab. Raquel's project will examine how surgeons adapt their eye-hand coordination when using magnified images. Franklin will work with Daniel Joyce to develop an affordable wearable device for monitoring circadian rhythms.
August 1, 2020. The Webster Lab is part of a NASA grant that was awarded this month. The grant is led by Alireza Tavakkoli in UNR's Computer Science Department, and it involves developing a system for monitoring changes in visual health resulting from long-term spaceflight.
August 1, 2020. The Webster Lab received funding for a new R01 award from the National Cancer Institue to study the consequences of visual adaption for medical image perception and diagnosis. The project is in collaboration with co-PI's Margarita Zuley and Andriy Bandos at the University of Pittsburgh and Craig Abbey at UC Santa Barbara.
April 1, 2020. Welcome to our new graduate students Jake Manalansan & Derartu Fite! Both were recipients of a Raymond H. Berner Scholarship as part of their admission into the Integrative Neuroscience Graduate Program.
March 11, 2020. Congratulations to Kara Emery for being selected by NIH for the 2020 Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Awards Program.
