Laura A. Ewell
Laura.Ewell@ukbonn.de
EDUCATION:
| Ph. D. | University of Wisconsin – Madison, September 2010 |
| Physiology | |
| B.S. | University of Wisconsin – Madison, May 2004 |
| Major: French |
DISSERTATION:
Fast-Spiking Interneurons Sculpt Cortical Signal Flow Through the Dentate Gyrus
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Freigeist Junior Group Leader: March 1, 2017 – current
Department of Epileptology, Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research
Life and Brain Center
University of Bonn Medical Center
Sigmund-Freud Str. 25
53105 Bonn
Postdoctoral Fellow: October 2010- February 2017
Laboratory of Jill Leutgeb
University of California, San Diego
AWARDS:
Freigeist Fellowship 2016
CURE Taking Flight 2016
Anticonvulsant Drug Development Symposium Young Investigator Travel Award 2015
CURE Foundation Young Investigator Travel Award 2013
Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) – Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012
All Campus Teaching Assistant Award – Excellence in Service 2009
Society for Neuroscience Madison Chapter Travel Award 2008
Vilas Travel Award 2007
American Epilepsy Foundation Predoctoral Fellow 2007
Germaine E. Mercier Scholarship 2004
Jeanne P. Marandan Award 2004
Undergraduate Research Scholar 2002
SERVICE:
Reviewing for J. of Neuroscience, J. of Neurophysiology, Hippocampus, 2015 – current
Epilepsy Currents Contributing Editor, 2017 – 2019
GRS Mechanisms of Epilepsy & Neuronal Synchronization, Co-Chair 2016
American Epilepsy Society Basic Science Committee Member, 2015 – 2018
TEACHING:
| Fall | 2012 Leader, UCSD Neuroscience Graduate Student Bootcamp |
| Fall | 2012 Leader, UCSD Teaching Assistant Training, Diversity Workshop |
| Spring | 2012 Co-leader, UCSD Teaching Assistant Training, Diversity Workshop |
| Fall | 2009 Fetzer Athletic Center Tutor, University of Wisconsin Human Physiology 335 |
| Fall | 2009 Lab Instructor, CSF 710 ,University of Wisconsin Human Physiology lab |
| Spring | 2009 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Human Physiology 335 |
| Fall | 2008 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Human Physiology 335 |
| Spring | 2007 Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Systems Neuroscience |
| Spring | 2007 Discussion Leader, University of Wisconsin Human Physiology 720 |
| Spring | 2006 Discussion Leader, University of Wisconsin Human Physiology 720 |
| Fall | 2005 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin Human Physiology 335 |
