Freigeist Junior Group Leader
Education/Degrees
| 2004 | B.s. at University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| 2010 | Ph.D in Physiology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison |
Academic Career
| 2010 – 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Jill Leutgeb, University of California |
| Since 2017 | Freigeist Junior Group Leader in the Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn |
Awards and Honors
| 2002 | Undergraduate Research Scholar |
| 2004 | Jeanne P. Marandan Award |
| 2004 | Germaine E. Mercier Scholarship |
| 2007 | American Epilepsy Foundation Predoctoral Fellow |
| 2007 | Vilas Travel Award |
| 2008 | Society for Neuroscience Madison Chapter Travel Award |
| 2009 | All Campus Teaching Assistant Award – Excellence in Service |
| 2012 | Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award – Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2013 | CURE Foundation Young Investigator Travel Award |
| 2015 | Anticonvulsant Drug Development Symposium Young Investigator Travel Award |
| 2016 | CURE Taking Flight |
| 2016 | Freigeist Fellowship |
Five most important publications
Madar, A.*, Ewell, L.A.*, Jones M.V., 2017 Pattern separation of spiketrains by individual granule cells of the dentate gyrus. Submitted and preprinted at bioRxiv 107706; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/107706
Lippi, G., Fernandes, C.C., Ewell, L.A., Romoli, B., Curia G., Taylor S.R., Frady, E.P., Jensen, A.B., Liu J.C., Chaabane, M.M., Belal, C., Nathanson, J.L., Zoli, M., Leutgeb, J.K., Biagini G., Yeo G.W., and Berg, D.K., 2016 MicroRNA – 101 Regulates Multiple Developmental Programs to Constrain Excitation in Adult Neural Networks. Neuron, 92(6):1337-1351
Ewell, L.A., Liang, L., Armstrong, C., Soltesz, I., Leutgeb.,S, Leutgeb., J.K., 2015 Brain state is a major factor in pre-seizure hippocampal network activity and influences success of seizure intervention. J. Neurosci., 35(47): 15635-48
Piatti, V.C.*, Ewell, L.A.*, Leutgeb J., 2013 Neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus: carrying the message or dictating the tone. Front. Neurosci., 7:50
Ewell, L.A., Jones M.V., 2010. Frequency-tuned distribution of inhibition in the dentate gyrus. J. Neurosci. 30(38), 12597-607