When Yantis died, Courtney
and students in the Yantis lab felt strongly that his work had to continue.
Courtney, who Yantis recruited to Johns Hopkins,
took on his research program and"adopted" his students into her lab.
The paper's lead author, Brian Anderson,
was a graduate student in the Yantis lab and now works for Courtney as a postdoctoral researcher.
This paper's lead author, Brian Anderson,
was a graduate student in the Yantis lab and now works for Courtney as a postdoctoral researcher.
One of the coauthors of the paper is Steven Yantis, a professor of psychological
and brain sciences who died of cancer in 2014.
Over the past year,
their combined teams have worked to finish Yantis' final projects
and launch new ones that combine his ideas with Courtney's.
In the last year,
their combined teams have worked to finish Yantis' final projects
and launch new ones that combine his ideas with Courtney's.